Not sly, exactly, but Elmore Leonard wrote a few different stories that served as the basis for JUSTIFIED. He then wrote a follow-up novel that used some plot points from the series that weren't in the books (e.g. Boyd not dying) but otherwise largely did its own thing
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GOAT warm weather album
from the writer of GUY RITCHIES ALADDIN
GUY RITCHIES AMADEUS
Jason statham: name's salieri. famous fucker, me. until - *freeze frame and record scratch on mozart* this precocious prick plonked his arse at the piana fuckin forte
(Mild pang of regret that I didn't ask about the likelihood of this move even happening)
The design for Manchester United's new stadium was mocked as a "circus tent" online, but new YouGov research shows that the club's fans mostly like it - and support the decision to leave Old Trafford. More here: business.yougov.com/content/5181...
hey fair enough, I guess everyone of a certain age has an old-timey video game aesthetic they enjoy
Isometric stuff just ages better, Infinity Engine games became classics for a bunch of reasons but one was def that matte paintings and sprites look much nicer than a situation where everyone has fingerless cubes for hands
New YouGov polling on rumours that UEFA plans to remove extra time from CL knockout stages: 45% of football fans are in favour, 35% are opposed.
Also asked about bringing back the away goals rule - 47% would reinstate it, 28% would not. More here:
business.yougov.com/content/5164...
🧵/ A round-up of recent YouGov polling on Ukraine and defence
With Keir Starmer saying he is willing to send British soldiers to Ukraine as peacekeepers, alongside other European nations, 58% of Britons backed such a move in our 16 Jan poll
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
Yes! Forever embarrassed by how long it took me to connect the dots between "I'm eating huge quantities of nutritionally dubious food" and "I feel bad all day"
(Tiny violin stuff but suppose it's a real dilemma for console manufacturers - release a More Powerful Black Rectangle and you're accused of playing it safe; release anything more interesting and you get Homer's Car comparisons)
There's been a lot of commentary about Nintendo's Switch 2 design. We asked British gamers about it, and:
- 51% like it
- 41% are neither positive nor negative about it
- 5% dislike it
More here:
business.yougov.com/content/5146...
The story in "The Last Waltz" about how the other members of The Band paid Garth Hudson $10-a-week for "music lessons" so that he could tell his parents he was a teacher, rather than in a band, is one of my favorites. In the doc, he's rarely in the spotlight, but always brilliant. #RIP
Dylan bio is very watchable but sort of exactly what you expect, the story of a cool mean guy terrorising some goodhearted simpletons with a Stratocaster
Polled this recently and fwiw most Britons are comfortable with the idea of solo cinema trips (although they don't do it v. often). People who think it's odd can be very loud about it but wonder if the stigma of seeing a film alone is largely just self-consciousness at this point
Spent all day looking for a copy of Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry and then I found it and the sheer heft unmanned me. I no longer possess the mental energy required to get through a 900 page novel about a cowboy called Woodrow and it is time to move to a place of acceptance
got me and my wifes anniverseary mixed up with 9/11 again. in my defense the numbers are kind o f close together. "Im sorry Toots"
Remembering jazz drummer & band leader Max Roach, born on January 10, 1924, in Newland, Pasquotank County, North Carolina - he died on August 16, 2007, in Manhattan, NYC. This legendary musician worked with Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus and many others.
This is the energy I'm taking into 2025!
