Everything posted by Bama Llama
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More layoffs at ESPN
Exchange rate is 1:1 in Michigan.
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Bonanza and Gunsmoke
Landon to Carson on the Tonight Show: "No, John. None of the Cartwrights was gay. But we sure were glad Hop Sing was."
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hey, no big deal, fbi busts attempt to kidnap michigan gov and overthrow the government
Spastic-Colon-in-Chief sez "I do not tolerate ANY extreme violence." And the important word in that sentence is: "extreme."
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hey, no big deal, fbi busts attempt to kidnap michigan gov and overthrow the government
And the gargoyles they rode in on.
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No CR, but Spinal Tap reunion announced (political benefit)
Will Trevor the ferret be there? If not, I'm out. -- "Have a good time all the time." Viv Savage, keyboardist, Spinal Tap
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Fargo Season 4
Man I love this series. And Jesus, what fantastic dialogue and what exquisite sounds. I feel as if I'm a little kid in my room back in 1956 with the windows up, trying to get to sleep but listening to my parents talking low late in the next room, a freight train rolling through town, sounding its eerie two tone horn for crossings. Fargo audio alone is a jewel. DVR the commercials away.
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The Trump + Covid thread
Wonder who Trump's agent is on his health care POA? If it's Kushner, invest in black armbands.
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The Trump + Covid thread
This entire 2020 COVID / Trump fubar fiasco shows anyone not huffing Trump Tangerine spray paint that he does not care about this nation and its citizens. He wouldn't even take the most basic basic protective measures to avoid what happened Friday to the executive branch of government.
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The Trump + Covid thread
Yes, he, the Enemy of Enlightenment, has COVID-19. Sic semper ignorantis.
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The Trump + Covid thread
Dennis Francione says, "Thanks for remembering."
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"Best in Show" is 20 years old
Love the beautiful reminiscence but did he rent Best In Show or what? Christopher Guest should receive a special Oscar for his body of work. If for no other reason than writing "Did you fuck my wife?" into Waiting for Guffman. The casts - Magnifique!
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Fargo Season 4
Most Coenworthy, the measured pace, skilled actors we've never before seen, vibid images, attention to detail, dialogue of the era, sudden deadly force. I am intrigued at the line "your foot on our neck" and would love to know when it was written. The nighttime sound of a distant train sounding its horn for a crossing takes me straight back to the days of my youth. Others may throw you under that train, Noah, but I am with you.
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The movie you just watched
Cave of the Yellow Dog (2005). Need to lower your BP by 20 or 30 top and bottom? Sit back and drink in this beautiful, simple tale, showing how for a family of young Mongolian nomads, life has changed very little in hundreds of years. And btw, the Chinese restaurant scene in Waiting for Guffman is one of the most spit-out-whatever-is-in-your-mouth funny scenes ever. Thank you, Christopher Guest and ensemble, for the whole yuckumentsry series. You hear that? "That whole thing."
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Big Red Motors Busted by Feds
And he fled the fucking interview, to boot. Somewhere a wood chipper is being cranked up.
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Underrated Movies
Blood Simple (the Coen bros' first) it holds you from the opening scene The Castle (from Oz) memorably cantankerous and law actually working out fairly Muriel's Wedding (" ") edgy funny excellent cast hope for wallflowers Montenegro - just take it on faith; 1980ish Susan Anspach trippy sensual out there, well worth the watch. Meet me at Club Zanzibar!
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The movie you just watched
Never was an actress's last name more appropriate. And best theme music since Goldfinger.
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The movie you just watched
To you, sir, the Blue Max of Spot On Lyrical Arcana, with or without the tight wye-ah. I could actually hear the chords as I read your post - "Baybeh, you just tew bline ta - Bomp Bomp Bomp Bomp -- see." •--->>>xXXx<<<---•
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The movie you just watched
DVRd Leon Russell '72-'74 semi existensial documentary on TCM. Leon is a music deity to me but Sweet Jesus why didn't they leave the feeding-a-small-chick-to-a-python scene on the cutting room floor? That graphic spectre was uncool forever. Other than that it was a nice watch on a veg out day.
