Everything posted by Bama Llama
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Scifi/Fantasy Book Recs
Listened to this one recently and can enthusiastically recommend. The premise was original and plot well done. If my physics teachers and profs could lay it out like this guy, I might have made better than a C.
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Longmire
Mrs Bama Llama is seldom enamored with TV but she looooves her some Longmire, a little too much for my liking. Nah, it's a fine series and a solid cast. It's as if James Lee Burke wrote a contemporary Mountain Western and someone turned it into moving images. I'd like to go by the Lou Diamond Phillips bar on the way home from work every day. In fact . . .
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PIG - Nic Cage
Wild at Heart Nic Cage, Laura Dern and a menagerie of excellent actors directed by David Lynch I'll watch it every time it appears on any screen Pretty good Elvis channeling and Dern channeling as well Worth watching if only to see Willem Dafoe's bizarro character
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The best female singer
Above are all fine, DGAF as to naming any one of them "best." These enhance the world of sound (and sight too, in some cases): Sade / Diana Krall / Annie Lennox / Blonde ABBA singer / last but not least, Edith Piaf
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Rich people don't pay much in taxes (now in CR) - ProPublica
Replace the present loophole-ridden tax code cheese with a national sales tax, with a high enough threshhold to prevent regressive harm. Yawanna buy high dollar vehicles and swag? Step right up. Too simple?
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RIP Ned Beatty
RIP, Ned. His corrupt Senator was especially vile in Shooter. I'm so old I actually saw Deliverance in a theater when it was first released. There was a "Moon River" quality to the squealing scene, when one re-evaluates decisions in an instant. James Dickey's gum chewing suspcious sheriff was more threatening than the hillbillies. What a film.
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Eyes of Tammy Faye : Andrew Garfield and Jessica Chastain
I rest my trip and my case.
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CFP expansion discussion
I'm in for the funky, rarely if ever seen before, on campus first round games with high schadenfreude potential, e.g.: Last year - Oregon @ Aggie, UGA @ Cincinnati, Indiana @ Gators; 2019 - Gators @ Wisconsin; 2018 - LSU @ Buckeyes, Gators @ Michigan, UDub @ UCF; 2017 - The U @ Auburn; 2016 - USC @ Wisconsin (song girls cavorting in nipply weather - mmmm).
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Eyes of Tammy Faye : Andrew Garfield and Jessica Chastain
Jim and Tammy Faye always made me think of characters from a 1960s puppet TV series. Follow them up with a little psilocybin and top it off with some Ernest Angley, and you were ready for anything. Evull spreerots, get AYYYouuut! SMACK!
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New Master and Commander announced
Cue Belushi as Captain of the Raging Queen. Agree with above posters that M&C was outstanding, right down to the zoom-through-blurry-old-telescope-lens shot of the French captain glaring across the waves as his ship is bearing down on Aubrey's ship. The Aubrey series by Patrick O'Brian is joyfully addictive. The author creates knife edge suspense from cat and mouse pursuits, battle strategery and clever deception. I only read one of the books; listened to all the others, well narrated by Patrick Tull, a man with a gift. There is some sort of intrigue about O'Brian's service background and rejection by the Royal Navy before WW2. IDGAF, the gentleman brings the turn of the 18th/19th centuries to life like few I've read. Bring it on and more like it!
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2021 Texas Offseason: Sark Attacks Austin
From AL.com - Sark strikes again: Steve Sarkisian asked if Alabama players go to class, responds with playful shot at Tuscaloosa Updated May 27, 2021; Posted May 27, 2021 Texas coach and former Alabama assistant coach Steve Sarkisian was asked this week if Alabama players went to class. The question may have gotten as many laughs as the answer. Then again, it really depends on who is doing the talking. Texas coach Steve Sarkisian, while attending a Houston Touchdown Club function on Wednesday, was asked by an attendee if Alabama players go to class. The question drew laughs. Sarkisian, the former Alabama offensive coordinator, then dropped what The Athletic reports was his best line of the day: “Well, yeah, all they have in Tuscaloosa is football and class,” Sarkisian said. “There ain’t shit else to do.” Well, alrighty then. See y'all in '22 (Austin) and '23 (Tuscaloosa).
