Steelers managed to pull that one out. Thanks, no doubt, to Thurston’s help cheering:
I’m making my new favorite dinner- zucchini, squash, onions, red peppers, garlic, mushrooms sauteed and topped with some white beans and a little parmesan.
What’s going on on your end?
Felonius Monk
Big Ben almost blew it. I certainly hope he takes the Defense out for a big steak dinner for saving his bacon.
jeffreyw
Ash vs The Evil Dead
Corner Stone
@Felonius Monk:
And then never calls them, again!!
SiubhanDuinne
@John Cole top:
Look at that picture! You’re a regular jeffreyw.
P.S. Thurston is very cute.
Poopyman
CNN felt compelled to report on Trump’s take on the debate:
Assholes.
Redshift
Heading out to see Star Wars. Avoiding spoilers was getting exhausting.
Corner Stone
An almost Shawn sighting! Unless that’s JSF? Although I don’t see any scattered mescal or other hallucinogenic paraphernalia. So probably Shawn.
Corner Stone
@Redshift: The Wookie did it. Sorry.
Corner Stone
“That is *so* Jeffery.”
Mnemosyne
@jeffreyw:
We’ve gotten behind — I need to get caught up.
@Redshift:
It’s fun. It’s not the world’s greatest movie, but neither were the originals.
Schlemazel
@Redshift:
I have been telling everyone that Padme had reassignment surgery and became a smuggler – HAN IS LUKES MOTHER!
Sorry, I should have added “SPOILER WARNING”
Betty Cracker
I’m a bit under the weather, so I’ve been lounging on the sofa all day with football on as background while reading “Gilead” by Marilynne Robinson. Anyone else read it?
Gin & Tonic
I’ve found that cleaning up cat puke after dinner does not aid the digestion.
schrodinger's cat
If any BJers are planning to visit India, I have found the perfect city for you, Pune. People are sarcastic, opinionated and borderline rude, just like the Balloon Juice comment section.
Some examples of actual signs (road signs and business signs etc)
1. In as store :Unattended kids will be sold to the circus
2. Outside someone’s home: The Dog is okay but beware of the owner.
3. At a gas station: Please don’t smoke, your life may be cheap but gas is expensive.
Elizabelle
Thurston is smiling in his sleep.
Decidedly.
Lucky puppy.
Baud
@schrodinger’s cat:
Do they have any बॉड! 2016! signs? Then it really would feel like Balloon Juice.
east is east
A shawn and thurston sighting. Double bingo.
schrodinger's cat
@Baud: This is another actual sign
Please don’t ask for our votes in the afternoon, we won’t vote for you if you disturb our siesta.
Mnemosyne
@Gin & Tonic:
At least your cat waits until after dinner. Ours waits until we’re getting ready to sit down to eat.
Srv
I have to say we’ve reached peak something in the bay. Restaurant, bartender is the only waitstaff.
If we’re going to let all these invaders in, can we at least let them out of the kitchen?
Baud
@schrodinger’s cat: That is good advice.
Are you in India now?
RSA
Nice foodie pic! I’d call the recipe “Veggies a la Cthulhu”.
PaulW
My Bucs team eliminated from playoff chances.
Unable to tank rest of season to earn a top 10 draft pick to garner better DE pass rush help.
Also, one of the university football teams I follow – South FLorida GO BULLS – is playing tomorrow afternoon while I work in a minor bowl game played in a sh-tty BASEBALL stadium. WTF, ESPN, we can’t use real football fields? /headdesk
Debbie
@Betty Cracker:
I have. Marilynne Robinson’s a great writer. A couple old guys sitting around talking religion doesn’t usually interest me, but she made their exchanges so compelling.
Pogonip
Cole, your dinner looks like a portrait of Cthulhu.
Corner Stone
When are we all just going to say out loud that Chip Kelly has no business being a head coach in the NFL? And clearly should be left no where near the keys in the personnel dept?
