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South Austin

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  1. He’s in the Grifter Hall of Fame.
  2. Oh fucking Christ.
  3. The constant barrage of texts and emails from his first failed campaign built up such a relationship between us that the second go-around my spam filters let him straight through.
  4. I do it about once a week, but on an elliptical. 30 second sprints with a minute rest in between for 15 minutes, followed by about 10 minutes of lower body stretching, then some quick core work to finish. It’s a nice break in the middle of my weight training.
  5. I wonder if aggy reads this post and the "award" in the same condescending and satirical tone that I do.
  6. Currently reading. I've known much about his life and mission in the many documentaries I've seen about the civil rights movement, but have never taken a deep dive. He was truly an incredible man, and his disciplined commitment to nonviolent opposition is still inspiring. And I know the older I get the less I'm aware of how many more years ago the Jim Crow era was still firmly established in American life. But it still seems like only a short while ago in our nation's history that America was unabashedly shitting all over the Black population, backed by our legal institutions and elected leaders. The writer doesn't hold back on his extra-marital affairs, which were more numerous than I had understood. And it's amazing how brazen the FBI was at the time in obtaining information on those affairs through extensive wiretapping. It's also a remarkable commentary of that time that the FBI shared with certain media outlets some of those tapes in which King was talking to his mistresses or to other men about his sexual exploits, and nobody in the press wanted to publish them. Today, the media would be blasting that in lightening speed. I'm about 70% through, and I'm surprised MLK made it to 1968.
  7. Goddam our state Democratic party is a huge piece of dysfunctional shit.
  8. I have a shitload of invermectin paste leftover from the pandemic.
  9. ESPN early 2026 draft projection has Cleveland picking Cabe Klubnik No. 1. Lulz. ESPN
  10. No shit. Didn’t you all read the backgrounds of some of the evil fucksticks on his DOGE team?
  11. I just jerked off a lot at that age. Focusing on form is key.
  12. Trump in an “OU 77, aggy 0” type beatdown.
  13. Governor Pillen, why do you say you feel trapped in a man’s body?
  14. His floor for losing his virginity is 62 years old.
  15. I can only offer a summer perspective. I’m not a skier, and have only vacationed in mountain towns during the summer. This was my first trip to Park City, and I’ve also been to Breckenridge and Crested Butte. Compared to each other, they have their pros and cons. Park City is by far the easiest to get to. It’s a 2.75 hour direct flight from Austin, the rental cars are on site at the SLC airport, and it’s an easy 40-minute drive to Park City. Breckenridge is a tougher haul. When you get to Denver, you shuttle practically to a different town for a rental car, and then it’s a 2-hour drive to Breck. Crested Butte is somewhere in between – layover in Denver to catch a small plane to Gunnison, and from there about a 40-minute drive to CB. I think Crested Butte has more charm, but that’s purely a matter of personal taste. It’s the smallest of the towns, so the dining options aren’t as plenty. There’s much more to do in Breckenridge and Park City, and the Olympic Park in Park City is far better than the adventure park in Breck. The hiking in CB is great, but it seems like there are more options in Breck and PC. Regarding the whiteness in PC, yes, that’s generally true for most mountain towns. But I noticed a lot more nonwhites in PC, perhaps because it wasn’t ski season. It took me a couple days to get over the fact that I was in the state of Utah. But I didn’t get a sense of “Mormonness” around town. It seems like most of the locals – the rafting guides, servers, bartenders, art gallery staff – are from places other than Utah, and wanted to retreat to a mountain/ski town. If it’s any indication, there were pride flags hanging along Main Street. The beer flows abundantly in PC. I could go the rest of my life without returning to Breckenridge. But I’ll want to go back to Crested Butte and Park City.
  16. This weather doesn’t suck.
  17. A courtroom silent-farter with bad hair coloring application and a secret minority interest in a Philadelphia landscaping company.
  18. Yup. They’ve got uniforms and everything. It’s really great.
  19. Operation Midnight Hammer???? Sounds like a porn title.
  20. @SydneyCarton, read 11/22/63. You’ll love it. It has a nice detour into Derry. And I recall his depiction of 1960s Lower Greenville Dallas is a bit Derry-like. And I’m a big fan of Rose Madder, though it doesn’t get the level of recognition of most of his other works. I’ve read it twice.
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