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wvParticipant(“…i think the Aleric Jackson thing is bigger than people realize…”
wvParticipantMina says the number one issue with the Rams ‘f them picks approach’ is Wide Receiver depth, and OLine depth.
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vwvParticipantwvParticipantwvParticipantWhats your favorite movie/tv theme music of all time?
Mine.
wvParticipantI would be interested in hearing what you saw.
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The weird collection of nagging injuries he had last year just made him look like he was playing underwater or somethin. He looked confused, tentative, and slow. I mean he was always the most elusive QB in the NFL and he relied on that more than any other QB. He was getting run down by DLinemen every game. That had ‘never’ happened to him before. He lost his super-power and the Ravens were left with a very ordinary, frustrated, pocket-passer.
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vwvParticipantwell. if donald does come back, we’ll at least have some confidence that he’ll come back at least close to what he was.
Yeah, at this point with him working out with the team and all, i think the onliest thing that would stop him from coming back is if he just cant get the skillset, the explosiveness, the power back.
And there’s no way to know if he can get it back. Just have to wait and see how the workouts go for him.
He’s such a perfectionist, i dunno if he will come back if he can only be, say, 90 percent of what he was.
I cant remember a great DLineman in his mid thirties coming back from a two year layoff, btw.
….would we wanna see him come back if he’s lost a step?
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vwvParticipantSaw a vid where they cited a recent survey of scouts, execs, and coaches. Ranking the top ten QBs:
1 Josh
2 Mahomes
3 Stafford
4 Burrow
5 Lamar
6 Dak
7 Herbert
8 Maye
9 Goff
10 Caleb.Stafford used to always be below Burrow and Lamar in all the surveys in the media.
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vwvParticipantSleeperNFL@SleeperNFL
@PFF ranks their highest rated QBs in the clutch last season:1 – Dak Prescott
2 – Matthew Stafford
3 – Lamar Jackson
4 – Sam Darnold
5 – Josh AllenI dunno what planet PFF lives on, but i watched Lamar Jackson last year.
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vwvParticipant.. And since they are junior partners in the corporate oligarchy, and hold all the cards, there is no reason to expect anything but the usual absorption of some of them, and the political destruction of anyone who holds out on them. We will not vote our way out of this mess.
Bash on, regardless.
A lot of people dont realize, Dr Frankenstein was a radical godless communist. He was trying to create monsters to overthrow our freedoms.
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“When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?”
― Mary Shelley, FrankensteinwvParticipantThis is from Facebook.
Hunter Biden wrote a seven-point autopsy of the Democratic establishment this week. He says he is not running for anything.
The day after Mamdani-backed insurgents knocked off establishment-backed incumbents in New York, the son of the former president told his father’s wing of the party that its time is up. The call is coming from inside the dynasty.Here is what he wrote:
I’m not running for office. But if I were, these are some of the lessons I’d take away from what happened in NY yesterday.
1. Authenticity is measurable. Voters can smell a focus group from a mile away.
2. Endorsements from the current Democratic leadership now read like warnings. The establishment wing of the party is no longer a sword. It’s a question mark.
3. Conviction beats caution. The candidates who said hard things about rent, about who pays for what, about Gaza, they won. The triangulators lost.
4. Cost of living is everything. Everything else is wallpaper.
5. The middle is not a strategy. It’s an empty room. Voters reached past the
establishment to grab someone who actually believes something.
6. Don’t fear the base. Court it. The Democrats who ran from their own voters lost. The ones who ran toward them won.
7. If you want to lead a party you have to be willing to fight inside it. Mamdani didn’t ask permission. He took the field.Hunter is right about all of that. And the corporate-dem-party will pay attention to actual results. And IF they think in certain instances they need to ‘move left’ — they will promote candidates who are good at faking ‘moving left’.
For the most part though, they wont even bother with that. They will simply keep counting on big money winning elections.
‘Insurgent’ progressives will win from time to time, as they have in NY.
Many of ‘those’ will sell-out eventually as AOC and Bernie have basically done.Blah blah, just my opinion.
I do not believe capitalism can be reformed at this late stage. I think we will see a lot of fake-reform in the future, and I think we will see monsters, soon.
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vwvParticipantwvParticipantwvParticipantapocalyptic humor
wvParticipantRemarkable documentary, if you’ve never seen it.
wvParticipantThere are 15 teams in the WNBA. Only one of fifteen has an animal name. The Lynx.
What kind of name is ‘Fever,’ btw. Thats a symptom, right?
And do you really wanna call a California team the ‘Sparks’ ?
And why is Chicago the ‘Sky’? What is the special relationship between Chicago and the sky?
And why is Connecticut the ‘Sun’? What does the sun have to do with Connecticut?
And what does Portland have to do with Fire?
