Simon Phoenix

re: Dirk has comeeeee agaiiiiiiiiin

Posted by Simon Phoenix on 6/12/11 at 10:11 pm to NIH

Thank you....thank you.

re: Dirk has comeeeee agaiiiiiiiiin

Posted by Simon Phoenix on 6/12/11 at 10:04 pm to NIH

re: Never Underestimate the Heart of a Champion

Posted by Simon Phoenix on 6/12/11 at 10:03 pm to Buckeye Fan 19

Dirk is closer to Mike than Lebron is. 2 of these guys are champions tonight.

Things you don't see in the Superdome any more:

Posted by Simon Phoenix on 6/12/11 at 9:24 pm

1. People getting hit by paper airplanes from the upper decks. I used to be amazed how these would somehow hit someone in an empty Dome while we were down 4 TDs to the Bills at halftime.

2. WTF happened to Mousy? Did that old guy die or something? Dancing lead to a heart attack?

Saints Talk

re: Joe Schad on WV schedule

Posted by Simon Phoenix on 6/10/11 at 3:12 pm to GoldenBoy

I actually paused this on my DVR, got up, went to my Miss St. alum roommate's room, vented, then returned to the couch to finish the segment.

re: Rangers pick paralyzed Georgia player in draft

Posted by Simon Phoenix on 6/10/11 at 2:49 pm to StewieG

I just wanted to bump this because I've met this kid after the UGA/LSU series last year in BR. He was a real nice kid, and knowing people that know him well, I've never heard a bad thing about him. If you didn't notice, UGA had another kid also paralyzed recently. They've been through a lot. Good job Rangers.

re: What Major Sport Does Winning Championships Matter the Least

Posted by Simon Phoenix on 6/10/11 at 2:45 pm to BeeFense5

quote:
Baseball players do seem to get excused more from the championship talk. But I do remember a lot of chatter about if "a-rod doesn't win a championship, then how does it affect his legacy" a few years ago.

That was because A-Rod had the reputation of blowing donkey dick in the playoffs. Many great players remained great in the playoffs, their team just didn't have it. A-Rod became a whipping boy of having a 200 million dollar contract that sucked in the postseason, but he proved he could do it and that's why you don't hear anything any more.

re: X-Men First Class was kind of a snoozer

Posted by Simon Phoenix on 6/10/11 at 12:14 am to 1MileTiger

SPOILERS

Probably the only problem I had with this movie was Magneto as a child going "rawrrrrrrrrrr" for 5 minutes after they shoot his mom. I wanted to laugh.

re: Favorite Mel Brooks movies

Posted by Simon Phoenix on 6/9/11 at 4:07 pm to Baloo

I'll still never get Blazing Saddles, but I need to get around to History of the World.

Spaceballs is awesome, Men in Tights is also good.

re: The Hunt for Red October

Posted by Simon Phoenix on 6/9/11 at 4:06 pm to sicboy

quote:
Yeah. How did that work out?

MONtana!

re: Early plot details for The Hangover 3...maybe?

Posted by Simon Phoenix on 6/9/11 at 4:03 pm to The Egg

Should have done something different with 2 instead of waiting to do it for 3.

ETA. They could have ditched the title and not had to call it "Part 2" to begin with.

I'm starting to think the title of the foreign film versions of these (Very Bad Trip) was probably better, providing them a title with more flexibility for the plot.

re: The Hunt for Red October

Posted by Simon Phoenix on 6/9/11 at 1:33 pm to BugAC

I anxiously await the return of John McTiernan to the movie making world.

re: Is the China real estate bubble now popping?

Posted by Simon Phoenix on 6/9/11 at 11:42 am to GulfCoastPoke

quote:
Google "China ghost cities" if you want your mind to be blown.

That was the special I was talking about.

It has to come home to roost at some point, but when you have complete control of the economy like they do, they can hide, stall, etc, etc much longer than say our government could attempt to pull off.

Money Talk

re: What's that "Jamaican" influenced fish taco place in NO?

Posted by Simon Phoenix on 6/9/11 at 11:23 am to BottomlandBrew

Hot host and wait staff too.

Food and Drink

re: Revisiting This Year's Best Picture Oscar Noms

Posted by Simon Phoenix on 6/9/11 at 11:11 am to etm512

quote:
You are making the unsafe assumption that these real people are capable of "thought process".

Ya, I just can't relate at all.

I agree with you that the plot was pretty average and it was slow. I was pretty transfixed on its perceived "accuracy" though. And Teardrop was a pretty good character.

re: Revisiting This Year's Best Picture Oscar Noms

Posted by Simon Phoenix on 6/9/11 at 11:06 am to F machine

quote:
Winter's Bone

What was good about Winter's Bone was how well IMO they nailed being hillbilly white trash druggies.

