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Napoleon

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  1. I saw this game his second year and was pulling for the Broncos. A friend wasn’t feeling well and so I took his 7 1/2 year-old son to the game, so I was hoping for a home win for the kid. Didn’t happen. Instead, young Patricio Mahomes led his team to victory. ✌️ It happens… …a lot.
  2. New Orleans is such a repulsive shit hole. 😂 You do make it sizzle just like the last time I was there. I couldn’t wait to get our group together and get the fuck out of that hell hole. Yeah Mardi Gras!! (Or any number of days out of each year.)
  3. ESPN’s photo of Chip wasn’t quite so flattering. Just so flattering.
  4. Could you provide photos of these chicken fried steaks of which you speak? Photos of the sides would be optional.
  5. Can that girl be hired to work with 0.5 to 2.0 lbs of mine to improve muscle? She could be a wonderful personal trainer.
  6. Nope. Got distracted, lost sight of why I wanted to move there in the first place (write sitcoms), had no mentor and no focus and went to Argentina to take Spanish for two months in mid-late 2007. Seven-and-a-half years later, I moved back to the USA full time after taking Spanish, teaching English, giving city tours, running a small tour company, and picking up 🇦🇷 citizenship among other things. That said, my roommate on this wedding cruise/yachting trip in the Virgin Islands a few weeks ago was a middle school/high school buddy who is an Academy Award nominated documentarian and was heading back to LA before going to Sundance at the end of the week. Also on the wedding ship was the college suite mate of the groom who flew in from filming his Netflix (or Amazon?) series that he’s been doing for a few years. And a former roommate/Texas Ex from early in my time in LA has been a script supervisor, predominantly for kids shows, for over 20 years now.
  7. https://www.topspeed.com/most-iconic-ford-pickup-trucks-in-company-history/#1925-model-tt
  8. Correct! But I was already SAG after getting SAG Vouchers 2 out of the 4 days I was “Blue Collar Guy with Blue Collar Car” in the big Nicolas Cage jumping a flatbed tow truck by using its ramp up on the bridge over the Port of LA to get away from the cops as he was stealing his last car in “Gone In 60 Seconds” because I offered to keep the cooler of drinks for the extras up on the bridge in the back seat of my car. Then I got my 3rd voucher by hitting up my high school buddy’s suite mate from sophomore year at Princeton who cast me as an extra in an mental hospital in a scene from the cable show that he and his brother wrote & directed. Ahhhh… the glamour of Hollywood!
  9. Yep, I think that this was the one. No doxxing, because I would have had to contact IMDB and insert myself in the cast list. Would say: [Napoleon]…………Ghoul #2 (Uncredited)
  10. 2025 he’ll be back up to speed, but he’ll see time in 2024 and will not look right.
  11. Was supposed to be and extra (“background), “Ghoul #2”, for an episode of some new spooky kids series around the year 2000 (or 2001) and the episode was being directed by Anson Williams… a.k.a. “Potsie”. I was supposed to be quiet in the scene, but Potsie could tell that it would be stupid for the two ghouls in the scene to be quiet, so he gave me the line “ARRRRRRR!!!!” That took my one day pay from about $130 to $800. I will always respect him for that. SIDE NOTE: I had to sit in a chair in the Hair & Make Up trailer for 2-3 hours getting my ghoul face & head professionally done. During that time, some attractive teen actress popped in to get touched up. She was definitely a “15 will get you 20” age and that was much younger than I was, but I could see in the mirror that “the camera loved her.” About two years ago, I discovered that that girl was about a 15 year-old Kaley Cuoco. Potsie had an eye for talent.
  12. It has a bit of that classic Copa America vibe to it. Normally they play 18 games to eliminate 4 teams. The World Cup in 2026 will just be 4X that scale.
  13. Napoleon