Atlanta Dream
Chicago Sky
Connecticut Sun
Dallas Wings
Golden State Valkyries
Indiana Fever
Las Vegas Aces
Los Angeles Sparks
Minnesota Lynx
New York Liberty
Phoenix Mercury
Portland Fire
Seattle Storm
Toronto Tempow
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Valkyrie
The ‘Choosers of the Slain’
Valkyries act as the assistants to Odin, the All-Father. Their main job is to find the bravest soldiers who died in combat. They divide these fallen heroes into two groups:Valhalla: Odin’s grand hall in the sky. The warriors who go here are called the Einherjar.
Fólkvangr: A beautiful field ruled by the goddess Freyja
wvParticipantDamn. 35 years old. I dunno.
I dont know what to expect from Aaron after that long a layoff, at his age.
Ali was very good, but not quite as good as he had been after his long layoff.
How do you even approach this if you are the Rams?
I would seriously limit his playing time, ifn-it-were-me. No matter what Aaron thinks or feels a long layoff and 35 years, is a big deal.
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vwvParticipantRC deWinter@RCdeWinter
* A dangling participle walks into a bar. Enjoying a cocktail and chatting with the bartender, the evening passes pleasantly.
* A bar was walked into by the passive voice.
* An oxymoron walked into a bar, and the silence was deafening.
* A malapropism walks into a bar, looking for all intents and purposes like a wolf in cheap clothing, muttering epitaphs and casting dispersions on his magnificent other, who takes him for granite.
* Papyrus and Comic Sans walk into a bar. The bartender says, “Get out — we don’t serve your type.”
* A mixed metaphor walks into a bar, seeing the handwriting on the wall but hoping to nip it in the bud.
* A synonym strolls into a tavern.
* At the end of the day, a cliché walks into a bar — fresh as a daisy, cute as a button, and sharp as a tack.
* Falling slowly, softly falling, the chiasmus collapses to the bar floor.
* A figure of speech literally walks into a bar and ends up getting figuratively hammered.
* An allusion walks into a bar, despite the fact that alcohol is its Achilles heel.
* A misplaced modifier walks into a bar owned by a man with a glass eye named Ralph.
* The past, present, and future walked into a bar. It was tense.
* A dyslexic walks into a bra.
* A verb walks into a bar, sees a beautiful noun, and suggests they conjugate. The noun declines.
* A simile walks into a bar, as parched as a desert.
* A gerund and an infinitive walk into a bar, drinking to forget.
– Jill Thomas Doyle
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I had never heard of CHIASMUS.
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Chiasmus vs. Antimetabole
These two terms sound very similar and are often used to mean the same thing. However, there is a small difference:
Antimetabole: The exact same words are flipped (like the Kennedy quote).
Chiasmus: The grammar structure or ideas are flipped, but the exact words do not have to be repeatedwvParticipantWhy do you think the whole Frankenstein story has been so popular, for so many generations?
Just a simple little theory…but it manages to rise above its own occassional klutziness to be a story of monstrosity that is open to constant re-configuring. Monsters don’t work if they are obviously just one limited possible meaning. The creature is a particular vivid thing, but it’s also open-ended–you can keep re-framing it to have an array of mythical resonances. Science as transgression, deformity, social injustice, the madness of ambition, the abject and outcast, the articulate and sympathetic soul in monstrous form, the compulsive vengeance of the hurt and wronged, the irrationality of misogyny, birth and physicality as a workshop of filthy creation but bound to soulful longings–lots of anxieties, dark wishes, and the instability of Othering all in one. Jekyll/Hyde and Dracula are the same thing. Very specific, detailed things in very specific situations but open to multiple resonances, some of which haven’t even been invented yet.
So it can affect you but then it just don’t come all wrapped up with one simple “moral.”
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Well…some creative-writing-reconfigure-er needs to complexify The Mummy.
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vwvParticipantMy own 22 cents.
In a lot of ways the novel is 2 things at once that are very tied to the time it was written…
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Why do you think the whole Frankenstein story has been so popular, for so many generations?
wvParticipant“dumming down of ESPN”
wvParticipantbad-boy Draymond Green on Jaylen Brown, fwiw.
wvParticipantI heard about 15 minutes of Colin Cowherd today, and what I heard him say is that basically there’s not enough ball to go around with the other star, Tatum. Analytics show that the Celtics win when Tatum gets 30% of the ball. He had said last week that he thought it was money/results, and that the Celtics wanted to break it up and reinvest. He back off that a bit today.
But it seems most people think the Celtics got the worse end of that deal, and the Celtics didn’t wait around to see if the price for Brown might improve. That says they wanted to cut their losses, or they are bad managers.
Well, this is the first year i have followed the NBA since the 70s. I dont know many of the players around the league other than the Knicks players. But I have been listening to Draymond Green and Jaylen Brown and both of those guys seem thoughtful, independent-minded, and inter-esting.
Curious to see where Lebron ends up. Maybe in Philly with Jaylen Brown.
