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Paul Wesley

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  1. Page won four league MVP awards?
  2. Yeah, I was being generous. I think they'd have killed him.
  3. I mean, two overly excited, trigger-happy yokels screaming like lunatics with fingers on the trigger? If he *had* reached for the seatbelt, there's a fair chance those two would have killed him and played the "reaching for a weapon" and "feared for my life" cards.
  4. This is what I picture when Scooter gives Les Paul advice:
  5. Wow. Four 4x12 cabinets? Is your buddy Ritchie Blackmore?
  6. You obviously know a lot more about the details than I do. I'm just surprised and annoyed by the LAZY journalism that can't write a fucking GAME SUMMARY six games into 2021 without three or four references to a four-years-ago scandal that involved a lot of teams, and had nothing to do with more than half the roster.
  7. I don't follow this thread too much, and I'm sure it's been discussed to death, but I'm surprised at the 2021 coverage of "boo the Astros." I mean, we seemed to move right on past all the roided-up A's and Yankee teams that won titles. Barry Bonds and all his * records. The ridiculously uneven $$$$$$ playing field for two or three decades, where clubs with the biggest payrolls are de facto all-star teams from siphoning up the best free agents year after year. And not once in the coverage of a pennant game do the announcers say, "Here we are once again where the big spenders are in an LCS!" And yet all the sports writers can't even do a fucking 2021 REGULAR SEASON GAME RECAP article without indignantly dwelling on the unfairness 4-year old sign stealing caper from a club that has turned over probably more than half the roster since then? And the Astros are the 2021 poster children of cheating? GTFO. Might have to go buy an Astros cap... because fuck that.
  8. Man, I just totally disagree with that. I mean, they can be pissed off in general, but personally attacking the guy who took the program from also-ran to consistent contender... because he went home to his alma mater? I mean, it's not like he was drawing a top-5-in-the-country type salary while going half a decade without a single tourney win. Or despite a roster peppered with NBA-level talent, he lost to a tiny private college that almost no one outside the state has ever heard of.
  9. I like the look of it. Not sure that any of the tones in the video are very flattering. The intro piece has some weird synth pedal on it, which strikes me as a terrible way to show it off... and the dirty tones sound really harsh. I don’t like crazy hot pickups. I seem to be in the minority there. I’d love to hear this guitar with something less aggressive.
  10. I'm guessing that's a sell-your-soul reference? Giving it rep, you know... because.
  11. Mitchell is kind of a bad ass. I don't know what NBA player is a good comparison for him. He plays big and physical, but he's got a ridiculous first step to get past almost anyone. Always has his head up. Rarely turns it over. He's special.
  12. Ha ha. After our first-round debacle, I was trying to explain to my wife what a colossal humiliation of a loss that was. "We got 3 or 4 guys who are going to get looks in the NBA, and they lost to a bunch of future youth pastors and mattress salesmen." My wife: "Well, that's great for that team, right? I mean, just think about how great that is for those play..." Me: "Just fucking stop. Just stop."
  13. Tired of hearing about this UCLA hangover bullshit. Gonzaga played a hot 11-seed and got taken to the wire. Baylor played a hot 2-seed and ran them out of the fucking gym before halftime.
  14. This is about the 4th Gonzaga game I've watched, and no fucking way they go 30-0 in a real conference
  15. I cannot take the sound of Joan Baez's voice for more than about 30 seconds. It's unbearable.
  16. Pedal steel players might like that setup. I think a lot of them use a 1 x 15" cabinet. Maybe it's time?
  17. So maybe I'm missing it, but the ID that Greenberg had made urgently made for Gaetz -- did they alter a birthday or something? I understand that Greenberg is a corrupt piece of shit, but this action (Gaetz using his privilege to get an ID made on a weekend) by itself doesn't seem criminal. Is there something else to make it fraudulent?
  18. It's sad because it's true. We are the poster child for 1-party unchecked corruption.
  19. That Tucker Carlson segment was hilarious. It reminded me of the SNL skit where Neil Diamond is on "Storytellers," and the story he tells about each of his songs is something horrific (his racism, the time he was drunk driving and killed someone). And Neil (Will Farrell) keeps including a band member (John Goodman) in each story, and Goodman keeps giving a nervous laugh and saying, "Hey, leave me out of this one, Neil"), and Farrell snaps, "OH, I WILL LEAVE YOU **IN**!"
  20. Hey, Celery - Glad you took that in the (lighthearted) way it was intended. Backstory: My very first electric guitar was a black and gold Les Paul Custom. I wouldn't settle for anything else. Mowed yards and spent almost no money on anything else for the better part of a year until I could afford one. During that time of work and sacrifice, I overheard some of the older kids at church - who had inspired me to start playing guitar in the first place - talking about Paul Reed Smith this and Paul Reed Smith that. I asked one of them what they were talking about. I very much remember one of them telling me, "It's a guitar that's *better* than a Les Paul." So you can imagine how that was received. I was like, "Yeah, there's no way that's right." The bias lives on.
  21. I would have loved for her to tell the judge, "Sorry if I got emotional, Your Honor, it's just that I get really upset when I have to talk about the time I watched that guy right there commit a murder."
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