Now that I am back home and have to do laundry, laundry, and more laundry, I now have opportunities to finish (finally) the last episode of OITNB (I’ll see if I can’t put a post up about that entire show, because it’s got some very interesting stuff going on) and, last night at dinner, I read the opening to Small Gods… the part talking about turtles and eagles and I can’t help but suspect that he’s not talking about turtles or eagles at all.
So… what are you reading and/or watching?
Finally got the wife to see American Hustle. Da-a-a-a-amn! That was acting school! A fantastic movie. Great dialogue, a fun and clever story, terrific performances, sexy costumes for the sexy ladies, wickedly awful 70’s hair for the gents. Everything about this movie is top notch.Report
I’m systematically watching every Cracked “After Hours” there is. How did I not know this existed?Report
Cracked AH is indeed funny. In fact just about everything with Michael Swaim in it is funny. Great site in general.Report
I find myself usually aligned with Daniel. Who usually loses. Hmmm.Report
I take that this has no relationship to the Martin Scorcese movie.Report
I have watched a few movies this weekend. I rewatched the first 2 Evangelion Rebuild movies, and I plan to watch the third later. I also watched the first part of The Colour of Magick.
Along with that, I have been watching Season 3 of Community.
Regarding reading, I started Book 7 of The Wheel of Time, so I am near the halfway mark. This week I got Volume 3 of IDW’s Complete Chester Gould Dick Tracy, but I have not yet started to make my way through.Report
How are you liking Eva Rebuild?Report
I like it. I watched the first and second ones before, but I wanted to watch them again before watching the third. It goes in very different directions, especially with the second movie. I get the impression that many people find the third movie disappointing, and that it wipes out a lot of the development that happened in the first two. I will be going into it with somewhat lowered expectations.Report
Give an update on your opinion of the last one after you’ve watched it, if you would.Report
TNC finally got to me, and I started Bloodlands this week. Man, it is one heavy and depressing book.
I am looking *VERY* forward to both the second episode of True Detectives and the season premier of Sherlock this evening. Also, I believe there are a couple minor, inconsequential games of football this afternoon I might just take a glance at if I’m really bored with sudoku.Report
I was thinking of reading Bloodlands, but haven’t been able to work up the courage yet, knowing what I’m in for.Report
Went to see Her yesterday. I didn’t think it was nearly good enough to deserve all the nominations and awards it’s received.Report
Finished: P.G. Wodehouse’s The Return of Jeeves. Not one of his best but I’m pledged to read all of his works during my lifetime.
Started: Bart D. Ehrman’s Peter, Paul, and Mary Magdalene. Bit of a slow go right now.Report
I’ve read all of PGW’s novels. The short stories can be harder to find, and I’m sure I’ve missed a few.Report
ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGHReport
What, do you expect a flag just because of a blatant facemask?Report
The officiating was pretty bad, but what I really expect is that when your hurry-up offense has got you to first and goal with 22 seconds left, you call effin’ time out and set up three plays! The Seahawks didn’t win that game, the Niners just boneheaded it and lost it at the end.Report
I saw a number of questionable call but didn’t sense a broader pattern in favor of one team or another. The calls might have skewed one way, but I didn’t get a sense of explicit favoritism.
Regarding the Bowman play, it seems like it was the proper application of a piss poor rule. However, I haven’t seen the actual text of the rule in question. I understand the logic of not wanting to review fumble recoveries because of the difficulty in sorting through the scrum even via slow motion, but I’ve long wondered why the rules of down-by-contact seem to be thrown out the window during a recovery. While rarely as obvious as that play, you often seen a guy clearly possess the ball while down on the ground and contacted by an opposing player. But after the pileup, the ball ends up elsewhere and is awarded accordingly. The play ideally would have been ruled a fumble recovered by the 49ers and then reviewed to see if Bowman himself fumbled (which the review would have said was not a fumble). Thankfully, it didn’t factor into the final result (the full sequence benefited the 49ers in that they ended up with 1st down at the 7 instead of 1st down at the 1) but that was sheer luck.Report
I’m happy with both games’ outcomes, but I think Kazzy makes a good point here. Possession and being down seemed especially clear in this case, and it seems SF still should have been awarded posession. (Wouldn’t have helped with Kaepernick’s decision-making, though.)Report
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Thought of our “Who’s better, Denver’s offense or Seattle’s defense?” debate after the outcomes of the games last night. Looks like we’re going to get a definitive answer to that question soon enough.
(Go Broncos!)Report
I agree with “go broncos.” I have no particular love for them, nor any particular dislike of Seattle, but I think it’d be great if Manning won a second Super Bowl. (I say that as a Colts fan who agrees with their decision to move him out.)Report
I may be rooting for Denver because that’s a team that doesn’t need bad calls in its favor to win big, tough games. (coughcough failmary coughcough)Report
I’m rooting for Seattle because I’m from Victoria and I root for teams based on geographical proximity.
Also because it’s an underdog team with a young quarterback against one of the top quarterbacks in the league, and that’s a great story.Report
Did anyone else see ESPN’s show on Notre Dame’s 1972 win that snapped UCLA’s 88 game winning streak? (It might have been a re-run.). Very interesting, even though Wooden is god and Notre Dame is Satan-spawn.Report
I just finished The Search by Geoff DyerReport