NHL Mega-Mock Draft Reboot - Discussion / Draft Thread – DDU-DU DDU-DU PHASE TWENTY-TWO!

[Lord Defect]

That's more than one book.

No it’s not. I took the first edition , volume M-Z. That’s one book

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

No it’s not. I took the first edition , volume M-Z. That’s one book

Fine.

 

[Asnito]

Welcome back @Lord Defect , hope all is well.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

Welcome back @Lord Defect , hope all is well.
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It's not, he's f***ed.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

Watching chickens run all the time has made me think there should be more races involving busty human women. No babe threads.

We start the day with @CanadianFlyer88 on the clock, @Magua on deck with a pair (phrasing), @pit on the lido deck, and Striiker on the lido afterdeck. I'll start putting the next phase together pretty soon, although at our current pace I'll have about a month before we are finished with these last two rounds. It's not like there is any rush, so it doesn't matter.

I watched a ridiculous movie from last year on Netflix last night - "The Violence Action." They took about as much care with the movie as they did with the title. There were all these blurry moving establishing shots that were straight out of 80s music videos. It was like a cheaply made and unenjoyable soft porn flick with cheap and unsatisfying action scenes instead of cheap and unsatisfying sex scenes. There were a handful of funny moments with some of the dopey characters, but mostly it was just a waste of time. That's not out of the ordinary - I usually have far less luck with my Saturday movies than my Friday movies. The lead, Kanna Hashimoto, is quite adorable, so the rest of it wasn't very important.

Enjoy your Sunday.

 

[CanadianFlyer88]

Apologies, gents. I thought Defect had to make up a pick yesterday still.

College Course II time.

We're going back to our aquatic roots here to select Nautical Archaeology. Now, as you would all expect, this course is offered at a coastal school in the University of Miami.... but if you search for "nautical archaeology program" in our old friend, the Google machine, the first hit you get is for the well known coastal university, Texas A&M.

Texas A&M describe the program as: Nautical archaeology is the study of the remains of boats and ships and the cultures that created and used them. The program focuses on the history of wooden ship construction; seafaring through the ages; maritime commerce, cargoes, and ports; and the techniques used to record, analyze and conserve the remains of these activities.

Sounds like a perfect course for the Sockeyes, despite being thousands of miles from an ocean.

@Magua

 

[Striiker]

God damnit. @Chuck Downie picked Fat Mike as his team fan of all things??? FFS. Back to the drawing board. I don't know albums.

The start of two excellent series (9 books and the tv adaptation), this is an excellent blend of believable sci fi and the fantastic. The only failing is it kills off the wrong main character.

Team Book II: Leviathan Wakes, James S. A. Corey

Spoilers what the f***

I just bought this book

I hate you

 

[ajgoal]

Spoilers what the f***

I just bought this book

I hate you

You'll have forgotten what I said by the time you get far enough in school to actually read the words in the book.

 

[Magua]

The Honolulu Ghibli name as our Team Book II........The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

Here's Hitler stand-in (Atilla Haxoff) getting WAM BAM POW'd in the kisser:

In later years, holding forth to an interviewer or to an audience of aging fans at a comic book convention, Sam Clay liked to declare, apropos of his and Joe Kavalier's greatest creation, that back when he was a boy, sealed and hog-tied inside the airtight vessel known as Brooklyn, New York, he had been haunted by dreams of Harry Houdini. "To me, Clark Kent in a phone booth and Houdini in a packing crate, they were one and the same thing," he would learnedly expound at WonderCon or Angouleme or to the editor of Comics Journal. "You weren't the same person when you came out as when you went in. Houdini's first magic act, you know, back when he was just getting started. It was called 'Metamorphosis': It was never just a question of escape. It was also a question of transformation."

Smush the nascent comic book industry, World War II, mysticism, escapism (literal and figurative), the American Dream together, and Kavalier & Clay takes you back to the Golden Age of Comics from the 30s-50s. We take for granted that the mid-20th century snapped its fingers and created our modern cultural deities we call superheroes. Those writers and artists had their origin stories too, and they weren't radically different, just scrap the superpowers. Hitler was getting smacked around by Superman and company in comic panels in 1940 because no one in real life was doing the smacking. And so this novel presents two fictional kids -- a Brooklyn writer and his Houdini-obsessive artistic Czech cousin, who escaped the Nazis -- and their creation of *dramatic pause* The Escapist. It's a sprawling but wonderfully snappy read, with flair and readability in equal measure.

(I'll make my other pick tomorrow.)

