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My ticket montage was a backdrop I made for a flyer for my sons HS Talent Show. Here are the other tickets I have. (The montage photo's are the little pile to the right) I also saw Chuck Berry. Pls notice Row AAA, front row. He stepped on my right hand. ("Are you in show business? Well, then, why don't you get your friggin' feet off the stage?" - Lili Von Shtupp) One of my most prized possessions. I did not go to the Texas Pop Festival (I was 13). I did see ~ 3/4 of the band that played. I never saw Hendrix or John Lennon, but saw most of the Real Rock-n-Roll Hall of Fame. I have many fond memories of the bands I saw, and/or remember seeing. Being a freshman w/ Earl and living in Jester East and watching Texas Football are my favorite memories.

Thank you. I know more than I did when I woke up.

Music and Austin are synonymous. Always has been, always will be. Nothing like growing up in Austin in the 60's & going to UT in the 70's. The Music, and the puurrty girls used to ooze out of the cracks in the ground. Ok guys, do better. It was the Austin Opry House, not Opera. Austin used to have the Coliseum (fight nights, some concerts) and the Municipal Auditorium, where I saw my first concert, Led Zeppelin in 1969. I still remember them playing Dazed & Confused as we migrated from the balcony to the lower floor. Music and Austin are synonymous. Always has been, always will be. Nothing like growing up in the 60's & going to UT in the 70's. Music, and the puurrty girls use to ooze out of the cracks in the ground. The Armadillo (KLBJ night for 93 ¢) & Mother Earth were my go to clubs, and too many other venues to mention; a few bucks to see a young SRV @ Soap Creek Saloon or the Rome Inn, Marica Ball & Nancy Griffith @ the Backroom, the Skunks and the Huns @ Raul's, ZZ Top's Rompin' Stompin' Barn Dance & BBQ @ DKR, The Broken Spoke & Silver Dollar for some country (converted me from Levi's to Wranglers), 15¢ beer on Wednesdays @ the Bucket in Tri-Towers) and yes, even some Disco at the Green House and the White Rabbit. We also drove to San Antonio, Houston & Dallas for the occasional concert as needed. Fun times. I'm still above ground, I graduated, and my GPA is NOYB. A few of my bona fides ... I did go the the Dixie Chicken once ~ '76, where we schooled some aggies on playing Foosball while we discussed Earl Campbell >> George Woodard. Umn no, there was no live entertainment in CS.

So (i) is Dallas a suburb of Ft. Worth, or (ii) is Ft. Worth a suburb of Dallas, or (iii) neither? I don’t think anybody in Boulder thinks affordable housing.is a problem. There is none, by design. They used to “control/limit” population growth ~ 1%/yr. I imagine it is less than that now. They never wanted growth. Buying a bungalow on a decent size lot, tearing it down, and building a McMansion doesn’t happen. Boulder hasn’t had a middle class in ~ 40-50 years. Rich people and students, most of which are trust fund babies. The people I knew who owned property in Boulder also owned a winery in Napa. The young girl who asked me for spare change in 1993 had braces and diamond earrings. Colorado is nothing but an outdoor option. I was born in Austin, and lived on a beach across the bay from Destin, Florida in the early 60’s, and have seen what going from a picturesque, pristine paradise to a people populated poop pot looks like. Boulder is unique.

I’m going to give that a big NO. “The People’s Republic of Boulder” is not a suburb, Boulder made a decision ~ 50 years ago to create a buffer so they would never become anything like a suburb of Denver. Along the Boulder Turnpike and the Front Range, the City of Boulder has bought enough land over time to create ~ 5 mile buffer between Boulder and the inevitable growth coming from Denver. Other than being in Colorado, Boulder has little in common w/ Denver and the it’s suburbs. It’s so sad to see the foresight Boulder planners had compared to the development cluster fuck that has consumed Austin. I’ve never been to Allen, but I imagine it is similar to the countless well to do suburbs that border most major cities in America. Having lived on the edge of the buffer in Boulder County, please don’t put the City of Boulder in the same sentence as some Texas suburb, to avoid anyone thinking there might be any similarity between the two.

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RIP Mike Leach. A national treasure gone too soon.

The Anschutz family has been in oil & gas and real estate since the 1900's. Philip Anschutz bought out his father in the 60's, and invested in stocks, railroads and real estate, including 9,000,000 acres along the Utah-Wyoming border. Amoco discovered oil on the Anschutz Ranch in the late 70's, which eventually became a billion-barrel+, with a "B", oil pocket, the largest oil field discovery in the United States since Prudhoe Bay in 1968. His railroad interests included downtown real estate and warehouses in Denver, and other midwestern cities that became very lucrative in the downtown revitalizations in the early 90's. He used his railroad right-of-ways to lay fiber optic cables across the country (Quest Communications). Anschutz has two private cars at the end of the Ski Train from Denver to Winter Park. Phil was one of those guys who made "fuck you" money everywhere he looked. Anschutz and the string of heirs have many ties to Colorado, Denver, and CU. The CU student population has been full of trust fund babies for many years and while that wealth may or may not manifest in the university endowment, it is there. We lived outside of Boulder from '93-97. Bronco's and Buffs winning = Exceptional football atmosphere. I like Deion. He will do well if he listens to the football people around him. And Ralphie is in the top tier of football mascots.

Austin Venues Armadillo World Headquarters, (used to sell more beer than the Astrodome) Original Schlotzsky's

When visiting San Antonio, Gerald Ford thought he would be go local and eat a tamale w/ his hands. Nobody told him to remove the husk first. Among the many things that cost him the election.

Rylanders (grocery) Minimax (grocery) Nickerson Farms (hiway food) Ritters (gas stations) Saigon eggrolls (food cart on the drag) Schlitz Screaming Yellow Zonkers (Glazed popcorn)

Fuck Russia!

104 rushing yds in first qtr

Wow, Q stepped into a throw

Great D

2 first qtr rushing TD’s. Who woulda thunk?

Not the same, but I remember the first time I moved back to Texas from Oklahoma. Crossing the Red River and seeing "Welcome to Texas", surrounded by Texas license plates, and the Longhorn shaped rest stops. A stress or burden you never knew was there is just lifted off your shoulders, lifting your spirits because you are home. When someone says a foreign invader, I used to think of Mexico or Canada. Typical American. That concept changed when we went to Manderscheid, in Rhineland, Germany. Two castles ~ 1,000 years old about 1,000 feet apart, separated by a shallow valley with a wooded creek in the middle. Still hard to grasp that Eurasians have been fighting over the same "dirt" for thousands of years. But it's not just the dirt, it's the descendents of generations of dead soldiers, raped women, murdered parents, and orphaned children. Fuck Russia.

I saw this guy 4 days in here at the house.