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The trailer is pretty damn funny. Crossing my fingers that the movie lives up to its promise.

Spain's King Juan Carlos abdicated because of scandal, not health reasons. In 2012 he took an over-the-top elephant hunting trip to Botswana which cost twice what the average Spaniard made in a year. After getting injured, he had to fly back to Spain via private jet. The lavishness of the trip offended Spaniards who were still mired in the depths of the financial crash. Spaniards were even more offended when the King was caught awarding his son-in-law graft-laden contracts that fleeced the Spanish taxpayers for €50-100 million. The son-in-law went to prison. The King was spared that humiliation but abdicated and went into exile.

I dont know if lane-splitting is legal in neighboring Nevada or if the police just let it go, but lane-splitters are rampant here in Las Vegas. It makes my heart skip a beat or several whenever a motorcyclist flies past me between lanes. I really wish it were illegal everywhere.

Yikes! That sounds scary. When you say "truck," do you mean a pickup, or ...

Gawd, how I hate virtue-signaling. FIFA signaled its virtue by sanctioning the Mexican team for its fans' homophobic taunts yet knowingly, willingly, and all too gladly gave the World Cup to a country where being gay is a crime. I can only imagine the mountain of cash that Qatar paid FIFA to ignore the nation's profound homophobia. Don't pretend to care about LGBT rights when the only thing you really care about is money. Dozens of Qatari hotels are refusing to admit LGBT guests or are telling them to avoid looking or acting gay. Did FIFA honestly think sh*t like this wouldn't happen? What else do you expect from a country that makes homosexuality a crime?! I dont know if it's possible to strip Qatar of the World Cup and relocate it to another country. Logistically I doubt it's a problem (World Cup starts Nov 21). A number of European countries have the facilities and hotel capacity to stage the mega-event, plus would burst with joy at the chance to do so. The hitch is that FIFA would have to forfeit the container ship of cash Qatar gave them. If forced to choose between money and LGBT rights, the virtue-signallers in FIFA would take maybe a nanosecond to decide.

Some heavy-duty pickups have an option of a 30-gallon tank. Bad enough when gas was $2.50. $170.88 to fill up? Yikes!!

High Seas came out with a third season, although much shorter than the first 2, just 6 40-minute episodes. Without a doubt, Season 3 starts with the stupidest premise in the history of TV, exponentially stupider than the Evil Twin: the bad guy (gal, actually) has cosmetic surgery to look like the good gal, and kidnaps the good gal so she can carry out the evil master plan. The surgery is so good even her own sister falls for it (yeah, right). And whaddya know, after just a couple of attempts, she manages to nail down the kidnapped good gal's voice (again, yeah right). OK, once you get past the preposterous premise, it isn't bad. Typical scheming villains trying to carry out their dastardly plot while the heroes save the world, or at least the ocean liner. The first 2 seasons of High Seas were a lot better, but the 3rd was entertaining enough. The show gets docked a star for having a super-handsome lead with a great body but never takes even his shirt off. Come on this is Netflix, not the Royal Shakespeare Company. Whatever pretense you come up with for getting the guy's clothes off will be nothing compared to the cosmetic-surgery silliness.

I can't believe Tommy Paul is already 25. It feels like just yesterday (2015) that he won the Roland Garros boys title.

Roland Garros finalist Casper Ruud

Ugh, I picked 2 duds in a row. I chose a Netflix miniseries Someone Has To Die mostly for Carmen Maura, long time muse of director Pedro Almodóvar. It's called a miniseries, but it's really just a 2h15m movie divided up in 3 parts. The principal theme is the repression of Franco's dictatorship in 1950s Spain, particularly hard for the gay son of a wealthy Spanish family. The movie was filled with ugly characters doing ugly things to each other, which made for a thoroughly unpleasant viewing experience. Skip past this one.

What is it about Rafa and Roland Garros? He had poor preparation and a foot injury in the lead--up to RG, yet he comes up with some elite tennis to beat an in-form Novak. The semifinal is no cakewalk either since Zverev is playing well. If Rafa makes it to the final, it should be Slam #22, even with Marin Cilic playing like it's 2014 all over again.

I watched Ingobernable on Netflix (28 40-minute episodes). Great premise: the First Lady of Mexico is about to divorce her husband. On the night she's about to leave, they fight, she's knocked unconscious, the president is murdered, and she's framed for the crime. Unfortunately, too many plot twists and turns, some preposterous shootouts, and some really bad acting (the daughter was the worst) manage to ruin a great start. Worst of all, they ended Season 2 with a helluva cliffhanger, but since the series wasn't renewed for Season 3, you're left hanging. With so much else to watch on Netflix, don't bother with this one.

I don't think that's petty. Far from it, I think the phone-fixated person is quite rude. If he warns me ahead of time that his boss or a client might call and he has to take the call, a scenario like that, of course I'll understand. But if his phone is so much more interesting than I am, I'll do him a favor and never bore him again.

You could bring a really powerful flashlight with you to Thermas, but that might kill the mood.

Nope, I've never been a straight guy.

"Cocky" has only 5 letters. "C**cky" has 6. Yikes, I hope he wasn't implying the escort was ...

I was pre-teen, but Sam Elliott in "Lifeguard." All the boys in my grade school were abuzz over the girl in the green bikini, but I only had eyes for the beary hairy lifeguard.

I didn't like Season 4 that much, probably because they introduced some new characters I didn't like (mostly Mencía). But I got over it by Season 5, thanks to the smokin' hot Carvalhos (Iván and his dad). That gay sex scene in Episode 5 -- holy sh*t!! I was still fanning myself the next day. Season 6 can't come soon enough. Élite is the best guilty pleasure on Netflix!

I actually had the hots for Iván's dad, played by Carloto Cotta.

An old coworker like to tell Maine jokes, about her none-too-bright fellow Mainers. A Mainer planning a trip to the beach asks his friend how to impress the ladies. The friend tells him to take a potato and stuff it into his Speedo. So at the beach, the Mainer puts the potato in his Speedo and strolls down the beach. Instead of ooh's and ah's, all the women on the beach just pointed and laughed. The Mainer is very upset and screams at his friend that his idea didn't work. The friend snaps back, "You're supposed to stuff the potato down the front of your Speedo!"

Perhaps Mexican cinema is an acquired taste. I agree that it was visually beautiful. The acting was top-notch, especially Ignacio and Amada. But it just dragged waaaaaaaaaay too much for me. Amada was so miserable in her marriage that it became almost too painful to watch. Overall, it was interesting and different, but I can't say I enjoyed it.

Yikes! https://twitter.com/Tonysmithx100/status/1528070573619703808?t=0gewUnWfKLHQL10KAuxPBA&s=19

If you ever doubt the superstars' popularity, and therefore their influence over the sport, take a look at this standing-room-only crowd for one of Rafa's practices. Most early-round matches are played in half-full at best stadiums, and in doubles even the final draws at most 20% attendance.