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wvParticipantFrom the wiki…
The final girl has been observed in many films, including The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Halloween, Alien, Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and Scream. The term was coined by Carol J. Clover in her book Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film (1992).
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I have that book. I ‘think’ i have it cause you recommended it a decade or so ago, on a board in a distant galaxy.
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vwvParticipantLat word on this topic, at least for a little while, I promise.
;>)
WV can and does argue his case without bashing other leftists, or calling them “fake.” He can make his case on the merits of his own views, and avoid attacking those who differ.
He’s repeatedly shown how to do this. I wish he could “coach up” others when it comes to the how-tos. Perhaps set up a camp, one for rookies first and then vets.
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I read a biography by radical-turned-liberal T.Hayden a few years back (posted about it). He described his experiences in the 60’s and 70’s etc. The one thing that stood out to ‘me’ was — leftists tore themselves apart, with ‘purists’ vs ‘reformers’ and all kinds of ‘factions.’
I read some books recently about the black panthers. What stood out to me (besides all the drug problems)
was, again, leftists destroying each other with factions and the purist vs reformer battles.What I’ve noticed on leftist message boards is — leftist reformers battling leftist purists and factionalism destroying everything.
Apparently its just almost impossible for leftists to create much solidarity. And if they do manage to do it (through some charismatic leader) it dont last long.
Have a nice day 🙂
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wvParticipantSo I don’t know what to tell my kids. One is 21, and one is 16. How can I tell them that…yeah…we’re doomed? …
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Watch the sean penn vid i posted. He alludes to that there situation.
The wisdom of…sean penn. O dear.
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wvParticipant“…On Tuesday night, Benson celebrated the rule change.
“This is what I wanted to happen. That’s why I made my statement,” Benson told reporters, per NFL Network Insider Ian Rapoport “[The non-call in the NFC title game] will never happen again.”
==========================Sigh. I dont wanna be mean and call people idiots, but….its just as likely the new rule will be used AGAINST the Saints in the future….Ya know. Wouldnt that be funny. If the new rule cost them a playoff game next year. What would the moral of ‘that’ story be? 🙂
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vwvParticipant“It seems wrong to say that so dystopian a novel is great fun to read, but it’s true. I suspect that Thomas Pynchon and Hunter S. Thompson would love this book.” (Salman Rushdie)
wvParticipantSo is the replay on PI only for the last two minutes of each half? Not the whole game?
If so, not really a big change.
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vwvParticipantin my defense of Snead, overnight turnarounds are rarely if ever done without considerable inherited talent on the roster. (No one in this thread has to agree or disagree with that, it’s just an analogy.) And one type of response is, why do you want to deny McVay credit…. There’s dogmatic flamers on the left too…
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Look, nowhere in the Muller report is Snead even mentioned. Or even alluded to. So I dont see how you can defend him against collusion charges yet again.
Plus the Rams are gonna play a game in red china from what i hear. So tell me THAT doesnt mean anything. Connect the red dots, dude. Geez.
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vwvParticipantWho does this serve? No one. Does it feed a single hungry person? No. Does it stop a single bomb from falling? No. Trump has actually escalated ALL of our military ventures.
Who is this helping?
And, again, we only have Barr’s summary. We all need to be patient for a bit longer.
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Well, comrad, we agree on the big-picture. The big stuff. So, I’m not inclined to debate/argue about Russia (or Syria, where we probly disagree?).
I am prettysure we both think the corporo-tacracy, or deep-state, or plutocracy or oligarchy, or
corporate-capitalist-State, or Mega-theo-patriarchal-racist-corporate-batshit-crazy-biosphere-terminating-nationalist-jingoist-thingie — or whatever we wanna label it — is a very bad thingie.A very bad thingie, indeed.
…how long have we been at this now, BT? Since…1998? 99? We are getting old, my friend. Its been an honor, btw. An honor to post with you radicals. Hard to believe we’ve been doing this, this long.
Go Rams
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vwvParticipantWell….I think its worse than that, as you probly know.
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wvParticipant“…NIKOLE HANNAH-JONES: It’s hard. We have so much inequality that everything both in housing and in schools is the extremes and there are a handful of truly integrated schools but that’s not the experience in most of the schools. The inequality makes it even harder. I write about how black poor schools are deprived systematically of resources and then you’re asking someone who has resources to put their kid in a school that I’ve just said doesn’t have resources. That inequality makes it difficult and also makes it convenient. Then you can say it’s not that I don’t want to but this school is just not actually good, right. It’s those two things when you have such inequality in a system and integration becomes even harder.
CHRIS HAYES: It’s also because, what I find maddening about it too is that the structure, I’ve talked about this on the podcast in the context of housing, right. The structure is sort of invisible to you, it’s just there and then you walk around making these individual choices of whether a citizen or as a consumer and you unilaterally can’t overcome the structure. For instance, in New York you as a white person you can move into a majority black neighborhood. You’re going to bring with that all sorts of different… it does, right? The structure is still there. It has to be a collective political project to undo it. It has to be a collective…
NIKOLE HANNAH-JONES: Work to undo it.
CHRIS HAYES: Yeah.
NIKOLE HANNAH-JONES: What I always say is, the inequality is systemic, but it is also held up by individual choices.
CHRIS HAYES: Right….”
wvParticipantA24 has produced some good films…
The Disaster Artist
Lady Bird
The Killing of a Sacred Deer
The Florida Project
Woodshock
A Ghost Story
Moonlight
Into The Forest
Swiss Army Man
De Palma
The Lobster
The Adderall Diaries
Green Room
The Witch…A24:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A24_(company)
…As of 2019, the company has received a total of 25 Academy Award nominations. In 2016, films distributed by A24 won Academy Awards for Best Actress (Brie Larson in Room), Best Documentary Feature (Amy), and Best Visual Effects (Ex Machina). In 2017…wvParticipantYeah, that was good. A lot of these comix are really good on some subjects…and then face-plantingly-bad on others. I’ve noticed a lot of bad stuff on the me-too movement, etc.
