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Ollie Slatt

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  1. Great article. The Dawes performance of Desperados Under the Eaves is really great. Here are a few other personal favorites.
  2. Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker The Band - Music From Big Pink Flying Burrito Brothers - Gilded Palace of Sin Jeff Buckley - Grace And the PJ, Son Volt, and Weezer mentions above are also spot on.
  3. Cornelius was no doubt better in this game. He at least made some good reads. But I am still skeptical. And the o line is not what it needs to be. From what we have seen so far, I expect about 8 wins. I will be surprised if we beat Boise, OU, or TCU. And I think we lose at least 1-2 other conference games. The only thing keeping me somewhat optimistic is that some of the other Big 12 teams look unimpressive so far. Hopefully we can put up a good showing against Boise. We don't know much about the team yet given the poor competition in the first two games. A win in that game would shift my perspective a good bit.
  4. If you want a hotel that feels old school with a cool/historic western motif bar, stay at the Driskill. You want a bit more hip and close to a lot of bars, then stay at the Van Zandt. A day of food for someone visiting Austin for the first time should look something like this: (1) Breakfast -- start the day with a breakfast taco. Veracruz All Natural is a good place for this. Taco Joint is another personal favorite. (2) Lunch - -get bbq. If you are not from Texas, then any of the following places will likely serve you the best bbq you have ever had: Franklin; Mickelthwait; LaBBQ; Kerlin; Leroy & Lewis; Valentina's (3) Nice dinner options -- you can't go wrong with Uchi; Odd Duck; Launderette; Justine's; Kemuri; or Suerte After all that, take your lady out two stepping. Broken Spoke if you don't mind other tourist, or White Horse if you don't mind hipsters.
  5. Some of your examples are clearly making the sign on purpose. But not all. I guarantee that was not Lyor Cohen's intent in this pic. I suspect the girl today was accidental. But with the shit the GOP keeps doing, who knows.
  6. On a woman, sure. If you are Jack Nicklaus, cool. On a man over 60, ok. On a younger guy the all gold seems pretentious to me. In my old firm there was a guy in his 40s that sported an all gold rolex and people would joke about how pretentious it looked.
  7. Gold looks good on leather/croc. Gold bracelet (for men) or gold on rubber seems gauche. There are some exceptions. the IWC posted above is ok, and a gold aquanaut is obviously cool on rubber. But generally a no go.
  8. https://www.gq.com/story/texas-republicans-love-beto-rock-on Here is GQ saying a lot of the same things as this thread. I wonder if whoever is running the GOP twitter has been relieved of their duties yet. This backfired massively!
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    Kayaking

    Amistad is solid. I have used them and would use them again. The shuttle cost seems high until you see how far it is, how rough the roads are, etc.
  10. I am sure the locals can chime in with more informed restaurant recs. But when there for work I have had great meals at Tosca and Rasika. Also enjoyed Le Diplomate up by Logan Circle. The best thing about the Willard is the bar nuts in the Round Robin bar. Damn things are addicting.
  11. I don't want to believe this is how people vote . . . but it is absolutely part of it. I have lived in some very liberal places where the apathetic and uninterested vote D just because everyone else does, and I have lived in very conservative areas where the opposite happens. My wife is very apolitical but grew up in rural Texas. For years she would claim to be a republican, but when asked for a gut opinion on most issues would have a fairly liberal view. I think she now claims to be a democrat mostly because she has lived around a lot of democrats for the majority of her adult life (and she liked the Obamas and thinks Trump is creepy) . . . it has little to do with well examined political thought. Because of this phenomenon, I think the blue/urban parts of Texas will become increasingly blue and the rural parts will remain red. We should end up like Oregon or Washington where the state goes blue simply because the urban/suburban population outnumbers the rural population and after a few generations of living in urban settings people start to self-identify as democrats. It will be a welcome change for the state, but it is not necessarily a sign that the average Texan has somehow become more enlightened.
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    Kayaking

