Nick Albright 🇺🇲🇺🇦

@anishmoonka @threadreaderapp unroll please!

Stephen King sold the rights to The Shawshank Redemption for $5,000. The movie went on to make over $100 million. He never cashed the check. It started with a 20-year-old kid named Frank Darabont writing King a letter in 1980. He was an usher at a movie theater. He wanted to adapt one of King's short stories into a film. King had this deal, the "Dollar Baby," where students could adapt his short stories for $1. Darabont took the deal and made his little movie. King liked it. Liked it enough that when Darabont came back a few years later and asked for a bigger story, a short novel called "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption," King said yes. The price was $5,000. King didn't think the story would work as a film. Darabont wrote the screenplay in 8 weeks. He took it to Castle Rock, a production company. Rob Reiner, who directed Stand By Me and Misery (also King stories), read it and offered Darabont around $2.5 million to hand over the director's chair. He wanted Tom Cruise and Harrison Ford for the leads. Darabont could barely pay rent at the time. He said no, took $750,000 and a cut of future profits, and directed it himself. It flopped. On almost 1,000 screens in October 1994, it made $2.4 million on its opening weekend. Total domestic run: $16 million against a $25 million budget. Up against Pulp Fiction and Forrest Gump that fall. Got 7 Oscar nominations. Won zero. Lost Best Picture to Gump. Freeman blamed the title. Nobody could even remember the word "Shawshank." Warner Bros. shipped 320,000 VHS tapes to video stores in 1995. Hollywood thought that was a dumb bet on a movie that tanked. It became the number one rental in America. Ted Turner had bought Castle Rock back in 1993, so his cable channel, TNT, got the rights to air it cheaply. Nobody fights over a flop. TNT started playing it in June 1997 and never really stopped. By 2013, the film had run on 15 cable channels, consuming 151 hours of airtime in a single year. A 2014 Wall Street Journal piece put the total at about $100 million in revenue. Home video alone: around $80 million, per a Warner Bros. executive. The Ohio State Reformatory, where they shot the movie, was supposed to be torn down after filming. Fans bought the building from Ohio for $1. By 2018, the "Shawshank Trail" tourist operation around it was pulling $16.9 million a year. I keep going back to that number. More per year than the film made in its entire first theatrical run. Shawshank has been the #1-rated movie on IMDb since 2008, when over 3 million people voted it ahead of The Godfather. King's uncashed $5,000 check? He framed it and mailed it back to Darabont with a note: "In case you ever need bail money. Love, Steve."

@meathead @F0ODHub Ok, there are limits. 😉

@F0ODHub By the way, I put carrots in mine

Be honest.. do beans belong in chili?

@meathead @HMMCoach @simonmaechling 🙏

@albrnick @HMMCoach @simonmaechling I am using a brand called the green pan. They have different models and I can’t remember which one I bought.

My grandmother used Teflon. She died at 94.

@meathead @HMMCoach @simonmaechling Are there any ceramic brands you'd recommend?

@HMMCoach @albrnick @simonmaechling Yep

@climatepaige @Aella_Girl Maybe he's pursuing her as he finds her attractive? Never hurts to ask/make them say no sort of thing.

Okok but why is he actively pursuing the monogamous woman at all? There are many poly women he could try to date. By the nature of being poly, none of them are really taken. (Not like there’s any shortage of women who want to do this!) There must be a reason why he’s aggressively going after someone who does not share his professed sexuality! I used to think maybe it was because monogamous women are more physically attractive, but that’s not quite right. (I’ve now met / talked to quite a few for show research, and they’re all pretty cute!) Maybe it’s because he likes being someone’s “one and only” while he gets to screw other poly women! I really think many of these supposedly poly men, when they decide to start families, will end up with monogamous women. I wouldn’t put it past them to totally hide their dating history once they’ve decided they’ve had enough of the scene. After our show interview, I did a lot of reading / talking with poly men and woman, and another big takeaway I had was that I actually think *women* are more likely to be wired truly poly then men are (in the same way you’re more likely to find bisexual women.) Of course there are honest poly men, but I think the bad actors (like the guy who didn’t tell me he was married and poly until several hours into our date) are more likely to be straight poly men.

Something else I’ve noticed about polyamory worth sharing: For the most part, I think polyamorous women have good intentions when entering into relationship dynamics. (Note: I think they’re a little bit more rejection-sensitive than monogamous women! probably because they hear “no” less in their communities, so it feels worse when it does happen!) I do not think they are likely to lie / hide details about their escapades from other people. However, I have noticed a trend where polyamorous men will straight-up lie to monogamous women about their sexuality (or lifestyle choices), sometimes not revealing the truth until months or years into the relationship. I suspect this is because polyamorous men are the strongest upholders of the body-count double standard. They *want* to date women who have not had many partners / who are more selective, maybe even more than monogamous men do. Otherwise, why would they all SO aggressively be trying to spend time with monogamous women? In five to ten years, I think you will see the majority of men who claim polyamory as their sexuality trying to start families with monogamous women.

@TigerNE_CU @DanielLibit Hum... I don't know that free market forces need to be driven by ROI for it to be a free market? When people buy a concert ticket there isn't any ROI at all? There are free market forces at play, driven by supply and demand. Each person decides if that price works for them

@DanielLibit Valid point. Although NIL removes a lot of the free market forces. No one has shown me a single ledger or financial explanation for how fat cats and corporations realize any ROI by paying players. Without those forces, it's more about ego or brand ID. Not economics.

Since this tweet apparently was too subtle for some, I’ll spell it out thusly: anyone who lined their pockets in a system that was, at best, oligarchical capitalism—and more likely crony capitalism—can spare us the sanctimony about college sports’ “guiding principals.”