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vwvParticipantI dunno guys. This kinda seems like a Kevin Carter thing to me. Ya know.
Arthritis just gets worse, it dont get better, right?
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vwvParticipanti like the ghost broccoli one best of all. i dunno what that sez about me.
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vwvParticipant…great play by the Pats defender. The rams were very very close. So many teams have lost by one or two plays against the Pats. Its been goin on since 2001. Its not like they are the old NY Yankees who would clobber teams year after year. The pats just have some sorta…gutwrenching, infuriating, formula.
Teams lose and they always think they shoulda won.
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vwvParticipant…oh and check out the 48:15 mark or so. Where he talks about a new study concerning brain waves. He called the results ‘astonishing’. They sliced a brain in half, created a gap, and the neurons on one side “nevertheless, was able to communicate with the others without direct contact…”
wvParticipantFormer ‘materialist,’ Michael Pollan on ‘spirituality’ and how he changed his experience/notions about it after his mushroom trips:
wvParticipantyeah. this is what i was hoping for. move him inside. move him outside.
depending on the situation.
i’m still skeptical how much impact he can make. we’ll see.
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Well if nothing else maybe he will help with run-defense. Gap discipline, that kind of thing.
The future is now.
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vwvParticipantNice veteran role player. Would be surprised if he didn’t make a big play or two at clutch time now and then. Probly will disappear for stretches but then make a big play in the clutch.
I would think the season depends on the OLine decisions. As per usual.
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vwvParticipantScientists stopped researching psychedelic drugs despite their positive potentials. Pollan sez that is basically unprecedented in modern science. Haf ta go back to Galileo, according to Pollan…
wvParticipantSo they lost faith in Mannion.
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vwvParticipantHow was the food?
Except for creole night.
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The bread was very good. Better than the seafood.
They kept trying to serve me things with octopus in it. I had to keep telling them to hold the octopus.
I dont eat octopuses. I think octopuses should eat people.w
vwvParticipantWell, was it a fair trade off? Beautiful scenery, a whole day on the can?
Good to see you back.
I thought Zooey and Nittany had finally gone and done their terrible plan.
What plan?
Uh…nothing. Nevermind.
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I’m not sure it was worth it. I dont think I’m very good at traveling. For starters I cant use a bathroom on a plane. Instead, I shut down all my internal organs so that i dont have to stand up and walk down the aisle and go to the bathroom. Its a zen thing.
I did learn that customs agents will let me bring a bag of rocks into the country, but not a can opener.
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vwvParticipantI think they should keep signing all-pros.
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vwvParticipantThis is concerning to me. Center is the most Important-yet-under-appreciated role in pro-football, imho.
How can they replace his Knowledge/experience at that critical spot? They got better when they got him, didnt they?
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vwvParticipantThis “it wasn’t an injury, it was an aggravation” line is problematic.
Agree completely with all that, especially the line I quote.
Though…having said that, the “arthritic condition” story is still not solid fact. Basically it’s one reporter from a reputable journal (The Athletic) who cites a “source.”
Not easily dismissed. But also too soon to take it as established fact.
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The Rams had a ton of good luck as far as being free from major injuries last year. Which was one reason they made to the super bowl, of course.
But still one wonders if things would have turned out differently if Cooper Kupp and and a healthy Gurley had showed up to face the Pats.
Gurley’s “aggravation” certainly is a tricky problem. It affects the draft, free agency, and Snead’s general plan. How can Snead plan for the future, if he doesnt really know how fast the ‘aggravation’ is going to deteriorate? Does Gurley have one good year left? Less than one? More than one? Will he ever be the same? Doesnt sound like anyone knows.
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vwvParticipantI got it!
I got it today.
I messaged Sands again last week to remind her, and she has sent me Oakley’s copy of the script. I am just fucking beside myself. And I don’t even know how good it is…ya know. But I have it!
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Well let us know what you think of it.
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This group was named after his dad.
wvParticipantWell it was obvious he was playing ‘hurt.’ And allllll the celebrity-tv-pundits that blamed McVay for forgetting about Gurley, etc — are and were, idiots.
It was just so obvious.
I can understand the Rams and Gurley not wanting to confirm the situation to their opponents. But now, post-season, I cant understand why Gurley hasn’t come out and talked about it.
This “it wasn’t an injury, it was an aggravation” line is problematic.
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vwvParticipantThat’s what I was saying a week ago, too.
But – I know times have changed – but Nixon committed fewer crimes than Trump. This guy is filthy on every front. And it’s in a fishbowl. And the problem for the System is that Not Doing Anything will also tear the thing apart. I think the only path to stability is going to see Trump pay a price.
As hard as it is to imagine a president going to trial…I just cannot see an alternative at this point except something that openly terminates the illusion of democracy. And I think the illusion of democracy is too valuable to the powers that be, and has too many people committed to the System.
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Ok, well, you are dead wrong 🙂
You still have some scintilla of faith in the institutions in this shit-hole. Things are much worse than in the Nixon days. Nixon was a fluke, anyway. Without all those tapes, he would have strolled into the sunset.
Some big parts of the deep-state dont like trump. But they’ll be patient. They’ll make sure the dems win the next election. And then we’ll get back to the slower version of biosphere destruction, mega-lies, and surreal-inequality. Go Dems 🙂
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