Picking the Final Four based on Food

Drone shut down Milan airport - wow. Eff drones - they announced in English. Then again in Italian like 3 mins later. Older woman in front of me was kinda hilarious in her response.

Santa Claus sun tanning in a garden in Florence. 

Also I’ve been mispronunciations Florence’s real name for past 17 years 

Rank order of media consumed on two trans-Atlantic flights:

Vice

Blackkklansman 

Spider-Man in the Spiderverse 

White Boy Rick

1/2 of Ralph breaks the internet 

2 eps of always sunny 13 

1 ep of AP BIO 

Rate airline terminals for food & drink options, etc 

Maybe the very dangerous airport sushi rating?

Maybe the bud light draft rating or the Bloody Mary mix rating at airport bars 

2019 March Madness - Final Four - Virginia vs Auburn and Michigan State vs Texas Tech  

Fajita theory redux for JJ  

30,000 downloads - thank you 

United Kingdom 2nd place, Angola #3, Taiwan, Egypt, Zambia, Australia, Canada and Philippines  

Lukewarm NIT Takes 

It’s kind of like a nice “going away party” or like the brunch the day after a wedding. You weren’t sure if you we even going to go, but you did and had a fun time seeing everybody one more time before finally having things end. 

Great vibe, an appreciative vibe during pregame, etc

Negative - you can’t do any “canned music” or sponsor promos that get the fans excited. 

I get not allowing the home team intro, I get letting both teams Spirit teams perform, etc. - but in this day & age of dwindling attendance and tepid interest in the NIT at best… wouldn’t a dance cam, or a bevy for free t-shirts being tossed into the crowd, or a free pizza delivery help spice stuff up. 

More importantly, they only allow pep band music. Can’t mix it up with any recorded tracks over the PA. Which takes away 1) the entire Jock Jams catalog. 2) Sandstorm and Zombie Nation techno-fests 3) And pretty much any hit song from the past 5 years. 

Westworld Season Two Break down show (Eps 1-3) w/ Andrew Patterson

Westworld Season 2

Episode three May 6, 2018

Opening scene - White Stripes “7 Nation Army” plays on the Sitar — is this a young Doctor Ford and his wife or something? crazy shooting scene by the lady he’s trying to seduce on his Indian safari — not Doctor Ford - different part of the park. more hosts killing guests — including the tiger robot

Elephants? the budget for this show is nuts

Bernard/Arnold and Charlotte Hale looking for Peter Abernathy Droid (delores’ dad)

Delores is getting her “wyatt on” and i’m wondering how we’re going to feel about her at the end of the season. 

Maeve’s little view has encountered the native warriors -and she’s having flashbacks. And they are running for their lives

Delores encounters her Father and Bernard. And she tosses Bernard in jail with the other humans — not good for Charlotte Hale’s agenda at all

Snake Tattoo lady is back - with a flame thrower - and the two techs from last season appear - felix and the other guy with the beard. Thought they were dead

bernard working on delores’ dad — and discovers the encryption that charlotte wants

standoff between delores’ army and the park’s swat team. 

Bernard is face to face with Clementine - she knocks him out

Teddy lets confederado dudes live — gonna be beef with Wyatt

Lady who got attacked by Tiger is now in Native Warrior country - tough day for her

Samurai coming at Maeve in final scene - cliff hanger

Who won episode? not the park’s swat team 

Who lost episode? Delores - lost her dad and lost Teddy’s loyalty 

Gratuitous nudity? None really

Most mind blowing thing? Mostly straight forward episode

Episode two April 29, 2018

Interesting City setting beginning to the episode with Arnold and Delores - wondering “when in time” this is supposed to be

Delores, Teddy and everybody crashes the base - and Delores says she “knows what the outside” world is like - and the piano plays that “Kayne song here’s a toast to the D-Bags aka Runaway fast as you can.

Seems to be a “flash back” to young william and his brother in law, Logan. - Just realizing this is pre-west world park being built — he’s a dinner party with all “robots” and has no idea. 

Logan has week facial hair for a bearded guy on his left side

Man in black and Laurence alluding to the fact that Westworld been tallying the sins of every guest  

Delores is suing the “techs” to build her an army

The scope and scale of this level of story telling is incredible

Young “William” helicopters into westworld with his “dad or father in-law” - he says the guests are real - and essentially lays out the business plan for why westworld is a business. 

I still can’t believe that McPoyle is a lead in this series. 

Face to Face: Maeve and Delores  - going to be interesting to see their paths weave in and out

Delores face to face with the Confederados - she lights up their whole crew and they’re gonna reboot them all to follow her. Heck of a growth plan. 

Why isn’t the “Park’s power shut down yet?” - how can the rehab tech still use his software to revive Robots?

Young william sees Delores at a party with his wife and kids at a retirement party. 

Is that Gustavo from Breaking Bad ???? Yup! The new “bandito revolution honcho” talking to man in black…

Who won the episode? Young William for getting westworld built?

Who lost the episode? Probably Logan - seems like he ended up some type of heroine addict of something // or old william for letting Delores know “about the weapon she can use to destroy humans”.

Gratuitous nudity of the episode? Looks like the Rehab center - bunch of naked Robots on the floor 

Most mind blowing moment? The mass bandito Suicide that prevented man in black from getting an army — Dr. Ford keeps needling Man in Black

premier April 22, 2018 on HBO

Who won the episode? anybody who is still alive one. probably Delores 

Who lost the episode? ahhhh humans?

Gratuitous nudity of the episode? only males really - such a season 2 fad: dudes nude

Most mind blowing moment? bernards brain goo is running out — also he’s both with handsome security guy and Charlotte Hale in separate story lines at once 

Forgot how long the intro song with the player piano was