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I saw Dave Matthews open for Big Head Todd and the Monsters at Bates in...maybe 94 or 95?

I've been on a tear in DC lately: Dwight Yoakum last month: Dwight was great. He flew through the set, which is good, it was long, but the band was tight as hell, and encored Suspicious Minds. The real revelation was the Mavericks. One of the best opening acts I've seen in years and took me back to when they were the new thing in the 90s. Bleachers a couple of weeks ago @ the Anthem. Crazy good show. Just balls out full showman stuff for 2.5 hours. Dueling Saxophones, Two drumkits, multilevel stage. Jack Antonoff puts on a first class live show. Camera Obscura at the 9:30 a week ago. It was......not good. Traceyanne Campbell had trouble staying in tune and seemed to be fighting with the band. We left after "French Navy" and" Lloyd, I'm ready to be Heartbroken," which they thankfully played before the encore. Future Islands: Excellent. He's kinda of a weird dude, and I have no idea how his knees have held up over the years, but gotdamn "Seasons" goes hard.

I realized this is my list as well. Feels really weird.

I think in another 10 years, people will look back on the LOTR movies with more than a bit of cringe. They are bloated, silly at times, and often over the top in a way that I don't think ages well. It did launch a lot of careers and the Moria scene in Fellowship still slams and goes very hard, but the follow up Hobbit movies (and King Kong) highlight that Jackson kinda caught lightening in a bottle. Master and Commander, Fog of War, & Lost in Translation were all in that same Oscar class and have aged so much better than Return of the King.

"That is just mean. Mean man." is a regular saying in my house. I think I'm the only person who knows where it's from, but my kids and wife use as well when somebody is being particularly salty.

Late to this, but that Wine bar before you hit the exit is pretty solid. Mostly because it's so expensive it keeps the riff raff out.

In all honesty, Hunter might be able to get a decent side business going in prison...

My question: What did the Founder's specifically say about gun purchase forms? What was James Madison's written thoughts? As I understand it, only gun regs that are constitutional must have been specifically understood in both a historical and modern context by the founder's themselves.

I thought it was enjoyable enough, but light as air. I started to forget portions of it before the credits were even finished. It was basically plain Lays potato chips. Fine, I guess.

They said this:

lol. Kinda enjoyed the last two episodes in a “so bad it’s good” sorta way. Once I accepted all the r/free folk predictions we’re gonna come true, I just embraced the “burn this shit to the ground and let’s be as absurdist as possible along the way”. And the show gave us Natalie Dormer, the actress obsession I didn’t know I needed:

Watched Civil War last night. That Jesse Plemons scene is going to stay with me awhile. Wowzer.

Este. ATJ just passed Florence Pugh as my favorite actress working. I was captivated from start to finish. Loved the little Road Warrior callback/references.

Just a reminder: Kerry and Romney were leading at this point in 2004 and 2012. By all means, make sure your local firearms dealer is able to put a new motor on the wake boat, but also, bit of moderation.

St. Elmo's Fire remains a first class entertaining bad movie. It's a fucking blast to get couch drunk and howl at. Rob Lowe with a fucking saxophone on his back

The wife and I were howling at that.

Fantastic movie. I basically finished it and immediately wanted to watch it again. There was so much meta stuff going on in it that you’re going to be discovering stuff for years on rewatch. The Hooper jump was 🧑‍🍳.

Este

Lol, as long as you are paying full out of state Tuition, Maryland will fucking let anyone in

There's been rumors forever of Westlake kids living on their parent's South Texas Dear Camps for their Senior year and going to whatever public HS serviced it to avoid the competition for a UT auto admit. I have no idea whether it's true or not. It was always some Ferris Bueller 32 Flavors type story. Usually told in the same breath as the similar "They got into Duke/Vandy but not UT" fable.

It’s hard to overstate how much Grand Scene Theft of the First Degree Rick Moranis committed in that movie.

Yeah, the whole "abusing a public space" thing starts to sound like Aggies and their grass rules. To me, if you don't want them actually camping, like @Brisketexan said, I'd pull the leaders aside day 1 and say "You can't sleep here, that's just the rules. Here's what we can do: Facilities will set up a floor/grass protecting cover, and we will allow y'all to set up early in the morning and help facilitate tear down at night. We can even get some porta johns in here and allow groups to donate food and such during the day. Y'all have to be out of here two days before graduation, period, so we can clean and set up. That's non-negotiable and we will crack skulls if you try and cross us on it. Anyone who crosses the two day mark will also be expelled, without recourse.

WIthout weighing in on the UT protests, there is a precedent for tent protests that turned into a problem: Occupy Wall Street, which started out as a legitimate protest (I worked a block from the McPherson Square encampment) and eventually turned into just a homeless/unhoused community that the NPS had to clear away. I'm not saying that's a thing here. But if I was a University administrator, once Spring term was over, I'd clear out any community to prevent it from becoming a public health nuisance. Again, in the case of UT, it sorta feels like they went right to the "clearing out" portion without some of the interim steps that usually occur with a protesting group. But I haven't followed it super closely.

Hello, I'm having a slow day, so I thought I'd do some education to distract everyone yelling at each other about the Campus protests. For those that don't know, every major rule or regulation (but not Executive Order) is potentially subject to the Congressional Review Act. In short: the CRA allows Congress to overturn any rule by law, in an expedited and filibuster proof procedure. It must be signed into law by the President, and if successful, prevents future administration's from substantially similar efforts. There is a time limit to when it can be used. This year that day is probably May 22. For simplicities sake, this year, if the Biden Administration wants to prevent the next Congress and future President Trump from overturning a rule or regulation, the rule needs to be finalized and printed before Memorial Day. This is why you are seeing daily rules about health, labor, environment being released. In 2015, the Obama administration was lazy about the CRA and lost over a dozen rules because they thought Hilary was going to win.