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UpperWestside

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  1. This bum of a QB for the Spartans is averaging 25 yards per completion tonight. I mean good Lord that's ridiculous.
  2. Best thing about these games is this is still not late out here. It'd be awesome if they could come back and win. Would make for a pretty festive atmosphere next week.
  3. This could get really fun now. Let's go Bows!!!!
  4. What a catch by White for Hawai'i. That was incredible concentration.
  5. If the Rainbow Warriors score now and get a stop again this one gets really interesting. The defense for Hawai'i has been a dumpster fire though for most of this game. Sucks because I was hoping to see them come into next week with a bunch of momentum.
  6. I was attempting to explain baseball to someone in Ethiopia during the game. My explanation led them to understand baseball being somewhat like cricket. Anyone that thinks baseball games are long should look at how long it takes to finish a cricket match.
  7. Big cultural difference for sure. I can speak to this with experience watching Japanese people clean up after themselves when they eat. They are just super nice human beings overall. Can't wait to talk to quite a few of them tomorrow. Can anyone imagine (Insert whatever American athlete you want) cleaning up like that because you were taught to since you were old enough to know to do so?
  8. That guy will never, ever have to buy dinner in Los Angeles or the entire country of Japan for the rest of his life. I am not certain that the majority of baseball fans understand just how big the sport is in Japan. Every single group of Japanese people I meet here are Dodger fans. I mentioned it a few days ago, but that franchise has an entire nation following it. I am happy for Yamamoto getting the Series MVP. His comments through his interpreter are pretty much what I would expect to hear a Japanese player say. They're just wired differently, but in a good way. Good on the Dodgers for pulling out a most improbable victory when they were dead to rights. I'd also wager that Rojas and Smith won't be paying for anything in LA either after tonight's clutch homers.
  9. Eden was a really good film that I had no expectations of. It was, like this one, a Monday night film at Regal where they don’t tell you what the movie will be. I feel like Sweeney really leaned into this character and was fantastic just like she was in Eden. I won’t judge an actress based on how they look. I judge Sweeney by her ability to play different roles in movies. This movie really brought out some great moments for her.
  10. Just ignore them. They are not worth responding to. That poster is not going to change. Not now and not after this bout with fascism ends. You leave people like that alone and ignore them. Respond to folks not here looking to rile people up with abjectly ignorant comments while desperately seeking any kind of attention that comes from them.
  11. One of my friends back in New York mentioned this movie to me and that I should go and see it. Plemons is a favorite of mine so I’m in to see this. I think I’ll have to see it in a standard format because Regal doesn’t have that version here.
  12. Well look we don’t all get to spend our free time gallivanting around the world like you do so we settle for what we can do.
  13. Looks like we have either a grocery store support group or fan club here. No that’s cool man. A nice grocery store is relaxing to go to. I have been to the opposite of that many times with some ridiculous stories of encounters I’ve had in them. I wish there was an HEB here. I’d probably ask them for a job I don’t want or need just so I could get paid to walk around the store for hours for a change.
  14. I have mentioned before that I love going to grocery stores (One of my fascinations in being autistic has always been numbers.) and I will just walk around looking at prices to see what they are marking up. They have significantly raised prices at Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club. I watch the way they raise prices and then three weeks later put up the rollback sign like they are saving customers money. I won’t explain all the prices changes I see because honestly it’s a boring discussion, but I see it happening. Costco has done a much better job with their price control, which is no small miracle to pull that off out here considering almost everything is shipped here from the mainland and then Japan, Korea, China and the Philippines among a few other countries.
  15. They are getting what they deserve. Now if you’ll excuse me I have to go to Sam’s Club to make sure they don’t go out of business during this rough time for them.
  16. Well when you have superior pilots and soldiers you can do that in doses. They just needed several million more against the Soviet meat grinder. Really should call it the Russian way of war since every war they join they just send soldiers in to the fight whether they are prepared or not.
  17. Cowardice is the issue. Same issue in every country facing fascism. I won’t forget the fascists and I sure as heck won’t forget the cowards who refused to stand up to them.
  18. Blue Moon starring Ethan Hawke. I wanted to hit Ethan’s character in the face with a shovel 20 minutes in because he just wouldn’t stop talking. It reminded me of every single annoying New Yorker I ever met all rolled into one person. Not that all New Yorkers are like this, but Hawke’s character just never stopped talking. By the end I felt bad for who he was playing. Kinda sad honestly even though this was more a work of historical fiction in that the event never happened like this with him being at the opening for Oklahoma! He’ll probably get some really good reviews for this role though.
  19. I gotta say that Sweeney really disappeared in this role for the majority of the film. I was impressed with her portraying Christy Martin. It goes into the fights and her personal life with her trainer/abusive and manipulative husband. I liked Sweeney in the last movie I saw from her which was Eden. She disappeared in that role too as a German woman in the Galápagos Islands. I know people think of her looks first a lot, but she can act. Her quips to the other fighters were pretty funny in this one.
  20. I missed what is likely the greatest World Series game ever today, but for those of you that got to see it, man, that's pretty awesome. Happy for @Sbbruin especially. I hope you enjoy tomorrow's game and that your Dodgers win!
  21. I thought it was cool that he has a memorial out there at the Pacific War Museum in Fredericksburg. Tremendous writer who left this world far too soon and that book is the first one I recommend to anyone about the war for any theater of conflict. You felt like you were right there with those men that morning and then for the days adrift at sea after waiting to be rescued.
  22. This one needs to be either a standalone film or 1 season mini-series. Mini-series if they want to do a James Hornfischer version and give the background. Commander Evans has never properly been given the recognition that he deserves. What happened there is just way too important of an event in the Pacific War to not be left on its own. Quite literally the most improbable victory in US Naval history and perhaps world naval history.
  23. I prefer watching movies that deal with the events of The Pacific War, even ones that are not about the US. This film did a good job outlining those early days. I thought the ending of the film drove home some of that early dread when you saw guys who had to stay behind and fight a battle they knew they would not win with no reinforcements coming from America. One of the things that strikes me about John Wayne is he did all of these films during the war and it was because of that that he became such a legendary star. I am also reminded of the fact that he chose not to enlist as a soldier and it was that decision that haunted him personally for the rest of his life. He would regularly get asked by fans of his where he served at during the war and he always had to answer that he did not serve his country. Many just assumed he had served due to the war films he was in. His daughter said that it ate away at him for the rest of his life that he chose not to enlist when so many other stars readily joined the war effort.
  24. Heard her speak in-person before. She’s authentic and highly intelligent. We need more people like this running the government and less grifters. Hope she makes it through to the other side once fascism collapses.
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