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    Mediterranean

    That location is where restaurants go to die.
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    Heat 2

    Blackhat might have been the most disappointing theatrical experience I’ve had in the last ten years. It was like someone was doing a spoof on Mann’s usual themes and beats.
  3. This hits close to home because I drove by that location Friday on the way back from Colorado and felt the gravitational effect of a 2 fish, 3 chicken plank plus hush puppies combo start to pull me in before I slapped myself awake and remembered I can't eat 3000 calorie meals anymore without paying for it later.
  4. Finally caught it this morning--that Michael Giacchino score does a lot of heavy lifting. I was a little surprised that the cast played it fairly subdued. It was like someone told Pascal to play everything quiet and use little of his natural charisma. The character is supposed to be one of the smartest people on the planet, and a little arrogant as a result. Between this an F1, Dr. Sharon is having a year. This would have been better with a little more of the James Gunn weirdness energy.
  5. I had my shoulder scoped 12 weeks ago (rotator cuff tear, debridement, bone spur shaved down). Go for it, you’re going to wonder why you waited so long.
  6. My kids favorite part is they have constant boogers they get to pick.
  7. Echoing @UTPhil2006, I don’t think either of those prospects were going to be much more than trade chips. Their best attribute was draft position and potential. This team has been shedding talent past the point of replacement ever since 2019. They’ve got to add some back and the best advantage they CAN have is Crane’s willingness to spend money.
  8. He’s hitting better post All Star break in a small sample size. His rather inexplicable loss of power is concerning, though. He’s also having his worst year defensively by WAR. I would still add him at a low cost because the Astros need talent and can shuffle guys around (or out) after the season.
  9. I was a 90’s attendee and I remember when the Dobie advertised on their marquee “Hands on a Hard Body” for over a year. Not being very hip to the film scene, I just presumed the Dobie theater was where you watched gay porn.
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    Pizza

    Re: AllDay-their pizza is good but it’s also BORING. There are zero recipes on their menu that invite a “this might be good but it might also be tragic, let’s find out.”
  11. I’m a little from Missouri on the accuracy on our economic measurements and I think what’s out there is confusing policy makers who have good faith intentions. That said, the big media broadly is concerned about one thing only, and that’s superficial reporting that provides grist for the content mill. If someone is looking for a Bernstein and Woodward investigatory piece on the economy it’ll be on Substack or Medium and won’t get that much attention. The WSJ, NYT, etc., will be happy to report anything remotely newsworthy unchallenged. If it ends up incorrect, well that’s just more content.
  12. Hah! I’m sitting at the Golden Atomic Cowboy/Denver Biscuit as we speak.
  13. I’m traveling so won’t see it and will have to avoid spoilers until two weeks from now. The trades seem to call it a B+ with cinematography and particularly the Giacchino score as highlights and an overly safe script as holding it back from ranking with the best Marvel movies. What say you?
  14. Variety had a long cover article on this yesterday and was weirdly transparent about their frustration trying to get Sydney Chandler (who plays the lead) to participate.
  15. Point of order, nothing is signed for 2026.
  16. There’s 2nd lien cash out loans (which, if your current loan is a cash-out you’ll be ineligible for) and lots of “buy before you sell” options. I’m not a big fan of the latter because they are pricey (we have a deal with UpEquity and we typically waive the premium they pay us, but it’s 2% or more in fees), but they are a solution to someone who needs a short-term loan to buy a house they can’t qualify for otherwise.
  17. That part was the most pure channeling of Grant Morrison in the film. Maybe if Gunn gets to do Batman he’ll include Bat Cow. I’m not a Snyder defender, but I do think they each had very different stories they wanted to tell. I am a little impressed, in hindsight, that Warner gave Snyder so much money to make a version so kid-unfriendly. Gunn has a good interview on Arm Chair expert and covers some of the developmental process-one factoid was that he claims to have written 650 script pages in a year for Superman, Creature Commandos, and Peacemaker S2.
  18. Rocket stock is up 46% YTD. I’m presuming investors are counting on rates dropping.
  19. While I totally agree with you, if we’re being fair, our opposition is based on the same logic (redistricting is poised to diminish our own control of political outcomes). This is also a reason why I think the Dems should have a continual background campaign of preserving voting rights integrity, including pushing for state and national laws that bring consistency and fairness to elections (ideally, around the idea of increasing competition between candidates).
  20. This is flat out wrong and indicative that you are inattentive to races held primarily in African American communities. In many of those, a religious element is deeply tied into the winning candidates rhetoric. I’ll also point out that the evangelicals running away from the Democrats began in the 70’s and longer articles in The Atlantic and Politico (discussed here when they were published) link them to an anti-abortion movement that was truly an appeal to racial segregationists. You’re not pulling these voters back in because you run a Talarico and he puts his faith front and center. Anyway, my main point is it’s a big tent and ascribing a party wide disfunction is to neglect races in which it’s a major element and in which a Democrat uses their faith effectively.
  21. I guess I’m not following, with the animating word from your original post compel as the part I’m stuck on. I would have a philosophical distinction between the religious morals, exemplified by Christian ethics, to that of the enlightening ethics, which harken more to Greek or classical ethics. I’m a poor scholar in this regard, but the founders lived in a time in which the classical ethics were popular amongst the elites and comprise much of the foundation for our rights as described in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. You seem to advocate Christian ethics, but not if they are the sole basis for law or regulations, is that correct? Talarico should not use Christian ethics to create law except when it coincides with secular ethics (which might be utilitarianism, consequentialism, etc.)?
  22. For someone under the handle Chewbacca you sure are mean to the Ewoks.
  23. I don’t think the small community of chipmunks at the St Elmo ghost town will suffer from catastrophic species collapse because they were hand fed sunflower seeds during the warmer months.
  24. I don’t find anything about the teachings of Christ unique in that they should or should not be justified to defend collective actions. And I say that as someone who enjoys Talarico’s calling out of the right’s hypocrisies. Following your example, what other behaviors that Jesus preached against would be impermissible for the government to enforce against non-believers? Murder? Theft?
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