zachralston.bsky.social
Professional TV producer/director; semi-pro cinephile and poker player; tennis amateur.
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Did you, Noel? DID YOU!
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Did you ever see Twitch City? Extremely endearing little show.
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You're welcome. We need to start celebrating people before they die, so they can be a part of it. Not that Gene Hackman would bother with Bluesky, but in general when I see everyone waiting until a death to gush over an artist, I wish that artist had been alive to see those comments.
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Yeah, it’s more of the Brendan Fraser narrative for THE WHALE than it is “lifetime achievement.”
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@thinkingpoker.bsky.social I hope Carlos and Gloria had fun at the studio Saturday night. I got as many shots of him on camera as I could, but I’m bummed you guys didn’t win.
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Oh sweet I didn’t even realize this! Yay no competition… haha
And sorry I missed this, was in the control room.
www.youtube.com/live/qF_qd35...
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On the bright side, the Korean food is excellent and by far their most popular dishes.
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Weirdly this is the second role I think of for him. My #1 that shoots to mind is Clarence Beaks from TRADING PLACES. Mostly for the scene when he tells the lady waiting for the pay phone in the rain, “fuck off.”
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Like most huge hit albums, the one this song is featured on had a track I much prefer that only peaked at #6. (I never seem to groove on the biggest single). I’m sure you know which one I’m talking about…
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It's gonna be a long time before I forget the scene on the pier where he just blows past Kenny Bee, plants a passionate kiss on Joey Wang, then puts his hands up and smiles. Even if Patrick Tam didn't want to freeze frame on that, the celluloid would have done it on its own.
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Wow, I consider myself something of a connoisseur of Hong Kong cinema and Tony Leung specifically yet somehow I’ve never heard of this. Sounds awesome.
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You're just proving to them you didn't use ChatGPT to write the email; they'll love the personal touch.
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I'm amazed to say I've never seen this. I've always seen "login" as a noun. "Enter your login details" or "Go to the login page." But then "log into your account" or "log in to make changes."
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Congrats! You and Adam and Sam have done such a great job with this podcast, and you in particular were such a huge upgrade from the previous co-host (which, I can't believe it, was 13 years ago!!!) that it inspired me to listen way more frequently after you joined.
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Jameson Black Barrel
Blue Spot
Writer’s Tears
John’s Lane
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You look so nice without a huge beard!
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Like I tell the guys in the locker room, you gotta play all four quarters. Gotta finish the game. Offense, gotta convert third downs, put some points on the board. Defense, gotta get some stops. Keep ‘em out of the end zone. We’ve gotta good football team. Gonna leave it all out on the field.
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Very brave and commendable. Hoping it goes over well, but if it doesn’t, the important thing is you spoke up.
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Did he notify all 10 people individually?
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Hmm. I guess maybe I’m thinking too much about just how likely it is we’re behind. Sometimes a spade is good, sometimes not, but CO just has a ton of Ax and we never have 3x (and very few sets). Black TT isn’t stone bottom of our range but it’s low enough that fold turn seems prudent.
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It doesn’t, it just says what % of your range to make each decision with, and what to do with your exact hand. It calls fold and call “a mistake” and jam “perfect.”
Time to consult Chewy I guess!
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But why put any more of your stack in on this runout? I get jam over call I suppose for those reasons but fold seems by far the best on this turn.
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(If it wasn't clear we're on the button). And this is Octopi's chipEV trainer, and the first few actions (the pf 3-bet sizing, the flop bet-call) are their recommended plays.
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It's a pretty good sign that of that vast group of mostly white men who are now all middle-aged, that only Tonguette sticks out as the lone Trumper. Nice when smart film critics also happen to be smart re: politics. Even the random loner Republicans among us (e.g. Victor) are pretty cool about it.
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And not for nothing: that entire LP, The Execution of All Things, has a permanent lock on my top 10 all-time albums. Gold everywhere.
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Goosebumps and near-tears every time. Also there’s 2 ways to read it, curious about your take. Is the second half (the “you’ll be XX & YY”) predictive action or an impossible fantasy? A lie we tell ourselves knowing the truth is we’ll always be shitty. Her change in tense implies the latter for me.
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Rilo Kiley, “A Better Son/Daughter”
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I still haven’t learned this
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Agreed. I really wanted it to have a little more sizzle and entertainment value. But since it’s a movie about the cycle of child abuse I guess it’s fair they kept the tone grim… hard to be over the top when you’re lecturing about dick dads raising their sons to be dick dads
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Hmm, I guess that's where we differ. In my 20s I was eating that stuff up (if it was good). I was blown away by GLADIATOR in 2000 and have loved it on every rewatch since. But I've never liked e.g. THE ROCK or BRAVEHEART so my affection for epics and/or popular blockbusters has its limits.