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  1. Because then I would own it, as the producer of the Netflix Original Series....You've got football, MILFs, millions, and ambitious sugar babies willing to do anything to get a ring....Friday Night Lights plus Desperate Housewives plus, I guess, Mad Men, in the sense you had these young women throwing themselves at older men. My show would of course be more explicit than Mad Men. Gotta get that TV-MA rating. It could run forever. Shift focus from one program to another....I guess you'd have to have a Bobby and Pam Ewing program as the moral center of it all, but everywhere else is crazed or depraved in its own way. My first season would focus heavily on Orgeron's rapid downfall. Harsin would be season 2. Working title: Undefeated.
  2. The Coeur d'Alene Connection....I always wondered why there was a coonass town in Idaho.
  3. I've said it before on some iteration on these boards, but man, a lightly fictionalized TV-MA telenovela type series called Big South Football or some shit, focusing on the shenanigans of SEC coaches and their wives and their wives and their wives' side pieces, would be must-see TV for me.
  4. She could maybe be an assistant coordinator for me. I'd definitely coach her on some positions. Is there a film of Harsin getting pegged by Clesi Crochet? That's about all this needs now. Bonus points if she's wearing a Saban mask. Yeah, I'll sign off on that. So many streams of my family made the SC to Alabama trek, only to find wrack and ruin there and wind up trickling into Mississippi.
  5. Tangent: I was just looking up the source of Dubya's weird-ass "I looked into Putin's eyes and plumbed the depths of his soul" uber-Texan Alpha Male BS quote and was reminded it was at a conference in Slovenia 3 months before 9/11. As the conference was wrapping up, Putin suddenly, out of nowhere, " raised the problem of Pakistan. He excoriated the Pervez Musharraf regime for its support of extremists and for the connections of the Pakistani army and intelligence services to the Taliban and al Qaeda. Those extremists were all being funded by Saudi Arabia, he said, and it was only a matter of time until it resulted in a major catastrophe... Putin, though, was right. The Taliban and al-Qaida were time bombs that would explode on September 11, 2001... I was taken aback by Putin's alarm and vehemence." -- Condoleeza Rice, in her 2011 book No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington: Putin specifically warned Bush that this major catastrophe would take place on US soil and Rice said their attitude was that he just had sour grapes over Afghanistan.
  6. One of these days we are going to read about how a man known on the Internet as "atomheartbravo" thought he could commit the perfect murder. Or we won't, because he did.
  7. Mine has a home theatre, taqueria, cantina, casino, and opium den/harem too. It's pretty cool.
  8. Thanks to the downfall of the US auto industry Hillbilly Highway reversed course in the late '80s and early '90s and Tennessee filled up with Michigan trash. In many cases they were the kids and grandkids of people who'd moved north, so these descendants of hilbillies "came home" to Teneessee, albeit now with horrible accents.
  9. I was visiting family in New Orleans when the police and the mayor got into a pissing match and the cops pretty much declared they were on strike. That night every car on our street was burglarized and repeat that 1000 times over the city. Murders went through the roof. I've never been to an American city that felt more on the brink; I mean, in pre-Katrina New Orleans, you could die at any moment anywhere -- that kind of combat level energy was part of the charm -- but this was next level shit. Amid all this my aunt Laura and I rolled into a convenience store and there were about five cops gathered around the Mike Tyson Punch Out machine, screaming and hollering and waving around Big Gulp cups I would assume were liberally spiked. "Shouldn't y'all be out there fighting crime," my aunt asked. She could get away with it 'cause she was hot back in the day. One of New Orleans finest looked at her and said "Aww cher. We good. We dun run all da crime outta N'Awlins," and all his buddies busted out laughing. The mayor caved and they got their raises and probably more cops on the beat and crime in New Orleans became a thing of the past and everyone lived happily ever after.
  10. No, it's "Yew thank yer better'n me, dontcha."
  11. Tee hee Stockton has a Hall of Fame career thanks to corrupt NBA refs. If he was on any team other than the Jazz he would have washed out after five years of averaging 7 pts, 3 asts, and 2 TOs. He is the embodiment of why I quit watching the NBA in my mid 20s, and I hope he eats a covid dick.
