Your Friday Night Open Thread

[looks at past work week in rear view mirror] So glad that’s behind me. Friday night feels like all kinds of Bloody Mary, Pinot, Scotch and Mill St. Lager all mixed together in my tum-tum-tummy. Games-wise NHL-wise we’ve got Bos/Pit, TB/Was, SJ/Ott and the Rangers on the ice tonight. Also, somewhere out there Mt. Union is playing St. Thomas (Minn.) for the Division III football championship. In the NBA Tor/Mia and LAC/SA are hot meetings and Chi. and GS are on the court. There’s some college ball as well-St. John’s is playing host to uh, The Incarnate (I have no) Word Cardinals of the Southland Conference. The undefeated Frank Martin’s Elevated Blood Pressure are on the road against Clemson this evening as well. I’ll be watching the Bills 30 For 30 thingy. I wonder which era they’ll focus on?

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh
Moose -The End Is Well Nigh
WCS

American Psycho is one of the very few instances where the movie was better than the book. I saw the movie well before I read the book, but, was so very much looking forward the to novel. It was slog just to finish it. Others include Jaws and Fight Club. I pushed through Jaws in a day, and it was fine, but not in the same time zone as the movie. I only finished Fight Club because I felt I needed to. Terribly disappointing. Discuss:

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

I have not read any of those. One where I enjoyed both the book and the movie, actually the book is up there with my favorites is World According to Garp.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Feel sorta the same about Catch-22. It seemed to me they captured the gist of the book without attempting to equal it.

entropy

Dear lord, Catch 22 is amazing in both written and visual form. Just an amazing novel, and a great adaptation.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

OK, in the same vein is Little Big Man.

No one has read these books or remembers the movies most likely.

WCS

I loathed Catch-22 the movie. Granted it was high school film study. We had watched Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Platoon, and MASH. Maybe I should give it another go, but, holy shit, did that movie suck.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

I liked it, but I know what you mean as they came across as flippant and tried to make it more comedic than it should have been.

I viewed Platoon in the same way; several of the inaccuracies and over-dramatizations were very disappointing to me. Plus Charley Sheen was terrible.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Oliver Stone does not do subtle or nuance.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

One of my favorite movies and books is The Heart of Darkness and Coppola’s version.

WCS

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Two separate things, at in terms of their subject matter. Someone does need to do a film on the shit that the Congo has experienced. I take that back, a mini-series.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Not separate, as it is the same story, the same point of the story, it just happens over and over in different places. When focus on the location I feel they are missing most of the meaning.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

I remember for Dune being excited for the movie and higher than upside-down balls watching the movie…. thanks for reading the book during the movie, fuckers. I have since grown to enjoy the movie in a weird way.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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entropy

Well, the non-SciFi movie is great, but for differing reasons than the novel… the novel is thick, multi-layered, nuanced, and bizarrely hopeful. The movie? Hates people. Thinks we’re scum. So 80s it’s horrifically accurate.

WCS
Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh
Moose -The End Is Well Nigh
Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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entropy

Calvin & Hobbes = what it means to be a kid.
Bloom County = what it means to *want* to be a kid.
Far Side = what it means to be a kid in an adult’s body.

Senor Weaselo

Am I watching old Whose Line videos? Yes. Yes I am.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVsZZp3wccM

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

I made a couple of beer reviews on Sexy Friday, if you are interested.

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WCS

…and now I’ve stumbled into the Vietnam War documentaries on youtube. There goes my happy buzz.

The old man was just young enough (graduated high school in ’72) to miss out. He enlisted anyway, but figuring if Uncle Sam was going to send him to be killed, at least he would have a say how. He was sent to New York, North Dakota, and Alaska. His cousin was a Marine, who survived Khe Sanh. Old man’s cousin died of a heart attack a few years ago. The old man is still happy and healthy. They never got along, but, they both always said how lucky they were. I consider myself lucky to find a $20 bill in my pocket; I lack proper perspective.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Even if you leave combat without a scratch, the wounds never heal.

entropy

My father is gone now, survived two helipcopter crashes and two tours in Vietnam. He was among the greatest people I have ever known. I could probably tell you second-hand stories to terrify you, just based off his recollections. I wish his experiences on NO one.

Horatio Cornblower

69 comments on here before I came in with number 70.

Hi, I’m Horatio Cornblower and I’ll be your cockblocker this evening.

Old School Zero

SERIAL KILLER

Senor Weaselo

Jeez Horatio, it’s tough enough as it is without you butting in the way.

Senor Weaselo

Well, Santa’s on Colbert for a bit on Christmas Werewolves, if you’re into that.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh
Sill Bimmons
Sill Bimmons

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Old School Zero

Also, I watched The Crow this afternoon, which, as a movie, hasn’t aged well, but was definitely the best music video of 1994.

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Old School Zero

Wrapped presents that have arrived to date while watching Hot Fuzz. Such a goddamn classic movie; may be my favorite of the trilogy.

http://i666.photobucket.com/albums/vv30/EmOmUuH/hotfuzz.gif

Senor Weaselo

It’s definitely close between Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead.