    Ditto the above. More weight = more dragging. I have a 10' piece of thick rope tied to one end of the kayak. I tied it in a a big enough loop to easily throw over my shoulder. You may also want a bit of rope to help lower the kayak down Dolan falls, depending on how you do that portage. Some of the campsites have raccoons, so the rope can be handy for hanging your food too.
  13. Semi-related question. How often do the folks that live in that area see vagrants? I noticed a vagrant camped along Bull Creek (just east of 360 near Winding Ridge Blvd) earlier this year. Looked like he had been there for quite a while.
  14. I dig this thread. Someone throw out some legit Austin examples so I can go sample them. I like Borrego, Taco More and Mi Tradicion, but I am guessing those don't quite qualify for this thread. They all tend to have at least one member of the waitstaff that speaks English . . . which is who they send to my table under the correct assumption that my Spanish sucks.
  15. Chris Stevens (though Northern Exposure was not a traditional sitcom) Tobias Funke Tracy Jordan
  16. You must be a Baylor/Pedo St./Ohio St. fan.
  17. This seems like the correct answer to me. However, I reject the premise that seems to be present in most of the posts on this thread that mainstream country used to be really good and lost its way somewhere in the 90s/2000s. The Nashville machine and country radio are doing the same thing they have always done . . . market to America's rubes. And guess what, rubes often have bad taste. And so much really good country music made over the years was so different from the Nashville sound of the day that it had to be classed as some sub-genre to differentiate it (Bakersfield country; cosmic country; outlaw country, neo-traditional, Americana, etc.). Guys like Guy Clark, Lyle Lovett, and Townes never had commercial success. Even most of Willie's best albums (with some exceptions like Redheaded Stranger) were commercial flops. The country crowd was too busy listening to Kenny Rogers and Glen Campbell. There are obvious exceptions (I know Dwight, Buck, Dolly, Loretta, and other greats all had commercial success among the mainstream country masses), but most country fans have had bad taste for many decades.
  18. Wrong! I listened to the Uncle Tupelo Anthology today. Still rad after all these years. Alt-country forever (though I think "Americana" is now the preferred nomenclature).
  19. Good article. Guendouzi has showed good passing range. And Torriera is supposed to be a decent passer who should look better once settled into the club. I am hopeful the two of them can pair up and negate the need for GX. As the article points out, that did not really happen in the second half against Chelsea. But I think it will work given time. So far Guendouzi has been operating as more of a 6, but he could definitely be pushed up the pitch a bit more. If those two start to really click (along with AMN once he is healthy), we could have a solid central midfield for many years to come.
  20. I started laughing as soon as I heard Bryan Adams. I laughed again when I noticed she put "FAIR USE" in the caption as if saying that has some magical legal significance.
  21. Huge caveat that I don't play electric much anymore and have not shopped for a new electric guitar in 15 years . . . but I always loved G&L and seem to remember that even their cheaper models had pretty good quality. So maybe try out a legacy ASAT special and see what you think.
  22. They didn't need him in the community shield either.
  23. Most of those schools sound great if she does not mind cold weather, but I would try to assert your fatherly influence to get UMass removed from the list. (1) College kids change majors. Who you are at 18 and who you are at 20 can be drastically different. You could pick a new major at Michigan and still be at a great school. I am not sure the same is true at UMass. Bottom line, I would never pick a school solely based on one program. (2) You would be greatly increasing the odds of ending up with a masshole son in law (just picture your grand kids decked in red sox and pats gear) Also, did she visit Scotland in winter? The sun sets at 3:30.
  24. No. That is a win-win choice. Of course you could have done breakfast at Valentina's and lunch at Mickelthwaits.
  25. The article does a nice job of pointing out that local knowledge is important no matter who you are. I have worked on a few cases in front of a judge in SDNY that has some interesting idiosyncrasies in bench trials (direct exam is done on the papers and not conducted live, she sometimes writes a draft or outline of the opinion and presents it to counsel at the pre-trial conference so counsel know which way she is leaning, etc.). Its different, but if you know what is coming you can adjust accordingly. At the end of the day, she is a great judge, but I have seen opposing counsel get a bit petulant (which is what the govt is accused of here) because they had never tried cases in front of her before and were not prepared for some of the idiosyncrasies.
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