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Al_4_ISU

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  1. This thread sure slowed down without his weekly rant about the Big 12 TV contract being a bribe.
  2. You're right on 2 points here. Low impact it is not.
  3. My kid is fucking ON one. Last night, she got out of bed, came into our room, and thwarted multiple attempts at sexy time. Finally it seemed like she was actually out. We resumed. Mid-nut, the door flies open and we kind of collapse in a heap. She goes "DADDY WHY YOU ON MOMMY?". Tried saying "I was just giving Mommy hugs", and she kept going "why you on top her?". Finally got her to sleep and nothing was mentioned this AM. Likely more traumatic for me knowing my daughter may have seen my vinegar strokes. Wake up this morning, and the house is way too cold (it's -9 outside right now). I frantically check the furnace, which is running but blowing cool-ish air. Nearly text my buddy who does HVAC in town (keep in mind it's like 4:30 AM) to get on their work list for the day, when I get a hair to go look at the thermostat. The heat function had been shut off. I turn the heat back on, and everything works as normal. The thermostat is located about 2' above the back of our living room couch. A place that my daughter has been hanging out and walking around a ton lately. TLDR; 2 year old free to a good home.
  4. I’ve been singing this to myself around the house and office the last few weeks. Particularly “she was a gold diggin’ bitch, and her mom was too”
  5. Christmas Vacation is disjointed, has terrible setting production (driving through the mountains of suburban Chicago?), and has multiple scenes that are just complete implausible (the sledding scene can fuck right off). It also has a ton of fantastic actor interactions, all-time lines, and bits that are funny any time, anywhere. TLDR - the criticism is valid, it's still great for what it is.
  6. Junior Brown could have been a quadriplegic vegetable, and that table still would have produced a litany of incredible songs.
  7. The smaller cities in this part of the world are excellent in this regard as well. Particularly La Crosse, WI and Dubuque, IA. They're both college towns/regional hubs along the Mississippi.
  8. Players Era: Hey ISU, wanna make some $ and play good teams? ISU: Yeah! Players Era: Cool, here's St John's and Creighton. ISU: Beat 'em both, what's next? Players Era: $0 in extra NIL and a noon tip off against a shitty Cuse squad for 5th place.
  9. I don't want to spatchcock due to a hot spot in my pellet grill that will inevitably dry out whatever part of the bird goes over it. So I adjusted by getting a smaller bird (10 lbs - I'm only feeding 5 adults and a toddler) and I'll be doing a 24hrish hr brine, rubbing softened butter over and under the skin as a binder/mositurizer, smothering in a cajun rub and some hot honey, and continually basting with butter as I go. Will likely smoke it in a roaster pan with some beer in the bottom, as well as herbs, chopped garlic, and onion. I can keep off the hot spot and get a little more indirect heat this way, I suspect. Kind of simulating the beer can chicken approach to adjust for my self imposed limitations.
  10. I've posted a lot in this thread, but it really is one of my favorite cities to just fuck off in for a weekend.
  11. The fucking songs that table has produced. Good lord.
  12. Todd and Evan are on my Mt Rushmore of songwriters (along with Mike Cooley and James McMurtry). This is so fucking cool.
  13. I like Mizzou’s look. OU’s is utter trash
  14. I feel like Wednesday et al are Gen Z on paper but probably have more in common with Millenial stereotypes. They seem to like drugs, fucking, and hell raising more than the rest of their cohort. Much like how us old Millenials (I believe you're a fellow Xennial) were infused with a healthy does of Gen X preferences and outlooks.
  15. Pretty sure the Crutchfield sisters are straight up Millenials. Lenderman is Gen Z.
  16. These are my two favorites off the Snocaps album
  17. Snocaps is basically Waxahatchee's current line up + her sister. If you enjoy it, check out the Waxahatchee albums as well as MJ Lenderman (dude playing drums in the clip) and Wednesday. All part of a big sprawling connected universe/scene that's making some of the best albums of the post COVID era.
  18. Yes. I learned the hard way about posting in the chili thread without making sure that the recipe has less than one deviation from the San Antonio Chili Ladies of 1836's method. Funny part is after absorbing all that eye rolling provincialistic nonsense, I have started making chili (w/out beans) fairly regularly and did a big batch of it for the Iowa/Iowa State game earlier this year. A good buddy of mine was over for the game and he absolutely fucking loved it. He and I, and another good friend were out to lunch this Saturday and he brought up how good that was (suggesting I make a batch for a guy's weekend we're doing in March). Our other friend (who wasn't there that day) got to asking about the recipe. When he found out there were no were no beans in it, he goes "why would you do that??" Like with the same tone he'd have responded with if I told him I started abusing dogs for fun. Their exclusion was as offensive to him as their inclusion is to y'all. Cracked me up.
  19. One of his many eulogies has called his live albums "stand up comedy with really great songs in between". That's pretty much who he was as a performer.
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