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dbsalk

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Recovering #hospitality professional now working in the tech industry. Husband, boy dad, #Mizzou 🐯 alum, 🥨 lover, MoT ✡️. Left the bird site early Nov 2022 after 13 yrs.

Based in NW suburbs of #Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Talk to me about #books #movies #sports #food #running #Jeopardy #Disney °o° (among other things). My header image is an avatar for my to-read list. I drink (occasionally) and I know things.

I brake for #DadJokes.

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polygon, to random
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We will finally gets a Gollum movie in 2026, precious, we will https://www.polygon.com/24152753/lord-of-the-rings-gollum-movie-2026-andy-serkis

dbsalk,
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@polygon We got Gollum's backstory at the beginning of Return of The King. It lasted about five minutes, IIRC, and that's really all we needed.

dbsalk, to random
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"Today is Thursday. Can we skip today? I want it to be Friday."

I feel like the 11yo is way too young to be having these thoughts.

dbsalk,
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@BoydStephenSmithJr The school serves a hot dog or cheese pizza almost every Friday.

The 11yo eats his school pizza with ketchup. 🤮 (normally, he makes better food decisions than that)

dbsalk, to books
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This is turning out to be a book I'm not terribly excited about: The Dog Of The South by Charles Portis. The tone sort of reminds me of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, but set in Texas and Mexico and without the hardcore drugs. Parts are funny, but mostly it kind of drags and I'm not sure what the point is. If I wasn't already more than halfway through, I'd probably add it to the DNF pile. @bookstodon

Mrfunkedude, to random
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Ever hear a guy cover an R.E.M. song who sounds so much like Freddy Mercury that if you close your eyes you can imagine it's actually him?

Meet Marc Martel and be AMAZED.

https://youtu.be/7eIiKYsMJDw?si=vElmQrLKIVF0WT8y

dbsalk,
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@Mrfunkedude That is AMAZING. Thank you so much for sharing. ❤️

dbsalk,
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@Mrfunkedude I've always loved REM and I very much enjoy the music of Queen, so this was the perfect shot in the arm for me.

The weather is beautiful outside. I'm going to go run a few miles. 😎 🎶 🏃‍♂️

Mrfunkedude, to random
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The "Three Body Problem" on Netflix on it's own is bad, but once you compare it to the book, it's much much worse.

The ONLY really good book to movie adaptation I have ever seen was "Silence of the lambs". It more or less just turned the book into a script. The most accurate adaptation I've seen to this day.

What's YOUR favorite book to movie adaptation? Tell us why!

dbsalk,
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@Mrfunkedude Are we just talking about movies, or do mini-series count as well?

IMO, Hollywood is more likely than not to shit all over the source material. There are, of course, exceptions. Here are a few that come immediately to mind:

Shawshank Redemption
Seabiscuit
The Crossing
Good Omens
I Love You, Beth Cooper
Sleepers
Lonesome Dove
A Christmas Carol (George C. Scott version)
The Road
Interview With The Vampire
Into the Wild

SallyStrange, to scifi
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10 authors, of whose books I've read at least five:

Ursula Le Guin
Kim Stanley Robinson
Octavia Butler
N. K. Jemisin
Becky Chambers
Iain M. Banks
Martha Wells
M. R. Carey
Lois McMaster Bujold
Vonda McIntyre


@bookstodon

dbsalk,
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@SallyStrange @bookstodon

I don't repeat a lot of authors, but surprisingly there are 10 where I've read at least 5 of their books:

Stephen King (by a mile)
Neil Gaiman
John Grisham
Joe Hill
JK Rowling
George R.R. Martin
James Michener
Malcolm Gladwell
Nathaniel Philbrick
Michael Crichton

This list was a bit of an eye-opener for me. With the exception of Rowling (I read the Harry Potter b4 we knew she was awful), everyone on the list is male and of them, only Gladwell is not white.

RacerX, to NFL
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Where my Bears fans at? This is going to be a fun ride. Bear down!

dbsalk,
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@RacerX I have zero confidence that the Bears front office is capable of making the right personnel moves to ensure Caleb Williams is able to be effective. Nothing has changed since they signed Justin Fields.

Nothing will change until the McCaskeys sell the team. They've proven to be completely inept at running a sports franchise.

I hope I'm wrong.

dbsalk,
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@RacerX I won't apologize for my "hope for the best, expect the worst" attitude when it comes to the football team I've rooted for my entire life. The one single constant that's been around for 45 different starting quarterbacks and 8 head coaching tenures doesn't show any sign of going away.

The owners keep doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. We all know what that means.

I am a BLAST at tailgate parties. 🤣 🏈

dbsalk, to NFL
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Speaking of dealing with assholes, Is there a term for a person that insists on referring to the Washington franchise by their previous (and very racist) name?

