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irishtexan

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  1. Man, that Holmon Wiggins is a fucking visionary. He likes his WRs to be fast and quick? Why hasn't anyone else thought of that? Also love that Lockett and Terry look to be headed "elsewhere". Where would that be, Jason?
  2. Didn't know I was in the Houston electricity thread.
  3. Shhhhhhhhhh....... Those of us that live near there appreciate not having to wait in ridiculously long lines.
  4. He'd have to post a copy of his paystub to confirm. That's how you know someone's a nurse and makes $100k a year. It's like unnecessary roughness. The guy responding always gets the flag. Don't fucking do it.
  5. I'll eat my hat if either of those restaurants get two stars. Barley Swine is great, but I've never been to Pasta Bar. But neither are not doing anything that 200 other restaurants in America aren't already doing. Nowhere in Austin offers menus as sophisticated, or the level of service required to earn two stars. Two star restaurants tend to be $300+ per person tasting menus with a $100+ wine pairing. That just doesn't really exist in Austin because the people here are (traditionally) unpretentious and don't tend to value that kind of dining experience (or price) so it historically hasn't been offered. We're a taco truck (and now $17 cocktail) kinda town. But that's changing and we might see something like that in the future. There are EXCELLENT restaurants in Chicago (my reference point as I lived there for 10 years and ate out for pretty much every single meal) much better than Barley Swine that did not earn a star. Avec and Girl and the Goat were Bib Gourmands. Hell, Publican was just a "selected restaurant" and it's comparable to Barley Swine. Point being, it's REALLY fucking hard to earn just a single star and you have to be doing something truly innovative with exemplary service to get a single star, much less two.
  6. I can do that at fucking Target for 1/10th the price.
  7. I know I'm late responding to this, but I plan on buying tickets to this show like 5 minutes before showtime on stubhub or whatever. There is no fucking way they're selling that arena out at $35 per ticket, much less the $250 they want to charge. I mean, GA Pit admission is $480 per ticket! I bet you'll be able to find tickets for like $15 day of the show.
  8. HOURS MONDAY- CLOSED TUESDAY-THURSDAY 5:00 - 9:00 PM FRIDAY 5:00-10:00 PM SATURDAY LUNCH AND DINNER 2:00 PM -10:00 PM SUNDAY BRUNCH BUFFET 10:00 AM- 1:30PM SUNDAY DINNER 4:00 PM- 8:00 PM
  9. Eater Austin predicts 19 restaurants will earn a star. https://austin.eater.com/2024/7/16/24199218/michelin-texas-austin-stars-predictions-2024 There are 21 restaurants in Chicago with a star, 24 in DC. I think expecting Austin to get 19 in year one, with a food scene that is much more homogenous and much less mature than dining in either Chicago and/or DC, is delusional. They're predicting 8 local sushi/omakase restaurants will earn a star. And while Michelin seems to over-reward Japanese/sushi restaurants, I think Austin Omakases will be universally dinged a bit due to inability to source the freshest fish in Austin. For example, Chicago has only 2 Japanese/Omakase restaurants that earned a star, and they're similarly-located in the Central US away from access to the freshest salt-water fish. But we'll see, I guess. I think the number of restaurants that earn starts will largely depend on how Michelin values modern barbecue restaurants. I could see anywhere from zero to five restaurants earn a star - Franklin, Interstellar, Leroy & Lewis, KG BBQ, and Distant Relatives (the last two because they may value the fusion of KG and the cultural/historical component of Distant Relatives' mission). I'd guess Franklin and Interstellar are most likely to earn a star. FWIW, Eater doesn't predict any bbq restaurant will earn a star...
  10. If he was born in '78, he would have been there from '95 or '96 through 1999/2000. So it's much, much worse.
  11. Oregon is being very mean to us and I'm very upset! Stop picking on us Oregon!
  12. It's Willie. It'll always be Willie.
  13. Thirteen might be a top-10 all time song for me. It's fucking perfection.
  14. Sincerely appreciate that you synthesize the key points of these verbose updates. Thank you for that.
  15. So good. Can't wait for the new season in September. They're the anti Severance: Season 1 - April '22 Season 2 - December '22 Season 3 - November '23 Season 4 - September '24
  16. Sooooo, uhhhhh, what did I miss that I should be irrationally angry about?
  17. Have 4 WRs drafted in the first round in the last three years. Have 10 players drafted in the first round in the last 5 years. Win an average of 11 games a year over like a 20 year span.
