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UpperWestside

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  1. Jimmy Stewart featured prominently in the book called The Big Week. Interesting look at the biggest bombing week leading up to D-Day.
  2. What I see transpiring is that the elite talent on the top end of the sport keeps getting smaller. When I was a kid there were more players capable of winning a major. There is a dearth of these guys now. Could someone else come along and break up the monopoly these two have on the sport? Sure. Has that person turned pro yet? Honestly I am not certain that person is on tour yet. Injuries are always the things that give other guys a chance. With Alcaraz I had no background on who he was the first time I watched a match of his in Rio in 2022. It was one of those moments where you just know this guy is different. Sinner is in that same vein. Watched him practice a couple of years ago ant the US Open and he is just so impossibly long and fluid in his movements. It would be cool to see more top flight competition on the men’s side, but who that player or players will be I just don’t know. I feel confident in saying it won’t be Shelton.
  3. Alcaraz is redefining the men’s game. Sinner is as well and they’ll alternate winning a whole bunch of slams and lesser tournaments. Hard to believe I sat out there at Arthur Ashe three years ago until the late hours watching his round of 16 match against 2014 Champion Marin Cilic. That he is so dominant at age 22 is just ridiculous. He and Sinner have the chance to rewrite the record books with how far ahead they are of anyone else.
  4. I doubt he cared. This was just him rubbing it in the nose of the Manhattan socialites who still want nothing to do with him. He had to show them that he can do and be anywhere he wants to be, including the US Open. No more no less.
  5. That his heart didn’t stop beating before, during or after the match.
  6. Bear here is what I will say. I find that this way of thinking about the world around me helps me out and perhaps it will help you as well. Think of all of the things that have importance in your life. Your family, your friends and other things in your personal life. Think of work related things as well and the importance they have in your life. Take this thought and apply it to the two previous things I mentioned. If you are still alive and kickin' in 20 years what will be the things of importance to you and what will be what matters in 20 years to you that also matters today. It won't be deadlines you had to meet at work or people you had to work with or work goals accomplished. The only thing that will matter 20 years from now that matters currently is your family and friends and how you treat people along the way. The rest of it just does not matter. Focus that big heart of yours on the things that intimately matter in your life and let the rest just be the rest. Keep doing good and keep being a positive light in the lives of folks that need it.
  7. I stand by saying that every time these people lie on camera there needs to be someone there to give them a shovel to the face.
  8. I would have just stopped at thoughts.
  9. Lampasas has started out nicely very considering they lost most of their offense going into the season. Bryson Robert’s is playing QB his senior year after starting at WR the last two years. Still good to beat the Billies by 38 in week 1 and then a foot off the gas win against Salado tonight. The one thing Lampasas definitely stil does well is the defense offensive line play. That is a well coached unit with really good size. @Beau Vine’s Texans get a chance to be the underdog this year on their home field and thankfully for them there is no Ty Johnson there to get long TD’s against them. He’s the off in SoCal now getting national attention that just would not happen in Lampasas.
  10. Yet the JV is the one dumb enough to get caught. 2025 and the Clips are still Clipping.
  11. Weird Al’s next parody should be “Wokey Paradise.”
  12. TFG is supposed to be at the US Open men’s final on Sunday. I hope he gets booed and cursed at by everyone at Arthur Ashe if he shows up. Wouldn’t shock me to see that idiot try to take the trophy with him and claim it as his own.
  13. And just a reminder that anytime you feel even the slightest bit of empathy for the cretin walking out in crocodile tears from that meeting also said this.
  14. She DOES NOT CARE. Just an opportunity to cry for the cameras and get attention. No more, no less. She should have to take a shovel to the face from every survivor giving their testimony that was there that day.
  15. Saw Sisu 3 times in the theater. Loved that movie so will be watching the sequel on opening night. My friend in Finland will enjoy knowing they have a 2nd film of this.
  16. Unrelated, but the first time I rode a train was the one in Palestine. Do they still operate that train ride?
  17. Narcissistic clown, this one is. She delights in watching brown-skinned people have families torn apart through deportation. She absolutely deserves every single bad thing that will happen to her going forward. She deserves not a single moment of peace, joy, happiness or anything like that. Drop her off with a parachute into a Siberian forest in the dead of winter. People like this should have to live each and every day filled with horror and sadness for what they have done to people trying to make a better life than what they had where they came from. Lest we forget most of those countries that immigrants show up from are destabilized countries because the of the actions of the CIA and others going back to the 1950’s. The unintended consequences are HELPING THESE PEOPLE OUT, not turning them away.
  18. What a horribly fabricated story. Even by GQP standards this is a terrible one. Hope we hear about a funeral for him soon. This trash bag of a person deserves nothing but scorn and a reserved spot on the grave pissing tour. Hope they bury him near NYC so access to his grave will be quick to piss on and leave. Complete waste of a human being that should have to spend the remainder of his life living in the South Bronx in a trap house selling meth to survive.
  19. Whether they wanted this scenario entirely or not it is what they voted for. When you vote for TFG, knowing who he is and what he is about, you cast a vote in favor for f what is transpiring. History will not be kind to that vote just like it wasn’t to the Nazis in 1933. They wanted to own the libs, well, they’re getting owned and are too far gone mentally to realize it. When the end comes for this era of stupidity, well, I won’t feel bad for a single one of them that loses everything of value and importance in their lives. That is up to and including family because we still haven’t reached the off to another foreign war part of this path of destruction.
  20. The nicest thing I can say about him is he is a clueless moron. That makes him better than the fascists. He has zero business leading anyone at anything. He has the charisma and instincts of a geriatric vegetable.
  21. A small tidbit about Roy Scheider for any of you that visit NYC. I worked at a place called Brooklyn Diner. It was a really cool place overall right across the street from Carnegie Hall on 57th. Anyhow one day I am looking at all the name plates they had by the tables for celebrities and I see Roy Scheider’s name on there. He would regularly eat there while he was undergoing treatment for cancer. Pretty good guy from what I was told.
  22. Well-played. History is the biggest portion of what life entails for me though. I see this guy regularly there. Very nice and whatnot every time I see him. He knew nothing about the USS Indianapolis and was a bit surprised when I said that it really was torpedoed and sunk near the end of the war. I will gladly take the time to illuminate history to someone, especially when it comes to WWII and what happened in the Pacific War.
  23. The 3D part adds a good bit. Getting tossed around in my seat with the wind blowing and water splashing on me while the fight with the shark was going on was fun.
  24. Saw it tonight in 4DX Real D 3D. That was one of the best movie experiences I have ever had. Watching that movie in any other format again will be a letdown from seeing it like that. Feeling the pounding that Hooper was taking in the cage and the boat being rammed was pretty awesome. Technology can be really cool at times and this was one of those instances. The 3D aspect just gave it a feel of being right there with them at times as well.
  25. Watched the ASU game for about 45 minutes. Nice to see how involved the students were for this game. Sloppy play, but Leavitt’s receivers missed several good throws. Good game for an opener against middling competition, but the line play has to improve quite a bit. Nice to see Tyson back and with a big game receiving to start the season. We go as far as those two take us.
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