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Recovering American abroad.
Arsenal, inveterate reader and list maker, movies, and other stuff.
Was allegedly good at FPL once.
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Arsenal, inveterate reader and list maker, movies, and other stuff.
Was allegedly good at FPL once.
My Letterboxd movie reviews:
https://boxd.it/4pqcp
My book reviews on Goodreads:
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/33921897
Started watching “The Leftovers” this week with the interlull kicking into slow gear. Started season 2 and quite taken aback by how different it is from season 1. Completely different feel of the opening theme, introducing completely new characters, and other small things, it’s certainly…bold
November 13, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Started watching “The Leftovers” this week with the interlull kicking into slow gear. Started season 2 and quite taken aback by how different it is from season 1. Completely different feel of the opening theme, introducing completely new characters, and other small things, it’s certainly…bold
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Reminder: Every time you shop at an independent bookstore, Jeff Bezos loses a little bit of power.
November 12, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Reminder: Every time you shop at an independent bookstore, Jeff Bezos loses a little bit of power.
Everytime I listen to Louis Armstrong’s Hot 5’s and 7’s albums im blown away by them. They’re so fresh, bouncy and technically audacious even today. Can only imagine what people in the ‘20s thought of it(especially the 1st one). It must have sounded like some kind of alien musical sorcery to them.
November 12, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Everytime I listen to Louis Armstrong’s Hot 5’s and 7’s albums im blown away by them. They’re so fresh, bouncy and technically audacious even today. Can only imagine what people in the ‘20s thought of it(especially the 1st one). It must have sounded like some kind of alien musical sorcery to them.
I am pro-FPL joy. If people want Doku in their team because he’s fun absolutely go for it. But know he’s probably not going to get any points. Basically a less oiled up and muscle bound version of Adama Troare
November 11, 2025 at 11:17 AM
I am pro-FPL joy. If people want Doku in their team because he’s fun absolutely go for it. But know he’s probably not going to get any points. Basically a less oiled up and muscle bound version of Adama Troare
Doku might be the perfect storm of recency bias, unreliable minutes and no end product who twice a season bags a brace, causing millions of FPL managers to rush to him. I do love the rhythms of an FPL season though where your Doku’s, and DCL’s are popular for a week then sold en masse the next
November 11, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Doku might be the perfect storm of recency bias, unreliable minutes and no end product who twice a season bags a brace, causing millions of FPL managers to rush to him. I do love the rhythms of an FPL season though where your Doku’s, and DCL’s are popular for a week then sold en masse the next
Have looked at Salah for the upcoming good fixtures for Liverpool (only one I’m interested in) but it just doesn’t work with Haaland. Not overly worried about it but still there is fear
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November 11, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Have looked at Salah for the upcoming good fixtures for Liverpool (only one I’m interested in) but it just doesn’t work with Haaland. Not overly worried about it but still there is fear
Kind of where I’m at. I’ve cut back quite a bit on them because it was affecting how I make my choices. The ones I listen to now are mostly because I like the host personally more than anything. Like
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November 11, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Kind of where I’m at. I’ve cut back quite a bit on them because it was affecting how I make my choices. The ones I listen to now are mostly because I like the host personally more than anything. Like
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Solid but unspectacular week, green arrow and up 400k. Last 5-6 weeks have been variations of this which make me look at the madness of the first 5 horrific weeks of the season and wonder what could’ve been if I had been as boring and template as I am now 🤷♂️
November 10, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Solid but unspectacular week, green arrow and up 400k. Last 5-6 weeks have been variations of this which make me look at the madness of the first 5 horrific weeks of the season and wonder what could’ve been if I had been as boring and template as I am now 🤷♂️
Noticed on LiveFPL everyone rushing back to Joao Pedro. I mean… 🤷♂️
If you like owning a player who you’ll want to sell 50% of the time you own him, have at it I guess. Feel no regrets about not being a part of the circus there
If you like owning a player who you’ll want to sell 50% of the time you own him, have at it I guess. Feel no regrets about not being a part of the circus there
November 8, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Noticed on LiveFPL everyone rushing back to Joao Pedro. I mean… 🤷♂️
If you like owning a player who you’ll want to sell 50% of the time you own him, have at it I guess. Feel no regrets about not being a part of the circus there
If you like owning a player who you’ll want to sell 50% of the time you own him, have at it I guess. Feel no regrets about not being a part of the circus there
This seems like it will end quite badly.
