he was still alive do maybe it was even a bit earlier. the vibe i got was basically ‘what if instead of just not writing any more GOT books when he got writers block, martin instead wrote increasingly bad wheel spinning books that made people sad’ as the problem.

i read the two books i bought (i kind of had to since…

i found it endearing, because i thought the cast chemistry was pretty solid. i think a big part of it is that it was so non judgmental in a genre where that sort of thing is pretty baked in

i mean.... at the risk of being seen as even more gross i also don’t do that. just a quick rinse. but to be fair- i only take my coffee black, so its basically just hot, acidic water. if i was adding sugar or cream, i would wash it more carefully

i feel like this might be a bad play for amazon- i had a series of long flights about a decade back, mentioned i’d bought the first two of the series to keep me occupied and the overwhelming response from my friends who had read it was that this series was bad and i should stay the hell away from it. if the people who…

i have touched a booby, seen 16 candles and played floor hockey and i endorse your choice. i can’t swear i scored a goal in it though, so i can’t judge that

counter point: don’t clean it. thats how you build up a unique flavor that you’ll grow to love

the philly phanatic is currently being sued to be released from the control of the team, so he may soon be available for this

i saw it at youth theatre group cast party sleepover when i was in like 7th grade and got shouted down by a bunch of 16 year old girls when i opined that it sucked and we should put another jason movie on because i wasn’t mature enough to understand it. i still maintain Jason takes Manhattan is a better movie

man, Blockers was just straight amazing and had weak marketing and didn’t get the love it deserved.

its more that ali had spent a career in a sport where even looking at the legs is verboten. hitting below the waist is probably the number 1 rule in boxing, so he doesn’t have the muscle memory or the skill set to even start defending them. he’s going to be out there leading with his front leg and its going to get…

yeah, and obviously this is all incredibly hypothetical and based on nothing. and yeah, Lee was a striker, but i think he’d have had the psychological edge. Its easy in this age of MMA to say ‘well of course a tiny dude with a martial art skill could take out a big bruiser with speed and skill and everyone knows that…

this isn’t the UFC- the original ultimate fighter stuff was a bunch of kickboxers, boxers, even a sumo wrestler and was a (quasi) attempt to truly let all the the fight styles try it out. it ended up being a blood bath, stoked interest in things like the UFC and ended up leading to it. but when those guys were all…

i mean listen to this 30 for 30 podcast:

i love boxing, but you can’t compare boxing to other martial arts. its brilliance is built around the rule set it has set in stone. the skills and (more importantly in some ways) the reflexive actions you need to master to be a successful boxer (other than being able to throw a punch) are counter-productive in an…

most of the places around where i live have pizza by the slice available at peak hours, but its usually just cheese or pepperoni. nothing wrong with the standards, but i usually want more toppings on my pizza

and that’s fine- but then assess every movie that way. it just comes across as weirdly petty and like there is some sort of secret personal reason why she picks some movies to just refuse to even consider on their merits and instead just grumble about external factors (i assume francis ford coppola spilled a drink on…

its not really as much about heirloom necessarily (although they do have their own taste differences) as it is about freshness. a beefsteak tomato grown in my garden or bought from the farmers market, having been just picked within a day, is going to be the better option over an heirloom from the grocery store that…

https://www.vox.com/2019/8/12/20801941/us-labor-shortage-workers-quit

explains the economics of it pretty well. I’d also add a point though that vox basically ignores and that is the opiod crisis. smaller, more rural or more spread out communities have lost a whole wide swathe of low skill workers due to opiods.

also…

i mean- pick if this is a critical examination of the merits of the movies on their artistic worth with paul as the comic/still serious co-host or pick that this is an examination of the entire creation of the work including off screen stuff. but choose the lane and stick with it, otherwise its annoying

i like nicholson to an extent (i find her a little long winded on her own podcasts, but usually sharp with her commentary), but unspooled is horrible and its due to her. she can’t decided if her issues with the films are because of the films, or because she knows about the people and circumstances of the making of the…