John Cole
@efgoldman: When they are 4-10 he can wear that shit all day long as a reminder to himself how much they suck.
schrodinger's cat
Hearing Katyar Kaljat Ghusli (Dagger in the heart) on a loop. It has an amazing score using Hindustani classical music, about a rivalry between two musical gharanas, set in a fictional princely state in British India in the 19th century. I gave it a listen on my Dad’s recommendation. The movie was marketed as a Marathi movie but the family of the Muslim court singer speaks in Urdu among themselves. Its like real life in India where you may end up speaking 2 or 3 languages in a single day, depending on who you are speaking to.
The movie has 21 songs in 3 different languages.
Marathi
Hindi (Hindustani with Sanskrit influences, spoken by Brahmins and/or used in prayers)
Urdu (Hindustani with Persian influences, spoken by Muslim elites)
There are devotional songs (qawwali and some bhajans) and songs of love and celebration. There are a couple of jugalbandis too ( duels). I was expecting not to like it much but I love it even more than the amazing Bajirao Mastani score.
raven
A friend recommended “The Knick” with Clive Owen directed by Soderbergh. We just watched the first one and it looks really good.
Betty Cracker
@Debbie: She really does. I don’t know anything about Robinson’s theological background, but she has as deep an understanding of Calvin as I’ve seen in modern literature…not that she has a lot of competition these days!
schrodinger's cat
@Baud: No not in India, just found this internet meme from the twitter feed of one the singers in Katyar, it was ROTFLOL funny.
geg6
Sure wish his sister would do that.
Made a baked ham with a brown sugar, mustard and cider vinegar glaze, cheesy scalloped potatoes with some extra sharp cheddar, blue cheese and Parmesan cheese I needed to use and some baby peas. William Hardy Shiraz to wash it down. I’m in a food coma.
Mnemosyne
@raven:
It’s good but a little gruesomely realistic for me. They have a follow-up YouTube series showing how they did the special effects.
raven
@Mnemosyne: Yea, the surgery scenes were intense, Call The Midwife on steroids.
Old Dan and Little Anne
@raven: It’s a great show.
I still can’t get over that Steeler game. Hot damn!
SiubhanDuinne
@PaulW:
It is still so bizarre to me that USF even has a football team. When I was a student there, they had golf and tennis. That was pretty much it for sports.
Corner Stone
Could “Shades of Blue” actually be decent? With that cast? It seems ripe for over-actors paradise. All they need is a special cameo by Nic Cage.
raven
@PaulW: The Bears played in Wrigley Field for 50 years.
raven
HISTORY OF CFB IN BASEBALL STADIUMS
raven
“AT&T Park. For a decade, the Giants’ beautiful stadium in San Francisco hosted one of the quirkiest football games of the year. Because of the layout, both teams shared the same sideline. “
schrodinger's cat
@raven: Did your wife like your birthday gift?
I also loled at your line about being born at night but last night.
raven
@schrodinger’s cat: She said she did. I threw in the iPhone 6s I got her but she said I shouldn’t have told her it only cost a buck! Don’t I grt credit for a brilliant Purchase????
Betty Cracker
@Mnemosyne: I’m glad you mentioned that; I will remove it from my watch list. (I’m squeamish.)
CaseyL
Good to see you’re still eating healthy! I don’t think it looks like Cthulu though; I think it looks a painting by Guiseppe Arcimbolo, of a Chinese lion.
Meanwhile, I’m happy the Seahawks won tonight, a bit uneasy (during the first quarter, especially) that Cleveland was able to put up a good fight. The ‘Hawks have to go through Arizona to get to the Super Bowl, and will likely face Carolina there. Both of whom beat us during regular season, albeit in the first half of the season.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
@raven: The Lions played at Tigers’ Stadium for 34 years, and the NY Giants played at Yankee Stadium for 19. There were plenty of others; the old Boston Patriots played all over the city.
raven
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym: Yup. There also used to be a 3rd place game in the NFL!
raven
@Betty Cracker: You would have figured it out most rickey tic.
SiubhanDuinne
@raven:
Is that anything like Tickety-boo?
ruemara
Wish I had some of that veggie melange here. I’m starved.
I want to see star wars, but everyone has seen it already. Don’t even say it.