All those weeks of not owning Haaland to only bring him in and have him still potentially kill me by not captaining him. Almost like the game wants you to play scared 😬
All those weeks of not owning Haaland to only bring him in and have him still potentially kill me by not captaining him. Almost like the game wants you to play scared 😬
November 8, 2025 at 1:52 PM
This seems like it will end quite badly.
All those weeks of not owning Haaland to only bring him in and have him still potentially kill me by not captaining him. Almost like the game wants you to play scared 😬
All those weeks of not owning Haaland to only bring him in and have him still potentially kill me by not captaining him. Almost like the game wants you to play scared 😬
Watching this spurs team and thinking the NLD after the inter lull might be one of the more stress free ones I’ve had in a while. Who scores goals for this team? Can’t be a Van De Ven worldie every week can it?
November 8, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Watching this spurs team and thinking the NLD after the inter lull might be one of the more stress free ones I’ve had in a while. Who scores goals for this team? Can’t be a Van De Ven worldie every week can it?
OR 🌍 8.7m
♻️ Diouf ➡️ Truffert
🧢 JP 🇫🇷
Rare week with no points hit. Likely moving to double Arsenal defense next week and potential 4-4-2. -8 incoming.
With little to no prospect of anything close to a decent rank this season, it’s YOLO all the down. Good luck all 👍
♻️ Diouf ➡️ Truffert
🧢 JP 🇫🇷
Rare week with no points hit. Likely moving to double Arsenal defense next week and potential 4-4-2. -8 incoming.
With little to no prospect of anything close to a decent rank this season, it’s YOLO all the down. Good luck all 👍
November 8, 2025 at 10:36 AM
OR 🌍 8.7m
♻️ Diouf ➡️ Truffert
🧢 JP 🇫🇷
Rare week with no points hit. Likely moving to double Arsenal defense next week and potential 4-4-2. -8 incoming.
With little to no prospect of anything close to a decent rank this season, it’s YOLO all the down. Good luck all 👍
♻️ Diouf ➡️ Truffert
🧢 JP 🇫🇷
Rare week with no points hit. Likely moving to double Arsenal defense next week and potential 4-4-2. -8 incoming.
With little to no prospect of anything close to a decent rank this season, it’s YOLO all the down. Good luck all 👍
The Diouf experience, filled with so much promise 2 weeks ago, comes to an end with me selling him ahead of a price drop.
Not even close to my worst transfer mistake of the season, but another fork in my eye in a season of many such forks 🍴
Not even close to my worst transfer mistake of the season, but another fork in my eye in a season of many such forks 🍴
November 8, 2025 at 2:14 AM
The Diouf experience, filled with so much promise 2 weeks ago, comes to an end with me selling him ahead of a price drop.
Not even close to my worst transfer mistake of the season, but another fork in my eye in a season of many such forks 🍴
Not even close to my worst transfer mistake of the season, but another fork in my eye in a season of many such forks 🍴
May be an off ramp for Sarr and Mateta after Burnley in GW14 if others emerge (Munoz likely a season keeper). Possibly hold to GW16 and Leeds. Even if they don’t pan out, they’ve already been cash cows that will help fund future moves by at least 0.4 going forward
November 8, 2025 at 2:07 AM
May be an off ramp for Sarr and Mateta after Burnley in GW14 if others emerge (Munoz likely a season keeper). Possibly hold to GW16 and Leeds. Even if they don’t pan out, they’ve already been cash cows that will help fund future moves by at least 0.4 going forward
Ended up using a bunch of radish greens I got yesterday in a tofu scramble with turmeric and cheese, and miso soup with some wakame and extra greens. Still have a bag full of them though 😂
November 7, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Ended up using a bunch of radish greens I got yesterday in a tofu scramble with turmeric and cheese, and miso soup with some wakame and extra greens. Still have a bag full of them though 😂
Gudmunsson to Timber, Eze to Gravenberch next week. 4 at the back for 6 weeks with Timber, Gabriel, Cucurella and Munoz. Crazy like a 🦊? Or just crazy?
November 7, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Gudmunsson to Timber, Eze to Gravenberch next week. 4 at the back for 6 weeks with Timber, Gabriel, Cucurella and Munoz. Crazy like a 🦊? Or just crazy?