  18. Looks like Bill and Ted's but not good. Although Taika and Jemaine's involvement is intriguing.
  19. I mean, I'm gonna watch it. I didn't think the new Top Gun was gonna be good, but it was. So maybe this will be good too? But, I'm not too optimistic.
  20. apparently everyone in King's Landing goes to bed at sundown and no one can see anything at night.
  21. 1) He seemed to always want to go out of state and was never really interested in us. 2) North Shore. 3) EXCLAMATION POINTS!!
  22. Finished this season last night. Some observations. Also, I'm not going to spoiler this shit because you shouldn't be reading this thread if you haven't already finished the season: S3 was weaker than the previous two seasons, but I still think this is one of the best shows on TV right now. Some of my feelings are somewhat contradictory. I don't necessarily mind that they take a lot of time to develop the characters, and I thought Tina's backstory episode was one of the best ones of the season. Unlike many others, I really liked Ice Chips. HOWEVER, I am a little frustrated that we're seemingly in pretty much the same spot we're in at the start of the season. I have no idea how much time has elapsed since "friends and family" at the close of S2. Two weeks? Two months? Six months? Obviously long enough for some of the local online publications to perform reviews that we didn't get to "read" but they only flashed to in the final two episodes to let us know that opinions are mixed and that the food can be brilliant at times and sloppy and unfocused at other times. We spent 40% of the season on backstories/character development - the premier (which was beautifully shot and I really enjoyed, but as Sepinwall pointed out, we already know Carmy's backstory), Ice Chips, Tina's story, and Funeral. There's a lot of stuff in this show that just doesn't make sense. How is Syd being recruited to be (what I assume will be) CDC or sous at a place that will be helmed by the CDC at a place like Ever? What's her previous experience? Running a catering business out of her apartment? She doesn't have the bona fides to be recruited to that position. I like Syd's character and think the actress does a great job, but they haven't really fleshed out her story or given her character the opportunity to demonstrate the regard we're led to believe her contemporaries hold of her. The show runners are really doing her character a disservice. I expect her to get a similar episode that they gave to Marcus in Season 2 and Tina in Season 3, and that she'll be more assertive in S4. Ritchie was at Ever for 4 days, and he made such an amazing impression on everyone that he was offered to run table service for the final meal, much less even be INVITED to the funeral dinner and get shout-outs by everyone on the staff like he's MVP? I could suspend disbelief during the initial episode because it advanced the plot. But this was fucking ridiculous. Claire adds nothing to the show. They've unnecessarily shoehorned a love story to further push the narrative that Carmy is a closed-off, emotionally-damaged genius. We don't need that. You've established that through things we already know about him - Mikey's suicide, the 7 fishes episode, the Joel McHale story, etc. Claire's character is a waste of time on a show that already wastes a lot of time. Unpopular opinion - there was too much Faks in this season. They took a hilarious bit and just whacked the audience over the head with their comedic relief over and over this season. I actually liked when it was just Matty Matheson as the one Fak (him stalling with the electrician while talking about his favorite Replacements records was a highlight of the series for me, so far). I guess they have to find a way to justify this series being nominated in the "Comedy" category at the Emmys. John Cena as the third Fak didn't work either. And I fucking love John Cena (who doesn't? also, speaking of Cena, when are we gonna get another season of Peacemaker?) Smoking in the restaurant right before the Tribune photographer shows up? I get that they're trying to demonstrate this isn't the tightest-run ship, but why send Ritchie to the "Ever School of Perfection" to have him overlook how monumentally stupid that was. That really annoyed me. I'm not going to dwell too much on the criticisms above if Season 4 will be released before the end of the year, as I understand they filmed S3 an S4 back-to-back. This might be like a mid-season all-star break with an opportunity to really progress the plot later this year.
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