    Toby Keith RIP

    I kind of recognized the name when his passing was mentioned on ESPN, but couldn’t remember why his name sounded familiar. I can’t name a single song of his, but may recognize 1 to 3 of his songs. 🤷‍♂️
  14. Lionel is coming to The Winstar, just across the Red River from DFW, some time in the next month or two.
  15. Naomi Osaka was up 5-4 and at 30-30 on Danielle Collins’ serve to take the first set 6-4. How did the match go from: Osaka 5 [30] Collins 4 [30] Would you believe… Osaka 5 0 Collins 7 6
  16. These threads that ask for responses that tend to have a linked YouTube video with each post always crash on my phone. iPhone 14 (Pro Max)… -SAFARI crashes -CHROME crashes Does this happen for other people? Page 1 of this thread crashed several times and I gave up. Posting this on Page 2 because it is still early and isn’t crashing my phone. Maybe posting videos behind …👆SPOILER folders would be a good idea.
  17. Yes, I regularly had to wait for a protest to pass to enter one of the HSBC corporate buildings where I taught English classes around lunch or at the end of the day. The Plaza de Mayo (the main square), the Congreso (in front of the Congress building), and in the “microcentro” (downtown banking & business district) are where the largest number of protests occur. I think that it was early 2013, but maybe 2014, an American amiga of mine in BA who also worked/works in tourism posted on Facebook that she a a news item that said: ”In the previous year, there were an AVERAGE of 4 (FOUR) protests a day in Buenos Aires.” Don’t know if those averages were just for weekdays (when nearly all of the protests happen) or if they included the weekends in that average, but I definitely laughed and nodded my head. For the people whose lives don’t take them to the city center, they would see one or two protests a year.
  18. How’s your Portuguese?
  19. My sister is in town (Dallas) and said that “there is some tennis thing at SMU and people in her hotel are part of it… or something.” I looked up the tour and saw that the boys are back in town. Lots of good Americans in the tournament this year. Basically Fritz & Korda are the top American guys not here, but about 4 to 6 are guys I’d buy a ticket to see.
  20. Like the Waylon & Springsteen stories. Bandaid’s song was always so much better than USA For Africa’s song. Always. It’s nice when lots of people get together for songs & concerts.
  21. LFO were up there with Dylan, Lennon, Springsteen, and Bon Jovi as lyricists! Plus, one of them died. I think. (I’ll look it up.) EDIT: ALL but one of them died. They are like a band composed solely of Spinal Tap drummers! Wiki- LFO (an acronym for Lyte Funkie Ones) are an American pop and hip hop band formed in 1995 and consisted of singers Brad Fischetti (born September 11, 1975), Rich Cronin (August 30, 1974 – September 8, 2010), and Brian "Brizz" Gillis (January 19, 1975 – March 29, 2023).[1] In 1998, Gillis left the group and was replaced by Devin Lima (born Harold Lima; March 18, 1977 – November 21, 2018).[2] The group disbanded after Cronin's death in 2010 but briefly reunited (with Fischetti and Lima as a duo) in 2017 before Lima's death a year later. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LFO_(American_band)
  22. There was an election and the new president, a radio/TV personality, changed the official exchange rate to the Blue Dolar rate overnight. So the official rate went from something like AR$385 to US $1 to… AR$785 to US $1. Ummmm… that’s a calm and rational move. 🙄 So overnight everyone living & working in pesos got roughly a 50%-ish pay cut. Not surprisingly, this has caused a bit of upheaval. Especially for senior citizens/retired people (Jubilados). I saw this reposted by my former Spanish tutor last week. (Not the name at the bottom of the image.) Retirees vs Riot Police Public Service Announcement: If you are with your wife & small kids, you probably just want to walk around any protests. 👍 No need to get close and see why there is tension.
  23. Napoleon

    USMNT 2024

    I just listed to a Scuffed podcast from last week and they were saying that Taylor Booth wasn’t getting much playing time and they had hoped that he would move during the transfer window, but it didn’t happen. They said that hopefully he sees the field more now that he’s staying. And then they moved on to another player, but they didn’t sound optimistic. They sounded resigned to knowing that this was likely to be a lost spring. He probably wasn’t going nuts because he’s not confident as a player. He was probably thinking “I don’t even know if I was going to play today… thanks.”
  24. Pretty much. 1) $100s & $50s got the best rate. -$20s & $10s got a lower rate. (Don’t know if you can change $5s & $1s.) 2) The bills have to be the latest design or you can’t find a place that will take them. Make sure bills are the latest design. 3) Torn bills, taped bills, or bills with writing on them will be rejected. Check ALL of your bills before your trip. 4) I would go to the bank the day before (or day of) my flight and ask for new $100s out of the vault 5) I sometimes took just under $10,000 when flying back. Maybe $1,950 for me and $8,000 for a friend who managed some apartments his family owned in the early 2010s. He wired the money to me, I withdrew it in crisp $100s at the bank and then dropped them at his place. He would change money right before paying the monthly building fees (with doormen), paying maintenance workers & maids, paying taxes, utility bills… You hold your money in dollars and then you change what you need, when you need it. You DO NOT change all of your US dollars the day you arrive if you are staying longer than a week or two. A) There might be a governmental decree and you can lose the value of half of your money overnight. B) If you find that you only used about half your money, you won’t be able to change it back into dollars at a bank (ARG or USA) or at the airport (ARG or USA). You’ll have to go through the black market and you’ll lose value on the re-exchange Argentina, Venezuela, Zimbabwe were the Three Musketeers of Inflation/Foreign Currency related Arbitrage on the world stage while I was down there.
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