Got enough radish greens from a co-worker to feed a small army. Any ideas how best to cook them? (The greens, not the army) 🤷♂️
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November 7, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Got enough radish greens from a co-worker to feed a small army. Any ideas how best to cook them? (The greens, not the army) 🤷♂️
Just noticed I only have two players going to AFCON, Sarr and Diouf. The former will probably be out of my team by then, the latter surely will. Having no players in the tournament though probably means I haven’t been picking very good players 😂
November 4, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Just noticed I only have two players going to AFCON, Sarr and Diouf. The former will probably be out of my team by then, the latter surely will. Having no players in the tournament though probably means I haven’t been picking very good players 😂
66 points and a 7 point green arrow bringing me to 8.7m rank. It’s pretty good for a -8 hit but having a team that’s now “moderately template” instead of “are you f***ing serious?!” differential, just isn’t as much fun. I imagine I’ll snooze my way to somewhere around 5m by the end of the season
November 4, 2025 at 7:37 AM
66 points and a 7 point green arrow bringing me to 8.7m rank. It’s pretty good for a -8 hit but having a team that’s now “moderately template” instead of “are you f***ing serious?!” differential, just isn’t as much fun. I imagine I’ll snooze my way to somewhere around 5m by the end of the season
Took a -8 to bring in Mateta/Sarr/King and on a 7pt green arrow. Seems FPL success correlates with my team being more template and sheep like. Boring my way to success, one Haaland/Mateta/Sarr/Gabriel/Semenyo transfer at a time
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November 2, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Took a -8 to bring in Mateta/Sarr/King and on a 7pt green arrow. Seems FPL success correlates with my team being more template and sheep like. Boring my way to success, one Haaland/Mateta/Sarr/Gabriel/Semenyo transfer at a time
I get it, we all want our team to do well. I hated the Mourinho Chelsea teams but respected and feared them. There are multiple routes to winning matches and Arsenal utilize all of them. Also, 18 goals scored this season, tied for second and two off of City in the PL so 🤷♂️
November 2, 2025 at 10:16 PM
I get it, we all want our team to do well. I hated the Mourinho Chelsea teams but respected and feared them. There are multiple routes to winning matches and Arsenal utilize all of them. Also, 18 goals scored this season, tied for second and two off of City in the PL so 🤷♂️
I remember the beautiful (and non-threatening)football of the late Wenger years when people called it naive. Now that Arsenal has defensive solidity and are a threat people call it boring. The through line seems to be that less than style, people just don’t want Arsenal to win football matches
November 2, 2025 at 10:13 PM
I remember the beautiful (and non-threatening)football of the late Wenger years when people called it naive. Now that Arsenal has defensive solidity and are a threat people call it boring. The through line seems to be that less than style, people just don’t want Arsenal to win football matches
Have brought in Haaland, Mateta, and Sarr the last two weeks. I’m boring myself even typing it.
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November 1, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Have brought in Haaland, Mateta, and Sarr the last two weeks. I’m boring myself even typing it.
🇳🇴 🤖=🧢
OR🌍=a gazillion
♻️ -8
Bowen➡️Mateta
Reijnders➡️Sarr
Anthony➡️👑
Anthony and Reijnders were anonymous for the entire time I owned them so they won’t be missed. Mateta and Sarr are fairly chalky and meh picks. They’re still relatively low ownership though so still some upside I guess. Good luck all!
OR🌍=a gazillion
♻️ -8
Bowen➡️Mateta
Reijnders➡️Sarr
Anthony➡️👑
Anthony and Reijnders were anonymous for the entire time I owned them so they won’t be missed. Mateta and Sarr are fairly chalky and meh picks. They’re still relatively low ownership though so still some upside I guess. Good luck all!
November 1, 2025 at 8:52 AM
🇳🇴 🤖=🧢
OR🌍=a gazillion
♻️ -8
Bowen➡️Mateta
Reijnders➡️Sarr
Anthony➡️👑
Anthony and Reijnders were anonymous for the entire time I owned them so they won’t be missed. Mateta and Sarr are fairly chalky and meh picks. They’re still relatively low ownership though so still some upside I guess. Good luck all!
OR🌍=a gazillion
♻️ -8
Bowen➡️Mateta
Reijnders➡️Sarr
Anthony➡️👑
Anthony and Reijnders were anonymous for the entire time I owned them so they won’t be missed. Mateta and Sarr are fairly chalky and meh picks. They’re still relatively low ownership though so still some upside I guess. Good luck all!
Missing out on the Mateta price rise almost makes me want to just roll with Bowen and bank the transfer. It’s very unlike me to save transfers but no other forward really interests me. The West Ham renaissance starts now! 😬
October 30, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Missing out on the Mateta price rise almost makes me want to just roll with Bowen and bank the transfer. It’s very unlike me to save transfers but no other forward really interests me. The West Ham renaissance starts now! 😬