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2024 NCAA Sweet Sixteen and Elite Eight Games
Fondren and Main, I am disgusted by your odious, tiresome, predictable, provincial, classist, sophomoric, deconstructionist stereotypes. Here’s a nice quote from an articulate, fully-toothed Alabama man, Howell Raines: ”And believe me, to have been in the city of Tuscaloosa in October when you were young and full of Early Times and had a shining Alabama girl by your side--to have had all that and then to have seen those red shirts pour onto the field, and, then, coming behind them, with that inexorable big cat walk of his, the man himself, The Bear--that was very good indeed.” Dude had a flair for words. He was editor of the New York Times for a while until a plagiarism scandal torpedoed his watch. And he wasn’teven a Texan. How could it be?
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2024 NCAA Sweet Sixteen and Elite Eight Games
I went to the Bama/UNC game in 1982. One the worst officiated games ever seen, said our coach, Winfrey “Wimp” Sanderson a defensive guru. UNC started James Worthy, Sam Perkins, Jimmy Black, Matt Doherty and a skinny freshman named Michael Jordan. Dince UNC was involved the site was in Raleigh, geez almost 40 milrs from Chapel Hill. Since that night I’ve carried a bruise in my soul because it was the best team we’ve had in my lifetime. We had Bobby Lee Hurt, Eddie Phillips, Ennis Whatley, Mike Davis and a streaky shooting guard named Eric Richardson. Richardson had a habit of shuffling his feet when he went into his jump shot, which sas deadly. He must have nailed six shots that night and the refs waved off every fucking one - traveling. The place was packed. NC State’s old coliseum with z nasty old synthetic floor, was 80% Carolina blue, all dressed up like Mr and Mrs Thurston B Howell IV. Bama was hot, coming off wins at Rupp Arena over UK and over Chris Mullen and St John’s at Nassau Coliseum. We just couldn’t get up or stay up that awful night. With 7:30 left we were hanging in down by only 2. I told the blue wearing dude next to me, “We’re actually gonna win this.” He looked at me like a wayward child and said, “Watch the clock. When it hits 7:00, look at Dean Smith.” When ghe clock hit 7:00, Smith slowly stood up, walked to the edge of the court and raised four fingers to his players. There was no shot clock in those days, nor were dunks allowed. It was a different game. Carolina spread thr court and we spent the rest of the game fouling and wstching them shoot free throws. Lost by 5. Motherfuckers. Fucking 4 corners offense. Last night was a long time coming. I hope they suffer 10X as much as we did on 9/9/23. Still, not bad. We made footall playoff and roundball final eight in the same year. Anything can happen! 🏀🐘👍🙏
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Kim Mulkey to LSU
I heard she wanted to rename the school Lickety Split University
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Wives and the Stupid Shit They Say/Do
My dearest friend Mrs Llama is a beautiful blonde babe, a glamorous golden goddess, a lusciously and truly beautiful person and stone fox to boot (no pics, fuck you, perverts) but in candid moments will admit to being geospatially challenged. Listening to her (attempting to) give directions by phone is almost painful until it gets bizarre, then hilarious. Unless the person receiving these directions knows a fixed point of reference which Mrs. Llama also knows or vice versa, or can properly use their phone to navigate, it’s utterly hopeless. These “directions” usually start out: “Okay, you know that really big highway with all the lawyer billboards? Youknow, beside Dr. Berry’s office? Well, you wanna stay off that road, you’ll just get lost. Okay, start at the Walgreens, then go straght, then turn at the school. No, not the high school! The elementary school. Go down the turnoff toward the old bridge until you get to the Y intersection. Okay, then go straight.” The words “north, south, east and west” never ever enter the conversation, nor does any expression of distance or time. Those are rules. In the end, most of her directionees end up teaching themselves to use their GPS app, or I drive to a midpoint and lead them in. She always loved Leon Russell’s classic, “A Song for You.” “I love you, Mrs. Llama, in a place where there’s no space and time. . . .”
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R.I.P. - M. Emmet Walsh
Blood Simple show stealer. Right up there with Strother Martin in the annoyingly loquacious but very articulate high, whiny Southern / Texas drawl voice type. Nasty motherfucker driving an old yellow VW true beetle. I mean it was old in ‘85. He tried hard to murder Frances McDormand but she got him in the end. Coen casting was never better.
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Movies you're ashamed to admit that you enjoy
I rather enjoyed this one. Made me think about snails, cheetahs, Cameron Diaz’ ruthless ass and how fucking stupid lawyers can be when beauty and money are involved.
