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Bama Llama

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  1. Cue Belushi as Captain of the Raging Queen. Agree with above posters that M&C was outstanding, right down to the zoom-through-blurry-old-telescope-lens shot of the French captain glaring across the waves as his ship is bearing down on Aubrey's ship. The Aubrey series by Patrick O'Brian is joyfully addictive. The author creates knife edge suspense from cat and mouse pursuits, battle strategery and clever deception. I only read one of the books; listened to all the others, well narrated by Patrick Tull, a man with a gift. There is some sort of intrigue about O'Brian's service background and rejection by the Royal Navy before WW2. IDGAF, the gentleman brings the turn of the 18th/19th centuries to life like few I've read. Bring it on and more like it!
  2. From AL.com - Sark strikes again: Steve Sarkisian asked if Alabama players go to class, responds with playful shot at Tuscaloosa Updated May 27, 2021; Posted May 27, 2021 Texas coach and former Alabama assistant coach Steve Sarkisian was asked this week if Alabama players went to class. The question may have gotten as many laughs as the answer. Then again, it really depends on who is doing the talking. Texas coach Steve Sarkisian, while attending a Houston Touchdown Club function on Wednesday, was asked by an attendee if Alabama players go to class. The question drew laughs. Sarkisian, the former Alabama offensive coordinator, then dropped what The Athletic reports was his best line of the day: “Well, yeah, all they have in Tuscaloosa is football and class,” Sarkisian said. “There ain’t shit else to do.” Well, alrighty then. See y'all in '22 (Austin) and '23 (Tuscaloosa).
  3. Deeeep riverrrr, my home is ooooo-verrr Jordan . . .
  4. I'd motorboat her Nile, Ganges, Amazon and Mississippi. Viva knowledge y informacion y Smifson y on!
  5. Bandits / Bruce Willis, Billy Bob and Cate Blanchett at her most lovely bewitching self. This one had me from the first, a prison escape in a stolen ready mix cement truck to the tune of Led Zeppelin's Gallows Pole. Directed by Barry (Rain Man; Good Morning, Vietnam) Levinson. Cinematography + Soundtrack ++ Locations + Cate Blanchett's mouth +++ Billy Bob as a hypochondriac + Liked it the first time around, liked it just as much last night.
  6. Alan Alda my senile ass - Alan Arkin. Jesus, how quickly the confusing years arrive.
  7. Well, the only problem with that is . . . Wait, I meant to say . . . Or was it . . . County Agent and Ralph the lady carpenter were stellar, as was Eb. Truly trascendental.
  8. If the film is half as good as the book . . . some eyes will be opened if they will only see. Corruption and evil on a scale not seen since ohhh, say, January 6, 2021.
  9. True. But you get a great view if the O line performance or lack thereof, receivers coming open, and FGs. So there's that.
  10. Greg McElroy being candid: https://www.al.com/alabamafootball/2021/05/greg-mcelroy-tim-tebow-wasnt-good-says-hes-a-sideshow-and-will-piss-players-off.html GMac debunks Urbs' Tebow strategery.
  11. <-- makes "mmnnnggh" sound like Peter Boyle as the Monster in Young Frankenstein, running his tongue over his upper lip, cuts his eyes at the viewer. Eva Green, si!
  12. Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins, with Alan Alda, Sally Kellerman, Mackenzie Phillips, Harry Dean Stanton, Charles Martin Smith, Alex Rocco. Mid 70s how to cope with hard times road movie, well worth the trip.
  13. John Sandford's latest, Ocean Prey, narrated by Richard Ferrone. If you've never read Sandford or listened to him, I strongly recommend. Clever plot lines, believable non-stereotype characters, overall most interesting and enjoyable read or listen. His Lucas Davenport series goes back 30 years, I guess. Davenport has a distinctly surly, snarky mindset. Virgil Flowers series not quite as long but just as good. Ocean Prey opens with a Coast Guard zodiac crew attempting to board a suspicious motor yacht off Lauderdale; the Coasties are gunned down, and off we go.
  14. Pretty cool green lit sworrrrd in Excalibur
  15. Nah, that's Don "She Looked 18" Henley, searching for desperados. The Robert Palmer infusion of music subthread has me thinking how great it would be if the trials and sentencing hearings were presided over by Steven Root in full on Idiocracy manic style, with sountrack by Bowie, the real Palmer, John Lennon, et al. Damn, where's my Delta 8? Bring out the IQ detectors and nip this thing in the bud. BEEEP! Right this way, sir, this is a special room for good 'Mericans like you. It's called "outside."
  16. Agreed, but they did vote for him whom I call The Enemy of Enlightenment. And so it has come to pass that those of us who desire to reverse the idiocracy trend must, repeat MUST diagnose why 73 million voted for TEOE and show them the light.
  17. In A League of their Own when the Jon Lovitz character is pressing the farmgirl milkmaid to join up, and he shows her with arithmetic how much more $ she would make playing ball, and she still is uncertain, into the uncomfortable silence he says, as if speaking to a moron, "And that would be MORE, wouldn't it?!", I always lose it. Fucking cracks me up.
  18. Oh yeah, and the salsa bowls were some kind of brass or copper. It was the Texas flag not Mexican with cartoon Pancho. They had big juicy burgers in a variety of styles. Ond was stuffed with bleu cheese, and to quote Cousin Eddie, it was gooooh-hood!
  19. Paying my respects to Sam, Mrs. Ehlinger, Jake's other family and friends, and Longhorns around the world. May something good come out of this.
  20. In 1969, a very good year, there was a restaurant called Jamie's across from the Shamrock Hilton on South Main. The house salsa y chips were quite good. The salsa was hot without scalding the roof of your mouth and zesty peppery without causing sweat runnels on your forehead or numbing your lips. Chips were warm, thin, strong and good and tortilla-y. Best of all, the salsa was thick and beany, meaty more like chili. An innovative bonus - each table had a centerpiece doohickey with a miniature hoistable and lowerable Texas state flag attached to a little flagpole. When you were ready to order, just hoist the flag. No hovering waitstaff - ever. You need something, raise the lone star. Great burgers, too.
  21. I won't. I won't. The Hell I Won't! KA-PAYOW. Thunk.
  22. Fort Stockton (Pecos County) is Central Time Zone
  23. 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?
  24. 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.
  25. 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.
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