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Anyone catch the John Adams miniseries on HBO?
Posted by kdawg68 • 3/16/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
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Fantastic. It left me wanting to charge british muskets - even those fixed with bayonets - in the name liberty.
Seriously, anyone see the first two episodes tonight? I thought it was breathtaking, and I was half expecting to find it cheesy. It's quite well done.
The trial of Capt. Preston after the Bostom Massacre -brilliant.
Jefferson framing the declaration - the guy that plays him is just perfectly weird.
I could've done without the whole small pox innoculation thing though.
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I don't have HBO
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I didn't see it. Then again, I don't have HBO
Is that why you're still up? Trying to charge, quietly, because everyone is still sleeping?
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I don't even have reception without 75ft of alluminum foil on each bunny ear and even then i gotta place my kids in certain yoga positions just to see the local weather. -
The won't let us Canadian's have HBO. It's a conspiracy I tell you. -
It's quiet around here. I am starting to think that the bloggers are..eh...actually blogging.
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God forbid!
Or are they celebrating St. Patty's Day a day early? -
WHats this? It couldn't be! Say it aint so!
Of course, it is also Sunday night...most people gotta work in the AM, I would guess. -
Ah. Already hung-over pre-Patty Day.
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No cable.
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What is this? Am I the only one with HBO? Ah I wish I could share it with you. It was fitting for your last post Anok as it depicted the Congress laboring over both the words of the Declaration and the vote to break away from England.
It's all based on the David McCullough biography from a few years ago. He's ironically the same guy that narrated Ken Burn's Civil War documentary that sort of started the modern age of PBS documentaries and got rave reviews.
I highly recommend finding some way to view it. -
Well, why wasn't I invited, dammit? I would have brought popcorn!
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work? morning? No, that's coffee time.
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My work in the morning involves a wild child with boundless amount of energy - I need that coffee, with a shot of Jack!
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I got three of them bad boys in the morning and I tell ya if I didnt have the "mommy crack" I dont know what I would do.
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Ok one bad boy and two bad girls....see im confusing my own children I do need help
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It's OK, these things happen. My mother still calls me by the wrong name
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yeah i just like to say "hey you" all day, that seems to simplify things.
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Do you do the stutter?
Jo-Kat-Hen-Bil...what IS your name?! Whatever, GET over here NOW! -
Paaalease....my Grandmother stutters thru all of the dogs names, before she gets to mine.
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that is funny. I dont even try anymore! I gave up years ago. I figure they are old enough they know there name by now so why do I have to say it.
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LMAO! My mom does too....the dogs, the cats, whoever....she just gives up...although lately she hasn't had any reason to call me up and stutter at me.
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coffee, where is coffee, i like coffee, i want it, i smell it,who who has it come on now i want some where where .......stop teasing me like that.
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I'm drinking coffee! Neener neener neener!
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You're drinking coffee now? What time is it where you are?
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Midnight.
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Yikes! I love coffe but already have insomnia ... now that I think about it coffee probably wouldn't hurt
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I went easy on the coffee tonight, only a partial pot. Otherwise I'd be up until 3 am again
I'm getting a little drowsy now that you mention it.... -
no, I'm drowsey
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There is only one blogger that is more of a coffee freak than myself. The name is Anok.
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I'm pretty sure I have no blood left, only coffee runs through my veins. I could provide enough coffee for a starbucks in Manhattan!
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extra extra bold. Two pots
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I detest coffee - the King insists on taxing us colonists and forcing his East India coffee upon us at increased prices. Tar and feather the coffee drinkers!!!
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I though it was tea? You know, the wussy caffeine beverage?
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ooohhhhhh
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my health conscious raw food crazy hubby drinks all sorts of tea.......seriously wussy drink.
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Oh, before I forget hippych. We got those winds of yours today. I thought we were going to lose our second canopy of the season out in the lake. It's been wild today.
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isnt it ridiculous. I went to lay out the chicken wire for the coop we are building and ended up chasing it for over a mile.
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Yeah, but I told hubby that I wasn't jumpin' in the lake after it.
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come on tamera a little weekend skinny dippin.....that gator would have let ya be
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No, he's a mathematician. So, after I got the calculations regarding risk and probability....forget it.
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I love having Directv. I've got like 50 HBOs, and wouldn't you know it - episode 2 just came on again!
Since I like to share the love, wet your appetite on these:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=weRmKintZYI
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CNbQOrxQ-g-
THERE YOU ARE! what the heck is on the back of the dollar bill while smokin ey'
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never seen half baked, eh? That's what John Stewart says to Dave Chappelle when he's smoked up.
"Is there a guy in the bush over there? I don't know? It's like red team-go!!!"
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OMG nope just dazed and confused but am definitely gonna go rent that. SWEET I love Chappelle
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just posted the clip in your other thread. It's actually not Chappelle in that scene. I guess I'm just blending multiple scenes as Chappelle is the main guy in the movie and he does sell weed in it.
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you posted the clip dang I didnt see that hold on
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Ah - just caught another great scene from the film (the Adams one) that I love.
The rebels are withdrawing wounded from the Boston area, and a shot up soldier proudly announces. "They sent their butchers through the fog at Bunker Hill......we held 'em back.'
Of course - the fighting was really on a hill called Breed's Hill, but whatever, it was still rousing stuff.-
I take it we will be getting a play by play then?
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Ah hell, why not. Adams just put forth the motion that "the good colonel from Virginia" be recognized as the general of the rag tag continental army.
New York and Pennsylvania prove hard sells for the move for rebellion. South Carolina as well. -
Does your wife know you're blogging the Adams miniseries?
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She watched the episodes with me the first time through - spotted the obvious signs of a fresh obsession, and promptly retired for the evening.
Washington's situation is bleak. The british have him outmanned and outgunned - and fresh supplies in the form of troops, muskets, and powder are needed.....plus some artillery would be nice. What's that? Oh, here comes Henry Knox with the guns from Ticonderoga. The siege of Boston is lifted. -
ROFLMAO.... just.....LMAO.....
Ahhh...you're going to pay for this tomorrow, you know that? -
took the day off so I could relax after all the travel.
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Oh, well aren't we a smarty pants!
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Pants? Who's wearing pants here?
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Ever notice how donald duck never wears pants yet when he gets out of the shower he has a towel on?
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Kdawg Kdawg where art thou....you have HBO...my hubby got this show from HBO for xmas and it is so friggin hilarious I love it so maybe you have seen it....its called flight of the conchords....if you havnt see it you so should!
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