@meathead If you sous vide, you can obviously go much lower/juicer. Been like 5 years, just I think I think I preferred 145 degrees.

In 2014 consumer reports tested 300 chicken breasts from random sources around the country. 90% were contaminated with pathogenic bacteria. About half of them were antibiotic resistant. But there is good news. improved growing conditions has reduced the rate of contamination. And Cooking kills all the bacteria. USDA says 165°F. Digging deep into the numbers I have learned that 160°F is safe and produces moister meat. Please cook chicken with a digital thermometer. You can get a good one for $30 or less. Amazingribs.com has a database and an electrical engineer who tests them. We don’t sell any, we just test

@HMMCoach @meathead @simonmaechling Exactly what I was wondering. How's the sear? And what brand(s)?

@meathead @simonmaechling You still getting a nice sear from the new pans?

Jaxon Smith-Njigba found TreVeyon Henderson as the confetti fell following the Seattle Seahawks’ Super Bowl win ♥️

I left the Washington Post 12 years ago. An editor told me Jeff Bezos would gut the paper and I wouldn’t have a job very long. The motto when I left, before they changed it to ‘Democracy Dies in Darkness,’ was “For and about Washington.” They changed it to communicate the diminished ambitions of a once grand paper. Anything that didn’t directly impact the Bethesda or Fairfax reader had already been cut. The newsroom had dwindled to 600 or 700 reporters after many buyouts. The Graham family strategy was to become a local paper, free from the cost of international bureaus and expensive teams. Marty Baron was brought on to execute this local strategy (we called it managed decline) before the surprise Bezos purchase changed everything. Bezos did the opposite of what the newsroom assumed he would do: he poured obscene amounts of money into a cash incinerator. He gave the Post a fancy new building. He subsidized every section of the paper, even the ones with no readers. He expanded international. He financed experiments in video and podcasting. He gave the newsroom a blank check for over a decade. Rather than pursuing a strategy based in reality, the Post newsroom became very accustomed to a billionaire patron giving them everything they wanted in perpetuity. In retrospect, this was a terrible business decision because it made the young reporters and editors delusional. The old ones who remembered the cuts and the pain of the business before Bezos— when they finally took the free coffee away—they had all been fired or left the industry. The “For and About Washington” strategy was also a loser, because it retained the most expensive parts of the newsroom while diminishing its reach. Sports is expensive. Metro news is expensive. And as pretty much every other local newspaper in the country has learned, the old local paper model is broken and has been since the internet arrived. The Post’s brand was and is Washington politics. It’s the seat of American power. It should be focused on covering politics from its premier perch in DC. It should have never been distracted by anything else— it only ever needed this product. It lost sports to the Athletic. It lost International to The Times. There’s no reason to compete on those products. The Post can still own politics, and every story, feature and reporter should be focused on covering it. But it needs to stop pretending that the world didn’t change 20 years ago and start listening to its readers again. There are solid media companies being built for the future and the Post can become one of them. But the old Post died many decades ago. Pretending Bezos killed it isn’t true.

@BillLandis25 @B1Gfootball I feel like the team logos are too big... ;)

@B1Gfootball From the folks who are trying to bring you the 24-team playoff comes the worst shirt you've ever seen

Get the shirt and let 'em know 😊 🛒: bit.ly/4ae1foq

@AWardSports @Birm @LettermenRow Nope

QUESTION OF THE DAY @LettermenRow The strength and depth of the Big Ten now makes aggressive nonconference scheduling in the CFP Era unnecessary for Ohio State. Should the Buckeyes have tried to cancel the trip to Texas? on3.com/teams/ohio-sta…

@SeanRidley2 @BruceFeldmanCFB @TheAthletic I always respect what Bill Snyder did. I don't know much of their history though. Indiana went from 3-9 and firing their coach, to winning a natty 2 years later. How did the KS look a couple before 1998?

@BruceFeldmanCFB @TheAthletic No it wasn’t. Try Bill Synder at Kansas State without NIL and the transfer portal. KSU football was worse than Indiana at that time. His ‘98 squad was the best team that season and would have benefited from a playoff.

What Curt Cignetti did at Indiana over the past two years was the most remarkable turnaround job anyone has ever done in football. @TheAthletic asked other college coaches what they can take from the Hoosiers example, and we got some great insight: nytimes.com/athletic/69997…

@AndyStaples @meatbossmobile

There are few things in life more beautiful than an overflowing pulled pork sandwich. This one from @meatbossmobile was spectacular.

@AriWasserman If he had a different last name do you think you'd have the same reaction? (Or do you feel that the support network he has due to his family is key to him becoming a Heisman finalist?)

Dude is going to be a Heisman finalist next year

@BreezeO_ Sure, there is no perfect ranking system. With even 3 teams and 1 game it can be impossible to do. Ie, Ohio State beats Michigan. Michigan beats Indiana. Indiana beats Ohio State. How do you rank them? Now imagine expanding that to 100 teams playing 12 games.

Miami behind 3 teams it beat. These metrics are good for commentary but are fundamentally flawed because aren’t played on paper.

@PaulLavecchia @atlfalcon89 @BillLandis25 Love it!! (Thanks :)

@albrnick @atlfalcon89 @BillLandis25 Here you go : x.com/i/status/20139…

Does Indiana’s band always play the Isengard theme, because it kicks ass

@atlfalcon89 @BillLandis25 I just tried searching for one and couldn't find! :(

@BillLandis25 I desperately need a video of this if anyone has one or similar

@espn Love the Coach's Film Room!

@davidubben Love it! Was my fav! So insightful and fun! So glad it's back. :)

ESPN says Coaches Film Room is back for the national title game this year. No active head coaches, though. In the room: Mike Gundy, Steve Addazio, Dave Clawson, Gene Chizik and rules analyst Jerry McGinn.