Everything posted by Al_4_ISU
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Foo Fighters or The Killers?
There are probably 20 Foo songs I like better than My Hero.
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Is this the end of shitty bowl games?
The solution is to make players employees, and make bowl participation part of their enforceable contract. Or instead of giving players trinkets, give them half of the money the school/conference gets from being in it. That would immediately solve the problem. Bowls have always been meaningless exhibitions. The difference is that 40 years ago, the media told you how much they mattered, so everyone bought into that. For the last 20 years we've beaten over the head with the message that there's too many, they don't matter, and the only thing that matters is being the national champion. Eventually (players first, then fans) enough people bought into that messaging and here we are. Bowls are something to have on in the background in a slow time of year. They get excellent ratings as a result, and it's more football. On top of that, it makes college football one of the few sports where someone other than the champion has an opportunity to end the season on a high note. Having my team opt out of a bowl game this year has made me realize how much I did actually care about the last part.
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Left Behind: A Quick Dose Of Post Big 12 Reality
Their coach left, and the AD didn’t hire the guy they wanted. This isn’t a Big 12 thing, and more a “there are literally no rules in college football thing”. My guess is we end up with a shitload of Washington State’s guys.
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Foo Fighters or The Killers?
I absolutely love the Doll>Monkey Wrench sequence to start. The end run starting at February Stars is stunning. New Way Home is an absolutely elite album closer. Even the throwaway stuff like See You is great.
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Foo Fighters or The Killers?
There are moments of Killers songs that I absolutely love (the back half of "All These Things I've Done" is perfect), and I feel like I should love Sam's Town - but I just have never gotten it to take root. But Colour & The Shape is a nearly perfect rock album. It's better than a lot of other bands I like's best work. And there have been plenty of shitty Foo Fighter songs since (and plenty fucking great ones too), but that album is an incredible mix of all of it's influences. There's punk. There's 70's arena rock. There's wistful singer/songwriter folk. There's grunge. Sometimes it's all in the same song. It's a staggering record. My hottest musical take is that it's the best record Dave Grohl ever participated in making. Certainly not the most important. Certainly not the most popular. Certainly not the most influential. It doesn't get it's due credit, in large part because Grohl never really pushed the envelope stylistically, and because he never topped it. It's just so god damn good.
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Non-Texas weather. The all-encompassing thread
-30 is my record. I was getting up every 3-4 hours in the middle of the night to start our vehicles and let them run.
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Popular comedians that are not funny. I’ll start : Bert Kreischer
Tom Segura. He used to be funny. His head is so far up his own ass nowadays.
- 2025 Hawai'i Bowl - California vs. Hawai'i
- 2025 Hawai'i Bowl - California vs. Hawai'i
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Beer 2025: Merry Christmas Everyone, Including the Haters and Losers
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Surly Dad Thread
You can’t see into my soulful eyes though
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Surly Dad Thread
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Beer 2025: Merry Christmas Everyone, Including the Haters and Losers
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do you ever yearn?
I didn’t want you to know I was out of work.
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National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Where'd you get that tenement on wheels?
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National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Clark and Eddie's interactions are always the funniest shit to me. In the earlier movies, there's a sense of genuine concern on Clark's part that eventually morphs into the deadpanned, muted hatred you see in Christmas Vacation. And it all just bounces right off Eddie.
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Chefs leaving KCMO for KCKS
It looks like Jerry World fucked the Vikings stadium and had a baby. Which given KC being the midpoint between those cities on I-35 is kinda fitting.
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Chefs leaving KCMO for KCKS
I'm not trying to be a dick, but just look at a map. Iowa's largest metro is an hour closer to KC than it is to anywhere else with pro sports. I live up on the Minnesota border, and not far from Wisconsin either. Vikes and Pack are basically tied for local favorite team, with Bears and Chiefs tied for 2nd. If you get closer to Chicago, you see more Bears, and closer to KC you see more Chiefs. The recent success has lead to a lot of young kids statewide being Chiefs fans. When I was growing up they were #4 in my school, despite being closer than the Green Bay or Chicago.
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Chefs leaving KCMO for KCKS
Getting rid of Arrowhead (and Soldier Field for that matter) for some indoor stadium where they can have boat shows in January sucks.
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Beer 2025: Merry Christmas Everyone, Including the Haters and Losers
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Surly Dad Thread
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Top 10 2025
It reminds me of someone that I absolutely cannot place. I've watched some clips of them live, and it just intrigues what they're doing. Nothing about it should work, but it definitely does. For me.
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Top 10 2025
Viagra Boys are great. I didn't get super into this record. Need to give it a few more times. One of my buddies turned me onto them, and if we're hanging out it's not uncommon for someone to puncture a moment of silence with "WEINER DOGS".
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Top 10 2025
1. "Price of Admission" Turnpike Troubadours. Some of their finest songwriting to date. My favorite band of my generation just keeps slaying. 2. "Bleeds" Wednesday. I love everything about this band/extended scene. "Pick Up That Knife" is my song of the year. 3. "Big Ugly" Fust. Part of the Asheville scene as well. One of the most straight up "alt country" albums in a minute. 4. "Snocaps" Snocaps. Basically a Waxahatchee record. Which is awesome for me. 5. "Getting Killed" Geese. A fucked up train wreck with inexplicable hooks. Like the best indie stuff of the past few years, I feel like it's chasing Ditch-era Neil Young. In particular "Vampire Blues". 6. "Black Dog & The Wandering Boy" James McMurtry. Took me awhile to accept this wasn't quite Horses & the Hounds level, but there are some incredible songs here. 7. "Little Crosses" Joe Stamm Band. These dudes just keep doing excellent heartland rock. 8. "Bad Reputation" Lance Roark. Turnpike's understudy with a batch of impossibly catchy, well, heartland rock. 9. "Corn Queen" Hailey Whitters. Stupid catchy country that's just polished enough to get radio play, but the songwriting is so far beyond anything else on the radio. She writes about the rural Midwest as well as anyone. 10. "Snipe Hunter" Tyler Childers. I don't think it's his masterpiece, but it is undeniably the most fun record he's ever put out. If you can't jam "Eatin' Big Time" or "Bitin' List", we can't be friends.
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Left Behind: A Quick Dose Of Post Big 12 Reality
I'd believe every one north of OK State. UH at 81% is some serious fucking comedy though.