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Movies you're ashamed to admit that you enjoy
Enjoyed the book (Eaters of the Dead) and not ashamed to have enjoyed the film:
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YESSS, FINALLY!!! - Masters of the Air - The 8th Air Force, Spielberg, Hanks, Goetzman (Crew behind Band of Brothers, Pacific)
Late in the Pacific campaign my uncle Sage Johnston was flying a carrier based Dauntless when a Zero kamikazied him and his gunner down into the Pacific. He survived the kamikaze and was picked up by a patrol boat. Unfortunately for him it was flying the rising sun. He spent the rest of the war in Tokyo at Ohana prison, a vety bad place. He witnessed the random beheading of American officers. Later he returned to Tokyo and testified on behalf of some of the kinder and more humane guards. A photo of him and a few other US POWs from the liberation of Ohana survives - He looked like death on a cracker. About 90 pounds on a 6’1” frame. He suffered from beei beti and was routinely beaten by guards and tortured by suspending him backeard from his elbows high on a wall from a bamboo pole. Sage was from Boligee, Alabama and lived well into his 80s. Sage’s remains rest about fifty yards downhill from the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington. I was privileged to draft and probate his last will and testament and to witness the inurnment ceremony on a chilly, breezy, cloudless day in November, 2014. I gotta say, the air was rather dusty that day. Sage treated each day like Christmas Eve and suffered no fools. Makes sense. He did NOT talk about the war as a rule but would pipe up if you asked an intelligent question. After the war, he met a beautiful lady from Rennes in Brittany, she a veteran of the French Resistance, and they married and had three boys together, Sage, Derrick and Brett. He flew for PanAm for many years iin the 50s and 60s. He told me he and many of the other Navy prisoners at Ohana wanted to shank a fellow prisoner trusty who gave out their meager ration of food each day. He had mastered the art of dropping tidbits of meat and rice into the knee pockets of his flight suit (prisoners wore what they eere captured in) as he brought out a platter of food. Sage said the guards knew he was doing it but didn’t care.
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Greatest movie scenes ever
See how you like it . . . Not another word . . . Tootle sye lents!
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Greatest movie scenes ever
How to make an entrance, circa 44 BC
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Greatest movie scenes ever
If you can watch this scene without choking up, you’re a fucking zombie. Fuckin Nazis und zehr Faddalant. Aux arms, Citoyens! Armez vos battalliions! Marchez, marchez, qu’un sang impur, abbreuve nos sillons!’
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Greatest movie scenes ever
Fuck, no. And fuck the forever fucking overrated Notre Dame fucking Fighting fucking Irish. Bet you right now ND makes the first cut in the 12 team CFP next year and ends up barfing.
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Richard Lewis RIP
Just before he loaned Michael Douglas his haircut
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Richard Lewis RIP
That was right before he loanded Michael Douglas his hairstyle
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Greatest TV scenes ever
- Trivial Things That Make You Surly
“All the sudden, . . .” followed closely by “All of the sudden, . . .”; phrases which no one ever wrote, read or said until the 70s. Now these spoken phrases are showing up on local news and happy talk segues and any podcast. I’ve yet to see either in actual print. Please, just make it stop.- Getting old sucks
And so it begins. Better save all of your passwords and PINs in an encrypted document and save the password into that document in a different encrypted document . . . Ahh, fuck it.- The GQP: Trumpist Death Cult
1969 Nixon =~= 2024 Trump? To quote the Fugs: ”It’s four minutes to twelve and there’s a madman at the wheel.”- I said speak your mind Jack, but Jesus...
Tonight . . . whe shaell inta hischtaddeh.- Netflix Recommendations
Attorney Woo Outstanding, addictive, fabulous lead- Tell me about Ohio State
I detest OSU but they just picked up a decent safety from the portal, freshman all-American Caleb Downs. And the rb from Ole Miss, Judkins, was another good pickup.- moar! Jon Hamm in leading role...Fargo S5
Huh. Well I did see that but it looked like a heavy dump truck with a .50 cal mounted in the in the bed. My powers of observation are slipping. Thx- moar! Jon Hamm in leading role...Fargo S5
Loved the wrap up to this season, other than Whit dying because he let Roy get too close, like being within striking range of a pit viper. One question - didn't Roy's army have some sort of APC or half track? If so, where was it when the defecation hit the ventilation? The "sheriff election debate" moderator, prior to being punched, specifically quizzed him on that point before Roy stormed off after the three clones began mocking him. I kept waiting for it to zoom up out of a hidden trench. Dot, Wayne, Scotty and the poison eater need some kind of follow up. AS grotesque as he is, that guy is riveting when he speaks. Jeez- Nick Saban Retirement + Alabama Corch Search Megathread - Deals with Satan Do Expire
DeBoer did very well at u dub without having a raft of blue chip recruits. They were something like #25 in recruits landed over last five years. Bama locker room may be a mess, but the cupboard isn’t bare. So, there’s that. He may exceed Surly expectations if not that of ADD delusional Bama fans. His coach coronation is today at 1pm. I hope he’s breaking down UGA defenses in his mind today. We shall see. I have no assumptions.- Nick Saban Retirement + Alabama Corch Search Megathread - Deals with Satan Do Expire
If he goes burnt orange, he goes and I wish him well. He (and Milroe) snatched defeat fron the slavering jaws of a zillion Aubie mouths, and for that I shall revere him forever. Sark will target him (and get it to him) 5x more than we were able to do. At this point, I’m just relieved Dabo or Rees weren’t named. Keep calm and carry on. - Trivial Things That Make You Surly
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