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Smithsonian Channel
Deeeep riverrrr, my home is ooooo-verrr Jordan . . .
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Smithsonian Channel
I'd motorboat her Nile, Ganges, Amazon and Mississippi. Viva knowledge y informacion y Smifson y on!
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The movie you just watched
Bandits / Bruce Willis, Billy Bob and Cate Blanchett at her most lovely bewitching self. This one had me from the first, a prison escape in a stolen ready mix cement truck to the tune of Led Zeppelin's Gallows Pole. Directed by Barry (Rain Man; Good Morning, Vietnam) Levinson. Cinematography + Soundtrack ++ Locations + Cate Blanchett's mouth +++ Billy Bob as a hypochondriac + Liked it the first time around, liked it just as much last night.
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The movie you just watched
Alan Alda my senile ass - Alan Arkin. Jesus, how quickly the confusing years arrive.
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100 Best Sitcoms of All Time
Well, the only problem with that is . . . Wait, I meant to say . . . Or was it . . . County Agent and Ralph the lady carpenter were stellar, as was Eb. Truly trascendental.
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Killers of the Flower Moon - Scorsese, Dicaprio, De Niro - 10.20.2023 release
If the film is half as good as the book . . . some eyes will be opened if they will only see. Corruption and evil on a scale not seen since ohhh, say, January 6, 2021.
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Its happening (stadium renovations)
True. But you get a great view if the O line performance or lack thereof, receivers coming open, and FGs. So there's that.
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Urban Meyer to Jacksonville Jaguars
Greg McElroy being candid: https://www.al.com/alabamafootball/2021/05/greg-mcelroy-tim-tebow-wasnt-good-says-hes-a-sideshow-and-will-piss-players-off.html GMac debunks Urbs' Tebow strategery.
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The movie you just watched
<-- makes "mmnnnggh" sound like Peter Boyle as the Monster in Young Frankenstein, running his tongue over his upper lip, cuts his eyes at the viewer. Eva Green, si!
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The movie you just watched
Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins, with Alan Alda, Sally Kellerman, Mackenzie Phillips, Harry Dean Stanton, Charles Martin Smith, Alex Rocco. Mid 70s how to cope with hard times road movie, well worth the trip.
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Whatcha reading?
John Sandford's latest, Ocean Prey, narrated by Richard Ferrone. If you've never read Sandford or listened to him, I strongly recommend. Clever plot lines, believable non-stereotype characters, overall most interesting and enjoyable read or listen. His Lucas Davenport series goes back 30 years, I guess. Davenport has a distinctly surly, snarky mindset. Virgil Flowers series not quite as long but just as good. Ocean Prey opens with a Coast Guard zodiac crew attempting to board a suspicious motor yacht off Lauderdale; the Coasties are gunned down, and off we go.
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The Green Knight - Arthurian Story
Pretty cool green lit sworrrrd in Excalibur
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Identifying Trump rioters
Nah, that's Don "She Looked 18" Henley, searching for desperados. The Robert Palmer infusion of music subthread has me thinking how great it would be if the trials and sentencing hearings were presided over by Steven Root in full on Idiocracy manic style, with sountrack by Bowie, the real Palmer, John Lennon, et al. Damn, where's my Delta 8? Bring out the IQ detectors and nip this thing in the bud. BEEEP! Right this way, sir, this is a special room for good 'Mericans like you. It's called "outside."
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A story about a pathetic man's downfall [34 Felony Convictions]
Agreed, but they did vote for him whom I call The Enemy of Enlightenment. And so it has come to pass that those of us who desire to reverse the idiocracy trend must, repeat MUST diagnose why 73 million voted for TEOE and show them the light.