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  1. 3 hours ago, Goofyboy said:


    Not even weed? Thats kind of a must have for some people.

    joking aside...we had friends who live in Ajijic (another huge expat enclave) who drove and met us in PV, we enjoyed plenty of weed on the beach/balcony. lots of folks doing the same. i assume it's other drugs that the cartel is sensitive about... with all the discos and nightclubs in the romantic zone i assume there's plenty of coke, molly, and the like flowing 🤔

  2. 5 hours ago, troph said:

    PV has 35,000 expats and has an entire "neighborhood" Zona Romantica that is nearly 100% LGBTQ occupied. folks that live in austin, you'd be able to trade up to a nice ocean view condo in most cases - assuming you aren't mortgaged up all the way on your equity. it's hot and humid 5 months out of the year but 7 months are sublime. cartel is around everywhere but don't do drugs, don't sell drugs, don't bad mouth the cartel, don't drink in public to excess, go home at a reasonable hour and don't flash wealth and you're gonna be fine. basically it's no different than asking someone, "why in the fuck would you hang on on dirty sixth at 1am?" or "you want to eat a taco stand on east rutland at 10pm because why?"...  follow the normal rules you'll be fine.

    i mean... can you ask the cartel for drugs? heh. but really... 🤔 

    goes without saying but definitely do not get the oysters on the beach.

    we loved la zona romantica when we visited. our hotel was fantastic and PV was pretty awesome in general. we'd def go back. we went in January and it was quite warm, i can imagine what it's like in the summer. 

  3. On 1/22/2025 at 9:58 AM, MalibuSheriff said:

    I’m a long way from the Frio and Medina valleys these days but recently had a craving for southwest Texas-style pepper steak. Poor pic but damn was it good.

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    This dish needs more love:

    https://texashighways.com/food-drink/what-the-heck-is-pepper-steak/

    On 2/3/2025 at 5:40 PM, mchookem said:

    never had it but i'll be making it this month 😛

    yep! 😊 jalapeños, subbed fresnos for serranos, a little extra cheese and avocado on top. it's <10 degrees outside lol, so cooked it on my cast iron comal which gave it a nice little crispy bottom!

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  4. 8 minutes ago, Vegas64 said:

    not supposed to say Gypsy. It's Roma. Not to be confused with Gypsy Rose.

    i thought Roma was more like...Romanians, or central Europeans? or maybe that's Romani 🤔 anyways, i was referring more to America's version, which i think might be more Irish heritage. maybe they prefer the term 'travellers'.

    6 minutes ago, HOOKEM4 said:

    You really need to subscribe to this dudes channel. I have been watching his videos for several years. There are some insane videos that will help you understand why this country is so diverse and also some pure, holy shit, these people exist moments.

    https://youtube.com/@petersantenello?si=94S2em6ln9mPIa5w

     

    also, very cool, thanks!

  5. well i guess those crusty weirdos will fafo like the rest of us lol

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    ETA im actually kind of fascinated by some of the lesser known subcultures in this country that we don't normally hear/learn about...indigenous Alaskans, Amish, fundy Mormons, gypsies, so on. one of the reasons i dig movies like Winter's Bone, Wind River, Mud, Traveller, etc., is getting a view into those subcultures. i mean... this country is incredibly diverse in more ways than one. 

    fat lot of good it's doing us now lol 

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  6. 11 minutes ago, wood said:

    How the “Subversive Genius” of Kendrick Lamar Sent Trump Home a Loser
    The Philadelphia Eagles and Kendrick Lamar’s collective of geniuses made this the Super Bowl we needed.

    https://www.thenation.com/article/society/super-bowl-kendrick-lamar-halftime-eagles-trump/

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    This year’s Super Bowl in New Orleans could have been a fascist Mardi Gras. Over a week ago, state police forced more than 100 unhoused people, under threat of arrest, into a freezing warehouse from which they barred the press. State agencies destroyed homeless encampments, and the operation cost taxpayers $17.5 million. Then this last week, police, Secret Service members, and the Department of Homeland Security smothered the Superdome and the city. And, of course, Donald Trump would be at the game, the first sitting president—as we’ve been told ad nauseam all week—to go to the biggest spectacle in the country. The scene was set beforehand when Trump got a cozy Fox News interview where, making his frowny face, he again signaled that a judge’s ruling to stop Elon Musk from controlling our financial records, doesn’t mean anything to him. He also picked the Kansas City Chiefs to win, citing his affection for Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes’s MAGA wife, Brittany. He also said he was attending the game for the “good for the country.” As if not obvious at this point, crypto-coin Trump does nothing for the good of the country. He was there to bask like Caesar in a display of authoritarian power. Trump’s message was that resistance was futile.

