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Posts posted by mchookem
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3 hours ago, Da Fino said:
the most underrated Coen bros flick imo and one of my favorite Pitt roles. Pitt's range is huge.
Cruise may be coasting at this point but he has acted his ass off many, many times.
DeNiro is like top 3 best actors ever.
the above opinions are just wrong lol 😋
also...agree on Wahlberg's range in general, but he deserved an Oscar nod for Boogie Nights.
i submit...Johnny Depp. he excels at over-the-top caricature/cartoonish and period pieces...but i can't really recall any other dramatic roles...Donnie Brasco i guess, but he was pretty dull next to Pacino and Madsen. i don't do chick-flicks tho, i guess he also has a bunch of those, he is pretty to look at. i suppose he has a niche that i just don't 'get'.
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this looks like a tragic but probably justified shooting...
but i don't know whether to be impressed by his dead aim or horrified that he would risk hitting the girl in pink 😐
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um, so ANYway...i probably mostly feel relief.
i believe justice was served, as they say. i hope he also gets an appropriate sentence. but it feels like we are in such a precarious balance with everything... this is just one thing that happened to tilt a different way this time.
i i'm not convinced it's a pattern. yet.
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oh god somehow i ended up with a 'stand with Mackenzie Kelly and vote FOR prop b!' ad on my fb feed 🤣🤣🤣
my voting preference aside, i was soooo tempted to comment something, er, 'colorful', seeing as how i witnessed '8 days to new boobs!' from the beginning. 😄
but its fb so it's my real name, boo...i just hid the ad lol.
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good lord do NOT visit TexAgs unless you want to feel ill. i'm honestly shocked some of those comments are allowed 😳 i don't know how any young minority can choose to go there! disgusting.
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holy shit at the prices mentioned above 😳 glad we got ours 15 years ago! we're also in central Austin so space was limited, we ended up with 13,500 gallons for only about 35k.
csb: we finished construction around Christmas 2005...and i made a bet with my husband, if the Longhorns won i would 'christen' the pool. they did, i did... and i almost gave myself a heart attack bc the water temp was like 40 degrees! 😁
anyway...renovation near completion! 2 week delay on plaster but they got it done this morning and i love it! 😍😁 my goal was for it to be as blue as possible, i think this is gonna look great with water in it!
acid wash tomorrow am and then start water, should be full some time Thursday... exciting!
OH...but we still need some landscaping, ugh... those ugly stumps around the waterfall used to be gorgeous huge 15 year old fan palms ☹ guess we'll try to buy some semi-mature ones to replace them. putting this place on the market in about a year and definitely want to bill it as 'an urban oasis'!
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there's like 700K people in DC.
THE LIES ARE STARTING TO GET TO ME 😡
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12 hours ago, Neonmoon said:
jfc between this story and the Indianapolis shooter... what the FUCK is going on with our so-called social service and mental illness agencies?? i mean FUCKING HELL!!! 😡 i'm kind of enraged! in both instances people close to the perpetrators basically BEGGED for help over and over and they got shit! omg is EVERYTHING in this fucking country broken?? are we all just fucking callous and incompetent??
jfc this is just horrifying!!
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i mean, that's kind of incredible
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gotdammit
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i guess later on he tweeted this...
which...yeah okay, all those cultures contributed to the settlement of this country, sure...but when talking about groups that are basically the core of the history and culture of this country, i'd argue that you have FOUR major groups...
Europeans (which include ALL of those he mentions), African/slaves, Mexicans, and Native Americans.
the pie chart has a lot of wedges, but some of the biggest ones aren't who he thinks.
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you ain't got to lie, Craig
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6 hours ago, Mrs Whiggins said:
Answer to this GOP, answer to this. It is on you, not because the blame lies solely with you, but the percentage of the Democratic party that will not sit down and discuss amending gun laws and closing loopholes in this country in good faith is so small as to be a joke compared to the stonewalling and meaningless words that the GOP formulates. "This is the price of freedom," you say as another family, another neighborhood, another community, another state suffers the trauma of physical and mental wounds that last a lifetime.
We all know risk, it is a choice we make every single day but you have put us before a firing squad of your own devising; in the name of votes, in the name of arms sales, in the name of cowardice when faced with doing what is right. You did everything in your power to take away people's access to healthcare, and all but loaded the weapon and pressed the trigger. Sure, the young man made his choice but he was in a mental prison that you constructed. Shame. Forever shame.
from the article...
"We can't continue living with the constant threat of gun violence everywhere we go," said Rep. Andre Carson, D-Ind., whose district includes Indianapolis. "It's not normal. It will never be normal..."
🤣🤣🤣 how adorable
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man he brings out my geeky fangirl 😄😊
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1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:
It’s right at our Trader Joe’s. I literally had to check find my friends to make sure my wife wasn’t there.
Close to home. Fucking literally.ditto. fuck.
ETA per Google maps looks like they have the whole area shut down, including a good chunk of 360. must still be at large.