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vwvParticipantJaylen Brown on the NBA union.
wvParticipantBut I also get the sense that unlike me, anyway, you are very rigorous in what you will endorse in terms of genres. For example I find value in kinds of films you apparently don’t. To me, the main thing is always narrative craft, and different genres approach that differently. (I’m not really cinematic per se, I mean I don’t forget that they’re movies and/or extended tv series in the HBO style, but really my thing is narrative.)
I am not trying to talk you into or out of anything, and I am certainly not framing this as “my way is better,” but I am very open in terms of genre, and will get into a wide variety of things, some of which you might not enjoy at all.
I can’t help being invested in narrative the way I am, or enjoying different kinds of narratives in terms of genre. I didn’t “choose” that. I don’t reason my way toward it. It’s just…my “thing.” But it might be, I think, different from your primary investments and interests when it comes to watching and judging stuff.
Don’t get me wrong–I don’t even watch tv. People around me will talk about their favorite series of the year, and I don’t even know what they’re talking about. The way I watch tv is to buy or rent the entire series and binge watch it.
Anyway. It’s interesting that we have what appears to be different interests and tolerances in film and tv narrative, but that we completely agree on The Wire.
Well said.
I contain multitudes…of moodiness and anger toward the powers-that-create-film and ‘art’ in a capitalist system. So, if I’m in a particularly angry mood, i find it very easy to deconstruct and despise (DnD) whatever film, article, book, etc, I’m engaged with.
Most people mellow when they get old, but i got more pissed off at the system. It affects my movie judgments.
But not always. Sometimes i can put all the capitalism-blaming aside and appreciate a scene from a Marvel movie or romantic comedy or whatever.
Some of us are ‘mercurial’ you know 🙂
…there’s some shit about The Wire I ‘dont’ like now that I’ve seen it again. I think it was weak on exploring the danger of wiretapping and camera surveillance, etc. I think if it were to be made to day, they would have added a ‘snowden type’ character to talk about the dangers. The Wire as it was written is almost completely pro-cop in its dialogue about surveillance.
Also, the Levy (lawyer) character is great, and there are plenty of Levys but he was the only defense lawyer they showed. And there are so many other kinds. The Wire continues the “public defenders are lame” theme that is a common trope in US media. But there are so many different kinds of public defenders and some are great. Its a big subject and the Wire kinda plays into stereotypes on it.
There are so many great characters who had small parts in The Wire. (much like Game of Thrones). One i didnt appreciate until i rewatched it was the guy who played the Owner or Manager of the Baltimore newspaper in the final season. He’s like this George Will, ivy-league type of white guy who uses phrases like “it should be more Dickens-ion”. He played the role perfectly.
Also there was the scrawny, wiry, annoying, white union-guy in season two. The son of the Union boss dude. Always getting in trouble, always wanting to be a big-shot. He did an amazing job being annoying. I could hardly watch him, he was so annoyingly-real.
I could go on.
Prop Joe. OMG. Has there been a more fun character in the history of human art ?
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vwvParticipantI saw this last week. I’d never even heard of it. I thought it was funny, insightful.
Walk Hard.
wvParticipantHence all the “Bride of Frankenstein” movies.
It’s been a long time since I read that book, probably over 40 years, but I liked it a lot at the time, and was just amazed it was written by a woman.
I MEAN 19-YEAR OLD! 19-YEAR OLD! That’s what I MEANT, SWEARTOGOD!!!
I always heard the theme of the book was human’s shouldnt play god and too much faith in technology is bad, etc.
But i didnt get any of that from the actual writing. Seemed to me it was a story about parenthood. Frankenstein was a REALLY bad parent. Abandoned the creation, like, five minutes after he made it. And so, the child became bitter and monstrous.
The book was incredibly ‘repetitive’. Internal dialogue was: page 50. “i regret making the monster”. page 51. “I regret making the monster.” page 52. “I regret making the monster.” And on and on until the very end. I mean, no growth, no change…just that. Over and over. Until the end.
Read it again sometime. Tell me what ‘you’ think.
I cant speak about the second or third version though. Percy edited a version, and Mary edited one…or somethin.
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vwvParticipantOh, great. I was going to read it, but what’s the point now? It’s obviously just a work of fiction.
Corpses in the river. Floating corpses. Corpses in the jungle. Flies on all of them.
There you go. Now you know the whole plot.
…i recently read Frankenstein. The 1818 version. Did you know, there is zero explanation of exactly HOW the Doctor brought the ‘monster’ to life? I just assumed that all those machines and electrical currents and lightning etc, that are part of the movies — came from the book. But no. There is zero info in the story about how it was done.
Also, there are truly idiotic parts of the book. Like, at one point the monster essentially tells Frankenstein he’s gonna kill everyone Frankenstein loves, unless the Doctor makes him a bride. The doc eventually decides he aint doin it. One is too many monsters.
So then, comes the stupid part — the monster kills the people Frankenstein loves. And the good Doctor ACTS ALL SURPRISED. And Sad.Well…duh.
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vwvParticipantI woulda got Francis St. Paul, Milton Wynn, and Stedman Bailey, though.
You would not have gotten Dwight Scales, either.
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