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I'm not sure if he was brazen or not, but John Dos Passos (The USA Trilogy) sure made life seem a lot tougher and meaner and dirtier than Hemingway did.

Well to be honest, I think the unifying theme might be coming to terms with the infliction of pain and death that one does in one's lifetime, and if you look at it that way, that's pretty damn important and deep. The problem is that lots of people try a novel and I just don't think he's novels work all that well, or maybe they are dated, or maybe he simply just wasn't as good in novels as he was with non-fiction or the short stories, which were short (I always for some reason thought of The Short Happy Life of FM as a novella, but it's pretty much a normal length short story - but it is the second longest short story he ever wrote.) The short stories>the bullfighting books>a movable feast>the novels (for some reason Islands in the Stream sticks out for me - but that was posthumous and maybe reads more like the short stories), but I really don't remember them all. I did like the way they hit on the short stories in the first episode - you almost think they could have build the whole documentary around the short stories. In the morning the sun was up and the tent was starting to get hot.

We've discussed on other threads, but in employment law, there has to be some evidence of animus in race or national origin cases. Ultimately, it seems a jury should certainly decide whether it was a hate crime and I would think a defense to the hate crime aspect would be mental illness.

Was High Life involved?

"Whisky" is an acceptable spelling.

The hell with it, thought TS. The utter complete hell with it. So this is what it's going to be like. Well, this is what it's going to be like then.

"Mira, POM", he said. "The moon, she is friscalating". "Yes", she said.

My achievement is your aspiration.

Hemingway would have hated that intro. Although he would have liked the Tobias Wolff bits - I think he had a bit before the truth started.

Oh no, you don't deserve any "mys" with Hemingway, or del Toro, for that matter.

"Okay, I get it, get to the fucking life story". [Said by both my wife and I at the same time, right before they started up into "Hemingway was born on_______"]. Ken falls in love with some of the opinions of his commentators. In Baseball, it ruined it, because some of those commentators were just fans and didn't add much. I don't mind telling us, and then showing us, but tell us one, maybe two times. So yeah, six hours isn't enough, but will withhold judgment until I see the whole thing to decide whether it is too much. That being said, I hope they go back to the short stories again and again, because they were great on a couple of them and there are a whole lot more.

With that rate I'd play him for 90 minutes! Perhaps minutes per goal?

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom Oh, it's a play, isn't it? I guess it would have been cool to see this as a play, if you didn't know what to expect. I thought the film of the play insisted upon itself. (Wife referred to the movie as "Ma Rainey". Would not say the full title even with prodding. "It's a pretty depressing movie about a sweaty lady.")

You guys bring up an interesting subject. It seems that we could have simply hired replacement teachers as if it the teachers who didn't want to come in were engaged in an unfair labor practice strike (as opposed to economic strike). The teachers who want to sit this out would have the right to reinstatement.

Only one of the films form what's his names books that I thoroughly enjoyed.

I don't think I was racist before I saw these "AL" commercials with this Arabian guy...

Fuck Gonzaga. That's a cheese, not a college.

This baby cropped up on spotify a few years ago and it's damn good 2016 era monkees. "You Bring the Summer" form the same album was very good too.

To the point of being vaguely unrealisticly good....

Watched the end of Almost Famous last night. Love the way that the music and the final 5 minutes or so "prove up" the theme of the movie -- how a stupid piece of music can make you crazy. And then they seal the deal by kicking into "Feel Flows" - a song I don't remember hearing prior to seeing the movie. Damn, the scene of the kid fingering through the record collection. The rite of passage in the 70s - having access to your older siblings record collection.

You need to hurry up and get him to see Eraserhead or he will be lost forever.

The key word being "classic". The Big Chill is going to grow into a tired old movie, as opposed to the tired kind of old movie that it is. Almost Famous is going to stay great.

Hey Bill. "Try On" these for size.

What a run! I apologize for rooting for Michigan State but it's a family thing and I had no choice.

Donkey while watching Boyhood: