Homercles

Awesome that you won’t have to pull out the old paper wheel to calculate distance and time remaining in your chem trail tanks

Man…knew this team had some glaring shortcomings that were due to be exposed but didn’t expect 28-0. Probably a good thing I haven’t been able to watch many games this year, been dead by now. Got kids shit all day so can avoid this shitshow.

Shouldn’t he fire himself now, or is he a full time onsite Twitter worker despite SpaceX/Tesla? Thought he said remote workers should find a new job.

The only way I really use Twitter is via other sites, like here, where people post tweets…so I don’t really have a dog in this fight. That being said, if Musk really does drastically reduce moderation and it becomes a heavyweight Parler then best of luck to them…because I think you’ll see advertisers bail as all the fuckboi trolls inundate it with trash, as appears to already be happening. So out comes the popcorn, I’ll be watching on the sidelines and will be pleasantly surprised if this doesn’t go sideways within six months.

For anyone in RRISD who has not voted yet, PLEASE do research on the board candidates and actually vote on those. The fuckwit clowns in that OneFamily PAC need to be roundly rejected, Walter. My wife is at district and recommends these folks: https://accessrrisd.org/our-endorsements/?gclid=CjwKCAjw2OiaBhBSEiwAh2ZSPwU6SG3c1jnkixwzcar2jwC1coUoWoYeOIBChRpuXbSbtBkNFQsX7hoCiN4QAvD_BwE You can bring in a printout or handwritten notes as needed. I’ve often skipped those items in the past but I am on a mission against this fuckbucket of QAnon, book banning, child beating (Zimmerman), anti-public school asshats. Of course my on-the-spectrum neighbor who drove for years with a giant Trump magnet on the back of his Honda pickup is canvassing for those losers like he’s advertising hookers in Vegas, using this dangerous pile of shit

Fuckin this. Did band freshman year at osu before I got a job, and remembered hearing all about the corps when I visited their campus a few years prior. So was stupidly legit excited to see wtf they were so proud of as we spent a lot of time each week working on shows for home games. At least a third of them didn’t even have mouthpieces on their instruments and it was this giant got damn block that shifted 15 yards, folded in on itself like a game of Snake on a Motorola Razr, and generally just sorta ambled back/forth. Having been a USAF brat who didn’t grow up around sports in the south, it was my first real clue that Aggy was a unique specimen to be studied and pitied. On the flip side was impressed by y’all’s band on the road trip here that year.

First reply is often the best…

Well, Ray, when someone asks you if you’re a god you say YES

The sheer scale of ‘things’ in space absolutely blows my mind. Isn't this structure at least a light year in overall length? In addition to being a gorgeous image with mind-bending implications, I’d love to know what it actually looks like in visible light even though the IR data has more scientific value…I’d assume redshift is not a factor given how ‘close’ it is. Provided the Great Filter is behind us (which I think is unlikely), the only reason I’d want to live ‘forever’ would be to get the answers to questions I hope mankind ultimately answers…a unified theory of everything, is heat death the legit end state for the universe, do strange stars exist (outside of Randy Quaid), is our singularity concept what actually happens in the core of a black hole, etc. Given all that, the JWST is a small step towards better understanding of our universe and I’m so glad to see it’s incredibly delicate launch going so well.

Sunday Woke up late, cooked breakfast and left about 1230p from RR. Obviously getting in was a hot, crowded mess but was able to walk in with a soft flask of tea vodka for my wife. No more ice bags at Karbach tent sadly. We were all drained anyways so not much serious partying to be had anyways. Bitched at the Tito’s tent about my useless prize and was in for a drink + piss in the AC but the drinks just weren’t the same. We left after about 20 minutes and I finally tried some of the kimchi fries. Got up close for Oliver Tree and had some fun with him, but crowds were already uncomfortably crazy so left at 420 to cross the park for Spoon. Spoon always puts on a good show and as someone else noted it’s been fun to watch them become a big act. Wanted to hear Can You So Next To Me but still caught Camera and a few other tunes so all good there. Big Wild was another act where I thought k knew their music well but were a whole other animal live. Great, chewy jams and one of those excellent ‘too hot to get crazy but enough zoom to keep me awake during peak heat/crowds’. Walked back for… Paramore. Ain’t It Fun and Misery Business are about all I know, but heard they were great live and found our base almost overrun with teenagers…mostly bitching about their poor choice in footwear. At 42 I dress in cargo shorts, hiking shoes, hat and t-shirt so will never understand wearing white boots and jeans out there. Marcus Mumford was good, was actually surprised how much Mumford and Sons stuff he played but made sense. Just another chance to sit down for a bit before catching… ZHU was awesome. Opposite of Flume in that I was pleasantly surprised by the set, and was jamming out quite nicely while watching the Cowboys implode. Group heard a few RHCP songs and decided we were out. I was done at that point myself. Overall the undercards really carried the weekend, the grounds were 2005-levels bad and my first thing each night was a shower + heavy nasal rinse. This was my 16th ACL, missing only 2013 when we were still in maternity ward with my son, so I’ll go whoever is on the lineup. Standing in a field with beer, music, my friends and wife is my happy place. The rules keep getting tighter and the prices keep rising though, but I spend more on 3-days of childcare than the tickets themselves so whatever.

Saturday: Were planning to tailgate with my horn friends but we got a late start and the usual parking place filled up right as we got there at 945…so no stopping by Surly tailgate this time. Dropped my friends off near DKR then parked on Barton, got to the gates at 1015 and just waited. So we went the distance that day Security was a lot easier but I wasn’t trying to sneak anything except gummies in my wallet. They never checked pockets. The day started off great as I won a Tito’s Fanny pack and two wristbands for their tent, hung out for about two hours watching football. Turns out they let anyone in before noon, but we enjoyed it anyways for a couple hours…yet when we came back later they were closed for a private event and the wristbands became useless. Stupid. The second ‘craft beer’ tent near BMI miraculously sold us bags of ice for $5. Full on 16lb bags. Cheapest thing in the park and saved my crews ass all weekend long. Stay a lot more hydrated when I have ice water. Lido Pimienta - Heard this song “Eso Que Tu Haces” on a somewhat famous scene from the tv show Tuca and Bertie, and my 9yo fell in love with her music so figured I’d hang at the Barton area for awhile listening to her. Wife went with me, we got up real close and enjoyed her whole show. That little pocket over there is one of the better additions to the park over time…easy drinks, food, pisser. I got caught up watching OSU shit the bed against TCU at the beer tent, and walked out to a wall of people jammed between Honda/Miller Lite. Listened to a little Boy George, and bolted back to our home base near the T Mobile handicap platform. Death Cab For Cutie - been loving these guys for almost twenty years, was grateful to hear a few favorites like Black Sun, Cath, and I Will Follow You Into The Dark. Performance wasn’t anything amazing, still miss Chris Walla. During Death Cab my wife and I are pretty sure we saw someone who was literally dying. Dude comes cutting through, dragging his rag doll friend who was randomly grinning at everyone but my wife said ‘he doesn’t look good’…suddenly rag doll stops moving, stares up at the sky, goes a scary ashen gray/yellow and stops breathing right there. Went from yelling ‘set him down’ to a group of us hauling/shoving him into the med tent where I lost sight of him. Be careful out there…think he needed narcan. The War On Drugs - after that shitshow of a crowd and watching someone OD, we did the long March back to base to listen to these guys. Told my friend they sounded like a mix between Bryan Adam’s and The Heartbreakers. Beautiful songs with great lyrics, just the thing to veg out to and hydrate up. Gummies give me cotton mouth which is actually good, I drink a ton of water and take an alcohol break for 3-4 hours. Pink / Flume - Crowds were full tilt boogie at this point. I turned around to move a water bottle and by the time I turned back, whole crew had vanished into the ether. After twenty minutes of ‘we are by the tall guy with the pink hat, near the Amex thing’…I gave up and walked to check out Flume, who I’ve heard over the years on Pandora. Yeah no thanks. I only caught three songs and am a huge EDM fan, but what I heard was the worst of glitch/bro step stuff that is not in my wheelhouse. So eventually caught up with wife/friends and really enjoyed Pink’s performance, including the wire act. Everybody loves her and I can see why, consummate professional performance and at least pretended to want to be there. Not quite bubblegum of course, but a good pop show and I didn’t need to be wowed by artistry in music by that point.

Friday: Well it finally happened, got busted trying to sneak in vodka for my wife. At the Barton entrance they made everyone take the chairs out of the bags and legit opened the motherfuckers…so my ‘hide it in the padded headrest’ trick fell on its ass. Never seen security so serious before. Grounds were a hot mess. We all prefer W1 but schedule around the RRS most years, but from what I’ve heard it wouldn’t have mattered…heard it was nasty last weekend too. That mulch down by the wine/mini-craft beer area just leaves the area in a perpetual fog and walking through it can taste it. Fuck. Genesis Uwusu - Man that’s what I get for only listening to a song or two on an artist new to me…was loving on Gold Chains all week and figured a nice head-bobbing R&B kinda thing would be a chill way to kickoff Friday. The rest was awesome energy but not what I expected at all. L’Imperatrice - Lot of fun, and one of those acts I really wish played later because 5p and 93F isn’t quite where I wanna dance but I did anyways. That tune they closed with was a stellar EDM jam. Lily Rose - great energy, you can tell she could put out some hits with a little more time and possibly a better band around her. Love that little BMI stage Phoenix - A lot better show than the last time I saw them out there. You can tell they’re an experienced, professional band. Everything was tight and you know you have a good catalog when you can open with one of your biggest hits (Listomania) without losing the crowd right after. Some trippy tunes in there too, went well with my D9 gummy Purple Disco Machine - well he’s a dj playing mashup disco tunes and hosted the best people watching so far. After three songs we ended our grand tour of the west side of the park to go back to home base for a bit. Billy Strings - Right by our home base, and I’d heard of the awesomeness but the incredible talent of that band was still a shock. Not my cup of tea but I can still marvel. The Chicks - whatever. My wife was a fan of their catalog but said their set sucked, yet the group stayed until the end so we got stuck in the dirt death cloud leaving the Barton exit. I understand momentum is a thing on a bike, and they gotta get they swerve on if they want to make money…but pedicabs are some aggressive bitches, combined with a hundred zombie folks walking down the middle of the road makes driving Toomey back to Lamar a scary thing.

Looks like a Surly tailgate

I think that’s pretty fair, honestly. Given his tenure, sustained success and obvious value to the university he deserves to be up there. Will he ever win a natty? Probably not, and that 2011 team may be as close as we get…but he was inches away from a likely CFP berth last season and recent history shows consistent success is awfully hard to find on the market. I wish he’d throw out a little emotions during games. Wish whatever shortcoming he has would vanish when it comes to aggression against OU…tech played us like they had nothing to lose and it was a close one, wish we were more free wheeling in bedlam. Beyond anything quantitative, it’s been a lot of fun as an alum to watch his personality mellow and become more introspective over the years. He was a riot on the coaches channel during MNC time. Is mostly a class act and good representative of the university. Truly seems to believe in culture of the program and most kids will have a life after football. Warts and all, I'm glad he’s ours.

I wonder if Johnny Manziel got his ears from Daemon

That’s…optimistic. All signs point to the conference being a slugfest without a prime OU to point to as clear front runner. RRS was incredible but that game is often an outlier and I’ve never seen OU that shitastic…and as noted Sark’s road abilities outside of an electric cotton bowl hasn’t quite been settled yet. More power to ya if that level of optimism proves warranted. Seems no real clarity just yet on ‘how good’ most teams are in the BigXII right now…Tceh lost at NC State, Baylor at BYU, Texas to an Alabama which has issues, OSU/TCU had no ooc games of note. It’s time to see who emerges from the scrum over the middle of the season. Anyone with a favorable schedule and fewer injuries will have a distinct advantage…for example does Kansas even actually have any depth? I don’t think anyone should be self-crowning they asses yet but I’ve been burned so many times and lean pessimistic, so you do you

You could say the same about my Pokes, the noncon schedule has proven to be putrid. The win at Baylor is impressive but their offensive style fits into our defensive strength, and it took hobbling their QB to slow down a Tech team that was throwing haymakers. But those two wins are def more impressive than TCU’s overall resume given OU (their signature win) is sheep-fucking baaaaaadd (hats off to y’all for Red River Shutout but damn I’ve never seen a sadder attempt at wildcat in my life). TCU is another air raid team and Mason the DC better implement some press coverage because CMU/Tceh showed that a QB who can make quick reads against soft zone negates our strength at the DL. The defensive backfield is young and suddenly banged up, and continued the tradition of letting a backup QB in their first start look like Omaha Manning out there. So Duggan must be salivating. Then again Sanders seems to finally be hitting his groove with a stable of WRs and a passable OL (both also banged up), and won’t wilt at the pressure of playing on the road. Suspect running game as Jaylen Warren ain’t walking back through that door, may be time to give Ollie Gordon some more snaps so long as he doesn’t fumble again. I trust Gundy over whoever the coach is at TCU to make sound decisions under pressure so long as he can resist the voice of Les Miles School of Clock Management For Coaches Who Don’t Count Good. Special Teams are suddenly a strength as seen in the punt-driven safeties, KO TD and heads-up fair catch Saturday. Our S&C continues to be excellent as seen in the fourth last weekend. So the intangibles are there in a close game, as shown in recent years’ road-dog performances ATS. Overall -3 TCU seems about right, essentially pick-em + home field for frog. It’s a huge game early in the conference season. Beating OU propelled Frog into the conversation but that’s suddenly about as impressive as banging FitLump. I’m suddenly worried about injuries and our performance against a motivated, aggressive Air Raid team was not confidence inspiring. However good teams find ways to win when everything isn’t going their way, and I actually consider this a tougher test than Baylor given offensive style…so it’ll tell us a lot about both teams.

I hate that shit too, especially close to the stage beyond the no-chair zone. Don’t give me a dirty look if I step on the corner of your blanket that’s 10’ from the barricades when I’m trying to break free to take a piss. We setup our chairs off to the side between two stages, as a home base strategically located under a tree, away from any ‘rivers’ (of people) or pathways and near water/beer close to the VIP deck. People know where we typically are, come/go to see shows, and it’s a rallying point at the end of the night to police up our shit since I don’t trust cell signals out there to stay coordinated. I don’t even drink the Tito’s we bring in, prefer beer as getting sloppy out there is no fun anyways.

How was security? I’d heard it was pretty intense, but seems I hear that every year. Wives want us hauling in Tito’s in plastic flasks, normally bury it in chair bags…I’ll unzip it, they feel it up, but don’t make you remove the chairs.

I imagine there is one staffer at these rallies whose sole job is to find a black person and ensure they’re visible over Trump’s shoulder for the podium camera.

I need some tips from Daemon on sharpening my Wusthof knives.

Well…over 40k posts in 4 years, of course you’re ‘ubiquitous’. And given this thread and your rep/post ratio, seems likely a not insignificant chunk is drunken ranting…so ‘unfortunately’ isn’t a word I woulda chosen.

We knew they’d be a tough one, they’re strong in the passing game against our weak secondary and team probably due a wake up call after Baylor. What I didn’t expect was the offense to be butt at crunch time. Survive and advance…had a lot nail biters last year too. No easy outs this year in the conference. On a side note, loved watching the horns butt pirate the Sooners on national tv. Really enjoyed that.