Posted by Nolan Dalla on Dec 16, 2024 in Blog |
No Good Deed is the type of show I rarely watch.
It’s yet another all-too familiar television series about rich narcissists living in the lush foothills of Los Angeles who apparently don’t work for a living — yet they have no money problems, never clean the house nor do any yard work, and still somehow manage to drink cosmos all day long while desperately trying to manage all that daily stress. Of course, each of their lives is a giant clusterfuck, intersecting with one other in rubbernecking matrix of crippling insecurities, greed, jealousy, adultery, and spite, laced with an overdose of pettiness.
Aww. Poor things.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Dec 14, 2024 in Blog |
BLACK DOVES — REVIEW (ON NETFLIX)
There’s a lot to love about Black Doves, the latest popular series now available on Netflix. There’s also considerable chaos and confusion. To enjoy, we must suspend all sense of reality. This sort of thing could never happen in real life. Think of Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels crossed with The Gentlemen melded with Kingsmen and frosted with Zero Dark Thirty. Rarely does a spy-caper provide so much style. Death monologues become poetry. Killing is art.
I loved most of it. I hated parts of it.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Dec 11, 2024 in Blog |
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2024 NFL BETTING RECORD:
WINS — 97
LOSSES — 88
PUSH — 2
NET WIN/LOSS — -$685
LAST WEEK’S RESULTS — 3-7 (- $575)
STARTING BANKROLL: $10,000.
CURRENT BANKROLL; $9,315.
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ALL WAGERS ARE FOR $100 EACH AND ARE PRICED AT THE STANDARD 110/100 VIG, (UNLESS NOTED OTHERWISE)
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Dec 9, 2024 in Blog |
50 YEARS AGO — ON MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL
One of the special things I miss the most about Monday Night Football is the human drama and unpredictability of the broadcast.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Dec 6, 2024 in Blog |
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Dec 5, 2024 in Blog |
MOVIE REVIEW: CONCLAVE (2024)
“There is one sin which I have come to fear above all else ….. certainty.
It is the great enemy of unity. Certainty the deadly enemy of tolerance.”
— Cardinal Thomas Lawrence (played by actor Ralph Feinnes) in the movie, “Conclave”
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Dec 3, 2024 in Blog |
TRIXIE’S TUESDAY MORNING
6:20 am — jump on chest, several meows, try to wake up pet parents
6:23 am — meow louder
6:24 am — meow much louder
6:26 am — mommy gives up, while daddy sleeps
6:30 am — breakfast (pick at food, look at pet mom with disgust)
6:33 am — hiss at other cat (Cosmo)
6:40 am — morning nap
8:15 am — wake up, jump on daddy’s chest, meow some more
8:17 am — meow much louder
8:20 am — daddy gives up
8:25 am — breakfast redux (pick at food, look at pet dad with disgust)
8:30 am — vomit on expensive Persian living room rug
8:45 am — visit litter box, knock sand onto floor
8:50 am — morning workout….at scratching post
9:00 am — morning nap redux
9:20 am — twist and turn, pose in cute position, melt hearts with adorable eyes
9:30 am — yawn from morning stress….twist, rollover, and go back to sleep
#trixiethetripod
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Dec 2, 2024 in Blog |
SOCIAL ENGINEERING VS. OUR UGLY HISTORY
Forgive the attention-grabbing headline and question. But, think about it.
Today’s thought melds the aspirations of modern entertainment vs. real history and the ugly cultural norms of earlier times.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Nov 28, 2024 in Blog |
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2024 NFL BETTING RECORD:
WINS — 89
LOSSES — 71
PUSH — 2
NET WIN/LOSS — + $526
LAST WEEK’S RESULTS — 4-6 (- $285)
STARTING BANKROLL: $10,000.
CURRENT BANKROLL; $10,526.
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ALL WAGERS ARE FOR $100 EACH AND ARE PRICED AT THE STANDARD 110/100 VIG, (UNLESS NOTED OTHERWISE)
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Nov 26, 2024 in Blog |
One thing I’ve witnessed here in Las Vegas way too often is emergency vehicles getting gauntleted at intersections. It should be a reality show, except that real lives are on the line. Wait. That actually makes it better. Hunger Games, the sequel (Behind the Wheel).
If you live here, or visit here often, you see and you know. Updated movie title: The Gauntlet II.
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