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UpperWestside

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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. I am still in amazement that he has amassed the fortune that he has in life while doing nothing of note.
  7. Oh boy is this going to be fun. Now he and Bron can podcast about losses and instead of Bron doing his emoji thing or hidden message deal of being unhappy he can just say it right to the coach for everyone to hear. Should end well.
  8. I was able to listen to him speak in DC about three years ago. He’s exceptionally good at getting a message across. Just randomly ran across where he was speaking at. Awesome that he has done so well since his Karen incident.
  9. I would honest to God be shocked if he didn’t call it American Mimosa. Zero chance he has ever said Samoa in his entire life.
  10. Wait until someone explains American Samoa to him.
  11. Reading stuff like this makes me feel good about the decision I made to go live in Hawaii starting in January.
  12. Angel Reese just needs microphones not placed anywhere near her for a couple of years. Team imposed time away from social media would be beneficial to both the league and herself. You committed a flagrant. Own it and just move on. The person you hit took it in stride. Let the ridiculous jealousy of another player, a player far superior to you in every facet of the game, go.
  13. I haven’t negged anyone really outside of GRU and his new handles, but Chrispy is the other one I will hand them out to. He tries to spread propaganda and lies here and gives the same tired awe shucks routine. He knows exactly what he did and should be negged right off this board permanently.
  14. Get the cruise ships to paradise fillled up with a quick side trip to the old Roman lake.
  15. All the better. They can toss them into the English Channel for all I care.
  16. Would they like several million immigrants from America? Take several million of our lunatic whites and do with them as they please.
  17. I agree. A quick reading of his life shows no real higher education outside of the Pratt Institute, which closed down. He was pursuing engineering there apparently. He just has a very limited knowledge of the world around him and how things work. He and Kyrie Irving definitely share that in common.
  18. I went to SAGU. I believe they are changing the name of the school now to Nelson University in honor of the founder from 1927, PC Nelson. I met some really nice folks there and I met some folks that I would never, ever want to associate with under any circumstances. I did not keep in contact with most of the friends from there. The one who died from sickle cell, Dedrick, probably had the biggest positive impact upon my life of anyone I crossed paths with at that school. I say all that to say that what I saw of them was intolerance towards homosexuality and there was a whole lot of racism right under the surface there. I doubt much has changed on that front. I will never understand folks who espouse the name of Jesus and then do the exact opposite of what he would have done. I go to a Brazilian Baptist church now (Zero association with the SBC thank God) and before that was at a church in The Bronx that had a woman as its pastor. She was pretty awesome and very accepting of anyone and everyone who wasn’t hateful.
  19. I remember seeing Leslie a few times. Seemed pretty harmless. Spoolman seems like he really wanted and needed the attention. The mind is a fragile thing and sometimes when I see folks who have lost control of their mental faculties I wonder what it was that sent them over the edge. Who were they before the person we saw doing things similar to Spoolman? I feel sadness for these folks because it could easily be you or I in that situation. We get one life and some folks have theirs destroyed by mental illness and a complete break from reality.
  20. I see people several times a day on the subway or just wandering random streets here whose minds are completely gone due to lack of mental health care, drug abuse or a combination of factors. Terrence Howard is a Rhodes Scholar in comparison.
  21. Honest to God I cannot believe that that can get you the Bronze Star. My father received that decoration during Vietnam. He never said why. This clown gets it for setting up a Kinkos. Just unreal.
  22. That sounds like a dare. He’ll gladly take you up on it.
  23. We were sold a bill of goods growing up about what it meant to be a Texan and something along the lines of “Texas Exceptionalism.” It was a myth then and it is now. Kinda sucks to look back on my childhood and realize that this is what Texas really was just beneath that veneer. My hometown is an absolute atrocity now of this brand of ridiculous nonsense and abject stupidity.
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