Bane is really good, young, and a hand-in-glove fit with Orlando’s roster. Only one really valuable 1st in there (though the other two have upside.) Pacers prove you don’t actually need to be that good to compete in/win the East and if this is the price I think it’s okay.
Jeremy Allen White as a guy who pretends to not take himself seriously but actually takes himself way too seriously is A+ casting, can’t wait for this magnificent piece of shit.
Love a good “this shit is getting old” purging, I think I’d hit Omniscience instead of Awakening but I’m glad they didn’t limit themselves to just the biggest obvious problems from the PT.
I think my takeaway would be “when you’re systematically overindulging one mana cards things go haywire in ways that are hard to predict because they stack on each other”, I think that’s somewhat relatable and somewhat its own thing WRT “power level” more generally.
In about 75% of the US, It’s nearly impossible to get on Medicaid outside of some of the worst set of circumstances an American can experience. If a single person in that chamber had to spend a day as someone who actually qualifies in a red state, they would kill themselves
You might think that this an effort to make a nonsensical distinction for deeply cynical reasons, but at least now there’s no way her AIPAC-funded, astroturf primary challenger can accuse her of antisemitism.
Fifteen Artists to get to know me:
Pinback
Beirut
Nas
Clipse
Hole
Andrew Bird
Sam Cooke
Bruce Springsteen
Wu-Tang Clan
Mobb Deep
Fugazi
Parquet Courts
R.E.M.
Sufjan Stevens
Missy Elliot