Tina Fey has “opted out of explaining jokes” because she’s coming under fire for having Jane Krakowski play a character who has been revealed to be Native American on Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. I already had problems with the gay male characterization. I guess I can “opt out” of any further viewing. It must be nice to be that removed from the problems of the world.
raven
@SiubhanDuinne:
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@raven:
That’s cold. But a bride as wonderful as yours surely gets a pass for that.
I’m sure you will, at a later date.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
@raven: Almost all of the early NFL teams played in stadiums that had already been in use by baseball teams. Even the Packers started in a minor league baseball park, though I think they were the first NFL team to have their own facility, beginning in 1925.
SiubhanDuinne
@raven:
@SiubhanDuinne:
In case you don’t know what I’m talkin’ ’bout
SiubhanDuinne
@raven:
I know Rikki-Tikki-Tavi very well. Cut my little mongoose teeth on him as a child at my Kipling-lover grandma’s knee.
Mnemosyne
@ruemara:
Krakowski’s character was revealed to be secretly Native American but passing for white early in the series, so I’m not sure why it only just became controversial. Did people only just get around to watching it?
I didn’t mind it since the joke seemed to be that the character is so shallow that her primary ambition in life is to be a trophy wife, but maybe I missed something.
raven
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): She giggled, it was cool.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
@ruemara: I haven’t seen it or read any spoilers, but I’ve heard enough about it to suspect that the reveal at the end is something I guessed a couple of decades ago. So I’m not anticipating being surprised, which is okay. If a story is really that good, it isn’t spoiled by knowing the secrets ahead of time, unless the ending is very tightly woven into the whole structure, like The Sixth Sense.
Sigh. What the fuck happened to M. Night Shyamalan?
ruemara
@Mnemosyne: I think they just absorbed the big reveal. Like I said, I kinda had a problem with other characters but her response is a bit too dismissive.
raven
@SiubhanDuinne: Every see “My Boy Jack”?
“
“Have you news of my boy Jack?”
Not this tide.
“When d’you think that he’ll come back?”
Not with this wind blowing, and this tide.
“Has any one else had word of him?”
Not this tide.
For what is sunk will hardly swim,
Not with this wind blowing, and this tide.
“Oh, dear, what comfort can I find?”
None this tide,
Nor any tide,
Except he did not shame his kind —
Not even with that wind blowing, and that tide.
Then hold your head up all the more,
This tide,
And every tide;
Because he was the son you bore,
And gave to that wind blowing and that tide!
Schlemazel
@raven:
There used to be a hall of fame game played by college all-stars and the previous NFL champions. It was a weird time.
One of my dad’s cousins was an offensive lineman for the Green Bay Packers in the 50’s. That only lasted a few weeks though & he was a truck driver mostly, he would have said he was just a truck driver. He quit when, according to him, Lombardi showed up & insisted players be sober on Sunday!
Mnemosyne
@ruemara:
I admit, I haven’t finished watching the first season, so is the problem that the other characters find out? They had at least two flashback scenes in early episodes with the character talking to her Native American parents who are disappointed that she’s rejecting her heritage, so there’s not much of a big reveal.
raven
@Schlemazel: In Soldier Field. I remember the last one they played in 1976 very well, the Steelers were killing the college all stars and there was a huge rain storm. They called the game and the series.
stinger
That’s one of my favorite dishes! I call it 5-Veg Saute, or 7-Veg, if I’m adding cherry tomatoes, broccoli, green beans, whatever. Thyme, parsley, basil, garlic, pepper. I often flavor it with a tiny bit of chicken, but I’ll try white beans next time!
schrodinger's cat
Another sign from Pune:
On the seats in a stadium: Even if the cheerleaders look like Mastani, don’t stand on your seats to look at them, you are not Bajirao.
* Bajirao moved the capital of the Marathas to Pune from Satara in the early 1700s.
Woodrow/asim
@Mnemosyne:
I’ve been hearing about it since it 1st appeared on the show as a “thing”.
