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Looks like only 2021 saw us get through July without a significant net drop in water levels. This is the only significant net increase in water level in July that I can remember. It never rains like this in July.

To be fair, they are rewarded in a large amount of top-shelf poon as football players at the University of Texas. Can't put a price on that.

It’s been a while since I’ve posted in this thread. Was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in April - which should probably be the official disease of this thread. So no white bread, refined carbs for me. Had to pour one out for chili cheese dogs. But sausage is a-ok. Opa’s jalapeño and cheddar links with some shitty red wine, which I’m drinking because I also get gout now, and wine is better for gout than beer. Actually, what should be the official disease of the Shank thread? Gout or Type 2? Either way, I’m sponsored.

Until there is news, and until we unfuck ourselves re: DT recruiting, then yeah. Probably.

Which is fucking ludicrous. Dragons have never sought out and self-selected non-Targaryens for their riders. Rhaenyra thought to match her unaffiliated dragons with non-Targaryen riders last week. They tried it with one guy and it didn't work. Then, immediately after, the dragon decides "Fuck that. I'm just gonna go pick someone" despite the fact that it's never happened before? It's absurd.

How would the dragon know the straits are dire? Is the dragon fluent in human language and people explained that "Hey Seasmoke. Times are tough. We're gonna need to pair you up". (and he was like, 'I get it, but lemme just torch your first choice before I go pick this black dude'). A dragon selecting its own non-Targaryen rider has never happened before. It's unprecedented, as we're lead to believe.

So up until this point, it had never occurred to Rhaenyra that "non-Targaryens with questionable lineage" could potentially be dragon riders. They find one of those dudes, and he gets torched by Seasmoke. Then Seasmoke goes out for a casual post-torch flight only to decide that he was going to select his own dragon rider. And he does this coincidentally just after Rhaenyra determined that this was a possibility? Why didn't this happen before with any other unclaimed dragon? What a fucking coincidence.

The Mount Rushmore of Country Music Songwriters would be tough. Hank's gotta be on there just because of who he is, historically, and what he put out in such a short period of time. Harlan Howard is probably a lock. Willie is also probably a lock. Dean Dillon would be up for consideration. Dolly Parton as well. Bobby Braddock certainly has a case to make. My Mount Rushmore would definitely include Townes, but I know that wouldn't be the case for the average country music fan. Cindy Walker had some hits that are in the cannon, but I don't think she did enough to make it to the top four. Then how do you take into consideration modern country "songwriters" where, much like modern pop, every song by a major artist has like 4 people that get a co-songwriting credit. Guys like Shane McAnally and Ashley Gorley are credited with more charting singles than anyone from a previous era. But how much credit do they deserve?

cheesesteak bender is a good band name.

True. But all the rain went into the Buchanan watershed while very little fell in the Travis watershed. Forecast went from 1.5 inches this morning down to about a quarter of an inch for Austin. Although it looks like another round is supposed to come later tonight, so fingers crossed...

Forcefield strikes again.

https://www.heb.com/product-detail/h-e-b-bakery-white-submarine-rolls-4-ct/475190 They're a little bigger, a little more flexible than the bolillos (which are more brittle and tend to break apart when cut through the middle) and it's easier to hollow out some of the bread in the middle to make room for a cheesesteak or a meatball sub. I wish the baguettes were a little shorter and wider. Something between the baguette and the french bread, in terms of width, would be perfect.

I think the submarine sandwich rolls that HEB bakes in-house are superior to the bolillos for cheesesteaks. The telera rolls at Central Market are even better. I've used all of them in the past.

The best thing at Matt's - by far and away - are the asadero tacos. The next best thing is the chicken fried steak cowboy style (I think that's what it's called. It comes with chili gravy on the top). I wouldn't fuck with enchiladas or traditional tex mex stuff there.

def creepy.

I scrolled through the thread and I don't think this has been posted yet, and I was gonna say I prefer Urge Overkill's version of "Girl, You'll be a Woman Soon" to Neil Diamond's, but I just listened to them both and I don't know that I think that anymore. It's a pretty faithful rendition, and I think they're both pretty fucking cool

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?

Didn't know I was in the Houston electricity thread.

Shhhhhhhhhh....... Those of us that live near there appreciate not having to wait in ridiculously long lines.

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.

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.

I can do that at fucking Target for 1/10th the price.

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.