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(New York), London, Paris, Munich

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... everybody talk about POP MUSIC!
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multiple Final 4's.

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I guess TWO Final Fours qualifies as "multiple"

But barely.

So, I guess tonight the Mariners are "pitching woo"?

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The way some people view him as a folk hero of sorts says alot about certain pockets of modern society.

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Tell me about it.

I play pub trivia regularly on Wednesday nights at an outdoor brewpub venue. Right after the murder originally happened, we were playing a match and when the host announced the team scores after halftime, one team was named "Luigi Did Nothing Wrong". I loudly booed, and then after the game went over and asked the host if she thought was that was an appropriate and allowable name; she had no clue to the connection. Right then the guy leading the team came over and we got into an argument; he said there was nothing wrong with it; it was "funny" and it was a "meme". I replied there was NOTHING funny about cold -blooded murder and asked if he ever had a friend shot. He said no, and when I told him about a good friend of mine who was shot and nearly killed (full disclosure: house majority leader) he went all on the defensive and doubled down on how it was "justified, because of people dying because they couldn't get insurance".

People are nuts.

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Delores Hart

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She actually spells it the traditional way, "Dolores".

Coincidentally, saw her last night on TCM, which was showing Where the Boys Are.

Crazy stuff about her, she was a rising star in Hollywood in the early 1960s, was about to be married, calls off the wedding, gives it all up and becomes a cloistered nun. Still there today:

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LA. How many other southern states have vehicle emissions tests?

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No. 1, It's a federal mandate, not state.

No.2, It's not the state as a whole; it's by the Parish (or county) depending on how bad the air pollution is there. If it is bad, they have to do emissions tests as a way of making sure a person's car is not adding to the pollution problem (you know, the types with horrible smelling, white smoke exhaust). Baton Rouge area I believe has it, New Orleans does not.

No. 3, I know that in terms of other Southern States, at least the metro Atlanta area has it (Cobb, Fulton and DeKalb Counties for sure); when I lived there in the late 1980s and early 1990s you needed to get an emissions test as part of your inspection sticker ("brake tag" round these parts).

After posting I see armytiger beat me to it by a minute or 2!

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They need to bite the bullet and do lead in movies broken into character stories before the ensemble. It’s just too much to throw them all together in one movie..

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That's not X-Men. Kirby created the individuals to be a part of a team. Same with Wein and Cockrum with the New X-Men,

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Exactly. You don't do a Fantastic Four movie AFTER introducing each one in a lead-in movie; same with the original X-Men. Maybe little vignettes as to what they were doing as a lead- in like Singer's original X-Men, or X-Men First Class.

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even though Wolverine had appeared once before and Cockrum had designed some of the characters previously.

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Banshee had also appeared many times before prior to joining the new X-Men.

17 -- Ruston, Sulphur and Monroe, only passed through.

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Half woman and half bird? This just opens the door for half men even more.

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I think you are confusing Sirens with Harpies.

Harpies were the Greek mythical half-woman half bird:


In Ray Harryhausen's Jason and the Argonauts, however, they were half-bat instead of half-bird:


Sirens were more often depicted along rocky shores, often as a type of mermaid who would enchant sailors with their singing and get them to cash their boats on the rocks. :

Loyola Fieldhouse, under construction in uptown New Orleans. I remember going there once when I was in high school. It was torn down in 1986 and replaced with a new combo rec sport complex and parking garage.

Here's what is funny. Many people know that both the New Orleans Buccaneers (ABA) and the NBA's New Orleans Jazz (in their 1st season) played in the Loyola Field House. Everyone looks back on it as the teams having to play in this "old" building and from accounts back then it seemed that was the general description of it AT THE TIME as well.

But the truth is, this photo is from Feb. 1954, and the building opened later that year in time for the 1954-55 basketball season. When the Bucs played there, the facility was only 13 years old. when the Jazz played there in 1974-75, it was only 20 years old.

Compare that to the Smoothie King Center (1999) which is now 27 years old or the UNO Lakefront Arena which is 43 years old, or even the Superdome, which is 51 years old.