One point people have made — Hollywood is littered w/Native Americans who can “pass”; one who always pops to mind is Tahmoh Penikett, who started in BATTLESTAR GALACTICA and has been in a bunch of mostly-genre stuff in the Vancouver area. If the show had had someone like him, someone who actually could rep. for the actual real-world concept, that would have been a much different discussion.
Moreover, it would have shown a level of awareness for People of Color that she tries to give to women in her works.
Schlemazel
@raven:
Thats right. The NFL was not really the bunch of professionals it is today until the 70’s. I remember a bunch of Packers pooled their money to buy Ray Nietchke a Cadillac for Christmas. That was after they had won a Super Bowl I believe. Today they would murder even the best college team.
gogol's wife
I got a yucky cold even before finishing grading my papers. Yay for me. So the six things I’m supposed to do tomorrow will probably have to be canceled.
I’ve been consoling myself with Broadway Melody of 1940 and Downton reruns. Maggie Smith helps.
SiubhanDuinne
@gogol’s wife:
Cannot wait to see The Woman in the Van, which I think is being released in the U.S. in January. Loved Alan Bennett’s play when I read it a few years ago, and the previews look wonderful!
Adam L Silverman
@SiubhanDuinne: My Dad tried to prevent it. At the time they were working the go ahead he was either the head of the Faculty Senate investigative committee or the faculty union – sorry, can’t remember which at this point. Anyhow, as the guy that started the crim/cj program and was the founding department chair, he commissioned and oversaw a study on violence on campus and university/collegiate football. The study found a very, very, very, very high correlation between a university’s violent crime rate and its having a football. The closer you got to Division 1, the higher the correlation, as well as the amount of violence on campus. The correlation and the amount related to sexual assault and rape were even higher. He ver was able to stop them going ahead, but he sure tried.
And just in case you took a crim/cj class: my Dad was the very, very large, very, very dark skinned/brown Silverman in the department. Not the short, thin, pasty one with the pencil thin mustache.
SiubhanDuinne
@raven:
I haven’t. When I have the strength, I will. Looks heartbreaking.
schrodinger's cat
@gogol’s wife: When is Downton coming back?
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
Open thread: i got to give a holiday gift to the owner of our favorite Indian restaurant. The owner of the first Indian restaurant in this city (for many years the only) is an old friend dating from when I first starting going to the Mayura – long since sold. We now go nearly weekly to the southwestern restaurant he bought his wife as a wedding present.
I had the delight of introducing him to our favorite Indian restaurant, where he sometimes joins us for weekend lunch buffet. When I went back after I fuirst took him, a young woman who worked there told me, wide-eyed, that “the gentleman you had lunch with last week opened the 1st Indian restaurant here!” as the owner tried not to chuckle behind her.
Today I was not up to lunch and Mr. Q went on his own. I sent Swammy a text that Mr. Q was heading there in case he wanted to go as well, and he did. The owner was so delighted to see him. And Mr. Q was happy to see him also. The end.
SiubhanDuinne
@Adam L Silverman:
I wish I had known your father. I don’t think I ever had the pleasure. I was USF’s first double-major Music Journalism degree recipient, graduated in 1973, was on the WUSF-FM staff until 1975. Unless he spent a lot of time hanging around the broadcasting studios, I would not likely have crossed paths with him (even assuming the time frame was right).
redshirt
@efgoldman: I went to a game at Schaeffer as a child and it was terrifying. Metal benches full of angry drunks.
SiubhanDuinne
@raven:
That poem makes me cry.
brendancalling
Good lord, it’s been a day. And a long one. I’m trying to sell a vintage upright bass to fund Christmas presents, the trip to get my kid, and the last of my selling-the-house expenses, and learned that a fellow bass player totally misrepresented the condition of my instrument to a potential buyer. He also made a point of showing the potential buyer other basses that were cheaper than mine, which was SO HELPFUL. And he said my bass probably needs an additional $600 in set up work, which it most certainly does not. Result: buyer said thanks but no thanks. I pick up my kid Wednesday, Xmas is two days later, and I’ve bought a grand total of one present because I’m out of work and have been since pretty much since February. Fellow bass player’s apology this evening for fucking up was nice, but the $1500 would have been better.
