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wvParticipantRichard Sherman still favoring the Seahawks.
wvParticipant..The aren’t many great post-apocalyptic novels. If you go back 100 years there are a few more. Actually there may be more good short stories than novels, and then also some films…
…I ordered some dystopian-ish books. Perhaps one will be good.
The History Of Bees, by Maja Lunde.
Juice by Tim Winton.
Terra Nullius, by Claire Coleman.
Anna, by Niccolo AmmanitiAnd I might try, I Am Legend, maybe. But I am not sure i can read it without seeing Will Smith in my head.
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vwvParticipantI read Dune a gazillion years ago. It’s one of my favorites.
There is a lot of books in that expanded universe, some written by Herbert Son. Many of them are good, but the original Dune is my opinion the Best by quite a bit.
“To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe.”
Duncan Idaho (Hayt) Dune Messiah.
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vwvParticipantThe current gem in post-apocalyptic fiction is McCarthy’s The Road, though it is much darker than most.
Fwiw, I like Station Eleven much more than WV does.
I thought the tv-version of Station 11 had its moments.
The Road was great. But it was published around 2006. I cant seem to find anything even remotely as good in the last decade.
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vwvParticipantI’m always interested in the best post-apocalyptic novels over the last few years. If any of you come across any you liked, feel free to share.
I read Station Eleven last week. Not all that impressed. Good concept though. Shakespeare troupe traveling through the hellscape putting on plays.
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vwvParticipantwvParticipantRams Bros.@RamsBrothers
…Stafford said today on @greenlight that the Rams didn’t run a single play out of 13P in training camp. And McVay found a solve for every look with WR’s banged up.
…I was thinking about this after the switch to 13. McVay didnt switch out of some genius-Eureka moment — it was simply out of necessity. He didnt have Puka.
When i was watching the Knicks in the playoffs this year, they were down two games to one against the Atlanta Hawks. So their coach Mike Brown changed the way he used their center, Karl Anthony Towns. Made him a point-center. The knicks then win 13 playoff games in a row. And the coach gets all kinds of credit, blah blah. But they went the entire season without thinking of the point-center approach. They stumbled on it, out of necessity. Same as McVay.
So, does a coach get credit for essentially stumbling on stuff?
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vwvParticipantTnat Chris Long / Stafford interview is good, btw.
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vwvParticipantStafford with Chris Long
wvParticipantHav is worried.
wvParticipantI thot I would flame the board today.
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vwvParticipantLife seems to have a whole lot to do with Loss.
So sorry, Keith.
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wvParticipantwvParticipantI wrote an article on yellow school buses for Parenting Magazine when I worked there 37 years ago. The only thing I remember is that the colors were chosen for high visibility, even in the fog.
I also wrote an article on the daycare center at CIA headquarters in Langley which pissed off the editor-in-chief so much that my contract was not renewed. It was loaded with jokes about “security blankets” and Big Brother, and he completely revised it to remove all of them. I also pissed off his secretary by dismissing “The Sun Also Rises,” saying it was a story about a bunch of Americans travelling all over Europe, unable to find quite enough alcohol to drink, and then going home. I said it should have been named “Tequila Sunrises Also.” The secretary’s name was Brett, and her parents named her after the character in that novel.
I was not well-loved at Parenting Magazine.
I dunno about this Hemingway guy.
“She was built with curves like the hull of a racing yacht.”
Ernest Hemingway, Tequila Sunrise Also.w
vwvParticipantOn television, during the World CUp, they have been calling it Los Angeles Stadium, not SoFi.
Yeah, somewhere around here there’s a vid saying the World Cup powers-that-be required the corporate names to be eliminated on all the U.S. stadiums.
Its fantastic.
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vwvParticipantDefensive ‘havoc.’ I like it. Not sure how accurate the stats are though, since the Texans are only eighth best. I watched em. They were the havoc-ist defense i saw all year.
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vwvParticipantIran 2
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Iranian team has become political pawn at this World Cup |
Nancy Armour
USA TODAY“…Iran was banished to Tijuana, Mexico, at the eleventh hour, barred from having its base camp in Arizona as it planned. That resulted in a longer-than-expected trip to Los Angeles, where it plays its first World Cup game, against New Zealand, on Monday, June 15…”
wvParticipantRams Wire@TheRamsWire
Albert Breer says he’s heard that if only the Rams called SoFi Stadium home, the field could be grass instead of turf.WTF do they call it, if not home?
I interpreted as more of the usual bullshit. Its not about the chargers, its about all the other activities that take place there. The plastic grass makes it easier to make money on all the other stuff. At least thats what they usually say.
The players of course, have the power to organize, dismantle capitalism, and get themselves concussions on natural grass, but they have been distracted by….all that money they make.