I'll stipulate that "Washington Commanders" is terrible, but a significant improvement over what was in place before.

dbsalk,
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@wjmaggos [pauses and thinks about it for a moment]

You're not wrong.

I feel like "Washington Commanders" did not go through any kind of focus group testing.

And while we're on the topic, "Cleveland Guardians" probably didn't, either.

dbsalk, to books
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Listening to the audio of This Is Your Brain On Sports by L. Jon Wertheim and Sam Sommers.

I wish I had read it closer to its 2016 pub date. 8 years later, parts are a little outdated. Example: in a list of active QBs at the time, several had yet to reach their peak. Now they're seasoned veterans or retired.

Amusingly, when quoting PK Subban, the narrator gave him a French accent. Subban grew up in Toronto.

@bookstodon

Hockey player PK Subban, who is not French and does not speak with a French accent, posing in a gold and navy Nashville Predators jersey, hockey gloves, and holding a hockey stick.

dbsalk, to NFL
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Prove me wrong: the hype for the exists so that Mel Kiper can justify his paycheck. Without the hype, he'd be selling paint at Home Depot.

kfury, (edited ) to random
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How many TikToks or other short form videos do you watch a day?

dbsalk,
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@bodhipaksa @kfury I feel like in this situation, 10 is a long way from 0.

GottaLaff, to random
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was at the courthouse today:

" seems old and tired and mad"

"He seems annoyed. Resigned, maybe angry. He seems like a man who is miserable to be here."

dbsalk,
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@GottaLaff So many of us felt old and tired and mad during the four years he was President.

Turnabout is fair play.

dbsalk, to 13thFloor
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I really need to start keeping notes on how/why I put a book to my TBR pile. The East Indian by Brinda Charry was added about a year ago, and I don't remember how I found out about it. A truly unique tale about an Indian boy winding up first in England and then Virginia during the 17th century efforts at colonization, for me this book is historical fiction at its absolute best. It might be one of the best books I pick up in 2024. @bookstodon

tannerman, to movies
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What is wrong with this picture? https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/a24-civil-war-posters-controversy-1235876340/

dbsalk,
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@tannerman Where do we start?

Likewise, to books
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Coffee rings
&
faerie wings.

What are you reading this week?

dbsalk,
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@Likewise Slowly but surely closing out my re-read of The Dark Tower series, a journey I started back in January 2022.

I feel like the last book starts of at a lumbering pace before picking up speed around the midway point. @bookstodon

dbsalk, to books
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Neil Gaiman is good at writing.

@bookstodon

CultureDesk, (edited ) to television
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The laugh track was once a standard feature of every TV comedy, but it may now be on its final chuckle — the last major show that used one was "The Big Bang Theory," and that finished in 2019. The Atlantic's Jacob Stern writes about the half-century history of the audio irritant, which actor David Niven once called “the single greatest affront to public intelligence I know of,” and whether we'll miss it when it's gone. "For all the ire it incurred, for all the bad jokes it disguised, the laugh track was fundamentally about reproducing the experience of being part of an audience, and its decline is also the decline of communal viewership," says Stern. What's your take on the track? [Story is paywalled]

https://flip.it/3JeN5V

dbsalk,
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@CultureDesk I never made a habit of watching sitcoms. When I did turn one on, I found the laugh track irritating, but I think "excruciating" is too strong of a word. You need a poll option for "I tolerate them because I don't really have any other choice."

RickiTarr, to random
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When you read Librarian Erotica and think it's real life:

dbsalk,
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@RickiTarr Apparently I've been missing out by downloading ebooks and audiobooks remotely instead of picking up hardcopies (and who knows what else) from the brick and mortar location. @VernonLibrary

dbsalk,
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@RickiTarr @dsilverman Spotted that right away and it's been nagging at me. "Hey, Chiron Writer... you had ONE JOB!!!"

RickiTarr, (edited ) to random
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Lots of debate about this, so I'm curious about the consensus.

Should children be allowed to act professionally, as in having a full time acting job in movie/TV/stage? Feel free to elaborate in the comments.

dbsalk,
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@kpl @RickiTarr That's how I read it too. Was trying to picture my kids turning in a job application with a resume and taking themselves very seriously instead of yammering away about Roblox and Pokemon.

dbsalk,
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@RickiTarr I'd be curious to know the breakdown of positive child actor success stories vs. negative ones. The failures always get sensationalized in the tabloids, and even stars who seem to be well-adjusted adults - Drew Barrymore or the late Shirley Temple - have horror stories from their childhood. But I wonder if there are former child actors who can speak to a loving and positive experience that they would be happy to repeat. If so, how many?

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