Ryan Coogler's Michael B. Jordan-starring vampire flick is off to a solid start, especially for an original, R-rated chiller. Now we just hope that it's not frontloaded and that the good buzz entices the unconverted.
Is Xabi Alonso still worth the hype? A pretty hot take from me on the latest Gegenpressing podcast:
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One last wrap-up of the 2025 Masters, cranky style.
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Writers & Typewriters & The Ten Commandments Bonus: The staff of Moses showing the staffs of Rameses (now all turned into cobras) how to change a typewriter ribbon.
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🚨NEW🚨: Douglas Murray's heated debate with Dave Smith on Joe Rogan is crossroads moment.
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Good time to subscribe to Split Zone Duo. Being on the other side of The Masters means we are officially in The College Football Season Ramp Up
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Listen Now - ‘The Chosen’ One proves Himself a commercial ‘King of Kings,’ as Jack Black and the chicken jockeys remain supreme at the global box office
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Bayern’s defeat to Inter in the Champions League highlighted how much work they need to do in the summer:
Toho will carve out 30% of revenue and 40% of operating profit from its film business to create a new IP and anime business pillar, reinforcing the growing importance of Godzilla and anime IPs to the company’s financials.
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At the end of the day, no matter how much you may feel you came up short in that painting, poem, or story, you created. It might’ve been not what you aimed for - but you did it. Think of how much shorter you would’ve been if you had done nothing.
Writers & Typewriters & The Ten Commandments: Day 5: Dathan all sudsy with a Chicago Typewriter. M’yah, see?
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March Madness is done. The Masters is in the rearview mirror. The NBA and NHL playoffs will be done in a month or so. The sports calendar in the summer is sparse with baseball as the mainstay along with some tennis grand slams, F1 races, and the occasional high profile golf tournament. Hardly the big draws of Fall and Winter with college and pro football.
I'll be watching to see if sportsbooks and prediction markets can keep up the momentum and news cycles they've racked up this spring or if th…
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The second trailer for second 'Fantastic Four' reboot played like a grimdark remake of the first reboot. This second trailer for the third reboot plays like a loose remake of first reboot's sequel.
Virgil van Dijk is the only central defender aged 32 or older to play every single minute of his club's league campaign in Europe's top five leagues this season.
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Global X Japan’s Games & Animation ETF had the highest return (32.8%) among all Japanese stock ETFs listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange for the fiscal year that ended in March, the Nikkei financial newspaper reports.
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Writers & Typewriters & The Ten Commandments: Day 4: Rameses with a Stone Rosetta
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Futbolista is a great football magazine which I never tire of promoting (even when I haven't contributed to it, as was the case in the last issue).
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I wrote this for Foreign Policy three years ago. Unfortunately, it is as current today as it was then. The Taliban use “counter terrorism” as cover for killing their enemies, among them former military personnel who fought alongside US & NATO troops until the August, 2021, withdrawal. Read on:
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US and Pakistan are at it again. And It’s again gonna be a mess!
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'The Final Reckoning' may nab a record Fri-Sun debut for a 'Mission: Impossible' flick, even if that's mostly because 'Dead Reckoning' foolishly opened on a Wednesday.
Thank you for this. Always a voice of reason. I have to share that at my first Medicare 'well check' in February of 2022, my physician (part of a large hospital system in southern California) urged me to get the Covid vaccine, although I had told him multiple times that I had no intention of getting it, and that I had survived a Covid infection already during the Delta wave. He then said that should I change my mind I could go to any local pharmacy to get the shot. I told him that if I wanted t…
Yes I agree they are a TOTAL waste of time! It’s just the way for the healthcare providers to keep churning the money that they get from Medicare. After my most recent ‘wellness check’ I got a $50 Mastercard in the mail for doing it. I used it to buy myself a lovely new turquoise and silver necklace! 😉🤪
Susers - I went on Medicare in April. I get phone calls from my advantage plan carrier weekly. I NEVER answer their calls.
I had an NHS check up offer. I didn't respond.
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