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I prefer November Rain, but not by much.
I'm an even bigger fan of Chocolate Rain, suckas
I like Rhetorical Rain
That reminds me -- I have practice tonight for my CCR Cover Band, "Have You Ever Seen the 'Have You Ever Seen the Rain' Rain"
(We used to be called the Creedence Clearwater Revival Revival.)
I don't have the energy.
I would, but Tuesday night is the first night of my summer pick up VB, and I want to get as much in as I can before I have to take a few weeks off after surgery.
Besides, I'll be going there Thursday evening.
mnblrmkr, did you say pick-up volleyball? As in, whoever shows up plays? Where, pray tell, might this happen?
I'm not up for the crowds or traffic - just getting around the cities the past few months is enough of a patience test.
I makes it rain.
I found out last week that the lake she jumps in (which is not Minnetonka) is in Blakely Township in Scott County.
mnblrmkr, did you say pick-up volleyball? As in, whoever shows up plays? Where, pray tell, might this happen?
Yeah that's about it. It's mostly people from the team I play on during the winter, with some people from some of the other teams. A wide range of skill, from pretty decent to really bad. We play up in Spring Lake Park.
There is another open VB on Sunday evenings in Driftwood Park in New Brighton. That's a continuation of the Sunday open VB that plays in St. Anthony Village HS, fall-spring.
(Tues. is sand, I assume the Sun. is sand too, but I haven't been to that one yet, since they moved outdoors)
I with Bixby on this one...
Yeah, disregard traffic comment - meant for different thread.
This is exactly what the Twin Cities arts scene needs more of -- scathing reviews of 20-year-old movies filmed in Minnesota! Expect my blistering fisking of The Personals soon. In about 18-19 years, I'll be ready to savage Sweetland and Twenty Bucks!
I WILL review 4 U, SMFs!
arrgh. I just noticed that I put my comment in the wrong thread. I meant to put that in the Obama rally thread.
Not even slightly amusing.
jpbob, yeah, I'm still mulling over Grumpy Old Men and Fargo. I'll get back to you with reviews in 2016.
I followed Bix's lead and won't be reading this...
I can't wait for the Jingle All the Way review... I'm sure that one will be hilarious.
What's up with Timothy Hutton in Beautiful Girls? Why he be chattin' up that 12 year old neighbor girl? You know the Stillwater police would be throwin' his white a$$ in jail!
I'm still working on my review of The Wrestler.
No, no! I'm not discouraging people from reading it. I read it. I just don't have the energy to address all of it.
Max, when you finish with that one, please review Foolin' Around.
The link actually doesn't work for me... I just get a black page.
I own a copy of Foolin' Around, but on VHS, so I've never seen it.
But what does she think of Mighty Ducks?
"The link actually doesn't work for me... I just get a black page."
I can't figure out if that is a technical difficulty or rather subtle joke, Kurtis.
I actually like it, Max, but I haven't seen it since it aired on HBO about 27 years ago.
My wife and I once met the woman who played the maid of honor in that movie. She only meant to be an extra, but they liked her and gave her a minor speaking role. She never appeared in anything else. (We got on the topic because at the time my wife worked at the church where they did the wedding scene.)
White people read her review like this...
I just get a black page
I hope that was a joke. If so, well done sir!
I finally got it to work in Firefox (IE sux).
She says... "grown a$$ man ought not play with puppets"
OK, them's fighting words!
I'm still working on my review of The Wrestler.
One would think that a film starring Ed Asner, Elaine Giftos, and The Crusher & Dick The Bruiser would've dominated the Oscars that year. Gagne and company were robbed!
"grown a$$ man ought not play with puppets"
She's never met Sailor Martin.
I would like to see "The Wrestler." Dick the Bruiser was a fav of mine when I was growing up in Indianapolis.
I actually did write about The Wrestler for one of my past, and now gone, blogs. You know what? I'm going to reprint it here, right now:
Ed Asner stars in this low-budget ode to the American Wrestling Association, produced and costarring the organization's unbeatable founder and seven year AWA World Champion Verne Gagne. The wrestlers on display here are distinctly working class, muscular but heavyset men who destroy bars, chomp on cigars, and too-frequently take their shirts off to reveal bear-like masses of matted chest and back hair. The story is frankly ridiculous, with Asner going toe to toe with the mob to keep them from fixing wrestling matches (apparently nobody informed the mafia that the matches were already fixed). But for fans of early 70s midwestern wrestling, the film is a treat, with outrageous performances by such old school grappling legends as blond-tressed Crusher and his partner The Brusier. In one lunatic scene, two wrestlers, threatened in a bar by a burly Asian man in a bowler derby, take turns pummeling him. The Asian man is none other than Harold Sakata, reprising his role as Odd Job from the James Bond film Goldfinger.
You convinced me Max! I'm in!
Did Barton Fink write the screenplay?
It is kind of like The Burly Man, but without a wrestler lumbering toward the camera screaming "I will destroy you!"
First Harvey Korman -- now Bo Diddley. RIP!
And Yves Saint Laurent (who I honestly thought was already dead until I read a profile about Karl Lagerfeld earlier this year).
Actually, Sidney Pollack was first.
I forgot about Odd Job in "The Wrestler". Was it Dusty Rhodes and Dick Murdoch that were in the bar-brawl scene?
I think it was!
Was this supposed to be funny?
Aren't Internet lists out of season? Typically they are an end or beginning of year occurance.
1. Internet lists never go out of season in our ADD culture!
2. It's true.
- In Buzy-ness
- we like
- the bullet point
- better.
1. It depends.
2. Setting up an agenda during a presentation.
3. For example.
4. Might merit numbers.
- With bullet points underneath for subpoints.
5. Apologies, I've been looking at/putting together decks.
- All day.
We hit up the Bulldog N.E. (even invaded their kitchen), interviewed some people (including MNSpeakers - I ask JustPBob if he's buying smokes online), all in hopes of finding out how locals will shop for the holidays. Choice: the Malls or in your jammies with an Internet connection. http://www.ciceron.tv
Tipster William was ready to start his seasonal job at Target when he was told that there was no record of him ever being scheduled, taking a drug test, or ever being hired. (Via)
Parasole Restaurant Holdings Inc. will debut its latest concept, a boutique burger joint called Burger Jones, near Lake Calhoun next spring ... Prices will start at about $7.95 for a classic hamburger and run all the way up to $18-$20 for a lobster burger or burger topped with foie gras, Parasole co-founder and CEO Phil Roberts said. The average check probably will be about $15. (Via)
Three men accused of trying to dig up a grave in Cassville in order to have sex with a dead woman have entered not guilty pleas in Grant County Circuit Court.
Let's talk dance for a moment. Where do you go to watch dance? What local troupes do you enjoy? And when you want to tap your toes and cut a rug and, um, shake your booty, where do you go?