henrygandorf

you should judge. it will be bad either way. bad bad, not good bad, like the original.

just looked at the odds on my book. a few weeks ago, gladstone and stone were both -110, now lily is -172 and emma is +135. probably better value with emma as i think it's a tossup. if there's a true upset, it could be giamatti, who has already taken down cillian a couple times, and is +600. still think oppie sweeps through pretty much everything in its path.

gibson wasn't a known shitbag yet.

so there was some extended family in town this past week and i had dinner with them on thurs night. one couple, early 80's, they are known in the fam to be big gop-turned-trumpers, so usually best not to engage, but sometimes i can't resist. i rarely see them and i ask for so little. so i'm listening in, and family members i'm closer with are very excited because their daughter, who graduated early from northwestern, has been kinda stuck in sacramento in some govt job waiting on something better, finally got an offer she liked in dc. so she's in govt, and she's thinking about a job offer in dc. seems reasonable. her mom is very excited about it. then the aunt weighs in. "oh, you've heard how dc is now, right? it's just so terrible there, so dangerous, i would tell her to wait for something better." i said, "terrible, like crime?" she said yes. i said, "you mean like chicago and san francisco?" she said, "yes, exactly, she shouldn't move there." she had been in california for almost 24 hours and hadn't been mugged yet, but i don't know how the rest of her trip went.

change your team names!

tulsi was one of those idiots.

yeah, someone will have to translate at some point.

for the twitter-impaired:

i've been called a lot of things in my life...

you should prob @ them on here if you wanted them to see it and participate. it can be a slow snake draft on this thread.

well, make it happen, cap'n.

change your team names, cousins.

we should do a draft, using last year's division winners.

so while we're on the subject, i watch tv before i go to bed. in fact, i keep it on while i fall asleep, it's one of the more annoying things i do, according to ex-girlfriends and current wives. anyhow, i was watching the west wing, then i was ready to roll over, so i put on the office, and then just for fun, i was trying to think if there was any actor who appeared in both. i haven't done any research to see if this actor was the only one, but i thought of one, and it took a full half hour.

we all watched the video. betsy fixed it for me. this is over.

you guys are so fucked.

these two kinda go together and most of the josh+amy stuff is vintage sorkin. a lot of actors can't handle sorkin, many of whom were in the newsroom cast, which sucks for newsroom. mary louise parker is as good as anyone i've seen at it. if she had been cast as mandy from the jump, it would've prevented a lot of headaches. speaking of which, the clip above (from 20 hours in america, arguably the best ww episode), features tyler the campaign intern, played by john gallagher, jr, who was later cast as one of the main characters in the newsroom, and one of the better ones imo. kinda fun trivia. for a drama, this episode has 5-7 lol moments, which even for sorkin is saying something. it's just a hilarious episode. also, for some reference on how tv has changed, for better or worse. when the awards are given out, comedies and dramas traditionally are divided not by joke density, but by episode length. it's not right or wrong, just how it goes. the bear isn't a traditional comedy but will win best comedy every year it's around. should it have gone against succession, a much more straightforward drama, that i would argue might be a funnier show top to bottom? not for me to say. but every episode of season 3 ted lasso (an obvious "comedy") was longer than any west wing episode ever produced. again, just fun trivia.

look at the board. i have.

masterclass here from offerman in non-verbal communication, body language, action, and reaction. and he's probably had to build a new trophy case to accommodate it. bartlett was wonderful but ultimately, overshadowed.

hey, trotsky, you're in advertising.

also factor in that there are more registered dems than registered gop, especially in certain areas. so to make up for that, they oversample (or undersample) certain demographics or parties, or they inflate/deflate the numbers on each side to make it seem like they polled each side equally. this takes a small sample size and gives it even more potential variance. to say nothing of the trolls or people who think it's more fun to fuck with pollsters than to not fuck with pollsters, because it probably is. maga broke the polls. they haven't been ~reliable since 2016. seriously, did trump's doctor write that part?

i regret nothing. march 20th or so? or march 1st? it's no longer the offseason so i think it's fair game.

still get chills.