  12. Houston had periodic runs as murder capital of America going back to the 1940s or maybe earlier....There was a great headline circa 1950: WHY IS HOUSTON SO KILL-CRAZY? There were a couple of years where it reigned as murder capital of America in the '70s too and I can tell you from experience, going to HS in SW Houston and living deep inside the loop in the Oil Bust (1984-88) years was pretty fucked up. Weirdly, not quite as bad as when the economy was roaring along, but pretty bad. The Geto Boys were not created in a vacuum. Criminologists used to explain Houston's high rate in boom times as basically the same reason it's always high under such conditions. You have a bunch of people with limited educations pouring into town to work blue collar jobs and they lose their connections to their friends and families back in the Piney Woods or Detroit or wherever. So they are isolated with maybe their nuclear family and living in some thrown together collection of shacks like Aldine or Galena Park or Cloverleaf. Alcoholism and drug problems flourish when community breaks down. So does domestic violence. And then you had all these dudes down at the beer joints settling debts of redneck honor out in the parking lot. Lots and lots of bodies dropped over pussy. The old fashioned system of courtin' was gone and everybody was out in meat markets....Sometimes in ways you might not enjoy: Johnny Bush, composer of Whiskey River, said he was playing at a Ship Channel joint (Harbor Lights, still exists, barely) and a cook came running out of the kitchen and buried a meat cleaver in a waiter's head. Waiter had been fucking the cook's wife.....I am betting the cook got 3-5 if that. And that was just the White people. You also had Fifth Ward as America's most violent neighborhood and some hardcore cholos in El Segundo (Second Ward) already by then. So that's one way you get a terrible murder rate: you essentially have Deadwood, sociologically. It takes decades for churches and schools to tame that shit, if they ever do. Oil Bust was kinda more standard-issue poverty and drugs -- crack, mainly. The 1980s were the only decade Houston has ever lost population -- not during the Civil War or the Depression. So that boomtown shit died way down, but Houston was rough before it was a boomtown, too, and by this time we were a huge city. What's left of the sentimentalist in me whispers there was a "we're in this together" vibe and every now and then there really would be, as anyone who attended Jean-Michel Jarre's Rendezvous Houston will tell you. Houston is on some new shit now...I think the population is too young right now. This is mostly young men type crap. Drive-bys, love triangles, gangbangin'....it kind of amazes me the shit that barely makes the news there. About six months ago 18 kids were shot on the set of a rap video but hardly anyone noticed, even though the one fatality was the director of the video, a good kid on track to graduate from UH on the honor roll who was hired only for his camera skills and not any kind of gang affiliation. 18 people shot. Yawn.
  13. Houston was up 71 percent from 2019 last year too. Of course for us that means 473 murders and not quaint little double figures.
  14. Wiki'd them....It was their mom, not their dad...and they were fraternal twins. Louis Theroux has made a couple of docs about them including one two years ago, now they are grown up. Turns out Skrewdriver is from the outskirts of my English ex's hometown which does not surprise me at all. My ex in-laws are racist AF save for my ex....They weren't that bad when I lived over there in the '90s but the last 20 years have turned them into "right Nazis," as they would say in Lancashire. Rough place.
  15. Prussian Blue. Their dad made them do it. They disavowed the scene and disowned their dad by the time the youngest was still in HS, I think.
  16. There is a chapter in Guns, Germs and Steel on this....read it decades ago, but one problem is they had no domesticable beasts of burden, so that held back their development. They tried with zebras. Zebras don't play that. Maybe the same with African elephants. Still-endemic tropical diseases is another huge problem, esp sleeping sickness and malaria. Also, parasites and shit. Stuff we take for granted. People just feel like shit a lot of the time. The US South was similar until very recently, when shit like ringworm was all but eradicated.
  17. Skinheads had kind of a moment in the late '80s and early '90s and Skrewdriver was the Beatles of that scene. The singer died in 1992 or thereabouts and the whole scene was circling the drain anyway, White Power rock was a thing there for awhile. It was basically shitty punk with a lot of racial slurs in it.
  18. Russia doesn't want a NATO country on his border = Putin is a dangerous madman who won't stop until the Russians sack Paris. NATO doesn't want Russia on its border = eminently sensible, worth American treasure and lives.
  19. I really don't care what Russia does in Ukraine. I don't think it's appeasement to let Putin have his way there. If he then moved on the Baltics or back into MittelEuropa that's another thing, but Ukraine is not worth a drop of American blood.
  20. Used to be you could get you a prepaid bond....for the true playa who enjoys minimal interruptions on his Saturday night
  21. They suck but so did Mackovic's slow white boys....we have a few of those, but that's okay because we also have fast Black guys who run themselves out of plays, too. Or something. Fuck.
  22. I understand how y'all think that's freaky but it's just the latest trends in optimal cuddly toy placement for 14-year-old girls, and he prides himself on being a considerate paedophile.
  23. Paul Prudhomme meat loaf with jalapeno brown gravy is the shit....If you want to get real fancy make it with ground lamb instead of ground pork (and beef).
  24. A friend of mine had one of these bad boys when he was in second grade....
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