Luckily, another buyer has appeared, and hopefully will purchase the bass tomorrow. Until then, I’m a bundle of stress.
Peale
And the winner is…Miss Philombia!!!! A scandal and war in the making!
rikyrah
That dinner looks good, Cole. I just put tomorrow’s dinner in the crockpot. Pork roast that I had a rub on it for 24 hours sitting on a bed of onions, sweet potatoes, and turnip bottoms. I will turn it off when I get up in the morning.
geg6
@schrodinger’s cat:
Can’t remember the date, but after the new year. Can’t wait!
Between that and Outlander’s second season, I’m psyched for January tv.
jeffreyw
Jessica Jones!
Adam L Silverman
@SiubhanDuinne: Its funny – he loved football. His issue was that pursuing a team was going to divert badly needed resources and increase crime and violence on campus. That and he took perverse pleasure in preventing the USF president from getting what he or she wanted. In the early 90s he kept the USF president from doing a direct hire of Professor Espisito of Trinity University. Espisito is a top scholar of Islam – none of that was my Dad’s issue. My Dad didn’t like non-programmed direct hires outside the department’s purview. So he found a way as head of the Faculty Senate’s investigative committee to quash it.
Yep, you missed him – sort of. He got there in 68 as part of a research center into at risk families and at risk youth. In 1973, when the center director left, he and his two colleagues had to figure out what to do next. Realizing that they were spending a lot of time working with juvenile delinquents and law enforcement, they started a program in criminal justice. Within a couple of years they turned it into its own department. Dad was the first chair. One of my earliest memories is of his first office – a master bedroom in an apartment complex in Temple Terrace because the social science building or Classroom Building A (CBA) hadn’t been built yet. He would serve several terms as chair, as well as being the first graduate director when they started the masters program. He also was the primary author of the successful proposal to create a doctoral program in the department. He also had his own Federally funded research center on violence for several years.
At one point he was on the bargaining committee with the faculty union. At other times he was its grievance officer and eventually in the late 90s/early 00s its president. His term fortunately ended before he had to deal with the Sami al Arian mess. Though I would have paid good money to watch what would have happened if Bill O’Reilly had tried to bully my Dad. Let’s just say my guess is Fox Security would not have been able to intervene in time…
benw
@Betty Cracker: I’m about 2/3 of the way through. I’m loving it, but I’m waiting for the other shoe to drop. It’s obviously leading up to a big reveal about the narrator and his wife and the hints are worrying.
J R in WV
@schrodinger’s cat:
Sign in shop:
Unattended children will fed a large espresso and gifted with a puppy.
ThresherK
@efgoldman: Ah, that old concrete skillet. Does the “Texas HS stadium” metaphor only apply to Texas HS stadia built before Nixon resigned?
schrodinger's cat
When is Americans going to be back? Does anyone know?
SiubhanDuinne
@Adam L Silverman:
I lived in an apartment in Temple Terrace. Maroldy Drive, just off 56th Street.
Sounds as though your dad and I would have been on campus at pretty much the same times, but as he was faculty and I was undergrad and we were in utterly unrelated fields, I doubt we would ever have met.
Although, thinking about some of the musicians I knew, criminal justice might have been an appropriate intersect!
BillinGlendaleCA
@schrodinger’s cat: We have similar signs in our local mountains.
Gin & Tonic
@efgoldman: DeBusschere played for the Pistons but eventually concentrated on hoop with the Knicks
I have a friend from Detroit who’s still pissed off about that trade.
Adam L Silverman
@SiubhanDuinne: It was a small campus, so to speak, back then. But everyone gets stove piped into their major and minor. We lived in Temple Terrace for my first year and then moved to Davis Islands when I was one. Stayed there until I was 9 and then moved to Carrollwood Village. Did one year in Denver (Dad’s home) my senior year in high school while he was on sabbatical, then I went to college and they moved back to Carrollwood proper.
BillinGlendaleCA
@srv: I didn’t know Steve Harvey was from Columbia.
