I've only read a couple of Joe Lansdale novels and a couple of short stories. None of these featured the characters Hap and Leonard, so the title of the show on SundanceTV meant nothing to me. The trailers looked like interesting pulp mystery novel fun.
During the opening credits I saw Lansdale's name and got excited and worried at the same time. The thing I like about his writing is the no hold's bar nature. It's about as un-PC as you can get. I wasn't sure how that would translate to commercial television. Turns out it almost made it. If I had never read his work, I might have been impressed.
Like the characters in the books I read, Hap and Leonard use racial and sexual slurs as casual conversation. If you make it through any of Lansdale's work, you know that in his world words are just tools to get at ideas. Other than that, the language in the show is mostly stripped of profanity. It Suffers for it only because I know it's missing. It's strange, but I think the profanity of his books allows ideas to slip in to your brain easier. Look at the opening lines of Bubba Ho Tep. While you laugh and cringe at the description of an infected bump, he slips in the feeling of helplessness that comes with old age. Take away the profanity and the rest feels flat.

Over all, it was a good show. Not great, but good enough to tune in again.

http://youtu.be/FPBF-xJKpF0

I want one of these, but I wouldn't pay what they're asking.
I was going to suggest that everyone should take up a collection and buy one for me. On second thought, I realized that I would be obligated to pitch in to buy one for everyone else too. Factor in administrative costs and the price would increase more than the original sticker. Some people would want one even if they couldn't afford to pitch in much, so bump it up even more. In the end, I would end up paying a lot more for something that I really didn't want in the first place.

Jeez! It might really happen. He's still leading the GOP pack. Now it looks like Bloomberg could run as an independent. That would split the dem votes the way Nader did in 2000.

As a libertarian minded person, this might not be all bad. The last 2 presidencies have been allowed to draw more governmental power into the White House. If Trump were to get that position, congress might act in a bipartisan way to bri

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We had to teach her a few new signs and we also wrote a speech for her. Koko improvised some.

KOKO WANT FOOD. LOVE MAN. STUPID MAN. KOKO LOVE EARTH. WANT FOOD.

Koko is highly intelligent and thinks about complex concepts. That she has the same political views as her trainer is coincidence, but proves the importance of the message. I mean, if a gorilla understands it, only an idiot would disagree.

KOKO WANT FOOD! STUPID MAN HURT EARTH. LOVE EARTH KOKO FOOD EARTH LOVE STUPID MAN STUPID PROTECT.

Humans could learn a lot from Koko.

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I've been telling my son that unless he creates something himself, he really has no room to critique the creations of others. I used to be snarky. I could tell you how countless movies could be improved. Books that have great ideas, but flawed endings? Countless numbers of them(most by Stephen King).
Video games are the same thing. My son consumes a lot of games, and loves to tell me where they fall short. Should I accept that he is a lot like I was at that age, or should I try to make him look at thing from a more mature perspective?
Maybe I'm getting older, but I don't like hearing how creators fail to meet consumer expectations. I would rather hear about what they got right.