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vwvParticipanti’m not sure if the Knicks had a strong “Clutch Gene” or if the Spurs had a bigger “Choke Gene”
Spurs gift wrapped it in game 2, game 4, and game 5. … Spurs average age = 23… 2nd youngest team to play in NBA finals and it showed with the lack of routine execution in the final moments of each game…they blew it big time.
at the onset of the NBA playoffs, I wanted to see the Knicks win it all,……outside of the Yankees, I’ve always been infatuated with New York……, but as this final series evolved, I found myself pulling for the Spurs to extend the series.
Well, ‘choking’ and ‘clutching’ are interesting concepts aren’t they. Think of Sam Darnold, for example. Apparently one can go from one to the other, maybe.
I heard a lot of ‘choker’ talk from the media, but if the Spurs were chokers, why didnt they choke in game 7, on the road in Oklahoma against the champs?
My own view is Wemby just wore down as the playoffs went on, and each game went on. Plus, he is just not a ‘big man’. He’s a tall skinny man. He reminds me more of a Ralph Sampson than a powerful center. I dont know if he’s going to have the great future so many people think he is. I can picture a lot of injuries in his future.
At any rate 8 straight new champions in the NBA, now.
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vwvParticipantI followed the Knicks back in the 70’s. Everyone in WV was a Laker fan (Jerry West) so I had to be perverse, so i rooted for the Knicks. I stopped following them long ago, but i kinda got interested in them a little bit the last couple years.
There’s something off-putting about NBA basketball to me, but i cant quite put my finger on it. There’s all this pushing and shoving and elbowing on every single play. And the players double-dribble and travel constantly and its never called. I dunno.
And yet, obviously there’s some amazing passing and when a team starts ‘flowing’ its pretty cool. My favorite part of the sport is the passing.
A role player, with 19 dogs. I thought he would be the key to knicks chances this year.
wvParticipantThough having said that, there’s this (a real comment).
The Knicks demonstrated that the “clutch gene” is real.
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Yeah, Jalen Brunson has a lot of whatever Tom Brady had. ‘And’ he took less money to enable the team to get more good players. Like Brady.
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vwvParticipantTop of my list are Portugal, Vietnam, and Thailand. The Patagonia region has appeal. I would take a look at eastern Europe, too. But, yeah. I don’t really like it here, even though it’s “home.” I’ll come back, but I’m gonna spend the next year downsizing, and then I’m leaving until I get a craving for buffalo wings or something.
I guess you just won’t be stopped.
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v“If I had a mind to rent pigs, I’d be mighty upset. A man that likes to rent pigs won’t be stopped.”
― Larry McMurtry , Lonesome Dove“The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters”
― Larry McMurtry, Lonesome DovewvParticipantI don’t think I will ever get another pet. I want to get a one way plane ticket and see what happens, and pets are responsibilities.
Are you really serious about leaving this blessed nation?
Which godless country would you go to?
I’m not as bold as you, so i will stick it out here. I would be up for going to a different galaxy though. That might be far enough from, ya know, Amerikans.
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vwvParticipantThey installed real grass in Sofi for the World Cup Soccer matches
They’re going reinstall artificial turf after the soccer matches just in time for NFL season…
I wonder how OBJ feels about that?
URL = World Cup grass fields have NFL players asking why they still play on turf
Geez, I either forgot, or didnt know SoFi used artificial turf.
Man. I dont ever wanna hear what great owner Kronky is, if he makes them play on that garbage.
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vwvParticipantTrickle-down Authenticity
wvParticipantThough learning Rams offense is a ‘drinking from a fire hydrant’ experience, Ty Simpson grateful for supportive and resourceful teammates and coaches
”Ha. I know everyone has seen this…
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“…Stetson Bennett, who is entering his fourth year in the system, has likewise taken Simpson in and been a resource…”Stetson is in a tricky position aint he.
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vwvParticipantThe mega-corporate-capitalist-death-cult-sports-media is really pushing the World Cup now, i see.
Fox must aim to make a lot of money off of it.
Apparently, there are 48 teams in the tournament this year. (There used-ta-be 32)
https://www.ritfitsports.com/blogs/article/2026-fifa-world-cup-qualified-teams?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=23093233641&gclid=Cj0KCQjw3K7RBhDJARIsAKRtP5R68JJAoQ2eFD3wTs1G2Db4d-rY8Bcuw25i_idMug__SJ7d-EQvEUUaAgrjEALw_wcBI decided i would root for teams that have been bombed or threatened with bombing by Trump and his fascist forces. But Venezuela is not in the tournament. Nor is Cuba. Nor is North Korea. Nor Palestine. Ah well.
Iran is in it, though. Also, Iraq.
I shall root for Iran and Iraq.
Feel free to pick a team.
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vwvParticipantThe Rams need a team dog.
Do you have a dog currently?
No, I haven’t had one for years. I only like to live with Giant dogs, and i figured i was too old to carry one if it got hurt, so I learned to live dogless. I have many crows, though.
You have any animals?
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vwvParticipantThe Rams need a team dog.
wvParticipant“A field.”
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