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Reynolds Woodcock

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  1. You answered your question in my opinion. Just go the next time you are in New York. I’ve used both Midtown and Soho locations. The former will be less crowded and will likely have an older salesman (for better or worse).
  2. I got some C&J loafers earlier this year for the first time. Hard not to wear these into the ground. So great.
  3. These are pretty great back to back. It was the O Line!! Wait, wut?
  4. RIP to one of the greatest.
  5. @Burt Macklin you may have already addressed elsewhere, but curious what you are seeing as the reason(s) for the dramatic change in defensive results through 2 games. Better effort, better execution, changes in scheme, a combination? Or is this just a small sample size and there are red flag warnings?
  6. Yes, currently sitting by a pool in Aix a bottle deep, but that isn’t going to stop me from stalking Surly in my down time!
  7. That looks really fucking good. I haven’t been, and looks like I need to change that
  8. I’m currently in Aix En Provence having just come from the Riviera. Assuming you are going before the end of September, as others have said, given the amount of time probably best to just bounce around between Antibes and Menton. A great train connects each of the beach towns. You would need a rent car to really explore deeper than the immediate surrounding areas, but I’ll say that parking in the actual beach town areas really sucks. A few thoughts: From the Eze Sur Mer train station, you can hike up the Nietzche path to the old preserved village of Eze. It’s touristy to be sure, but still pretty cool and the views of the Riviera from the very top of the garden are great. The hike requires shoes and water and you to be in decent shape; it’s not a leisurely stroll but tourists do it every day. Menton is much lower key with an Italian vibe. Cool town. St Jean Cap Ferrat is beautiful and has the Rothschild grounds. The Four Seasons on the tip the peninsula is stunning, but hits the wallet fucking hard. Villa French Sur Mer is right there and also cool. Le Sentier du Littoral is a nice little walk along the coast of Antibes. Need a car for access. A bit further inland, but St Paul de Vence is a cool preserved village to walk around. Cannes is a dump.
  9. I finally went to Laser Wolf last week. It continues to blow me away that a place with that vibe exists in Williamsburg, but it was awesome and the view is incredible.
  10. Watched Memoria last night in 35mm. I was honestly a little bored for the first hour or so, but the last 25 minutes were pretty mesmerizing. If this kind of deliberate, unique film is your cup of tea, worth seeing the next time it is showing in your hometown.
  11. I spent a lot of late nights at the Mirage, Elsewhere and Nowadays in my younger days (i.e., 3 years ago). Great venues to let loose. A terrific afternoon.
  12. Bodies Bodies Bodies. Outside of a few really bad dialogue scenes, I thought it was pretty fucking fun. C+ movie that I had an A- time watching.
  13. Guys, have not read the last few pages, but just wanted to post the latest from IT. These guys are dialed in so time to light the cigarettes.
  14. Based on his writing I assume an Ian Boyd practice summary video is the length of Shoah?
  15. This movie is awesome. Would have loved to see it in a theater
  16. KD is obviously a different guy, but there is no chance in hell that is true. He won’t miss a game absent injury even if it’s for Brooklyn. He just isn’t wired liked that. For all of his perceived shortcomings, it’s clear to anyone paying attention to him that he just fucking loves the game of basketball more than anything else.
  17. I am a man of very little discernible talent. But I can make a mean mother fucking BLT during tomato season
  18. Car for that route unless you are pinching pennies.
  19. Did you end up staying at l’Abbaye? I’m trying to find a hotel in either Staint-Germaine or Marais and struggling with finding the right one. Thinking of doing the Terrace Apartment at Abbaye, or Cour des Vosges.
  20. Resurrection. That was unsettling.
  21. Re-watched The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. What an awesome movie. As an aside, how incredible was 2007 for new films? There Will Be Blood, No Country, Assassination, Zodiac, Michael Clayton, I’m Not There, Death Proof, Superbad, Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead, Gone Baby Gone, Bourne Ultimatum, Knocked Up, 28 Weeks Later, The Darjeeling Limited, Ratatoullie, and the list goes on. Incredible.
  22. Emmett’s is awesome. They opened one on Grove near my apartment and I order from there all the time.
  23. Roberta's is really fun but I assume you don't want to go all the way out to Bushwick. I don't think worth eating in the Manhattan outposts. John's is great. The best in New York is Scarr's IMO.
  24. Definitely not a horror movie. More Spielbergian SciFi. I enjoyed the action of the back half of the movie, the acting was good (although a bit of a waste of Daniel K's talents), and some of JP's shots and suspense are great. I'm glad I saw it in theaters and hope others do as well given the lack of big box office original stories. All of that said, the story was really, really all over the place and doesn't really hold up even by SciFi standards.
  25. Lol. D’Angelo Russell is a losing player and always has been. Once they saw Russell up close and personal and found a team dumb enough to attach an actual asset (the draft pick), he was always going to be gone. And they would have done the exact same thing with Wiggins before his excellent playoff run.
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