Bear Down Wildcats

84Cat wrote: ↑Thu Jan 26, 2023 8:31 pm Simon says Championship

azcat49 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 30, 2023 9:31 am https://sports.yahoo.com/blackhawks-tim ... 00214.html

Hockey great Bobby Hull passes away at 84

Merkin wrote: ↑Mon Jan 30, 2023 7:35 pm
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Now I can't name one hockey player who has played in the last 20 years. Has hockey fallen off the charts? When I grew up there were only 4 sports, one for each season.

RichardCranium wrote: ↑Tue Jan 31, 2023 1:30 am

Merkin wrote: ↑Mon Jan 30, 2023 7:35 pm
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Now I can't name one hockey player who has played in the last 20 years. Has hockey fallen off the charts? When I grew up there were only 4 sports, one for each season.

Being from Michigan you are Constitutionally required to acknowledge Gordie Howe as the greatest hocky player ever. I mean he played with his sons - at a high level - for crying out loud. Take that Tom Brady!

And (INHO) Hockey died when they expanded. I mean really, NHL hockey in Arizona? Florida? Texas? WTF?

Detroit, Chicago, Montreal, Toronto, New York, Boston <- THAT's the NHL.

The first expansion to 12 teams was OK (except there should have been at least 2 Canadian teams in the mix), but then they just got ridiculous.

EastCoastCat wrote: ↑Tue May 09, 2023 5:36 pm Sad. His Vikings used to make me cry when they beat my Rams.

I think he was also the coach of Cal when “The cheating Play” happened to beat Elway’s Stanford team. Afterwards, his quote was “the Bear will never die.”

Pat Robertson, Televangelist Who Blamed Gay People for 9/11 and Hurricanes, Dies

The conspiratorial hatemonger who founded the Christian Broadcasting Network helped usher Christian-conservatism into the mainstream

Pat Robertson, the televangelist who ran for the Republican nomination for president in 1988, died on Thursday at the age of 93. The Christian Broadcasting Network, which Robertson founded in 1960, announced the news on Friday morning.



Robertson is widely credited with ushering Christian-conservatism into mainstream politics in the 1980s and 1990s, and laying the groundwork for the modern right-wing culture war. He has a history of extreme, bigoted commentary — including that gay people and abortion caused 9/11, that Haitians deserved the 2010 earthquake that ravaged the island nation, and that feminists are evil.

The 700 Club, Robertson’s long-running program on the CBN, was his most common platform for hate. In the days after 9/11, he brought on pastor Jerry Falwell to discuss the tragedy. “I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America, I point the finger in their face and say, ‘You helped this happen,'” Falwell said, to which Robertson said “I totally concur” and that the “agenda” has been adopted by the “highest levels of our government.”

Robertson’s bigotry toward gay people was boundless. He said on The 700 Club that he wished Facebook had a “vomit button” for when he came across a picture of gay people kissing, equated gay people with Nazis and Satanists, suggested God unleashed hurricanes and other natural disasters punishment for homosexuality. “I would warn Orlando that you’re right in the way of some serious hurricanes, and I don’t think I’d be waving those flags in God’s face if I were you,” he said of Disney World’s Gay Days. “It’ll bring about terrorist bombs; it’ll bring earthquakes, tornadoes, and possibly a meteor.”

Robertson was very much an active participant in the modern, far-right Christian-conservatism he helped create. He supported Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020, and described those trying to stop him from doing so as “revolting against what God’s plan is for America.” After a gunman killed 60 people in Las Vegas in 2017, Robertson blamed “disrespect” for Trump. Robertson broke from the former president after the 2020 election, however, saying Trump needed to “move on” from the loss and that it would be “a mistake” for him to run again in 2024.

Carcassdragger wrote: ↑Wed Jun 14, 2023 7:51 am I've never read him. If you were going to just read one of his books, which one would it be?

dovecanyoncat wrote: ↑Tue Jun 13, 2023 10:13 pm 1. McCarthy didn't ever vote: "Poets shouldn't vote."

2. McCarthy eschewed interviews: "It's not good for your head."

3. McCarthy no longer drank alcohol: (I'm paraphrasing because I can't get back to the NYTimes article) "Most of my friends are people who have quit drinking."

1. Fucking Platonists!

2. My "best" writing turned out to be something meant for no one but was accidentally read by someone and fraudulently gained a quotation mark worldliness never intended. I find it remarkable how serious writers can write for an audience and still retain an inward voice. How does that work? What of my own that I love emerged immediate to the point that later I can't recognize the author because I am still inside of it. It is its own thing and I am the least part of it.

