Andy Collins Puns

Michelle was relating news about Amal Clooney pregnancy when she said “ this reminds me of a pregnancy scandal going on online right now involving famous couple faking pregnancy aka Beyoncé but I can’t talk about it because it is not being reported in mainstream media”. Then she said she really wanted to talk about it but can’t because of her career ( she is a comedian) so she said people should look it up themselves on social media. Sounds like our favorite couple!! If you can find her show on radio Andy - Sirius xm see if you agree.

I used to enjoy listening to Michelle Collins when she was on Sirius XM Stars, and was excited for her move to Radio Andy, but since the move, her shows no longer show segments, and the 15 second skip/rewind buttons are no longer available, forcing you to listen to the whole show from beginning to end - which doesn't suit my listening habits.

I contacted SiriusXM through their twitter and they said, "Those options are unavailable due to content rights restrictions." But on Siriusxm.com chat, they said I need to delete/redownload the app. So I don't know if I'm getting a right answer from anyone.

Just wanted to put this out there and hopefully someone will see this and fix the issue.

Michelle Collins & Jerry O'Connell

What do game designers get up to in their home campaigns? The D&D 3rd edition designers who played in Monte Cook's original Ptolus campaign are coming on for a livestream on Tuesday, 5/12, at 6:30 PDT!

Hear behind-the-scenes tales from guest designers Andy Collins and Jesse Decker, along with our own Monte Cook, Bruce Cordell, and Sean Reynolds.

Bring your questions and watch live on MCG's Twitch channel, Tuesday 5/12 at 6:30pm PDT.

The livestream will live afterward on MCG's YouTube channel, where you can also find our first stream with guest Chris Perkins.

Ptolus: Monte Cook's City by the Spire Returns. The epic campaign setting Ptolus is coming back into print, updated for two rulesets:5e and the Cypher System! Get in on the backer deals on the Ptolus BackerKit.

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I was surprised to find out there was no write-up for this. I think there might have been one once, but it has been deleted, so I decided to do one of my own.

#The Author

Frey is an author, businessmen, and all around sketchy fellow from Ohio. He went to Denison University and majored in history – you don’t care about that, but I thought I’d mention it anyway.

Frey fumbled from project to project until he got his big break in 1998 when he wrote the screenplay for ‘Kissing A Fool’, starring David Schwimmer and some other people. Judging by its 5.6/10 rating on IMDB, it was exactly as bad as everything else Frey ever touched. After that, he wrote and directed Sugar: The Fall of the West, which must have been even worse than Kissing a Fool, because it seems to have completely disappeared from the face of the Earth. I can’t find a single scrap of information about it anywhere online.

#The Book

In April of 2003, James Frey approached the publishing house Doubleday with his memoir ‘A Million Little Pieces’. It was a tale of drug addiction, criminality, recovery, and a slow, painful return to society. A true hero’s journey in the Campbellian style. And according to Frey, it was all true. The book hit shelves on 15th April.

So what actually happens? Well, I decided to subject myself to it so you don’t have to. I didn’t pay for it of course. I’m not insane.

After the EPUB file had finished torrenting, I opened the book and read the first page, realised I was only reading the reviews and the book didn’t actually begin for three more pages, opened up Goodreads and saw that it was 515 pages long, closed the book, and returned to this document.

So here are the spark notes, reworded just enough that it doesn’t count as plagiarism.

James wakes up on a flight to Chicago with no clue where he is. He’s missing a piece of his cheek, has four broken teeth, and his nose is broken too. Travelling with him are a doctor and two mysterious gentlemen. When he lands, he meets his parents, who had flown in from Tokyo to collect him. Frey is then taken to rehab in Minnesota. He is almost immediately attacked by another patient, but finds solace in new friends – a young woman named Lilly and a career criminal named Leonard.

