In 2017, our Auburn Tigers had a 3 week stretch during which they beat two #1 teams, which also turned out to be our biggest rivals.  You-4-eyah ensued, but apparently caused full on Oh-Face/Retard with our administration.

While I was as giddy about the wins as Jerry Sandusky being hired as a summer youth camp counselor, I was still uneasy about what the powers that be would do concerning Gus.

Gus Malzahn lost me long before that season.  The night that 5 different players took snaps against Clemson, 3 of which ran the same twirly-bird, double fakey handoff screens, I threw my hands up and said I'm done.  This guy is certifiable.

But Auburn did what Auburn does.  They Auburn'd!  It dates back to Terry Bowden being gifted an Iron Bowl win on one the most bone-headed calls in history, after which, instead of canning his short ass for a loss, they extended his contract, only to have him walk mid season the following year.

From there, it was about 15 years of TT duck hunting in Arkansas, and agent leaked rumors of Gus to the same State, being all it took for our admins to pony up a bigger, better contract each time.  And in 2017, nobody listened to me when I screamed, just give the man a nice bonus for the wins, and if he leaves, let him jet.  But, no!  No need to go over the eye-popping numbers Auburn painted itself into a corner with.

Then came the Breman Halfpint 1 1/2 year debacle. So, what's the point to all this?  Glad you axed.

For 2023, here's what SEC programs paid for coaches not to be employed there anymore:

Auburn:  $20 million

Texas:  $5.4 million

LSU:  $5 million

Bama:  $1 million

Florida:  $250K

No reason to think it will change.  If U Free somehow pulls off a stunning season and beats one, or both of our rivals, they'll find a way to make him the highest paid coach in the game with the biggest buyout in history.  Auburn just gonna' Auburn.  I like Freeze.  Hope he's here until I'm on a walker. (5-6 years) But I have a feeling we'll be revisiting this topic again some time this decade.       

Another weird quirk I have...

A man creates the best Auburn message board on the interwebz, then abandons it after installing the "like" button.  What kind of animal does this?!

He did this from the shame of losing the shinebox

Another weird quirk I have...

A man creates the best Auburn message board on the interwebz, then abandons it after installing the "like" button.  What kind of animal does this?!

Shopping cart.  I will walk through the heart of an F-5 tornado to put my shopping cart back in the rack.  People who walk off and leave their cart should be given a hysterectomy by a crazed ban of camel jockeys.

Yep.  Can't stand 'em.

Also, anyone that litters on the side of the road should be forced to climb a mountain of used junkie needles.

Killing Boksoon

Korean film that mixed a healthy dose of Kill Bill and a blend of John Wick with a dash of Guy Ritchie's trademark slo-mo flash-forward fighting scenes where the protagonist considers all possible angles and outcomes to determine a plan of attack. 

Boksoon is a killer for hire. The best killer on the market with a 100% success rate.  In this film, murder has been incorporated and has a set of rules. Killers are hired for their skills and their ability to provide a "show."  Some of that was a little murky to me because I didn't understand the show aspect. 

Boksoon, a woman, works for the main murder company in South Korea. She's a single mom with a 17-year old daughter and is at the end of her contract with her murder group MK Enterprises.  Her boss, the boss of all murder companies, has a long-standing crush on her and wants her to remain. She's more inclined to let the contract expire to spend more time with her daughter, who is unaware of what she does for a living.

Her world spins into chaos when, perhaps prompted by her confused/confusing relationship with her own daughter, Boksoon decides to bail on a show for the first time in her life.  She can't make herself do what she's tasked with doing.

Once a contract is accepted, killers are honor bound to follow through. That's the rule. Failure is not an option. There are deadly consequences for breaking the rule, particularly when the sister of the head of MK Enterprises, already has her in her sights due to her bizarre fixation on her brother.

There's a lot of fighting action, most of it with knives.  When the movie slides into the scenes that feature stylized violence and the now well-worn trope of a single person fighting off a horde of attackers, it's not bad. The fact that some of the broad fight scenes incorporate some comedic aspects is welcome.

The lead actress is reasonably convincing as a killer-for-hire worn down mentally by her non-communicative, anger-fueled teenage offspring.

Where it loses direction (and interest) is when it dives into Boksoon's home life where her angst-ridden daughter is struggling with her newly discovered possible lesbian tendencies. It's a completely unnecessary storyline and one that adds absolutely nothing to the film.  I didn't feel any connection to the daughter or her plight. Those scenes could have been cut or trimmed which would have greatly helped the movie's overlong two-plus hour run time. 

I enjoy Korean fare. This not as much as some others, but it's still probably better than most of what Hollywood retches out these days.