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True Detective (Season 2). Not even close in comparison of quality and substance to the first season. I'll fight my way through the rest of the season but so far it's been a disappointment. Ballers - I'm finding this show to be entertaining. The Brink - Unless the next episode delivers more than just chuckle, I think I'll be calling it quits.

I was farther away in Chagrin Falls and Bainbridge. It was great back then, having Geauga Lake and Sea World close by. I still love north east Ohio. My parents bought a house in Hudson in 08 to give laid back Ohio another try in their twilight years. I would make regular treks from NY. My sisters through convinced them to sell it after a couple of years and move to AZ so they could be taken care of and close to grand kids. So I lost my my weekend vacation spot a few years ago.

I spent part of my childhood not too far from this area. I remember the Maple Festival.

Fuckin' TV Land.

D! I'll do that. We need to catch up for sure. Are you going to be in NY anytime over the summer?

I've been in Arizona since June 13th. It's been brutally hot with most days at or above 110. I guess you can say it is better today with a forecast high around 102. I plan on heading back to NY sometime next week. My last two drives to and from have really sucked. All that severe weather from eastern New Mexico to Ohio in May was exhausting.

I hear you Chuck. To make matters worse though, some of the people doing this are not always young. Farts ending on the up are totally acceptable as long as we're not talking about people.

I had no idea there was such a definition. According to Wikipedia this is also known as upspeak, uptalk, rising inflection or high rising intonation. This shit has been irritating me for years but yesterday while watching TV I really took notice of how common it has become. I always referred to it as ending the sentence on an up. Almost like a question is being asked even though there is no real question. "So I opened the oven and took the meatloaf OUT" The pitch in the voice gets higher as if the speaker is saying it with some kind of uncertainty. Am I the only one bothered by this? (You can read this post ending each sentence on an up if it doesn't)

It's always sad to hear this kind of thing. RIP David and condolences to family and friends.

Hell yes! I'll add "fabulous" and "promising".

Culver Line going towards Smith/9th Street Station.

N Line coming out of Stillwell Terminal

From inside the Coney Island Yard.

We used to call it "skunk beer". The green bottles don’t block ultraviolet light. Reportedly, it only takes a few seconds of direct exposure to create a chemical reaction with the bitter hops. That's what it is for me and it seems to have worsened over time. Heineken was probably one of the first import beers I started to drink back in the day. I don't remember it being so bad in the beginning but something definitely changed for me and "skunk beer" sums it up.

Yep.

Fuckin' Iran is a light non-alcoholic beer. Maybe that explains some things. No surprise to see Bud Light still leading the way in the U.S., not for me though. I haven't had a Heineken in years and consider myself a better man for it. Same thing with Corona.

I definitely plan on watching this. I think the only experience I've ever had with Scientology was years ago when I was in my early 20s. A buddy and I each took a "personality questionnaire" in a local free paper geared towards the music scene and mailed it in. We had no idea what it was for other than we would get some kind of personality score/reading sent back to us. What ended up happening was getting a call to sit down with an expert one on one and discuss. So like two fucking idiots we went after work to what looked like a retail book store except there was only one book being pimped and it was "L. Ron Hubbard's Dianetics" or some shit like that. I still had no idea what the fuck was going on and who L. Ron Hubbard was but it took both of us about 15 minutes to realize we were in the wrong place and we got the fuck out of there. It probably would have been sooner but some of the chicks were cute. We went to a bar across the way and got shit faced after.

I originally made a comment saying "the dude on guitar looks like a jerkoff". After posting that I saw it is Metheny. I guess that explains the jeans and sneakers but it doesn't make it right.

DIZ 'N BIRD at Carnegie Hall

You're right, but In this case, they didn't need an old Motown lawyer, Smokey said it outright. Only he knows whether or not he really believes the melody was lifted, but he fuckin' said it was and that shit should have been taken seriously.