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2020 Presidential Election -- Biden v Trump: Sleepy Joe vs Dopey Don [Results begin on page 409]
And of those that register how many will actually fucking VOTE!?
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2020 Presidential Election -- Biden v Trump: Sleepy Joe vs Dopey Don [Results begin on page 409]
The DNC / Biden-Harris campaign needs to bear down HARD on getting people out to register and vote who have blown it off in the past. I believe a substantial number of 2016 Trump voters were apathetic lifetime nonvoters who were somehow energized by the "As Seen on TV" candidate who talked trash like a Jerry Springer guest. These are the fuckers who swung the rust belt for the Enemy of Enlightenment. We must not let it happen again. Don't let up on him for one second.
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Woody Allen used to be so funny...
I enjoy his films but not the sideshow into which he turned his life. Perhaps his neuroses were caused by living under the roller coaster at Coney Island. Or was it inside the screen at a drive in? His rejoinder about the quality of orgasms, though, is immortal. "Bad orgasm? How can you have a bad orgasm!? Every one I ever had was pretty much right on the money."
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Trump shits all over the troops again
My uncle was one of those living skeletons the Marines found in Tokyo. His carrier based bomber was kamikazied out of the sky off Iwo Jima. He survived bailing out into the ocean only to be picked up by the enemy. He survived torture, beri beri, malnutrition. He saw the beheading of randomly selected fellow prisoners, American officers. He returned to Japan after the war to testify on behalf of guards who were kind to prisoners. He was one of the coolest, smartest people I ever knew. I had the honor of attending his inurnment at Arlington a few years ago. Donald Trump is not worthy of speaking his name.
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Brothahorn's Conservative Thread
To paraphrase 1970 Dick Cavett, replying to Lester Maddox demanding an apology for Cavett implying that Lester's supporters were bigots: I apologize to all Trumplicans who aren't bigoted triumphalistic frontrunning ignorant RACIST assclowns. Vote, my brothers and sisters. Vote - it's all we need to do. The rest is just noise.
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Pet Peeves - Sound Recording
1. Dubbed fanfares. Four scrawny extras raise long horns and pretend to blow. Out comes a loud, majestic sound like the entire brass section of the London Symphony. What bullshit. 2. A metallic "shing!" sound when a sword whips through thin air. Air! 3. Metallic "shing!" sound when a sword is inserted into a leather scabbard. Leather! 4. Ricochet gunshots have had the same sound for sixty years. 5. One nervous horse nickering at night - always the same sound. You know the one I'm talking about. A production company spends millions to make a film and won't pay a few bucks to record an original sound or two. It is an insult to the ears.
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Steve Bannon Indicted
1. Mowing is a rite of passage and a zen art. Made my bones pushing a reel mower with my seven-year old chest because my arms weren't string enough and grass to thick. 2. Don't ever ever ever EVER use a riding mower with a little kid in your lap. You know why. Little Johnny delights in riding in Gramps' lap on the mower. Gramps even lets him "drive" from time to time. One Saturday morning Gramps is mowing the back yard, heading away from the house. Little Johnny sees Gramps, comes down the back steps, runs after Gramps, calling for him to stop so Johhny can ride. Gramps can't hear over the engine noise. The new mown grass is slippery with dew, the big yard slopes away from the back porch. Johnny is running too fast. He is only five years old and doesn't know Gramps can't hear him and won't stop. When Johnny reaches the mower and tries to stop running, he slips down and slides under the mower. The side guard on the mower is not low enough to prevent what happens next, serious but not fatal physical mutilation. True stuff and tragic. He survived, but many surgeries lay ahead, a guardianship/conservatorship controversy, a protected person trial at 19, a few happy months now and then, and death at 27 from a drug overdose.