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I saw the first part tonight. It had my attention start to finish and it did not feel like three hours. I like how they are piecing together different storylines in this. The musical score was really cool as well. For the short attention span folks you will just be mad at having to sit through three hours, but for those that can do it you’ll like it. The differing scenery of each place was wonderful and I can’t wait for part two in August. They left the story in a really good spot and there are so many interesting characters and subplots going on.

I am actually glad I did not have to learn math that way.

You are just, well, so insanely negative about most everything. The NBA, movies and life in general. Try and attempt to enjoy life more.

If I were still going to be living in NYC after the holiday season ends I would be pretty excited to watch the Knicks. They are going to be a fun team that clearly does not care about the tax aprons going forward and have a good chance of actually making it out of the East next season if they can stay healthy. Bridges and Anunoby are players I enjoy watching. It’s just so odd seeing the Knicks being run so competently after more than two decades of being the opposite of this. Even the draft pick of Kolek is a good one. Now they just apparently have to get him a tutor to teach him how to read. /s

Yes I think we are all aware of when Ginobili was picked.

Yeah I am not sure there was a whole lot of demand for him. I would guess none at all considering his lone season at USC was not real good to be kind. He’s got an uphill climb to ever even be a rotational player in the NBA. Doesn’t hurt to have dad there to guide him, but whatever.

I don’t have much issue with this, even if James were on another team and not my team. It’s the 55th pick and at that point I don’t care. Put him on the South Bay Lakers and bring him up in the spring for a few games with dad.

If you can ever figure this out let me know. It seems to me to be a common sense thing.

This would be somewhat like the IJA and the failboat it became, especially in 1945. The ones that refused to admit defeat would have been the FAFO brigade of 2024. It will not end well for any soldiers who rebel against the armed forces of the United States.

I tell people who say it doesn’t look like the menu photo that “Well they spent several hours making it look like that. This took 10 minutes.” That usually ends the complaining.

I enjoyed this movie last night. I like how it showed that aging and growing old can still be dignified and fun. This was June Squibb’s first time being a lead if I remember reading that right at the age of 93. Only had to wait seven decades for it. She did an awesome job.

Oh the opportunities are almost limitless! One of the best jobs to pull pranks on co-workers. If this was about 7 or 8 years ago I would be doing these things. Now I take FAFO stance and I take care of what I can and help those that I can and the rest who want to just hangout and do nothing will eventually be let go. There are several people who deserve hot sauce in their Coke though.

I have said on here that I work as a server. Love the job and most of the people I work with. There are a few exceptions and one is this Irish guy named Curtis. I try to avoid conversations with him and partly it’s because I can’t understand anything he’s saying and also because he says some highly questionable things about people in general. I ask another server how he deals with him and he said “Oh it’s simple. When he tries to talk to me I just make up a crazy story and he doesn’t know what to say so he just walks away.” I make a mental note and decide to try this out sometime soon. So about three weeks ago I see Curtis talking to my friend and I hear him say “You know I had a table yesterday that was really tired from walking around the city. So I said well take your shoes off and I’ll give you a foot massage.” Curtis seems bewildered hearing this. He continues on and says “They were so happy I did that that they left me a 100. You should try it Curtis” I decide to go ahead and ad lib with him. I said “Alex I’m so glad you took my advice and did that! I told you it would work because I have done it too.” Now Curtis seems to have no clue what is happening there so he attempts to tell a story about how he gets people to buy shots when he is serving them. On the fly I make up a story. One thing I am good at is deadpanning a story, especially one I am making up as I go along. @BearSchlong will probably kill me for this one, but I said “You know a few months ago I had four guys come in and I asked them what brought them here. They said they were here to celebrate one of them being sober for seven years. I said what better way to celebrate than to have a drink after all these years! I said the guys all got drunk and the now freshly not sober guy showed me his Instagram and I followed him. A week later, I said in a dim voice, he posted a caption on there stating that he would be away from social media for a good long while because he relapsed on his drinking and was headed to rehab. Again Curtis did not know what to say and right before he left two women I work with look at me and say “Oh my God did you feel bad that you gave him alcohol?” Alex knows this is all completely farcical and made up, but Curtis doesn’t and neither do they. Only Alex knows I haven’t drank in 4.5 years and don’t even bother recommending alcohol to guests even though I am supposed to. I deadpan that he was a grown man and it was his choice to drink.” With that I walk away and Curtis is just left there with, thankfully, nothing to say. Alex had to walk away from laughing at me. An hour later, I see the two women again and walk up and tell them that none of that story was true. It was just to get Curtis to leave us alone. They were both relieved because they thought that was really out of character that I would do that because I always seem so happy and am nice to everyone. This story by the next day has made its way to two of the managers. I was perhaps expecting a response of disapproval, but instead both were laughing and could not believe I could deadpan a story made up on the spot like that. One of them said it was the funniest thing they heard a server do in all the years they have worked in restaurants.

