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Stringer

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  1. You Hurt My Feelings My wife and I really enjoyed it. Julia Louis-Dreyfus is a legend (not sure how she keeps getting better looking...maybe I'm just getting older) and the movie is very funny. It's an easy 90-minute low stakes movie about the small lies we tell each other to keep everyone afloat. I really enjoyed Enough Said, the last Louis-Dreyfus/Nicole Holofcener movie and this was in a similar lane. Highly recommended for a fun/easy watch at the end of a long week.
  2. Halfway through but this is my favorite so far. Killed me when that happened. This show is hit or miss but its’ hits are about as good as it gets.
  3. However you dice it up, looking through that list is a reminder of how much truly great TV HBO has put up over the last 25 years. No other network has 10% of the essential TV they have put out.
  4. Quoting myself for a little follow up. After 6 rounds, the levels were really low, but there, so we moved to a trial oral drug. A couple of weeks into that, the cancer cells showed strong signs of regeneration. It's not back yet, but it's coming sooner than later. So, we are going to transplant as soon as we get insurance approvals (our medical system is broken) and get a donor set up. Donors are identified, but they can't schedule until insurance is approved. Basically, once we're all set, I'm going to Houston for roughly 100 days, 30ish in the hospital and 70ish isolated in an apartment near MD Anderson. I can have one visitor at a time and need 24/7 monitoring when I get to the apartment. I can't see my kids (3 and 6) the whole time we're going through this as they are germ factories. I'm going to be super tired and beaten down the entire time and the recovery is brutal. That's if things go great. There is a also a 10-15% chance of mortality. So, I could leave my house in a few weeks and never see my kids again. I know that's true of everyone at any time, but it's different when you're choosing (right or wrongly) to put yourself in that position. The good news is I am a healthy (you know, other than cancer) 41 year old with very good donor matches. I am also going to be at MD Anderson where they do this all of the time and have a whole floor of just bone marrow transplants. That decreases the mortality chances. It's going to be tough road, but as long as I get to the other side, I don't care how hard it is. Godspeed to all of you guys.
  5. My wife and I love it. Great mix of absurdity, grounded humor and pathos. Molly Shannon has had a really strong second act over the past 5 years or so.
  6. Maybe don’t talk shit to Jimmy Butler. Just a suggestion.
  7. Man I love Jimmy Butler. He does not give a fuck.
  8. They spent their CGI budget on Tom's face.
  9. I haven’t been able to peg Connor’s age on the show. Obviously Ruck is a good amount older in real life. The intro of the show, though, has the four siblings but the oldest doesn’t look but a couple of years older than the second oldest kid. Maybe I’m putting too much weight on the intro or they weren’t thinking about it that closely.
  10. Went Friday night. Wife and I counted and this was the 6th time seeing him, starting from the Texas Union show in 2015. Had a great time. I liked the heavy weighting toward Southeastern. I think that Sadler Vaden song is fine, but that main riff is killer live. Literally 3 minutes before they went on, my doctor sent me a message that we need to do a bone marrow transplant to try and treat my leukemia. An hour later, that mother fucker pulls out Elephant. I was a mess. My wife said that at least he didn’t do If We Were Vampires, which was a good point. We would have been puddles if he did that one.
  11. Outside of the the usual suspects (that movie rules too), Layer Cake is one I keep going back to if I just want to watch a movie on a random week night.
  12. Are you a wizard or something?
  13. Went earlier and really enjoyed it. Easily the best Marvel movie since Endgame and much better than Volume 2, which I didn’t really care for. Thought it was really fun with several LOL moments and a good cap to this series. I got emotional a few times which is saying something about a movie with a talking raccoon, a mono sentence tree, a half robot being, a bug, a green lady, a big purple guy and a human. Also a really dope hallway scene. As always, top notch needle drops throughout. Definitely recommend. I would watch the Christmas Special before you go. Both because it’s great and because it does explain some of the set up and characters. It’s too bad Gunn is going to DC. I guess his time was over with Guardians ending anyway, but he brought a lot of fun. It’ll be interesting if he can revive DC. There are some signals that the comic book film era is slowing down, but maybe the product has just been subpar and over extended the last few years.
  14. Very little rain but power just went out in Highland Park West. Guess I’m going to bed.
  15. She's not. The benefits of fucking the creator/star.
  16. I’m pretty sure I got this album after it was on the Top Ten on whatever site we were on back then. Great album and I wore it out as well. Wife and I both noticed it and were super confused on how they got on there. Really cool.
  17. I thought this was going to be Krasinsky? What happened there?
  18. That felt close to the fun and magic of the first season. Best of this season for me and one of the better post-season 1.
  19. Standing and saying a pledge to your country and state every morning is the weirdest shit. I did it growing up but looking back….weird shit.
  20. Saw this on Twitter. My name is also Justin Smith, so this one gave me some anxiety. Fortunately, I don't know anyone named Daniel Perry (as far as you know)
  21. Anyone else catch Domhnall Gleeson's brother Brian as one of the holograms, Brendol Hux?
  22. What a random assortment of Guys. Sterling Gibbs? Was Martez Walker busy?
  23. This is a very generous sentence: "The balance of the estate went to charities that had as their goal controlling the growth of population that he saw as the preponderant threat to the world." The more truthful way to say it would be: "Roberts hated children and while he was a very conservative man, he was a strong advocate for abortion. As such, the balance of his estate went to Planned Parenthood."
  24. If your ex was a stripper, probably.
  25. For sure. On a rainy day I Austin, it's a wonderful watch.
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