thewhyteboar

10 hours ago, Keyser_Soze said:

Just posturing to avoid being drafted by the Cardinals. 

7 hours ago, Greatoneshere said:

Initial reviews haven't been great but need more of them. The Nicolas Cage to really keep an eye on this year is Dream Scenario, which has been getting rave reviews, better than Pig or Mandy and better than his more recently good, more accessible films like The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent and Renfield.

It might not wind up very good, but I'll take any Western I can get.

A legend. One of the best to do it (and one of the best accents). 

Looks gorgeous. The book is incredible. I had no idea there was a movie coming out. I’ll have to catch it when I’m able. 

Once he gets a database of credit card numbers he sells it to a Russian bot farm. 

If you give Musk your credit card info than you should instantly be given a court-appointed caretaker because you obviously lack the logical faculties to make decisions on your own. 

Eagles $300

1. Dolphins TD

2. Hurts

3. Tyreek Hill

4. Colts (low), Bills (high)

5. Denver, Washington, Cleveland

58 minutes ago, Biggie said:

She’s A.I.

 

Yup. No one cares that much about the Chargers, not even the players’ spouses or mothers. 

1 hour ago, SuperSpreader said:

 

 

Sex creep, delusions of grandeur, and wacko religious beliefs: pretty standard American conservative. 

1 hour ago, Keyser_Soze said:

The pass interference call that set up the final play was less of a pass interference call than the no call on the final play of the game.

Giants have a right to be pissed about that, but they shouldn’t have putzed around at the end of the first half. If they hadn’t wasted time then and gotten a field goal…

The Giants. My god.

On 10/12/2023 at 11:29 AM, thewhyteboar said:

Quite enjoyed that bio. It put a lot of things on my watchlist, gotta see if so can find a copy of Noon Wine. I really have no idea how Peckinpah managed to make any movies with how he treated studios and how they treated him (not to mention his own addiction issues). I know The Wild Bunch is his masterpiece, but I still maintain that Pat Garret and Billy the Kid is truly his best. It is a perfect eulogy and coda to the West, not just the West as a time and place, but also an elegy to the genre. 
 

I started The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, by Michael Ondaatje. 

That is something that’s gonna stay in my guts for awhile. The book is a mix of prose and poetry, telling the story of Billy from his point of view. The violence is deeply visceral—some of the most disturbing passages I’ve ever read—while the moments of calm can be just as neatly serene. I read a Kindle version but I think I’ll need to get a print version someday that I can mark up. 
 

I started Ride the Pink Horse, by Dorothy B. Hughes. It’s supposed to be a classic crime/noir story. 

9 minutes ago, SuperSpreader said:

State Fair of Texas evacuated, suspect in custody as Dallas police investigate shooting

WWW.DALLASNEWS.COM

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The fair issued an emergency order and urged people to avoid the area.

 

 

 

Freedom is ringing.

Chuds think a 15 minute city means "Airstrip One," when really all it means is that you can walk to the grocery store. 

2 hours ago, TyphoidHater said:

 

Yeah, how is there no follow up to a newborn he described as not his......yet??????

12 hours ago, Ricofoley said:

I'm on Bluesky (I have 3 invites if somebody needs them btw), and really the only thing preventing me from switching there full time at this point is that Twitter is still genuinely useful for weather, and I don't see a lot of the weather accounts on follow on Bluesky yet, like the region-specific National Weather Service accounts. Twitter really is an absolute cesspool at this point. Every ad I see is for bottom-tier right-wing news sites or crypto scams.

For me it's sports. A lot of the sports guys I like aren't there yet.

13 hours ago, ort said:

Twitter is such a fucking dumpster fire now. My FOLLOWING feed has about 20% the activity it used to, when I go to the FOR YOU feed it just shows my obnoxious political crap, and mostly from prominent right wingers. And the. When you go to read the comments on them, he pushes all the blue check chuds to the top so the top commenters are always dumb right wingers who choose to pay musk $8 a month. It’s an echo chamber of utter right wing nonsense.

 

He changed it so that when you link to a news article, it doesn’t show you the headline anymore. You only see a picture. You don’t even really have a good way to see that it even is a link. It just looks like a photo. 
 

It's so bad. Every ad is for some crypto scam or NFT garbage. Every blue check is a braindead moron. It sucks.

Just now, Keyser_Soze said:

Jerry Jeudy getting murdered on live TV

 

 

That was hilarious. I’d never want to be on Steve Smith’s bad side. 

I might have said in last week’s thread that Russ was looking better…I hereby retract that statement. Yeeesh. Playing like dog ass. 

Ravens $300

1. Ravens TD

2. Lamar

3. Kenneth Walker

4. Under

5. Minnesota, Seattle, Tampa

On 10/2/2023 at 7:59 PM, thewhyteboar said:

That was rather beautifully written. You can see how many Western tropes originated with this book. 
 

Now reading If They Move…Kill ‘Em! A biography on Sam Peckinpah. 

Quite enjoyed that bio. It put a lot of things on my watchlist, gotta see if so can find a copy of Noon Wine. I really have no idea how Peckinpah managed to make any movies with how he treated studios and how they treated him (not to mention his own addiction issues). I know The Wild Bunch is his masterpiece, but I still maintain that Pat Garret and Billy the Kid is truly his best. It is a perfect eulogy and coda to the West, not just the West as a time and place, but also an elegy to the genre. 
 

I started The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, by Michael Ondaatje. 

I haven’t watched any so I can’t opine, I’m just shocked they didn’t have showrunners? 

Trump should be ineligible due to section 3 of the 14th Amendment. 

2 hours ago, Kal-El814 said:

The fact that this is sitting at 3 stars on amazon with a lot of people complaining about a lack of connective tissue to Calvin and Hobbes only makes me more excited.

People expected BILL WATTERSON to have a Calvin and Hobbes Cinematic Universe????

Gimme gimme gimme.

10 hours ago, Spork3245 said:

Some hardcore “please clap” vibes here

The most unbelievable part of that story is that he has a family member still in contact with him.