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Lakers, guitar, and family, not necessarily in that order. Oh, and Disneyland.

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@baseballcrank After years of this + years of brand new PC, 100% disc problems...meanwhile, work-issued MacBook, turn on starts right up, every time, no issues and since I have an iPhone, etc., finally bit the bullet and bought an M1 MacBook Air when it first came out and...never looked back.

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Adam Anteater

[Tokyo @otokyo__]

Make a band bigger. I’ll go first:

Maroon 8.

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@DrewDisneyDude @Coasterfan37 @ProblyatDisney @VashSky Got to imagine there are more than a few blue sky Tomorrowland proposals lying around WDI. I feel like they couldn't start work on it after Coco if they were starting from scratch.

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Fun coincidence: @STPBand & @Nirvana recorded their MTV Unplugged episodes on consecutive nights at the same venue. And they both independently covered David Bowie (Andy Warhol, Man Who Sold the World).

[Dirty Flannel @DirtyFlannel90]

MTV’s Unplugged series was a real test for the musicians of that era.

Sure, you sound huge wired up to stacks of amps with distortion and effects stacked on top of each other.

But can you do it in a small room, up close to the audience, without all the gear to hide behind?

Stripped naked of the electricity.

Just the songs, the voices, and whatever you could pull out of an acoustic guitar and bongos.

The Stone Temple Pilots walked into that room in 1993 and passed the test.

Scott Weiland sat in a rocking chair like he owned the place.

No theatrics, no wall of sound to lean on.

Just the band and the material.

“Plush,” “Creep,” “Wicked Garden,” and the first public airing of “Big Empty.”

It held up. The songs didn’t need the volume to work.

That was the point of the whole series.

Some bands just got quieter.

The ones that mattered found a different kind of power when everything else was taken away.

“Plush”
STP

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@BrianTeevan Jerry Cantrell was so sick, puking right up until curtain, that there's a trash can out there for him.

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@JonahDispatch @RpsAgainstTrump I'm sorry. Must be my trick ear. Does he say Trump has "no history of doing anything untoward. None." …?

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@IMAO_

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@damanr This tweet reminded me for whatever reason that one of the handful of pro basketball players I've seen at Disneyland is Shawn Bradley, about 18 months before he was paralyzed.

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@hmfaigen You know, if they'd never been born, she wouldn't have had to fire them.

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@AnthonyIrwinLA @Rome_Beast Nothing touches Lamar Odom. He went from 6th Man of the Year on a championship team to, after the failed CP3 trade, flaming out in Dallas & LAC, & playing 2 overseas games. He never played another NBA game, before spiraling into drug abuse, getting divorced and ODing.

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@billybinion Darline Graham debating foreign policy (via Veep) https://t.co/2PvgSB17Td

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@VADC20016 @pelinkaburner Jesse/Joey/Janie backed her firing Johnny/Jim. Jess/Joe rather keep LAL, open bidding, or be a buying partner. But Walter deal kept Jeanie in power. Jess/Joe against but voted yes to be united. Then she fired Jess/Joe/Janie. Then tried tricking all 5 to not be able to sell.

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That ought to do it. If there's one thing people do reliably, it's read signs.

[KTLA @KTLA]

A total of 12 new signs have been added around Tiana’s Bayou Adventure at Disneyland, warning guests that they “will” be removed from the park if they choose to stand up while riding the log-flume attraction. https://t.co/bzhmiALubz

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@JonesOnTheNBA Really not the kind of court they should be worried about.

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@OrangeGrove55 @DisneyParks I'm happy the interacts-with-the-fans guy came in and prioritized things fans have been asking for, despite years of cost excuses (TL and Yeti, for instance). One could argue building goodwill first will help mitigate Avatar risk.

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@CanyonDriver Do you mean on the NBA's end or on the Buss family end? Seems like, at the time, everyone felt it was being handed over to a winning, competent ownership team.

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This isn't the kind of court you should be worried about right now.

[Los Angeles Lakers @Lakers]

Fresh court 👀

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@esplanerd Tomorrowland, Yeti, Figment, etc. all feel like they could be D'Amaro directives, including TL priority over Avatar. So my guess: nothing TO show + it's a Steve Jobs "one more thing" moment.

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@EricPincus Iger doesn't talk like they must honor it. 3 caveats: agreement between her and Mark, "intend," & "if things change, they'll change." He's not waiting til he's 79 to be face of ownership. If they remove her now, most of her incentive is gone. Or decline to buy the trust's shares.

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@OrangeGrove55 @dxwwf3 Honestly, the Coco thing disappointed me. It's a book report ride, like Little Mermaid. I can watch the movie at home! Best rides are an experience, not a retelling. I am sure it will look amazing (how could it not?). Just seems uninspired.