Good job / Go Colts!

I’m a forced righty (my handwriting is TERRIBLE) and I wear my watch on my right hand. Always. I feel naked without it.

And some black pepper...because I like a spicy tot, rowr.

Add a vodka tonic to this pic and you’ve pretty much got it.

Did i do it right?

IU / Collins LLC alums FTW! Great job —

Game of Thrones and The Wire are two shows with tons of characters, but we know them and care about them, because the overall writing and organization is good. So it CAN be done. This has a fraction of the number of characters, yet we don’t know, and have stopped caring. It is just bad. (And RIP Davis — the…

I think TCM is playing one of my favorite 1937 movies tonight — Stage Door. Check it out!

Wish they’d suspend him for two — the Colts and Ravens games, as symbolic retribution.

Damn if I don’t love their teriyaki wings

Yes, exactly! I don’t think this new book is necessarily going to be any sort of disaster at all, in spite of the press coverage. I think it opens up a lot of new questions that can be explored via familiar characters, in a way that may enhance the impact of both books positively.

Weird match, but she’s a worthy champion. Wish the crowd was more on her side during the match, if as nothing more than a sign of respect for a five-time winner. (And I know they do usually support the underdog...or the Brit.) She was also a very gracious winner, and had matured in that regard.

Yeah. I also think Movie Atticus was portrayed as much more saintly than Book Atticus (to my recollection, at least; it has been a long time since both, for me), and maybe that is contributing to the disconnect? We’ll have to see. (And yes, before anyone chimes in to remind us both, GSaW was written before TKaM, I get…

I said in another reply in this thread that I don’t think it’s provable either way, because there seems to be a lot of anecdotal evidence in both directions. I’m 42 (Gen X), and my friends are also increasingly (and more militantly) liberal — that’s one reason they’re my friends, we’re all on the same wavelength. But…

Yes, it’s that nastiness that is so shocking — it’s one thing to live and think conservatively for yourself, but another to project this aura of hate outwardly. It’s hard to see, and just breeds increasing disappointment.

Excellent point. And I feel like as children, we don’t necessarily know the grownups in our circle as people independent of their relationships to us — like how weird was it to run into a teacher at the grocery store? They EAT FOOD! — so maybe this is just a part of Atticus that couldn’t be seen from the children’s…

I suspect that people have an increasing fear of a safe and financially comfortable dotage, as that phase of life approaches. And that manifests as protectionism. It is sad.

I’m a law school dropout! Made law review and decided it wasn’t for me. Thank the gods.

Man, that bubble was burst for me EARLY, which is another reason I loved Atticus Finch! He was a father figure I envied. I guess I never thought Scout would suffer that same burst bubble, not in her entire life.

Oh, interesting. I re-read TKAM about four years ago, should probably read again before Watchman, see how things shake out differently.