Posted by Nolan Dalla on Jan 1, 2014 in Blog, Personal |

Let’s say you make a New Year’s resolution. But you know you’ll end up breaking it. Is it still a resolution?
I’ll let others figure that out.
In the meantime, here are ten popular New Year’s resolutions that I intend to shatter from the moment I wake up on January 1st:
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Dec 31, 2013 in Blog, Personal |

Is anyone else taking tonight off?
I am.
I’ll do my drinking and partying during the other 364 days and nights of the year, thank you very much.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Dec 31, 2013 in Blog, Movie Reviews |

Each time Ben Stiller is confronted with the opportunity to share a more personal side of himself or delve deeper into life, he refuses to let us in and then trivializes human drama and conflict with a brush-off. Scenes with the potential to make you think much more deeply get interrupted by cheap laughs, which always seems to be Stiller’s comfort zone. In the end, we feel cheated.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Dec 31, 2013 in Blog |

I don’t know shit about science.
I took astronomy in college. Three times. You might think that would make me three times as smart. But dropped the course twice before taking a third swing. I finally passed the course with a grade of C. That professor sucked.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Dec 30, 2013 in Blog, Las Vegas, Music and Concert Reviews |

Zarkana is the latest production in Cirque du Soleil’s wildly-popular global franchise which combines extraordinary acrobatic feats with live original music and the art of dance.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Dec 30, 2013 in Blog, Personal |

A small town in Belgium, October 2013
“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
― E.L. Doctorow
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Dec 29, 2013 in Blog, Las Vegas, Music and Concert Reviews |

”While the show’s producers claim Spears is singing along with backing tracks of her own voice, there was little evidence Britney sang a note live.”
— Rolling Stone (Online) on Britney Spears’ debut show at Planet Hollywood on December 27, 2013
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Dec 29, 2013 in Blog, Sports Betting |

Sunday was a nice way to end the regular season, going 6 wins and 3 losses — for a profit of $2,010. The three losses came by a combined 5 points, so it could have been a monster day. I’ll still take it.
Futures bets also performed well, going 6 wins and 3 losses, for a nice win totaling $2,985 for the season. Two of the losers lost by a half-game. Like I said, I’ll take it.
Best Bets went a combined 3-1 last week (for all wagers), which now puts that category into the black for the first time this season.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Dec 28, 2013 in Blog |

It’s the final weekend of the NFL regular season and the last slate of games for the year. So, let’s go out with a bang.
Note: So far, my futures bets are 5-1, with three wagers still to be graded (see below). I expect to go 1-2 on these plays today, for a final tally of 6 wins and 3 losses on futures. Those plays and results will be tabulated into this week’s results.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Dec 27, 2013 in Blog, Movie Reviews |

Saving Mr. Banks is a much deeper, darker, and ultimately more powerful film than one might expect from Disney Studios.
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