Recent content by duluoz

Norsemen, Detroiters, Derry Girls, anything Nathan Fielder (start with Nathan for You).

Semantics. It’s defensible only in a logical sense, but not in a real world sense. You get a guy like that in a market like that who’s SOOOO loved by the fans and is the second coming of their savior, Dirk… and you’re stuck with him for better or worse. Chubby or not. And even if Flagg turns out...

Don’t kid yourself. I live here and have had these conversations. Young people in NYC are very opposed to Israeli treatment of Palestinians, from Gaza bombings to settlements and occupation to you name it. It is currently THE motivating issue among that demographic here. Way more so than free...

Welp, Paine has solved it everyone — simply push back and clarify! Why has nobody thought of that. When you embrace a label like socialist (outside of NYC, SF, etc) you have dug yourself a hole that you can’t climb out of. Your ideas and policy proposals don’t matter to anyone outside of your...

Political suicide *outside of the most liberal areas* which NYC happens to be. I’ve seen the Mamdani groundswell firsthand and had plenty of conversations around town that made me believe a win was possible here. HERE. In NYC. Not many other places. Here’s what I said and you have now...

In New York City. Home of AOC. This simply does not mean what you seem convinced it means. There is no copy/pasting Mamdani anywhere other than the handful of most liberal cities. And in every other city and town, a self proclaimed “socialist” has torpedoed his/her campaign before its even...

So in your mind this is a template to take to places like Florida, Georgia, Wisconsin, Michigan, Nevada, etc.? Red-baiting doesn’t work there either, is what you’re saying? *and Eric Adams ran as a Democrat, by the way. He’s been essentially booted out of the party but he would not have gotten...

There were nine. You could rank up to five, but are not required to vote for more than one. Ranked choice is still fairly new to NYC voters, but people have learned you’re not forced to use all five rankings, and you don’t rank anyone you are outright opposed to (which sounds obvious but might...

Cherry picking. NYC is hardly the best test case for this theory. Along with the other most liberal big cities, it’s a layup for this kind of thing. But the rest of the country is where elections are being lost, not in liberal big cities.

I told my buddy last week that the Haliburton calf situation reminded me of KD in the 2019 Finals. And that I hoped that just because he probably had an injection that dulled the discomfort, that doesn’t mean those fibers aren’t still compromised and in jeopardy. Same sequence of events here —...

I had the Pacers in game 6, though I didn’t expect a blowout. Tonight I think the OKC D comes out like the trained attack dogs they are and doesn't let Indiana breathe. I think OKC cruises tonight. But, Pacers. And who wouldn’t love to see a dramatic finish, either way.

This was last year at intermission of Jaws played at Lincoln Center with the NY Phil playing the John Williams score live. It was f’ing phenomenal. Unfair to compare it to other great cinema experiences but it was a singular live experience, I’ll never forget it.

Duel was a lot of fun and screamed ‘70s road action like coming out of Easy Rider and Two Lane Blacktop and HAD to have inspired Death Proof. It’s also become a very name droppy IYKYK movie. Not sure where I first saw it exactly but it was on TV sometime before streaming and I got into it and...

I was too young or not born yet but this was infamous, everyone for years used to talk about how it screwed them up and they had to sleep with lights on haha. Some kind of voodoo doll that came to life and chopped people up and you couldn’t kill it.