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2 hours ago, Wulaw Horn said:
Agreed completely. I didn’t say totes the lefts narrative bc I don’t believe you can be intellectually honest and do that (or the rights narrative- the world doesn’t work that way), and I don’t disagree with your push back on that term. I don’t think the person who used that term likely thought it out at all.
look at us, being all agreeable and shit 🤣
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1 hour ago, Wulaw Horn said:
He’s a definite liberal and I agree with him very seldomly but he’s intellectually honest and I appreciate him. No problems with that dude from my POV
being a liberal and 'totes the lefts narrative' are two different things.
i agree with your assessment and that's what i was inferring - to me he is a practical and reasoned thinker. most importantly (for me) he is not a hypocritic ('intellectually honest' as you say), which is what often puts him at odds with some on the left. he has described himself as libertarian in the past, but there's no doubt in recent years his positions have aligned more with progressives. that is still not the same as 'totes the lefts narrative'.
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13 hours ago, HornPhD said:
Oz
i loved Oz!
it was the precursor to some of the most fantastic programming we've seen, particularly on HBO.
i read an interview with some HBO execs, probably more than a decade ago, they were talking about how the The Sopranos came about...they basically credited Tom Fontana and the HBO execs that took a chance on Oz.
prior to that, serial dramas were not a 'thing' on cable. i remember them talking about the actual construction of the story each episode, how on broadcast tv series, scripts were purposely broken into segments, basically built around commercial breaks. Oz was written differently, each episode constructed holistically, a whole different way of constructing a script...i can't remember exactly how they described it but it made total sense.
anyway, the phrase i always remember from that interview was one of them saying "without Oz you would never have gotten The Sopranos, The Wire, etc."
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1 hour ago, Aqua Buddha said:
This. ^^^
Gottlieb is the only talking head that's been saying this and it should be noted that he's been a public health official and understands the balance between science and what is a reasonable ask of people. The whole fucking point of buying 700M doses is that we can get back to normal.
37 minutes ago, Mrs Whiggins said:I have worn masks prior to COVID--I work with some nasty chemicals and I'd just as soon not inhale them. I also occasionally have pollen reactions so I wear one when mowing. Adding one to go out was inconvenient at first, only because I couldn't remember to get in the car with it. Once it became a habit, like grabbing a phone, it ceased to be an issue. So, I'm going to keep wearing it because I am free to do so and I don't give a fig at the people who say, "aw, you're scared" or particularly care what they think or do. Actually, I'm thinking more like @UDontKnow, why not wear it since I don't mind, and give a variant another tool to mutate once more?
We have issues with antibiotics because morons abused those to no end or didn't take them correctly, and viruses are opportunistic in the same way.
i agree with both these positions.
i went into pretty close to the deepest, darkest depression of my life last year when masks became an ubiquitous mandatory 'thing' - i mean, on top of everything else, and other things, but the masks just about did me in (and i'm sure i'm not special in that way and many people had a way tougher year than me, that's not my point)...but i have worn the damn things religiously and correctly and carefully everywhere since. i believe they work.
we are vaccinated, and luckily everybody i love/socialize with is also vaccinated, from my nail tech to my niece in college (no pics) to my 73 year old father to our best friends.
we just got off the road after a 10 day trek thru Texas, NM, and CO (Telluride is lovely but DEAD this time of year lol) and my attitude was 'if a place of business requires a mask then i will wear a mask, but otherwise...forget it'.
i do not feel reckless - we have been very careful and followed all the rules since the beginning. i will NEVER throw a fit b/c some place is requiring masks.
outside of Austin, there were (surprise! lol) a LOT of places in TX that no longer required masks. and i was thrilled every time i got to the door of a place and i didn't have to say 'oh shit' and to go back to the car b/c i forgot my mask.
to quote AB again - The whole fucking point of buying 700M doses is that we can get back to normal.
NM and CO still have statewide orders and there was definitely a difference in attitude, and we followed their rules.
i refuse to accept wearing masks as a 'new normal'. it has nothing to do with 'muh freedumb' or 'i can't breath' or whatever...it's a visceral reaction, i can't explain it. but i have handled it for a year b/c i'm a responsible citizen and i believe in science and healthcare professionals.
some girl friends were discussing masks a few months ago, different materials and patterns, ones that were 'cute'...and i got emotional b/c just that conversation was horrid to me and made me want to scream/cry.
i also agree with @jimmyjazz above - vaccine is pretty much available on demand now - you refuse it, you get really sick or die? that's on you. we've spent a year in some ridiculous battle, choosing sides and turning public health into a political football and killing/hurting hundreds of thousands of Americans in the process. a good portion of us hoisted the mantle of protecting ourselves and our fellow citizens even when they refused to protect themselves, and we've done everything we can for 12+ months now...
if you are still adhering to some absurd belief about the virus or the vaccine, i can't help you. i've done my part, it's no longer my responsibility to make sure you are safe.
having said all that, if someone wants to continue wearing masks...who cares?? i'm not going to fault them at all. everybody has their own risk threshhold. i've reached mine and i don't think it's unreasonable.
TL/DR: i am irrationally over-emotional about masks but i will continue to wear the damn things if/when required, but i am done protecting others who don't give a shit.
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5 hours ago, Enchubben said:
Bill better watch his ass. He hasn’t exactly been toting the lefts narrative lately and is almost sounding, dare I say it, open minded?
you may not follow him regularly...but he rarely 'totes the lefts narrative'. i would venture he is disliked pretty evenly by both sides. i mean, he is and has always been 'politically incorrect'.
i appreciated his segment last night.
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Karen of the Year
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thank you...as a real blonde i have always said this, don't lump me in with the stereotype! 😠