Gin & Tonic
@BillinGlendaleCA: He isn’t. But he might be from Colombia.
SiubhanDuinne
@Adam L Silverman:
My husband and I totally yearned for a place in Carrollwood! There’s a model apartment that I still see in my dreams, 45 years later!
Eric U.
@efgoldman: the thing is that just about any team in the NFL can beat the best team with some luck, the right attitude and a good game plan. Especially if the better team has a crummy game plan. People know they can beat the Pats if they get Brady discombobulated enough, that’s usually how it happens. In that loss, Belichek had a bad game too.
Gin & Tonic
@efgoldman: But DeBusschere didn’t get his ring until he was with the Knicks (who traded Walt Bellamy and Butch Komives to the Pistons for Dave.)
p.a.
@efgoldman: Except for the Chuck Fairbanks and Ray Berry eras they seldom had good teams in
SchaefferSullivanFoxborough Stadium. Pity: those animal fans could have provided a helluva good home field advantage.I used to work weekends at a gas/convenience store just off I95. Never had to look at an NFL schedule to know the Pats were at home. After 4pm (they wouldn’t have been a late game often) the drunks, often bruised up and bleeding, would roll in.
Also went to the MNF game v the Cowboys that got so ugly in the stands the league didn’t schedule them Monday night for a decade. Of course sucking helped.
No shit: from answers dot com:
Gin & Tonic
@efgoldman: Oh, and BTW, DeBusschere pitched for the White Sox, not the Tigers.
gogol's wife
@schrodinger’s cat:
January 3. And Sherlock will have a special, set in the 1890s, on Jan. 1.
lamh36
@gogol’s wife: yes! Sherlock on New Year’s Day I believe.
Then the X-Files Miniseries premieres Jan 24th!!!
CAN.NOT.WAIT!
Rashi
That isn’t the original Thurston is it? I thought he was sent shipping.
lamh36
Alright, I’m off to bed. Finished watching Sound of Music Sing Along.
It’s amazing the things that stick with you from a young age. I saw the Sound of Music for the first time when I was maybe 12. I fell in love with the darn wedding dress then and I ain’t gonna lie, when I envision my wedding, I still envision some modern version of that dress, from the veil, to the train, to the silhouette…lol
I refuse to join in on the Steve Harvey pile-on cause it may be a record, but some folks have already taken tit too far!
Really, Gawker…really…
Good night BJ
Adam L Silverman
@SiubhanDuinne: The house in Carrollwood was great. Corner lot, house sat caddy corner on it. Big back yard, pool. Lots of big trees.
SiubhanDuinne
@lamh36:
I do think the very regal wedding march in counterpoint with “How do you solve a problem like Maria?” is one of Richard Rodgers’ more appealing moments. And I say that as a big admirer of his music.
Rashi
Steve Harvey apologized to Ms. Philippians who actually won and Ms. Leviticus who came in third.
lamh36
@lamh36: BTW I know that the Gawker headline is meant as hyperbole, but between it and the number of headline about this dumb azz pageant is ridiculous
Rashi
I’ll just ask once again if the Thurston pictured is the original Thurston who was driving John Cole crazy before I watch the Hateful EIght! Thx.
lamh36
@srv: oh, I already watched it last Thursday when it premiered. It’s how I missed Running Wild with Bear Grylls and POTUS
lamh36
Alright best thing I’ve seen all night!
@JohnBoyega
Two unsuspecting SW fans watching the trailer before the movie. Had to interrupt.
I’m not a big SW fans, but I was excited by John Boyega being featured so prominently. I’ll see it eventually, but damn, I hope he’s more in it than I’ve heard from some interviews so far.
Now it is really time for me to say good night.
Peale
@srv: Seriously. You of all people should write:
Back when Trump owned the show, we never had such hoooge mistakes in the Miss Universe Pageant. N
Omnes Omnibus
@Peale: Trump owns 100% of it.
ljt
@lamh36: The modern version of that dress? Kate Middleton, yes?
NotMax
@Betty Cracker
Should you have Netflix and haven’t sampled it yet, try the Danish series Rita.
