Yes, book is a fast, good read. There's some history on football, and it's Niner's centric (Michael Lewis lives in Berkeley), but the Oher's story is captured very well.

Did you ever see the movie "A Perfect World"? I remember loving it when it came out; it's also a John Lee Hancock movie. I got to meet that handsome Texan one fine day in 1996, but since I was hanging with Clooney, I let him walk away.

Oh, name dropping is so much fun when you just don't give a shit.

yer such a starfucker, java! ;)

Ha! It was very easy for me to make friends once I quit the industry [ETA: my very small, little branch]. Being a civilian and not wanting to be part of any scene made me that much more pleasant to have around. At least, that's what I was told.

I didn't even know you were in the industry before!

Yeah, I don't talk about it much. Ancient history and all. And I never wanted to be *that* forty-year old who still thinks she's 20 and lives in the past and talks about coulda shoulda woulda kinda shit. So.

But most of my movie friends came after I was done with that scene, so it's nice. And it's nice catching up with some of them on Facebook after all of these years.

I love A Perfect World. Partly for way Eastwood says "I do like tater tots," but there's other good things about it, too. And Keith Szarabajka!

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Everytime I see Push, I think Precious.

If they'd switched plots, Mariah Carey could have saved them a ton in SFX costs for the gang that could make people's ears bleed by screaming.

I loved A Perfect World when it came out. I haven't seen it since, though.

The Losers was not a heavily-hyped comic book adaptation for many parsings of that sentence. Where did the promo stuff say it was from a comic?