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  1. Yeah! High pants wearin, fast talking movies! Love dem movies, just vaudeville with a little extra mustard! Well portrayed in satire on SNL by Phil Hartman yelling at Jon Lovitz (or was it vice versa?) to tell him what the word was on the street, y’know, the scoop, the skinny, the dish!
  2. I think the new documentary will show Bryant, after four subpar seasons, was mulling over going to coach the Dolphins, but those negotiations went sideways and Royal recommended the wishbone, so Bryant gave it a shot. Bama averaged 10 wins for ghe decade of the 70s. Not bad when considering teams played 11 games per year then. Notre Dame and Texas beat Bama in 72, 73 and 74 bowls, which could have been championship seasons for Bryant. Bama was undefeated champ in 79 after splitting the title with USC in 78. Texas whipped Bama in the 80 Cotton Bowl. Bryant had a couple more decent years before hanging it up after 83. He died in January 83. Mrs Llama and I went to stand as the funeral procession went by the stadium en route to Birmingham kne final time. I think Royal, Wilkinson and Woody Hayes all went to the funeral. My old man played end for Bama when Bryant was a freshman. He took me to practice in 61 and Bryant shook my hand and said something about “ASS” and “HELL,” but I honestly couldn’t understand what he said otherwise. He was a helluva coach and wanted to integrate long before the white conservatives on the UA board of trustees would allow it.
  3. And rescued Alabama football - Bryant practiced the wishbone all summer and sprang it on USC in game 1 of 1971 after warming up in the same old pro set. Halftime score 17-0 zip Bama. Ole Bear true to form sat on the lead and the defense made it stand. Final 17-10. After 6-win seasons in 69 and 70, Bama went through the 71 reg season undefeated but ended up being stomped by Johnny Rodgers, Rich Glover, Jerry Tagge and the Nebraska Corncobbers in the Orange Bowl, 38-6, and it wasn’t that close.
  4. Ya left out the reference to “kep tyres,” delivered in Dan’s copyrighted Fred Garvin, bass-o-matic huckster, pimp of Christy Christina, rapid fire Bears fan on speed accent. Good old Dan, one of the True Blue Modern Vaudevillians.
  5. This one is so good and under appreciated I just had to go ahead and put it here. Duvall and Dern at their finest.
  6. He is the Antithesis of Enlightenment but he attracts lazy, formerly apolitical voters. “Hey, I can vote for Donald without having to know ANYthing or learn ANYthing. He appeals to all of my base instincts, like tying a helium balloon to a kitten’s tail. Sorry shitasses. Sonsabitches! BUMPUSES!
  7. James Lee Burke books featuring the semi-alky take no shit Cajun detective Dave Robicheaux, read by Will Patton, are superb. His Scotch and smokes voice as Dav’s former NOLA PD partner Clete Purcel puts you right there in the mysterious Atchafalaya basin with the criminals and gators. The early John Sandford “Prey” series books are also good. Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers and an assortment of kooky Minneapolis/ St Paul LEO characters (think Lenny and Squiggy) flesh out Sandford’s good stories. Sonewhat formulaic but really good listens.
  8. I would watch The Commitments on a loop until the world ends. God dayum, that was a foyne fillum. And what I wouldn’t give to spend a month one weekend with those three backup singers. Then again, Try a Little Tenderness is my favorite song. Otis sang, “Young girls, they do get wearrriiett, . . . Wearing that same ol shaggeh drayuss, yayuss” Cropper, Dunn and Booker T, tempo changes, perfect harmony horns, beautiful piano and organ riffs straight from the aorta, and the big GOT-ta GOT-ta GOT-ta GOT-ta finish. Best shit evah!
  9. If (when) the defecation really hits the ventilation, these Lt Cols will pay floor sweepers from their corporate HQs to serve in their places a la 1861. Motherfuckers conjured up by Motherfuckers. Next the Orange One will appear on the White House balcony in a full Plaza Doorman uniform getup, as the Commander-In-Chief. I’m figna vommick!
  10. Biopic series from a few years ago: GRANT. Very, very well done and revealed so much history I never knew before. Brit actor Justin Salinger portrayed Grant and did a fine job of showing how USG never lost sight of the objective. Plotline shared common themes with Surly CR threads. Grant was branded “dictator” for sending US troops to quell mobs during Reconstruction. When Grant died in 1885, Reconstruction was essentially over and America devolved. Jesus, my _grandfather_ was born in 1880! A gritty, bloody biopic. Sherman was right. War is all hell.
  11. What’s wrong with singing the Anthem in Spanish? Hell, the first word is “Jose,” right?
  12. Point taken. Who gets to define “so evil”? It’s a Twilight Zone episode and I think Rod Serling just stepped out of the scenery and into the foreground.
  13. NO ONE deserves to be atomized. Don’t even send that idea out into the Van Allen belt.
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