Flagrant @pit , incandescent pit, parched pit!

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

How you doin' miss? My name is L, I'm from Queens. I heard about your man - he like to lace you with cream. Dolce Gabbana, Moschino with Donna jeans.
But he slipped up, and threw his rock to a fiend.

I love Total - not the cereal, the girl group. Or rather the one with longer hair. I have been crushing hard on her since I first saw the video. I actually love the cereal, too - I have been crunching hard on that shit since I don't know when. I can also eat about a thousand bowls of it at a sitting. All those Wheaties kinds of cereals are like that. I don't know why, but it probably has something to do with whatever is wrong with my body.

Anyway, we start the day with @pit on the clock, @Striiker on deck pretending to read books, @BiggE on the lido deck, and Young Sando on the lido afterdeck. God knows what he is doing, but I'm sure it's better that we don't know.

Trackmasters - rock on.

 

[Lord Defect]

Welcome back @Lord Defect , hope all is well.
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All good buddy. Thanks everyone, I appreciate the thoughts. I was meaning on saying so until we ran into that clusterchuck the other day. That’s as much as I’m going to drag into this thread.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

Whooooooooooooooooooooooooooshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh ...

We start the day with @pit on the clock, @Striiker on deck pretending to read books, @BiggE on the lido deck, and Young Sando on the lido afterdeck. God knows what he is doing, but I'm sure it's better that we don't know.

 

[BiggE]

This thread was nearly as empty as Cuck’s head yesterday.

 

[pit]

First, my apologies for not checking in on the thread yesterday. It was a busy day.

Second, I'll ask if I'm next to you in rotation, please send a dm along with the tag. Tags on this site suck for me for some reason and I end up not getting notified on half of them so unless I'm reading the thread I don't know it's my turn.

Third, the pick.

I have agonized over Team Band. Once Cap took Superchunk off the board long ago and I took Archers of Loaf, the third place and onward rankings really depend on the day and goes about 20 deep.

So what do I feel like today? I'm going for a classic legacy that stretches from my teens to now. Recent offerings haven't measured up and I was also sorely tempted by their previous band with a much higher peak but shorter catalogue.

All that said, Team Band II: New Order.



@Striiker Tonight I think I'll walk alone, I'll find my soul as I go home.

 

[Striiker]

Movie - Saving Private Ryan

@BiggE

 

[BiggE]

For our music video 2, we will go with the kind of song that our fanbase can’t get enough of, and worse, it’s the kind of song I get requests to play. So here, suffer through some Zac Brown Band and don’t forget to stick them Toes in the water @Young Sandwich

Music video 2: TOES by the Zac Brown Band

 

[Young Sandwich]

18 years ago my parents made what I consider the best decision of their lives. They sold their old starter home that they held onto and had been renting for over a decade and bought a cabin in the Catskills. I was already an avid fisherman, but fly fishing was foreign to me. Now that we owned a cabin in what is considered the birthplace of American fly fishing, the rest was history.

My dad lent me this book a couple years ago. It perfectly outlines the highs and lows of owning a place up there. Sautner's experiences echoed our own perfectly. It was uncanny. The fact that he tosses in some extremely relatable fly fishing adventures along the way is just the icing on the cake.

Team Book II - A Cast in the Woods

@GKJ there's a riseform, 5 o'clock at 40 feet. Put one on him.

 

[GKJ]

I think this is still on the table:

Probably not the best album by Radiohead, but maybe the most important, at least to me.

@ajgoal

 

[mja]

I think this is still on the table:

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Probably not the best album by Radiohead, but maybe the most important, at least to me.

@ajgoal

I have Radiohead through a wild card / dealer's choice type of category. Not sure what the ruling on that is.

 

[GKJ]

I have Radiohead through a wild card / dealer's choice type of category. Not sure what the ruling on that is.

Damn, I was surprised to not see them taken as a band.

 

[Rebels57]

I think this is still on the table:

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Probably not the best album by Radiohead, but maybe the most important, at least to me.

@ajgoal

My favorite of theirs for sure.

 

[GKJ]

Let’s do You’re A Woman, I’m a Machine by Death From Above 1979

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

All that said, Team Band II: New Order.



@Striiker Tonight I think I'll walk alone, I'll find my soul as I go home.

I have gotten completely addicted to that song in the past year, not to mention "Ceremony."

 

[Beef Invictus]

Movie - Saving Private Ryan

@BiggE

I know what you did here

 

[Striiker]

I know what you did here

What did I do there