3. Ain't it a bitch: that seducing muse who verges in the whisky buzz and emasculates editing in the light of sobriety. How can writing be productive? It's depletive as a jar of leeches.

pc in NM wrote: ↑Sat Jun 17, 2023 9:38 am I forgot to mention a negative critical consensus about Cormac McCarthy with which I’ve always disagreed.

He wrote the original screenplay for Ridley Scott’s “The Counselor” (2013), which most critics panned.

here’s a plot summary: A Bentley-driving Texas lawyer (Michael Fassbender) appears to have it all, including a beautiful fiancee named Laura (Penélope Cruz) -- but his financial needs force him to become involved in an ill-advised drug deal. His partners in the venture include middleman Westray (Brad Pitt), shady nightclub owner Reiner (Javier Bardem) and Malkina (Cameron Diaz), Reiner's sociopathic lover. Unsurprisingly, the counselor's deal spirals out of control, placing both him and Laura in mortal danger.

I eagerly sought this film out when it was released, and really liked it! I’ve streamed is 3 or 4 times since, and glad I did each time. I consider it one of the best 21st century noirs!

I recommend it highly.

(And, even if you agree with the critics, tell me if you’ve ever seen a better scenee of a woman (Cameron Diaz) making love to a car!!)

RichardCranium wrote: ↑Sat Jun 17, 2023 4:51 pm I hated 'No Country...' (the movie). Cant stand it at all.

I am not encouraged by that experience to attempt his books.

Would a viewing of 'The Counselor' change my mind?

RichardCranium wrote: ↑Sat Jun 17, 2023 4:51 pm I hated 'No Country...' (the movie). Cant stand it at all.

RichardCranium wrote: ↑Sat Jun 17, 2023 4:51 pmWould a viewing of 'The Counselor' change my mind?

pc in NM wrote: ↑Sat Jun 17, 2023 5:04 pm His writing is highly respected across the board. “Blood Meridian” might be held back pending liking his other stuff, but “All the Pretty Horses” (novel) would be a good intro….

dovecanyoncat wrote: ↑Sat Jun 17, 2023 8:03 pm

pc in NM wrote: ↑Sat Jun 17, 2023 5:04 pm His writing is highly respected across the board. “Blood Meridian” might be held back pending liking his other stuff, but “All the Pretty Horses” (novel) would be a good intro….

As is often the case, the movie No Country pales in comparison to the book as Sheriff Bell cannot be appreciated without knowing his wartime past and the basis of his guilt which forever rends his person from his becoming.

Similarly, Llewelyn can't be appreciated without reading his relationship with the young stray girl whom he meets when he goes on the lam. She, and that segment of his running, isn't in the movie at all.

Chigurh can't be understood as anything but a vacant killing machine without reading the subtle interplay between him and his victims, none of which is in the movie.

Sheriff Bell concedes to Chigurh in the end, not only out of limitation, but because of protective duty to his wife. (The heart of that is in the scene with Uncle Ellis. It's the best scene in the movie if you ask this Texas boy.) The purity Chigurh embodies is impossible in human terms, not only to attain, but to defeat in conflict. It is a purity that reconciles mode and being, and hurdles the time component of humanity's corruption. McCarthy's typical genius is to make this corruptionless perfection both malevolent and redemptive.

On film Llewelyn is delivered as a bull-headed dullard, but his steadfastness is refracted into nuance in his brief companionship with the stray girl. In their conversations McCarthy gives standard humanity's life mechanics a very clean but tragic portrayal. She is a road creature of immediate engagement and Llewelyn is the reflective high-mileage wanderer. Llewelyn, like Bell is also a war vet, and in the book Bell meets with his father.

Chigurh reckons the accounts of the road. Whether it is the gas station owner or interloping competitors or the man that hires them, or Llewelyn's wife, they are all called to his balance sheet. There's virtually no look inside Chigurh except in the book, and there is a subtle temporal displacement verging on the human condition. It's so slight as to be tender, but violence closes the wound, and purifies it.

dovecanyoncat wrote: ↑Sat Jun 17, 2023 7:02 pm

RichardCranium wrote: ↑Sat Jun 17, 2023 4:51 pm I hated 'No Country...' (the movie). Cant stand it at all.

Then your condition is beyond care. Start drinking heavily.