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Bama Llama

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  1. I won't. I won't. The Hell I Won't! KA-PAYOW. Thunk.
  2. Fort Stockton (Pecos County) is Central Time Zone
  3. Or Howdy Doody Time, take your pick. From AL.com: "The Alabama House voted 93-1 on Thursday following a lengthy debate on SB388, sending the bill to Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey for final consideration. But making daylight saving time year-round in Alabama will only be possible through the approval of Congress." I would much prefer permanent standard time. I don't enjoy stone darkness at 7:30 am, which is what we'd have with permanent DST, at least in the eastern part of CT zone. What say you in Fort Stockton, where it would remain dark in December even longer?
  4. People marching along lugging truck tailgates chanting (poorly) the na-na hey-hey goodbye song. Fuck the ancestors of the asshole(s) who conceived of this, all the way back to Olduvai Gorge. And fuck the product and manufacturer, which I'm proud to say I cannot even name. I mean bravo for some dickhead designer thinking of new ways to injure and confuse consumers with a multifunctional truck tailgate, but even if it works I'm not about to take a perfectly good tailgate off my truck and put your Transformers tailgate on it, or fucking buy a truck because of the tailgate, much less walk around with it in my arms chanting Steam's only hit! No sir, I don't like it.
  5. I can enthusiastically recommend the audiobook Sherlock Holmes, in which Stephen Fry does a fine job with Conan Doyle's complete Holmes works. Fry's personal introduction sets the table.
  6. I'll watch because it's adapted from Paul Theroux's novel. Been a fan of his fiction since The Family Arsenal and of his snarky but cool nonfiction since Riding the Iron Rooster and Kingdom By The Sea. A word to the wise, Clark - ice melts in the tropics.
  7. Like plumage, the affordability don't enter into it. I would welcome the net after-tax proceeds of selling a Jupiter house at the mere cost of my contact info. However, privacy concerns and the miniscule likelihood of success keep me from to entering bullshit quasi lottery drawings and such.
  8. Well, who the fuck are you talkin' to? I guess this is a rehearsal for a hypothetical monologue but I still like it.
  9. Gaetz is running ads on Pensacola area TV showing campaign style video bites of his capped teeth, chin, jawbones, beady eyes and pompadour, with headline font message, "THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS WORRIED ABOUT MATT GAETZ" and similar dreck, with instructions on how to donate. What a nasty little weasel. The sooner he crashes and burns the better.
  10. Ditto. An archive of good decisions. B-b-b-but . . . I was told . . . I could play my radio . . . between the hours of eight and ten. Root for a lifetime achievement Oscar.
  11. Macy, McDormand, Buscemi, Stormare and Presnell. Grand slam, walk off, game winning homer of casting. Not another word, buddy. See how you like it.
  12. Bama Llama

    Steely Dan

    This YouTube is excellent. Love that backing vocalist Carol Leonhart, mmmm-hmmm! BabylonnN sisstahhhh, SHAKE IT! Kind of stung when I first read that their reference to my football team in Deacon Blues was a snarky put down of "a bunch of crackers using a grandiose name," but I don't give a shit. Steely Dan forever, dudes.
  13. The Wolf Border, by Sarah Hall. The Gray Wolf is reintroduced to Britain on the nation's largest private estate owned by a zillionaire with a short attention span. Wolves went extinct in GB ~600 years ago. Evidently there is a "wilding" move afoot in the developed world. Slow but well-written read. Now and then a languid read is nice IMHO. Every book doesn't have to be a "Cracking page-turner, sez the New York Times."
  14. Amen. This one and The Sandpiper are great back to back if like Burton rants, lovely ladies and melodrama.
  15. Ahh, yes. One of the great joys of aging. "Discovering" movies you enjoyed in the past but lost in the fog of passing years, e.g., The Quiller Memorandum, Pepe Le Moko, Cousin Cousine, Sugarland Express, Straw Dogs, M. Now where's my ginkgo biloba?
  16. From bullshit like this to frivolous, no-evidence will contests, the best and swiftest way to reduce the number of abusive cases is for the ladies and gentlemen wearing the black robes and holding the gavels to start assessing fees and costs against these assholes with a vengeance and awarding them to the defendants.
  17. Definitely ten minutes 'til Wapner. Donald Trump's Moronica was germinated in the fetid petri dish of a post-9/11 Idiocracy: This Time It's Real nation of screen watchers and social media addicts (as opposed to clever Surly posters), many of whom had never cast a vote in their lives. And now they come at you spewing constitutional law. The sad irony is that Joe and Mika often had this assclown on Morning Joe as a guest interviewee and commenter. Jaysus, Mary and Joseph.
  18. I hear you 52-80, but try Laura, Robert Duvall and Diane Ladd in Rambling Rose, a brilliant surprise of a small film. Duvall has several epic lines and delivers them as only he can. Laura was made for her role. Diane is a zany, bohemian metaphysician. I'd watch this one every day if I could get away with it. "That girl strikes like a cobra!"
  19. From the Alabama Reporter: "Secretary of State John Merrill announced on Wednesday that he would not seek any public office in 2022 and admitted in an AL.com interview to an extramarital affair. Merrill was expected to announce his candidacy for Alabama’s U.S. Senate seat, which will be vacated by the retiring of Sen. Richard Shelby. But on Tuesday, an obscure, far-right website published details of an affair Merrill had with a Montgomery woman, Cesaire McPherson. The website, National File, included an audio recording of an interview with McPherson, who went into graphic detail describing her numerous sexual encounters with Merrill. Late on Tuesday, Merrill released a statement denying the affair. In the statement, he called McPherson a stalker and said he had to block her on social media. But on Wednesday, McPherson provided AL.com with what is reported to be a recording of her and Merrill discussing some of their encounters and the physical acts they performed." Good old Ollabomma Fambleh ValyahS. Scratch another pious ass Repub. If his lady friend had not recorded that call, this story would have died on the vine. Maybe he and Matt Gaetz can buy a time share unit and write memoirs.
  20. The world needs someone clever to find 5% of the Avatar budget and faithfully adapt The Legend of Zelda, right down to the last detail, music, story, quirky secrets, the whole schmeer. Tell the truth, when you first controlled a video game allowing four directions movement rather than left to right only, wasn't it like discovering a new world? Back in the late 80s-early 90s, on the original Nintendo playing Zelda with my young daughter was a real joy, a test in logic, memory and eye-hand coordination unlike most games. It would be a welcome alternative compared to the dreck generally available today. A well-done Zelda would kick all kinds of ass in filmed entertainment.
  21. Thanks. I spend too much time in a cave. IMDB gives it 8.2, a very high rating. I'll give it a watch. History doesn't want to be changed. That line always bothered me but it's very Stephen King.
  22. Green Book Rewatched this with my wife and daughter (two different people, Biff T), and thoroughly enjoyed it and sharing the experience with them. The growth of symbiosis between Doc and Lip, individuals with so little in common, was mighty fine. Attention to period detail was very well done. The comeuppance of the surly racist stage hand in Indiana was a very good scene. Feelgood film based on true events - we need some more of these.
  23. Hallelujah! My bride and daughter had a ritual of watching KOTH at 10:30 after the news and I mean every night. They would not miss it if it's done my Mike Judge. Can you imagine Hank postulating on the Cowboys and how Tom Landry wouldn't approve of this and that?
  24. Amor Towles' A Gentleman In Moscow is a fine read or listen. An aristocrat is arrested after the revolution and placed under house arrest for decades in the Metropole Hotel. Much intrigue, debauchery and humor ensues.
  25. Oh yeah, and James Lee Burke books narrated by the great Will Patton are superb.
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