Old School Zero

Agreed. Probably just depends on the mood that day. The World’s End is fun, but not nearly as sublime as those two.

WCS

Sill Bimmons
Moose -The End Is Well Nigh
WCS

“Take this object, but beware. It contains a terrible curse.”
“Oooh. That’s bad!”

Sill Bimmons

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Sill Bimmons

Red Wings — Canucks shootout battle is epic.

Sill Bimmons

Good guys win WOO

Sill Bimmons

If I could have been anything, I would have been a professional hockey player.

Not even the NHL necessarily, just enough to pay the bills and establish a name that could be attached to a restaurant and/or car dealership in some small mid-continental place of snow and rainbows.

Senor Weaselo

I would definitely go to Punchy Sill’s Used Car Emporium.

Sill Bimmons

I’d like to think I could have secured a manufacturer dealership.

Four years as a Badger center/centre plus a few years at the AHL coalface should equal a Buick/GMC dealership in Eau Claire.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

All right, now I’m just gonna watch Super Troopers clips until it’s time to go out.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

The guy in the back seat married Christina Hendricks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PKtGnyGuKM

Sill Bimmons
WCS

Sill Bimmons

The first ten minutes of this film are the funniest ten minutes ever committed to film.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

You are freakin’ out, man.

WCS

You ARE freaking out. Man.

Sill Bimmons
Sill Bimmons
Moose -The End Is Well Nigh
Sill Bimmons

WordPress to those that think things are great:

http://i.imgur.com/Y9see6Q.gif

Don T

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Sill Bimmons

6 — 2. Holy mother of fuck.

Sill Bimmons

I just defeated Apple.

I bought a certified reconditioned 2014 128GB iPad Air for $499. It died in a way that shocked even the Apple Geniuses. Just went splat. No fixing it.

So I have a brand new factory original 128GB Air 2 coming: $829 retail.

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Lothar of the Hill People

To turn in final grades, I’m supposed to take a screenshot of the grades submitted to the registrar (which mystifies me: doesn’t the registrar have a record? Is my screenshot supposed to verify that I’ve submitted them, when an easily-generated report could do likewise?), then export my gradebook from Blackboard and make certain modifications to the resultant Excel file. Then I’m supposed to attach these two files along with some other crap, and send them to the department secretary. Who, with dozens of faculty and adjunct instructors and literally hundreds of classes in her purview, is never going to be able to check each file for accuracy or even compatibility–hell, I could send her empty files that would probably pass muster, as long as the file extensions looked right. Nevermind that this secretary spends most of her work time on Facebook.

So am I subverting the process by doing it after drinking a Quadrupel and a couple bourbons?

WCS

What in the flying piss? Blackboard exists so that kind of monkey fart doesn’t have to happen.

Senor Weaselo

Screenshot submitted to the registrar? Yeah, you’d think logging it in on Blackboard, exporting it… seriously, what the hell.

Sill Bimmons

EHRMAGERD HE TEACHES AT WEST VIRGINIA

WCS

FALSE! Computer technology is the devil’s work in West Virginia.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I believe the word is “babysitting”. Oh wait, never mind, I’m thinking of North Carolina.

Sill Bimmons

They’re his daughters and his wife. The one on the right, Natalie Yoshida, is the one that posted this photo and many others.

They’re just funny people.

Lothar of the Hill People

Maybe they’re funny, but the photo has gone viral and people are making all sorts of assumptions and judgements. And so it’s no longer funny, because people are acting like it’s Bob Johnson down the street and his three daughters that he’s exploiting.

Sill Bimmons

It’s funny if you trust yourself enough to form an intelligent opinion.

People having fun skewering a sacred cow is always funny.

Senor Weaselo

Hmm, sacred beef kebab…

Sill Bimmons

/usually funny

Sill Bimmons

Power play is as organized as a bucket of live bait.

0/4, 2 shots.

http://i.imgur.com/gCwdZhG.gif

Sill Bimmons

Holtby just got pulled. 3 — 0 Ice Bucs.

Senor Weaselo

Evening everyone. This will be the Soup Finale open thread, right?

Sill Bimmons

I’m DVRing it.

Sill Bimmons

Ice Stillers 2 — 2 Ice P*ts mid-2nd.

WCS

Zakoff: Good backup goaltender, ungood regular starting goaltender

Sill Bimmons

They got 99 problems, that’s one.

WCS

Frank Martin is perpetually high on PCP.

jjfozz

Out Xmas shopping with wife. Saw what was one of the most perfect butts in the world – so I’m ok for now

jjfozz

If yoga pants were a thing when I was in school, i would have been a father two days after school started

The Maestro

As a student, they were the greatest thing ever. As a teacher, they now scare the absolute fuck out me. These ladies need to wait until they’re 18, if you ask me.

WCS

I’m WCS, and I endorse this message.

Sill Bimmons

They all need to be kept away from everything until they’re 18.

#NoDaughterNoCry

Lothar of the Hill People

What are you doing staring at cigarettes?

Low Commander of the Super Soldiers

I am 40 grueling minutes away from a 2 week vacation, and I don’t care who knows it. And I’m seeing Star Wars tonight at 11.

I cannot wait for the Falloutidays to start!