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NYE Tabs

“2023 Lists” Edition

Steven L. Taylor
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24 responses to “NYE Tabs”

  1. Jen Avatar
    Jen

    Slow Horses is delightful. Gary Oldman is absolutely perfect in it, and Kristen Scott Thomas is wonderful too.

    My husband and I watched a few episodes of Beef, and I just don’t understand the allure. Watching palpable anger and barely contained rage isn’t my idea of entertainment, but YMMV.

  2. Mister Bluster Avatar
    Mister Bluster

    Wendy’s grilled chicken sandwich crossed the road into oblivion here in Sleepytown along with the square hamburgers (mustard, pickles and onions only please) and Wendy’s blue hair bows and red freckles when the restaurant shut down last month. Now the place is as quiet as the Civil War cemetery just north of the parking lot.

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  3. Sleeping Dog Avatar
    Sleeping Dog

    Anchor Steam was likely the first micro-brew that I ever had. Problem was it was so hard to find wherever I was living. When we were in StL, the small restaurant/grocery up the street had it occasionally, though less often than a 3 Stooges branded beer.

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  4. Barry Avatar
    Barry

    @Sleeping Dog:
    I learned to drink beer in Germany, in 1981-3.
    I then came back to the pre-microbrew USA.

  5. charontwo Avatar
    charontwo

    https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2023/12/the-years-best-movies-tv-shows-and-books/676982/

    Your link to 15 TV shows does not work.

    https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2023/12/best-tv-shows-2023-succession-the-bear-beef/676352/

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  6. OzarkHillbilly Avatar
    OzarkHillbilly

    Thanx for the links, Steven.

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  7. OzarkHillbilly Avatar
    OzarkHillbilly

    @Barry: The horror!

  8. charontwo Avatar
    charontwo

    @Jen:

    I watched about 2 Beef episodes and bailed.

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  9. Chip Daniels Avatar
    Chip Daniels

    Slow Horses is excellent and I just can’t say enough good things about Reservation Dogs.

    It is that rare coming of age story where the young actors perfectly nail adolescence in all its awkward wonderfulness, and as the series progresses, the adult characters go from minor background pieces to fully developed people with backstories, letting the audience grow along with the young people who slowly come to see their parents and family members in a different light.

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  10. Mikey Avatar
    Mikey

    @Chip Daniels: +1 for Reservation Dogs. I can’t recommend it enough. It can be wickedly humorous one minute and deeply touching the next, and the writing and acting are top-notch.

  11. Sleeping Dog Avatar
    Sleeping Dog

    @Barry:

    In the early 70’s, because it wasn’t distributed east of the Mississippi, Coors, despite being fornicating close to water, was considered a ‘status’ beer among a certain segment of the northeast ski community.

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  12. Bill Jempty Avatar
    Bill Jempty

    When I was in the hospital, I was served diet shasta as a beverage sometimes. I didn’t even know that soft drink was still made.

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  13. Bill Jempty Avatar
    Bill Jempty

    @Jen:

    Gary Oldman

    At one time or another in his career, Oldman has portrayed Winston Churchill, Beethoven, and Lee Harvey Oswald. Then there his turns as George Smiley* and the villain in Air Force One. Oldman really chewed the scenery in that movie.

    *- Though I prefer Alec Guiness in the role.

  14. Mikey Avatar
    Mikey

    @Bill Jempty: Who can forget Oldman as Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg in The Fifth Element? The movie is spectacular and Oldman’s performance is superb.

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  15. Steven L. Taylor Avatar
    Steven L. Taylor

    @charontwo: Thanks for catching that.

  16. Jen Avatar
    Jen

    @Bill Jempty: He’s also played Sid Vicious, from the Sex Pistols. Very versatile and interesting actor.

  17. just nutha Avatar
    just nutha

    @Barry: Wikipedia tells me the Widmer Brothers started their brewery in 1984. Anyway, beer is just beer, no matter what Nero Wolfe says or Justice Boof moans about at Senate hearings.

  18. just nutha Avatar
    just nutha

    @Bill Jempty: I buy Shasta sometimes. Grew up drinking it when we couldn’t afford Honey Dew.

  19. CSK Avatar
    CSK

    @just nutha:

    I’m familiar with honeydew melon, but not a drink called Honey Dew.

  20. Michael Reynolds Avatar
    Michael Reynolds

    @Chip Daniels: @Mikey:

    Slow Horses is excellent TV, very well-written, very Mick Herron which is to say very Le Carré.

    Have not watched Reservation Dogs despite basically every critic listing it as a Top Ten. All things adolescent feel like work to me. I don’t tend to enjoy consuming media which relates too closely to my job. I read/consume almost no YA. See also: The Bear, though that’s a different sort of work trauma.

  21. just nutha Avatar
    just nutha

    @CSK: It was from California, IIRC, and came in about 20 flavors. People usually bought racks of 24/8 oz. bottles in 6 or 8 assorted flavors. Inexpensive, but buying the quantity and paying the bottle deposit made it a kind of special purchase item.

  22. OzarkHillbilly Avatar
    OzarkHillbilly

    @Mikey: “You’re a monster.”
    “I know.”

  23. Bill Jempty Avatar
    Bill Jempty

    @Michael Reynolds:

    I don’t tend to enjoy consuming media which relates too closely to my job. I read/consume almost no YA.

    I haven’t read any of the LGBT fiction type I write either in a very long time. Most of the niche I’m in is erotica. I stay away from that. There are some good authors who write non-erotica but I have no inclination to read them. Sorry Katie* and Tanya.

    *- Also RIP.

  24. mattbernius Avatar
    mattbernius

    @Bill Jempty:
    So I am so curious, have you listened to “My dad wrote a porno”?

    Because I consider you the OTB equivalent of “Rocky Flintstone”… And for the record I am here for it

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