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Back in September, Ron Howard renewed Stephen King fans' hope for an adaptation of King's beloved series, "The Dark Tower," revealing that he and screenwriting partner Akiva Goldsman were still hard at work on bringing the books to the big screen. Now, actor Aaron Paul has rekindled interest in the project with the recent revelation that he's been in touch with Howard about taking a role in the movies.

Ain't It Cool News caught up with Paul at the Sundance Film Festival, and asked if rumors that he was up for the part of Eddie Dean were true.

"I've had a ton of meetings on that," Paul told the site. "I just had a general sit down with Ron Howard, who is a huge fan of the show (Paul's recently-wrapped series "Breaking Bad"), which is such a crazy thing to even think that Ron Howard even knows who I am. They're definitely planning on making it."

Paul acknowledged what Howard had already confirmed: The project has been delayed because it's such an ambitious, difficult-to-translate story. But the actor said he's definitely interested in being a part of Howard's vision for the series.

"I'm excited," Paul said. "Their goal is to do three films, but also have a television element to it, which will be very interesting."

Paul assured Ain't It Cool News that he "definitely will not" turn down the part of Dean if offered, describing the character as "pretty epic" and "iconic." Here's hoping his dedication to the project helps get "The Dark Tower" off the ground once and for all.

Mise en place ("putting in place" or "set in place") is a cooking habit you've undoubtedly heard of, and may even implement. But what if I told you it was also the guiding concept behind the fanciest kitchen island we've ever seen? The 'Mise en Place' Work Table, billed as an "all-encompassing chefs work table" has a place for everything, and everything in its place. Here's what it includes:

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Two Eat Philly sit down and order much of the menu at Kevin Sbraga’s The Fat Ham and finds lots of highlights including the oyster sliders and hot chicken.

Midtown Lunch checks out Ol’ Boy’s Soul Food Restaurant,at 243 South 6oth Street and finds great lima beans and cornbread. It’s also the fourth anniversary of Midtown Lunch, so congrats to Jamie.

Brian from Bridges, Burgers and Beer orders up the South Philadelphia Tap Room burger rare. And he loves it.

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Really good discussion on Reddit:

I’m slowly pulling away from football, and you have nailed one half of the equation for why. Going to the games is actually less enjoyable than watching it on tv.

But then, watching it on tv gets less enjoyable every year. The broadcast is so packed full of advertising it feels like I view more promotions than actual content in any game. Score, commercial, kick, commercial, injury, commercial, time out, commercial, instant replay, commercial. It’s tedious and actively breaks my immersion while watching the game. We get less of a feel for how the game is going because we go to break for timeouts instead if the announcers discussing the situations each team is facing or showing highlights from the current drive.

And the commercials aren’t even the only advertising. The intro to Sunday Night Football is a two minutes advertisement for a phone company, every highlight has a title that awkwardly forces some company into the name, the onscreen graphics flash brand logos instead of constantly revealing useful information, and the pre & post game segments never go more than five seconds without a sponsorships, including awful skits that aren’t in any way entertaining.

Add in the greed of expanded playoffs, teams playing in (or possibly moved to) London, locker room cultures that promote racism and homophobia, merchandise that is always 20% more expensive than it needs to be, an abuse of breast cancer to make money by pandering to female fans while donating less than 5% of proceeds to actual research, threatening to abandon fans in order to force stadium deals that become a hardship on local communities, blackout rules that punish fans for not paying exorbitant prices for attendance, the Super Bowl having only 1% of its tickets available to the general public, the NFL actively suppressing concussion research, the NFL apologizing weekly for something the officials screwed up, expensive tv packages, a lack of internet streaming, and a blind eye to performance enhancing drugs while overreacting to a little pot and at the end of the day my interest in the league is getting seriously close to the last straw.

I don’t know what that straw will be, but I know it’s coming. Culturally popular things rarely implode based on one action. They slowly rot from within, which is already happening for the NFL. It wont be quick, and the NFL is going to get bigger before it fails, but the groundwork has already been laid.

Unless a player dies on the field. Then the whole league craters.

There are a lot of comments, but if you have time, read through some of them.

I agree with virtually everything written here, except for when you’re watching your own team– then most of this stuff gets thrown out. But I can’t sit through a full, non-Eagles, non-RedZone game without distracting myself somehow. I don’t think the NFL has anything to immediately worry about, however. It’s just that the viewing experience kind of stinks.

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Lucy the Beagle has figured out that there are tasty things in the toaster oven and knows how to get them. After a roast disappeared a few weeks earlier, her guardian  decided to set up a sting operation.

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Seahawks fullback Derrick Coleman is the first deaf offensive NFL player in the NFL.  The undrafted second-year player out of UCLA recently starred in a Duracell commercial that will make you feel good.

Coleman has appeared in 13 games for the Seahawks.  He has had two carries for three yards and eight catches for 62 yards and a touchdown.  He has been legally deaf since the age of three.

The best line of the commercial – “They didn’t call my name. Told me it was over. But I’ve been dear since I was three. So I didn’t listen.”

Everybody should “be” deaf now and again.

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Green monkeys! Orange iguanas! If these unnaturally occurring animal-color combinations don’t send chills down your spine, you weren’t a child

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Ain’t nobody suicidin’ today
Not on my watch