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  1. LCHorn

    Texas Primaries

    After reading today’s NY Times article I’m intrigued to see Phelan’s race results. One quote stood out:
  2. LCHorn

    Texas Primaries

    Mind summarizing for those of us not on Twitter?
  3. Wow, I knew he looked familiar. He’s perfect for the character. Also, I’m sure it’s partly makeup but it also looks like his deal with Jacob finally lapsed because he held off aging forever.
  4. I think someone among the GOP elites has decided “you know what, we should do school like Louisiana. Those Cajuns got it figured out!”
  5. I’m a little disappointed this thread isn’t seeing more activity-bring on the Jalen Green abuse.
  6. I’m skeptical it was serious in the first place, rather it was floated in the press to see how the market would react.
  7. I tend to think ignorance is more likely than nefarious intentions.
  8. He’s been in quite a few international productions-if you want to sample one of his Japanese films besides Ringu check out “The Twilight Samurai”. It’s not an adaptation of Unforgiven but repeats some of the same themes. I’m sure comparisons to The Last Samurai were bound to come up-when I read the Shogun I had Ken Watanabe in my head as Toranaga. Sanada plays everything so internally.
  9. The last time I stayed at Zaza it was cougar town. Should be great people watching for the kids-“Daddy, why does that woman’s face not move when she smiles?”
  10. Your points still stands, but picking two obvious abusers of the system like USC and Georgia makes it sounds like you’re trying to undermine your own argument. Neither Georgia or USC is “cleanish”, frankly OU during the Stoops era is a better comparison to UT (although theirs I think is accidental-they’ve been chasing university prestige and don’t have institutional support for the bag game, particularly after Stoops won a championship with Blake’s players).
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    Burgers

    I guess “ancient culinary techniques” includes serving raw bacon.
  12. I’ve been watching it along with the kids-it’s doing a great job, by comparison, of displaying just how wonderful the original version is. Also, I’m sure it would be weird to ask Paul Sun-Hyung Lee to feign an Asian accent but Uncle Iroh without it just sounds off.
  13. @956 Worldwide is bringing it today. I feel like I need more coffee.
  14. I really like Ezra Klein but this might be his worst idea ever. I’m happy to cede the “excitement” award to the ejaculatory mongoloids exiting the GOP convention. Give me sober and stable as long as that candidate can secure the electoral college.
  15. The, I think, Variety review said she’s a highlight in this. In agreement that after Godzilla I am a little skeptical.
  16. I unsubscribed to Barry yesterday. It’s cleansing.
  17. There was a rumor that there was some acrimony, but also Viacom made them a big offer to come build out a whole Avatar universe with multiple series and books to be produced. Clearly, as with Korra, they want to expand the size of the sandbox. I’m a little curious to see what gets made because they had assembled a dream team on the production side and everyone has gone on to do their own things. I wonder if they get a little over credited as writers, in particular.
  18. Now that you’ve been, what’s your food recs for Madrid? We’re spending a month there July-Aug with the kids.
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    Burgers

    I’ve decided that Sour Duck needs to upgrade their fries game, especially for $4.
  20. When they do this she inevitably gets negative media coverage. She’s just not well liked because she’s weird, guarded, and more useful as a prop.
  21. While this may be true, I think elites within in the party have concluded that Harris versus the field is very messy and they want to kick that can down the road. In four years Trump is likely dead, in jail, or has lost the hold on the party as he gets bludgeoned financially and it’s a safer contest between whoever survives the Dem primary and who captures what’s left of the MAGA base.
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    Horror

    So I just finished this one, same author: The set up is fantastic-American couple buys an old house in a small, Sicilian mountain town with the intention of making a semi-permanent move. Unbeknownst to them, the house was previously owned by the Catholic Church and who had used it for predictable reasons. Unfortunately, that’s about as far as I can recommend it. It might be that I’m just spoiled by better writers, but the dialogue read like a high schoolers attempt at his first book; unlikeable protagonists, plot holes galore and the mythology goes mostly unexplored (and not in a good, “it’s better left to the imagination” way). That said, it’s the kind of book that could adapt easily to film and there would be the opportunity to correct most of the weaknesses. It also wouldn’t shock me if started out as a screenplay.
  23. I don’t think it’s that, we just have rivals that need more urgent attention. India appears be almost wholly unable to project strength outside its own borders (or chooses to not), while bad actors like Iran and China keep us engaged more deeply in the mid-East and needing to focus on our own domestic concerns, respectively (there’s a very good Politico article out today on Jake Sullivan and his role in articulating a post Reagan-Clinton-Bush era of “free trade” and democracy exportation-it makes the point that Chinese government subsidies for key industries have made it an unfair competition. That may be going on, too, in India, but I don’t think they are considered a peer threat to US business interests).
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