Gendry will reforge Ice (Song of Ice and Fire?) from Oath Keeper and Widow’s Wail, which in Jon’s hands will become Lightbringer.
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Ratcatcher (which I just saw again last night) and Morvern Callar (which I’ll see again tonight) are masterpieces. Not crazy about We Need to Talk about Kevin. I suppose I should give it another viewing.
This quote is maybe disputed? But Steinbeck supposedly once said that “socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”
Well it certainly isn’t right to dwell on alternatives in which they don’t miss a single one of their free throws, but how different might OKC’s record be if in these close games their free throw percentage was even league average? It’s no different than identifying a 3-point shooting problem as playing a significant…
Good point! But how close would their close wins have been with decent free throw shooting? (I’m genuinely curious, but don’t have time to look right now.)
I think they definitely have a Melo problem and a Donovan problem, yes, an occasional Westbrook problem, and let’s also not forget how badly PG has been shooting since the All Star Break. But as a team they have a major free throw problem. I think they’re like 29th in the league in FT%?
Accepting a pardon is a legal admission of guilt.
No, but accepting a pardon is a legal admission of guilt.
Because despite that fact that it’s anyone’s natural presumption that Rent Control and Rent Stabilization—both forms of rent regulation in New York State, though no doubt a vast majority of these units are in NYC—must be subject to some manner of oversight by DHCR (the state agency that administers the regulations),…
Even if the Breakneck trail is closed, the next trail up, the Wilkinson trail, which is closer to the Breakneck train stop (the first two Metro-North trains out of NYC on Saturdays and Sundays make this stop) and which accesses the same trail system as the Breakneck trail, while not the challenge/draw that Breakneck…
Yamazaki 12 used to be a $40 entry-level whisky, and Yamazaki 18 a top value-for-price whisky at $90-$100. Both were acceptable at those price points. Now the 12 is around $200 and the 18 I’ve seen at $400 or more. Bullshit. There’s no good reason for people to be buying Japanese in the US market when you can get four…
Re: “Mad Max wasn’t even the hero”: I think the movie is improved by making even less of him. I find the opening a completely unnecessary exercise in exposition (I don’t like the PTSD daughter flashbacks either), so have taken from the moment I bought the DVD to fast-forwarding to the post-title shot to make it the…
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She’s really great in Lovesong:
And then there’s the Wolves’ coach trying to call a timeout when they had none and Towns’ moving screen on George.
And the word for “right” is “dexter,” which gives us “dextrous.” So we have “ambidextrous” on the one hand (so to speak), and “two left feet” on the other.
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Late to this, so my post will probably languish in the bottom grays, but two great movies I did see this summer, in advance of their official release (they’re both in theaters now), are Manashe and Beach Rats. Trailers below:
A clench of assholes
When my apartment was being treated some years ago I asked the exterminator what was the worst thing he’d seen. His answer was a senior who had bedbugs nesting in his bedsores....
I feel like it’s grossly slanted towards the kinds of films that people like to say they enjoyed to impress other people.