He has a decidedly 50’s-60’s look, but the character is kinda dark and somewhat troubled. Drinks a lot and likes to fight.

More immigration please. The ones that come here and want the ladder pulled up are incredibly selfish as well as intellectually lacking any kind of thoughts beyond I want mine and that’s all that matters. These people can stay where they are from and are well deserving of whatever hardships they endure for having that attitude. Immigrants that want to come here and are cool with more on the way behind them that want to be part of America are welcomed with open arms in my book.

Rubio can kick rocks. He is subservient to the lowest intellectual rungs of our population. What a waste.

As may have been already mentioned it seems like that name has been nuked from this site. I am sure he’ll be back only to be banned again and again.

I do find the almost constant stream of negativity about tv shows and movies to be comical. The older I get the more I just enjoy things like movies. It’s entertainment and not every movie is made for every kind of person. This was a movie, like almost all that I watch, that I enjoyed. It just needed to be longer or be a series. Just a season’s worth could have told a pretty full story in my opinion. I found the look back into this era of America to be somewhat fascinating because of the events that conspired together to make biker gangs a thing in the first place. Another one of World War II and Vietnam’s unintended consequences as was stated above. Soldiers that lost their purpose found it again being a part of this piece of society.

This is where he does not excel as a GM. Huge stockpiles of picks that will likely lead to zero titles. That’s okay with me because that team still belongs back in Seattle.

I went to watch this last night. What I felt about this movie is that the subject would have been better covered in a 1 season series. The movie ran a little under two hours and it felt rushed and parts were skipped. Austin Butler’s character blended fairly well with this cast. I wish Michael Shannon’s character had a bigger role, especially in a movie like this. I would have had him and Butler switch roles or at the least the positions in the hierarchy of the gang.

I feel like Chicago knows Ball will never suit up for them again and Giddey is young and talented. If he develops from deep then he’s going to be hell on wheels. He’s just 21 and only getting better. The Bulls should be trying to unload their vets and just start over. I think Giddey is a good start if they go that direction.

I haven’t read Bill Simmons since I would say around 2006 or so. Maybe longer than that. A website I subscribe to occasionally has a story about the crazy things he apparently says and does. He seemed so promising 20 years ago and then the Tech Bros got ahold of him and he started to believe his own garbage. Just kinda sad to me to see that. Not in an I care about him way, but just a waste of his life and talent he once had.

I know that was his. Pointless thing to hang your hat on. I still try to understand how a guy that counts a loon like Malcolm Gladwell among his friends has made so much money for doing so little.

If you ever decide to run this place as a full-time business I believe that the website Defector could probably be helpful to you. It’s the writers who left Deadspin in 2019. I subscribe there and they put out what they take in each year and how the money is spent among the staff. I met a few of them last year at their 3rd anniversary celebration. They have a really smart guy running the finances there and they have what is a pretty highly educated subscriber base like this site has for the most part. I believe they could join st give some good advice if you are willing to listen to them since they continue to grow and put out some great content.

I am still in amazement that he has amassed the fortune that he has in life while doing nothing of note.