Comments on: 2021-22 Game Thread: Knicks @ Hawks

By: llcoolbp

llcoolbp — Sun, 16 Jan 2022 12:54:39 +0000

Raven: I used to run track against Homer…

Did you live in cortland? I ran track in the Bronx. At van cortland park n Highschool. Didn’t grow up in homer. But I’ve been in upstate ny for 17 years.

By: llcoolbp

llcoolbp — Sun, 16 Jan 2022 12:52:53 +0000

Z-man: Dude! Did you change your tag?

No I’ve been so busy the last couple of years (doc here, work inpatient- pandemic has been brutal on my life). I haven’t posted much on this blog lately. But make no mistake I’ve been lurking and reading all of you guys daily. My handle has been the same since I joined this blog over a decade ago. I grew up in queens. Thus the handle..

By: Bo Nateman

Bo Nateman — Sun, 16 Jan 2022 12:31:20 +0000

Bruno Almeida:
I’ll be very surprised if LeBron doesn’t start trading guys this week. They just got absolutely destroyed by Jeff Green and a guy named Bones. I still can’t believe he really thought Westbrook would be the missing piece to his team.

His best move might be restructuring his contract and trading himself to Philly for Ben Simmons.

By: The Honorable Cock Jowles

The Honorable Cock Jowles — Sun, 16 Jan 2022 07:17:13 +0000

And I generally consider adaptations their own things, and especially don’t go for navel-gazing projects like comparing Nabokov to Kubrick, but sometimes the material just works better in one medium. But I’m sure I could read and watch them again and maybe have a different experience. Who cares!

By: The Honorable Cock Jowles

The Honorable Cock Jowles — Sun, 16 Jan 2022 07:13:39 +0000

Westbrook was so dumb for the team, but how do you let Caruso go? He is the perfect role player for a championship team with ball-dominant stars already locked up.

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Sun, 16 Jan 2022 05:43:06 +0000

In reply to Bruno Almeida.

I still can’t believe he really thought Westbrook would be the missing piece to his team.

It was always a shockingly bad idea. Especially since they almost had Buddy Hield without giving up as many guys!

By: Raven

Raven — Sun, 16 Jan 2022 05:20:49 +0000

llcoolbp: I live in homer NY

I used to run track against Homer…

By: Bruno Almeida

Bruno Almeida — Sun, 16 Jan 2022 05:17:04 +0000

I’ll be very surprised if LeBron doesn’t start trading guys this week. They just got absolutely destroyed by Jeff Green and a guy named Bones. I still can’t believe he really thought Westbrook would be the missing piece to his team.

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Sun, 16 Jan 2022 05:14:21 +0000

In reply to Donnie Walsh.

The Hawks played like trash. It was a lot of fun to watch the Knicks basically kick their ass.

By: Donnie Walsh

Donnie Walsh — Sun, 16 Jan 2022 05:07:58 +0000

***I hate to be that guy, but the novella by Chiang is one of the best sci-fi pieces I’ve read. Had me tearing up. The central theme of Arrival (“Would you still do something if you knew for a fact just how badly it would end?”) is perfect sci-fi humanist stuff. The movie tried very hard, but wasn’t quite “it” for me.***

I haven’t read the novella, but the experience you had reading it is the same one I had watching the movie. There are, like, maybe three movies ever that make me cry. But I was alone in a theatre bawling my eyes out at the end of Arrival, and when I told people it made me cry, they asked why, and I said “honestly, I don’t know, I didn’t even understand the plot.” Maybe it was the the pacing, maybe it was the Max Richter music, maybe it was the acting, I don’t know. But it just gave me a visceral catharsis unlike any movie I’d ever seen before. So I can imagine one having a similar reaction to the novella. Part of me wishes I’d experienced it that route, but if I had, I imagine the movie experience would have been less memorable.