The thought process and logic those people use in real life (a thought process I just could never understand) was accurately put on the screen. You just kinda think, "WTF are these people doing?" and how effed up are these people the whole time.

re: Revisiting This Year's Best Picture Oscar Noms

Posted by Simon Phoenix on 6/9/11 at 11:02 am to etm512

Seen all but True Grit, which I have at the house now.

In my opinion, The Kids are All Right was on there because it was about gays. Nothing about that movie stood out to me at all. I was really disappointed in it.

re: Do you look to movies for life quandries?

Posted by Simon Phoenix on 6/9/11 at 9:30 am to Pectus

I haven't ever chosen a movie to do this, but I've come out of a few where there was a quality of the character I wanted to work on in myself.

re: Is the China real estate bubble now popping?

Posted by Simon Phoenix on 6/8/11 at 10:50 pm to Doc Fenton

After seeing that special where they showed just how many of these units are empty, how much they are priced for and how many more they are still building it just seems to me that it would be almost impossible to accurately value ANYTHING in China related to that market with the power they have to just make shite up.

For those more financially savvy, is it even possible to value things over there when the government is seemingly breaking every tenant of financial transparency and common sense?

Money Talk

re: 15 years ago today...

Posted by Simon Phoenix on 6/8/11 at 10:46 pm to EastBankTiger

Its so strange cause I was a little kid, my parents are from up north originally so I had no connection to LSU until I went there. I remember watching this on ESPN and thinking how bad that sucked for Miami. Now I just love it.

re: LeBron James!!! 8 points!!!

Posted by Simon Phoenix on 6/7/11 at 10:55 pm to The Boat

quote:
MJ could score 8 points with stage 4 cancer.

re: starting OLB Hatcher or Stefoin Francois?

Posted by Simon Phoenix on 6/7/11 at 10:24 pm to cajuntiger07

quote:
Not really, he graduated high school in 07

I know what year he came in, thats why I used "seem." Mandel runs this article every year about guys who seemed to have been in college longer than they have. As a guy who 4 years ago was supposed to be a stud and you almost never heard about to now, just seems like a long time has passed.

re: Restaurant and bars across the state with hot waitstaff

Posted by Simon Phoenix on 6/7/11 at 10:03 pm to Cosmo

Whoever says they have never seen a hot girl working at Rum House needs to be taken out into the closed construction lane on Magazine street and beaten severely.

Food and Drink

re: starting OLB Hatcher or Stefoin Francois?

Posted by Simon Phoenix on 6/7/11 at 9:58 pm to cardee2003

quote:
Stefoin Francois

Is it just me or is he capable of making the list of people who seem to have been in college forever this year? At least to LSU people.

re: What are some of your favorite sports nicknames?

Posted by Simon Phoenix on 6/7/11 at 9:51 pm to Vicks Kennel Club

Not saying its good but:

"Iron" Mike Tyson

quote:
Six years later, Ruth led the American league with 54 home runs, which only tied the third highest single season home run total of his career. Just to put "Home Run" Baker's namesake in perspective.

PEDs!

re: New NBA Drinking Game

Posted by Simon Phoenix on 6/7/11 at 9:47 pm to J Murdah

quote:
better drinking game is every time a player carries.

If carries and travels were called accurately, the game would slow down tremendously.

re: X-Men question: Spoilers

Posted by Simon Phoenix on 6/7/11 at 9:17 pm to Bard

quote:
I found it odd that he didn't just warp the props the first time Shaw was in the sub.

If you are talking about when the sub first breaks away from the yacht during the night scene that was when Magneto didn't have the ability yet to move massive metal objects, hence why he was being "dragged" in the water by the sub.

re: From Dusk Til Dawn

Posted by Simon Phoenix on 6/6/11 at 11:22 pm to SallyWheeler

I liked this movie, vampires and all. I think Selma may have given me one of my first pitched tents when she danced.

ETA: I now vaguely remember hoping she did soft core on Cinemax or HBO and looking for her. Little did I know she was kind of a "real" actress.

re: A, somewhat, comprehensive history of TS weather from 1930-2010

Posted by Simon Phoenix on 6/6/11 at 11:10 pm to Choupique19

quote:
I was at both Western Carolina and the Appalachain State games, but for my money, the most miserable hot that I ever felt was during the Tennessee post-Katrina game.

That game was just awful. So bad that a buddy of ours was making runs with a the large drink cup you get and running to the bathroom and bringing it back full to hydrate us. Every damn one of us was near passing out and that was life saving.

re: Taxi Driver (spoilers)

Posted by Simon Phoenix on 6/6/11 at 2:02 am to Tiger JJ

quote:
WTF was up with the convenience store owner wearing the Tulane t-shirt?

WTF I totally missed this.

SPOILERS

I also think the message at the end might have been pretty strong and thought provoking at the time. A guy who goes on a rampage like that gets celebrated by every one, when we (the audience) know he is certifiably insane and may do something really heinous in the future.