Simon Phoenix

re: Dirk has comeeeee agaiiiiiiiiin

Posted by Simon Phoenix on 6/12/11 at 10:11 pm

Thank you....thank you....

re: Dirk has comeeeee agaiiiiiiiiin

Posted by Simon Phoenix on 6/12/11 at 10:04 pm

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re: Never Underestimate the Heart of a Champion

Posted by Simon Phoenix on 6/12/11 at 10:03 pm

[img]http://hoopedia.nba.com/images/5/57/Like_mike.jpg[/img] Dirk is closer to Mike than Lebron is. 2 of these guys are champions tonight....

Things you don't see in the Superdome any more:

Posted by Simon Phoenix on 6/12/11 at 9:24 pm

1. People getting hit by paper airplanes from the upper decks. I used to be amazed how these would somehow hit someone in an empty Dome while we were down 4 TDs to the Bills at halftime. 2. WTF happened to Mousy? Did that old guy die or something? Dancing lead to a heart attack?...

Saints Talk

re: Joe Schad on WV schedule

Posted by Simon Phoenix on 6/10/11 at 3:12 pm

I actually paused this on my DVR, got up, went to my Miss St. alum roommate's room, vented, then returned to the couch to finish the segment. :lol:...

Tiger Rant

re: Rangers pick paralyzed Georgia player in draft

Posted by Simon Phoenix on 6/10/11 at 2:49 pm

I just wanted to bump this because I've met this kid after the UGA/LSU series last year in BR. He was a real nice kid, and knowing people that know him well, I've never heard a bad thing about him. If you didn't notice, UGA had another kid also paralyzed recently. They've been through a lot. Good...

re: What Major Sport Does Winning Championships Matter the Least

Posted by Simon Phoenix on 6/10/11 at 2:45 pm

[quote]Baseball players do seem to get excused more from the championship talk. But I do remember a lot of chatter about if "a-rod doesn't win a championship, then how does it affect his legacy" a few years ago.[/quote] That was because A-Rod had the reputation of blowing donkey dick in the playo...

re: X-Men First Class was kind of a snoozer

Posted by Simon Phoenix on 6/10/11 at 12:14 am

SPOILERS Probably the only problem I had with this movie was Magneto as a child going "rawrrrrrrrrrr" for 5 minutes after they shoot his mom. I wanted to laugh....

re: Favorite Mel Brooks movies

Posted by Simon Phoenix on 6/9/11 at 4:07 pm

I'll still never get Blazing Saddles, but I need to get around to History of the World. Spaceballs is awesome, Men in Tights is also good....

re: The Hunt for Red October

Posted by Simon Phoenix on 6/9/11 at 4:06 pm

[quote]Yeah. How did that work out?[/quote] MONtana!...

re: Early plot details for The Hangover 3...maybe?

Posted by Simon Phoenix on 6/9/11 at 4:03 pm

Should have done something different with 2 instead of waiting to do it for 3. ETA. They could have ditched the title and not had to call it "Part 2" to begin with. I'm starting to think the title of the foreign film versions of these (Very Bad Trip) was probably better, providing them a title...

re: The Hunt for Red October

Posted by Simon Phoenix on 6/9/11 at 1:33 pm

I anxiously await the return of John McTiernan to the movie making world....

re: Is the China real estate bubble now popping?

Posted by Simon Phoenix on 6/9/11 at 11:42 am

[quote]Google "China ghost cities" if you want your mind to be blown.[/quote] That was the special I was talking about. It has to come home to roost at some point, but when you have complete control of the economy like they do, they can hide, stall, etc, etc much longer than say our government...

Money Talk

re: What's that "Jamaican" influenced fish taco place in NO?

Posted by Simon Phoenix on 6/9/11 at 11:23 am

Hot host and wait staff too....

Food and Drink

re: Revisiting This Year's Best Picture Oscar Noms

Posted by Simon Phoenix on 6/9/11 at 11:11 am

[quote]You are making the unsafe assumption that these real people are capable of "thought process".[/quote] :lol: Ya, I just can't relate at all. I agree with you that the plot was pretty average and it was slow. I was pretty transfixed on its perceived "accuracy" though. And Teardrop was ...

re: Revisiting This Year's Best Picture Oscar Noms

Posted by Simon Phoenix on 6/9/11 at 11:06 am

[quote]Winter's Bone[/quote] What was good about Winter's Bone was how well IMO they nailed being hillbilly white trash druggies. The thought process and logic those people use in real life (a thought process I just could never understand) was accurately put on the screen. You just kinda thin...

re: Revisiting This Year's Best Picture Oscar Noms

Posted by Simon Phoenix on 6/9/11 at 11:02 am

Seen all but True Grit, which I have at the house now. In my opinion, The Kids are All Right was on there because it was about gays. Nothing about that movie stood out to me at all. I was really disappointed in it....

re: Do you look to movies for life quandries?

Posted by Simon Phoenix on 6/9/11 at 9:30 am

I haven't ever chosen a movie to do this, but I've come out of a few where there was a quality of the character I wanted to work on in myself. ...

re: Is the China real estate bubble now popping?

Posted by Simon Phoenix on 6/8/11 at 10:50 pm

After seeing that special where they showed just how many of these units are empty, how much they are priced for and how many more they are still building it just seems to me that it would be almost impossible to accurately value ANYTHING in China related to that market with the power they have to j...

Money Talk