*This begins James’s horrible road to recovery. He experiences constant, painful vomiting from withdrawals, and a double root canal (without painkill

Intro

With the buzz that guys like Leslie Frazier (21-32-1 in MIN), Dan Quinn (44-42 in ATL), and Todd Bowles (24-40 in NYJ) have gotten, I thought I'd take a look at how retreads of previous failures perform in new environments. A narrative is often painted negatively on these coaches: "Why would I want Leslie Frazier when he was terrible with the Vikings?". Just as much so, a positive narrative is also told: "Todd Bowles has been through this before. He has learned a lot since his days with the Jets". Which of these narratives holds more true?

I took a look at every man that has held a non-interim HC job since 2000 and determined whether that coach was a retread of a failure. That is, before this coach was hired here, was he fired from another NFL HC job where he went .500 or worse? This is every coach from best to worst record with their second/third teams.

Bill Belichick: 36-44 with CLE (1991-95), 254-98 with NE (2000-Present)

Let's start with the cream of the crop. Billy B had a rough go in Cleveland. He was hired after 6 years under Parcells as the DC, a stretch that saw the Giants never dip below a top 10 defense and concluded with back to back top 2 scoring units. He did have a playoff win in his 4th season as HC, but Belichick was fired after a 5-11 season that saw the Browns go on a 1-7 run to close out the year. It was his 4th losing season in 5 years. The Browns then moved to Baltimore.

Of course, all of that is fairly forgotten in the Belichick narrative. Belichick did have two separate stints as the Jets' HC, but compiled a 0-0 record after coaching a grand total of 0 games for the team. He would go on to win 6 Superbowls with the Patriots and become a pretty decent coach.

Gary Kubiak: 61-64 with HOU (2006-13), 21-11 with DEN (2015-16)

From one great to another, Kubiak was always respected as a HC, even in the bad times. He brought stability to a young Texans team that knew nothing of a winning culture. He made a franchise QB out of Matt Schaub. He inherited a HoFer in Andre Johnson and found more incredible talent guys like Watt, Jonathan Joseph, and Arian Foster. Unfortunately, his time in Houston concluded with a tumultuous 2-11 season that gave Houston the 1st overall pick. He was fired before the end of the season and moved into an OC role with Baltimore.

He found his calling when the Broncos came knocking. Anxious to win a Superbowl before the end of Peyton Manning's career, the team came to Kubiak -- who had led a t

I was curious to see who was the best player born on each day of the year. It turned out to be a bit more of a struggle than I thought it was going to be, so I decided to simply sort it by WAR. Does that mean that sometimes a better player got left off the list for a player who simply had a longer career? Absolutely. But WAR is a nice simple stat. So, here's the list!

January

• 1 – Tim Keefe
• 2 – Edgar Martinez
• 3 – A.J. Burnett
• 4 – Kris Bryant
• 5 – Bill Dahlen
• 6 – Early Wynn
• 7 – Johnny Mize
• 8 – Jason Giambi
• 9 – Stan Javier
• 10 – Willie McCovey
• 11 – Max Carey
• 12 – Bill Madlock
• 13 – Kevin Mitchell
• 14 – Sonny Siebert
• 15 – Bobby Grich
• 16 – Albert Pujols
• 17 – Darrell Porter
• 18 – Curt Flood
• 19 – John Matlack
• 20 – Brian Giles
• 21 – Mike Tiernan
• 22 – Amos Strunk
• 23 – Red Donahue
• 24 – José Quintana
• 25 – Danny Richardson
• 26 – George Blaeholder
• 27 – Bibb Falk
• 28 – Magglio Ordóñez
• 29 – Jason Schmidt
• 30 – Tony Mullane
• 31 – Nolan Ryan

