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Mario raised his boy up

jollyroger — Thu, 09 Jan 2014 20:09:56 +0000

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Mario raised his boy up wrong....

There is nearly zero support

artappraiser — Thu, 09 Jan 2014 08:38:11 +0000

In reply to Rebuking Ronald Reagan--The Real City on a Hill swears in a Sandinista as Mayor

There is nearly zero support for a Sandinista style agenda in Albany:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/09/opinion/gov-cuomo-begins-his-campaign....

and I suspect Mr. DeBlasio fully understood that was the situation even while campaigning.

Thanks for the link.

trkingmomoe — Sat, 04 Jan 2014 11:43:05 +0000

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Thanks for the link. Wonderful talent there.

Here's the youth poet

jollyroger — Sat, 04 Jan 2014 09:20:36 +0000

In reply to Rebuking Ronald Reagan--The Real City on a Hill swears in a Sandinista as Mayor

Here's the youth poet laureate "we will no longer stay silent to this classism"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EOQzwuk4wY

I find I am slowly losing my

Richard Day — Sat, 04 Jan 2014 08:15:50 +0000

In reply to I just think he was a

I find I am slowly losing my marbles.

hahahahahah

I cannot take the last twenty years of Reagan worship.

hahahahahahah

I just think he was a

trkingmomoe — Sat, 04 Jan 2014 07:21:22 +0000

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I just think he was a corporate sock puppet that was slowly loosing his marbles.

Re: Mad Men vs. Breaking

artappraiser — Sat, 04 Jan 2014 02:40:33 +0000

In reply to My cousin says it gets

Re: Mad Men vs. Breaking Bad.

It just occurred to me that I should also it was very very hard for me to warm to Breaking Bad, much more so than Mad Men. And I also came to that late, skipping a lot of the original seasons. (Doing the same thing, checking on the net for summaries and commentary when I didn't understand something.) Once I understood the characters, though, I was hooked on seeing the final season. It see it as a lot more plot driven than Mad Men, as finely developed as its characters were. I guess it's that Mad Men has those cultural history things that some find immediately extremely appealing, even addicting, even if they don't know what's going on, and others do not. Many times when I first tried to watch Breaking Bad, and would go "yuck, this is just another psychologically violent boy movie" and change the channel. I really didn't get interested until I read up on the plot and characters a bit more.

My cousin says it gets

artappraiser — Sat, 04 Jan 2014 02:23:21 +0000

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My cousin says it gets better

My fandom is based on coming to it quite late, like 4th season. I don't think I've seen most of like the first three seasons. I eventually got fascinated enough by the main characters to look up their history on various sites when I felt I didn't understand something, but I feel that even without that sort of cheat, I would have enjoyed many episodes. But an initial binge does help very much, you don't warm to it without a few episodes under the belt.

If you are plot-oriented, you probably won't like it. It is very character-oriented. Despite the whole cliff-hanger thing when it's happening, in the end you realize that what you've grown attached to is the change/growth of characters.

One part of the allure is that the costuming is pretty accurate (and sophisticated--i.e., the old farts are wearing out of style stuff, class and age differences paid much attention as to style of the time) so many wimmins and drag queens and the like perhaps are more prone to like it right off without knowing the characters than guy guys would. Which reminds me, through the seasons, the main protagonist has gone from hip young guy to at the end of the season basically old fart-still wearing grease-backced hair and a grey suit--showing how fast the decade moved.

caught the Keno twin touting the Livingston manuscript

He didn't discover it, the Jumel archivist did. His auction house is about as beginner as you can get, with mostly relatively low $ value items and low volume compared to most other houses. He very much needs it to do well and for people with expensive stuff to sell to know about that happening.

Yeah, I noticed that with

jollyroger — Sat, 04 Jan 2014 00:54:12 +0000

In reply to Here's something you may not

Yeah, I noticed that with some displeasure.

O/T as I know you to be a Mad Man fan, I made the best investment of entertainment dollars possible (Netflix) and having binged through Breaking Bad, I dipped my toe into Mad Men and IT STINKS

I got two thirds through first episode and quit in disgust...seriously heavy handed caricatures of the men in the sixties (I was there....) My cousin says it gets better. I'll try after I binge through Sherlock.

also O/T you must have caught the Keno twin touting the Livingston manuscript they found at Morris-Jumel?

Here's something you may not

artappraiser — Sat, 04 Jan 2014 00:40:13 +0000

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Here's something you may not like:

John Miller, of recent 60 Minutes agitprop piece for NSA, was just appointed NYPD's Counter Terrorism Chief.