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SydneyCarton

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  1. I've watched both mini-series, and read the book. Read the book. It's not that it's that different...it's really all the shit you miss. One of my favorite chapters in the book with when The Judge confronts the man in black in crow form on the road. Doesn't exist in either mini-series that I remember. This is about to be a movie, right? Jumping in here just to expand my Surly threads I check portfolio. I went on a mission before my son was born to read all of the Dark Tower and Dark Tower connected books. I can't find the website I followed, but it was some version of this, with some more things added in. I know I also read Bag of Bones as part of the series, and Jerusalem's Lot. IT was also part of my Dark Tower reading list, as well, and The Mist. I skipped the Stand both times, as I'd read the uncut and remembered it well in Junior High, but everything else I read except I think Rose Madder. It was a fun exercise, although have to admit I'm one of the posters that sort of sides with the concept that Stephen King has unparalleled world building and concept guy, but doesn't quite always close his narratives in a satisfying way. Of the stuff above, I actually really enjoyed the double Desperation/Regulators novels, and count me as a guy who loved The Talisman and Black House. Maybe because I think Straub really brings something to the prose, I dunno. I haven't read much since I had my son, and I'm trying to force my way back into what used to be a couple books a month habit now, and I've waded back in with some easy shit, lots of Nelson Demille's John Corey books, some Dean Koontz, but the first book back was Firestarter, which was a solid little fun Stephen King read, for anyone who hasn't. From the looks of this thread, I really need to read (maybe watch too?) the 11/22/63 book. And I'm pretty motherfucking excited for Life of Chuck. Mike Flannagan is a motherfucking movie and TV witch, and I am excited to see him dig his teeth into the dark tower considering he pretty much only hits home runs, in my estimation.
  2. I read IJ once, with no supplemental materials. Brilliance mixed with tedium. I’ll re-read it again one day, backwards, and skip all the chapters with the Canadian revolutionary talking to the government agent.
  3. To be fair, the Luxor is beneath damn near anyone, and at this point I'm including homeless people. The Mandalay Bay is still a luxury hotel. The Luxor is a filthy shitipile I wouldn't stay at for free. The fact that you're even attempting to equate them in your post defies rational explanation, it's like saying "For those of you who think you're too good to eat at Jean Georges Steakhouse or that half eaten burger sitting in a pool of vomit on the sidewalk, well, I guess there's a Shake Shack nearby."
  4. God the 2A Ball shit never fails to make me fucking laugh. They're on a fucking sports message board, that claims to have fans of college football and recruiting, and yet they've never been willing to admit that both other famous mannings, NFL hall of Famers, went to the exact same 2A fucking HS. "2A HS player, he'll never be successful." Gosh if only there was any kind of historical litmus test we could look at for college football players with the last name Manning, from LA, and who went to a very specific 2A High School and how they fared at the College, and then NFL level. If only.
  5. It's pure jealousy. My wife has insomnia and trouble falling asleep, I'm asleep within 15 minutes of my head hitting the pillow. I can also take afternoon naps and she can't. "I think you take too much melatonin before bedtime, that can't be good for you." Oh yeah, which one of the two us has healthy sleep patterns, lady?
  6. Yeah. I've been alright getting up early since a job at a golf course by 6 am on weekends. The rest of my life has just been mission creep for earlier times. In my 20's it was waking up at 530 to go on runs. Then when I did crossfit, the early class was at 5:30, so that means getting up at like 5:15. Then with the kiddo coming around (I'm also morning duty), it was 4:45. Then it was this fucking dog who wakes me up multiple times a night because it's like "Breakfast yet?!?!" By the time I'm retired I'll be bewildered by all the old people who wait until the dead of night at 5:30 pm to go to Luby's.
  7. No. Achooloco has been around for while. You're thinking of Luka, who's also upstream.
  8. It helps im a morning person. But I’ve also noticed that my workouts in the evening are substantially weaker than in the morning.
  9. I wake up at 415 to work out. Get it you pussy.
  10. That they’re the greatest of all time, obviously.
  11. I spent the last 3-4 years with multiple injuries to my shoulder/scapula area just from sleeping “wrong.” Like can’t lift my arm above my shoulder without pain. Mixed lifting (light shit) back into my regimen after being mostly cardio since covid, and the pain and aches have disappeared. It’s all about blood flow. also, stop being fat.
  12. Read the last 10 pages of this thread this AM while rewatching the game on demand. lol Great Hornsby ”ok guys maybe Mike White doesn’t fuck farm animals but i was still right.” These girls fucking killed it. Hook ‘em
  13. Yes. And the people in the ADs across the country were the last don’t to see that was the case, and they actively fought against it.
  14. None of these people at a dinner with female athletes. It’ll be the prison visitation scene from Midnight Express multiplied by 30.
  15. The TE is still an overlooked position in all of CFB. Obviously not to sark. I say keep it at the TE and it’s still a cool differentiator. If you’re talking pivoting to another sport, like softball or volleyball, well ok. Let’s do it. but I don’t think you can let this fucking braintrust of reprobates have a dinner with any of our female athletes.
  16. I laughed harder at this than I should have, to be honest. Wonderful.
  17. To be fair we’re also falling apart because of age.
  18. Has anyone heard from The Great Hornsby? Is that motherfucker even alive today, or did he kick the chair out from under himself with "Mike White Did This" scrawled on his bare chest in lipstick?
  19. Ignoring the fact that youre assuming those chains are real diamonds/gold/platinum...Are you implying that because they're black, their families shouldn't have money to get chains for their HS kids? Do you drive around going "how did that little fucking bitch afford that BMW? She must be turning tricks." **Nice edit, you ALMOST got your post changed in time.
  20. I generally agree. This is reddit with a user interface I don't despise. Additionally, no one here is showing off their lives, because most of these people are degenerate slobs who should be ashamed of themselves. And the rest, like myself, have zero desire to give away enough information that the rest of you unwashed plebians could actually find me.
  21. I didn't realize the actress from Throw Momma From The Train and The Goonies had a grandson!
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