February

• 1 – Paul Blair
• 2 – Wes Ferrell
• 3 – Fred Lynn
• 4 – Doug Fister
• 5 – Hank Aaron
• 6 – Babe Ruth
• 7 – Carney Lansford
• 8 – Dobie Moore
• 9 – Vladimir Guerrero
• 10 – Lance Berkman
• 11 – Jimmy Ryan
• 12 – Chet Lemon
• 13 – Sal Bando
• 14 – Pretzels Getzien
• 15 – Billy Hamilton
• 16 – Ben Sanders
• 17 – Wally Pipp
• 18 – Joe Gordon
• 19 – Dave Stewart
• 20 – Justin Verlander
• 21 – Alan Trammell
• 22 – Clarence Mitchell
• 23 – Ray Brown
• 24 – Honus Wagner
• 25 – Ron Santo
• 26 – Pete Alexander
• 27 – Johnny Pesky
• 28 – Terry Turner
• 29 – Al Rosen

March

• 1 – Paul Hines
• 2 – Mel Ott
• 3 – John Ward
• 4 – Dazzy Vance
• 5 – Sam Thompson
• 6 – Lefty Grove
• 7 – Jeff Kent
• 8 – Dick Allen
• 9 – Arky Vaughan
• 10 – John Briggs
• 11 – Bobby Abreu
• 12 – Jim Wynn
• 13 – Home Run Baker
• 14 – Kevin Brown
• 15 – Bobby Bonds
• 16 – Buddy Myer
• 17 – Charlie Root
• 18 – Dwayne Murphy
• 19 – Clayton Kershaw
• 20 – Joe McGinnity
• 21 – Manny Sanguillén
• 22 – Billy Goodman
• 23 – Mark Buehrle
• 24 – George Sisler
• 25 – Tom Glavine
• 26 – Kevin Seitzer
• 27 – Buster Posey
• 28 – Lon Warneke
• 29 – Cy Young
• 30 – Chris Sale
• 31 – Jack Stivetts

April

• 1 – Phil Niekro
• 2 – Luke Appling
• 3 – Guy Hecker
• 4 – Tris Speaker
• 5 – Bill Dinneen
• 6 – Bert Blyleven
• 7 – Adrián Beltré
• 8 – Gary Carter
• 9 – Doc White
• 10 – Ken Griffey Sr.
• 11 – Bret Saberhagen
• 12 – Vic Willis
• 13 – Lorenzo Cain
• 14 – Greg Maddux
• 15 – Willie Davis
• 16 – Paul Waner

Rotten Tomatoes: 100% (9.20 in average rating) with 15 reviews

Metacritic: 95/100 (12 critics)

As with other movies, the scores are set to change as time passes. Meanwhile, I'll post some short reviews on the movie.

> At its best, Licorice Pizza demonstrates a lightness of touch that hasn’t been so evident in Anderson’s work since Boogie Nights, nowhere more so than in the fabulously lived-in scenes with Alana and her family, played to considerable amusement by Haim’s actual sisters and parents. But the thrilling propulsion of Boogie Nights is matched here only in fits and starts. The movie, particularly in its meandering second hour, often leaves you wondering where it’s going, more in frustration than curiosity.

-David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter

> In “Licorice Pizza,” time isn’t something that keeps people apart — it’s the only thing that allows them to find each other in the first place. And this euphoric movie doesn’t waste a minute of it.

-David Ehrlich, IndieWire: A

> This is lighter and sunnier than previous Anderson pictures; subtract the porn and indeed the sex from "Boogie Nights" and you have something like it; remove the metaphysical anxiety from "Inherent Vice" and that comes reasonably close, too. It’s such a delectable film: I’ll be cutting myself another slice very soon.

-Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian: 5/5

> There’s an extraordinary ensemble here, but it’s these two untried leads who elevate “Licorice Pizza” to the joyful, engrossing experience that it is. It’s certainly of a piece with Anderson’s filmography — the romanticism of “Punch-Drunk Love” meets the terrain of “Boogie Nights” — but it’s altogether a one-of-a-kind delight from a daring and always-surprising filmmaker.

-Alonso Duralde, The Wrap

> In a world of algorithmically sorted content, Anderson’s ninth film, and his first since 2017’s Phantom Thread, is irresistibly hard to pin down: you’d have to go back around 50 years, to the likes of Hal Ashby’s Shampoo or Peter Bogd