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Europe has marshaled the (imperial, to be fair) resources to bring their continent to the edge of the abyss twice before. I firmly believe they can do it again.

Bump.

Where is Thanasis in his rehab timeline?

I liked "Anora" best of the BP nominees I saw. Glad it won.

Wife took me to a class at her yoga studio. Absolutely kicked my ass. But it was great.

Quick impulse to think Coetzee is playing readers or critics for fools. That his reputation is such that he can write whatever and be lauded for it. I think he's just very cynical lol. And that cynicism has led him down paths to explain everything about humanity that troubles him.

Good and strange in its way. Would undoubtedly help if I was versed in the Biblical stories. Going to break before I advance in the series.

MLS 360 en Español to try and feel something from league-produced content

It would be unthinkable for an American president to express himself in a second language [English is Zelenskyy’s third].

Onto some more J.M. Coetzee. "The Childhood of Jesus"

kids now hear linkin park and it was like me hearing led zeppelin as a kid. "this old ass music rocks, wow". circle of life

Saddle up, everyone’s going to try and get nukes

What’s Pau Gasol got left in the tank

PJ Tucker seems like the kind of guy whose ability to hold a grudge means he would never come back to Milwaukee willingly lol

It was very good, although it lost itself in the past after such a strong opening. Like setting up an elaborate stage and then turning the lights off just as the actors take their places. Murray gets back there in the end.

Gophers legend Liam Robbins

Bucks make even a competitive Conference Finals run and all the narrative stuff resets itself as a matter of course. Sports discourse is unbelievably simple. Team has just failed to live up to their end of the bargain (if you even care about this kind of stuff).

If we could demote GTJ to the bench we can certainly do the same for Prince. That's a guard spot getting plugged up by a guy who was supposedly brought in to handle wing/occasional forward defense. Tick tock.

Time is cramped so you've gotta dig in and figure it out quick. Struck that Rollins (on only a little under 500 minutes, but still) is at +6.9 net on the court. Defense has been better in KPJ's ~100 minutes, but the offense drops to just 97.5. Bunch of guards needing sorting in a rotation ASAP.

Lot to lament about Brook’s 125 foot shot with the game on the line and Giannis uncovered under the basket. But what if it went in?

I’m struck by the depth of antipathy Wizards fans feel for Kuzma. None of this is real, yet they genuinely feel it in their souls. I respect that. It impresses me.

Grocery store only allows us to buy a dozen eggs because we’re in a wartime economy, but if you choose the right eggs? They sing.

Those Hur quotes from below. Responses range from the romantic and dreamy to the practical. Would’ve been cool to have all five judges take part.

He knocked this interview out of the park lol

Anton Hur seems like a real one.

Int’l Booker: “Solenoid” is well-written and conceptually interesting, but mostly a slog. Makes shortlist, doesn’t win “There’s a Monster Behind the Door”, “On the Calculation of Volume I”, and “The Book of Disappearance” the most intriguing of the 13 Surprised (grateful?) at all the short books

That Gimli-Legolas meme about not expecting to die fighting next to an elf except its the US and North Korea at the UN.

Started "The Bee Sting" by Paul Murray. Really good. Always have a dread feeling that we haven't quite gotten our hands around the dent the GFC left in so many peoples' psyches. Murray dives right in.

Second sentence was maybe a little too prescient. Aliyu remains very much Not Good and Bassi/Kowalczyk are completely allergic to any searching forward passes. Another season of hanging tough until others get healthy or a new player is brought in.

The production team showing halftime stats using the logos of two completely unrelated teams was, in fact, real American soccer heritage.

That was American soccer heritage.

People clown on MLS because it is sloppy, but sloppy also means you often get to watch two teams drunkenly throw haymakers at each other for 90 minutes.

Yeboah looks like an absolute menace to cover.

San Diego's logo is a SoCal homage to the Badmotorfinger saw blade. Makes sense.

lol @ the new MLS studio. we're floatin' now, mfers.

Dynamo season home opener, new uniforms look awesome, team has the potential to be greater than the sum of its parts, etc. Expecting a slight step back (defense and goalkeeping will put a cap on how far the group can go) and still want to see the possession-based style manifest more goals.