Well into season 3 so far and it gets better and better.
A little on the soap opera-y side but that’s offset with a strong emphasis on character development among the supporting cast.
Oh, and sex scenes too.
Personal jury still out on The Almighty Johnsons, a series from New Zealand about a family who happen to be reincarnations of Norse gods. Thus far along enough there to keep interest in watching, albeit sporadically.
@raven
Have you by any chance watched Rake?
sharl
@Rashi: I’m not able to catch every post here, but IIRC after Cole’s musing about finding a new home for Thurston (with another dog owner he met, and maybe already knew…I think in a nearby park), Thurston’s name didn’t come up at all for a long time – in any context – then one day there was a photo or a mention. So Cole obviously decided to keep him. If there was any story posted about that decision, I didn’t see it. As I recall thinking when reading it, his post could have been the result of frustrated musing out loud, kinda, which I don’t think would be the first post like that.
Lamh36
@ljt: yes, she beat me too…I loved Kate’s dress for that reason…it really reminded me of the SoM dress
danielx
Tired. Really, really tired, in a way that no amount of sleep will fix.
Omnes Omnibus
A Benghazi movie by Michael Bay? Fuck me to tears.
Omnes Omnibus
@Omnes Omnibus: I am wrong. He did sell it. My error. Carry on.
sharl
@srv: Thanks. That’s the original post where Cole announced his decision to transition from foster dude to permanent Thurston servant.
What I’m pretty sure Rashi is asking – and what I remember as well – is a subsequent post (some weeks later I think) where Cole was having second thoughts about his ability to handle Thurston. I tried searching, but of course ‘Thurston’ is currently showing up in Cole’s twitter feed in the side bar, so I get a bunch more hits than I would otherwise. Or maybe my Google-fu sucks this evening…nah, that couldn’t be it…
NotMax
@sharl
Yes, there was one such post but it appears to have been a transitory disinfatuation.
east is east
I always figured my English liver would take the abuse and it is fine, if the lab results are correct. Didn’t factor in the neuropathy. This is bad stuff.
Rashi
@sharl: So who is Thruston III? He looks like the same breed as the original.
I remember two posts about Thurston. The first was about him ripping up Cole’s sleeping mask with Cole remarking that “you can’t train away asshole ” The other was shortly after with Cole at wits end thinking about sending him packing.
Thanks for the reply and thanks to Shari too.
Scapegoat
@NotMax: Rita Is great fun. A bit moralistic, but so many snarky portrayals of personalities you know.
Just binge-watched River (on Netflix). Superb. Delightfully disturbing with sublime character development. David Lynch inspiration (a la Twin Peaks, no doubt).
BillinGlendaleCA
@Rashi: I guess Cole had second thoughts, and Thurston is no longer a puppy and doesn’t eat EVERYTHING.
east is east
@Scapegoat: Making a Murderer is definitely worth watching on Netflix.
Origuy
Remember the furor about Idris Elba as Heimdall in Thor? Get ready for the fuss about a black Hermiome in J.K Rowling’s new Harry Potter stage play.
Scapegoat
@east is east: Thanks for the recommendation. Will check it out.
Peaky Blinders is pretty phenomenal, despite being crazy violent, if you haven’t seen it. Sumptuous visuals and captivating storyline.
sharl
@Rashi: On the Thurston III thing, that was just srv messing with you, as is his wont.
I don’t know if you were around here at the beginning of the Saga of Thurston. If not: Thurston’s (and Lovey’s) mother was named Ginger, and if you are aware of the dumb-ass 60s American TV show Gilligan’s Island, then you can see what inspired the names Thurston and Lovey, as well as (I assume) the basis for srv’s “Thurston III” quip.
I’m not recommending you’ll be wiser for pursuing that line of inquiry/research, though. Even back when I fought with my brothers to change the channel to anything other than Gilligan’s Island, I thought that damn show could possibly cause brain damage.
Scapegoat
@Origuy: Black Hermione? That’s about as unpossible as a Black President!
Goblue72
Goodbye Florida.
east is east
no more comments? It’s an east coast kind of thing.
amk
@Origuy:
twitter racist goons are already on it.
Rashi
@BillinGlendaleCA: @sharl: Thanks. Thurston looks much smaller here than the pic with him wearing a head cone that I remember so I wondered what was what. Maybe it has to do with angle and/or framing. Good to hear he wasn’t kicked out and has a loving home.
Mike in NC
About to dock in Frankfurt, then board buses to Heidelberg for another Christmas Market excursion. Flying home tomorrow. Weather is rather mild. We’ve walked miles over cobblestone streets this past week and our legs are feeling like rubber.
mclaren
The more I learn about the same-old same-old Star Wars film that J. J. Abrams just pulled his pants down for and squatted and let plop into theaters nationwide, the more it becomes clear it’s a steaming pile of sith.
This is a cheesy sleazy fifth-rate retread of the original Star Wars film. A major character dies? Check. Alec Guiness in the original film, someone familiar in the new (old) film. Darth Vader survives to chase down Luke in the first film? Check. Kyle Ren survives to chase down Rey in the same-old same-old film. An orphan child grows up on a desert planet and discovers a great destiny as a Jedi warrior? Check. Same deal with the same-old same-old film, except it’s a she instead of a he and the planet’s not named Tatooine.
It’s all just a crude abominably badly-written ripoff of the original Star Wars film, without any of the charm or the naïvetè or the Saturday-morning-cartoon sparkle of the original.
It’s like we’re trapped in a time loop. The Empire wants to rule the galaxy in the original film; the First Order wants to rule the galaxy in the same-old same-old film. A guy in a black mask is the big heavy in the original film; a guy in a black mask is the big heavy in the new film. It’s so tiresome that there exist no words in the English language to describe how unimaginative and derivative this new piece of schlock is. They got so lazy they basically just changed the name: “Hey, let’s call it “the First Order” instead of “The Empire” — that’ll put a twist on things!”
Wow.
On the other hand, it’s not half a bad as the unspeakably wretched new trailer for the third Star Trek film. “From the director of THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS” is something I do not want to see in the trailer for ANY Star Trek film. Ever.
Oh well.
The big movies of the year are obviously going to be Tarantino’s HATEFUL EIGHT and Inarritu’s THE REVENANT. The Star Wars piece of schlock is a giant turd, so stay away from the theaters it’s playing in unless you’ve got noseplugs handy.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Mike in NC: Heidelberg is nice, spent a night there in 1979.
sharl
@Goblue72: Damn. If the mayor’s dreams of technological fixes don’t prevent Miami Beach from flooding entirely, I wonder where those Wall Street, drug, and real estate waterfront multimillionaires and billionaires will go?
Of course, Governor Skeletor is holding firm:
Obviously the Gov. and his pals just need to pass stronger restrictions against talking about global warming, and increase the burning of coal; you just need to be really tough with Mother Nature to get your point across.
BillinGlendaleCA
@sharl: If they’d just reduce the capital gains rate, the job creators would make it ALL BETTER.
sharl
@BillinGlendaleCA: Hahaha{sob}
Amir Khalid
@mclaren:
I wish I understood the joy you get from pissing in other people’s cornflakes.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Amir Khalid: It’s a very dark place that you don’t want to venture to, Amir.
mclaren
@Amir Khalid:
Spoken like a guy who enthused that The Phantom Menace was “a thrilling triumph of imaginative filmmaking, and the best film of the year.”
Spray-painting a turd gold does not make it into bullion.
Amir Khalid
@mclaren:
I saw The Phantom Menace years before I started lurking, let alone commenting, on this blog; I have not had much to say about it here, and I certainly never said that.
mclaren
@Amir Khalid:
“…I certainly never said that.”
Didn’t say you did. Major reading comprehension fail.
A lot of people did say that. They’re eating their words today. I predict the people who rhapsodize about this shitty film today will also eat their words in a few months or years.
Move over, Transformers Two — your prize for “Best box office for a bad film” has now been taken.
Amir Khalid
@mclaren:
No, major writing fail.