    Then the unexpected: In the first half, the Philadelphia Eagles knocked the snot out of Mahomes and the Chiefs. The two-time defending champions looked overmatched—like bullies who withered after being punched in the mouth. But even that trouncing was a pillow fight compared to the halftime show, where hip-hop maestro Kendrick Lamar took center stage. Lamar unleashed an artistic inferno rooted in Black culture, Black poetry, and Black resistance. Trump’s most prominent racist online trolls—I don’t want to link and give them the attention they crave—were already spitting that it was a “DEI halftime show,” which was more pathetic than upsetting. They are pieces of soggy Wonder bread, reduced to attacking brilliance because it exposes their mediocrity. It’s just stupid to think some addled 78-year-old misogynist caked in orange is the peak of masculinity.

    But many of the people watching Lamar were those who have been deeply shaken by the constant, unaccountable cruelty pummelling us every day. Innumerable people—I’ve been hearing from them all week—were praying that Lamar would say something about Trump or Musk to the tens of millions of viewers. They wanted him to take on all the weight of this moment. It’s an understandable desire, but it’s also unfair: a “save us” burden that always disproportionately falls on the shoulders of Black artists. A popular slogan now is “No one will save us but us.” This plea was more “Save us, Kendrick.” But Lamar, who is more an abstract master of symbology than political rabble-rouser, performed something right in Trump’s face that I think people will be decoding for years. It was a textured, deeply layered, colossal middle finger at the worst of US history, Trump, and anyone who would try to obliterate Black culture in this country.


    Playing off Samuel L. Jackson dressed as Uncle Sam and representing—at least to me—the false promise of assimilation through erasure, Lamar started in a crouching pose. It wasn’t a knee, as in Colin Kaepernick’s protest against police violence, but for someone who is incredibly self-aware of his every physical and verbal metaphor, starting in that posture on a football field was not happenstance. So many people would have cheered a knee—understandably!—but that would have been way too obvious for this man. Then, he started by performing just one bar of a lyric that does not exist in his catalog. He said, “The revolution is about to be televised. You picked the right time, but the wrong guy.”

    To me, these 16 words are not a puzzle but a work of art. It’s not literal. It’s something you hear, something you feel, and something you interpret. Like a moving sculpture or tapestry, you need to account for the intentions of the artist but also how those intentions interact with your own perspective and gut emotional response. I take it as him saying—again in Trump’s face—that our mindset needs to be aimed toward revolution but do not look to him to carry the weight. It’s the “right time,” but I am the “wrong guy,” if that’s your intent. No more martyrs. This is an “all of us” project.

    That “all of us” was on stage. Yes, it was Lamar in the spotlight delivering the most 100 percent pure hip-hop show ever shown to so vast an audience. But it was more than the power of one. He had brilliant Black dancers dressed in red, white, and blue, looking like an American flag, and he marched right through them, timing it to the lyric, “40 acres and a mule, this is bigger than the music / They tried to rig the game, but you can’t fake influence.” To my eyes, he was tearing apart the flag with history and truth—saying you can try to shackle Black people, but Black culture is an ineradicable part of this country. It was especially powerful that he did this in New Orleans, a place that has been left for dead time and again but is the cradle of the Black music that is at the heart of this country’s culture. Saying this in the face of the man canceling Black History Month also mattered.

    At this point, the dancers were all Black men. For a later song, he was framed exclusively by Black women in nearly identical clothing as the men, moving with both power and grace. Then they all came together. In the middle of it all, a male dancer, on his own it is believed, unfurled a Palestinian flag attached to a Sudanese flag. His protest was surrounded by dancers dressed in all black, faces covered, raising their fists. He held the flags high before being tackled by security and detained. Whether planned or not, it connected with the broader themes of resistance, which felt electric, improvisational, and, to those who want to kill hope, dangerous. There is so much more to discuss—the lyrics chosen, SZA’s genius, a very pointed Serena Williams cameo!—but much was also beyond me. I need to read others—like Lamar codebreaker David Dennis Jr. (journalist and son of civil rights legend Dave Dennis), who called Lamar’s performance “subversive genius” and maybe “the biggest rap performance ever.”


    As for Trump, according to reports, he stood next to his date, Ivanka, during the halftime show and then immediately left. He is our fragile orange flower and couldn’t bear seeing his dream of Black erasure rebuked. He couldn’t bear seeing art that he was unable to appreciate or understand. He couldn’t bear looking like a loser for picking the Chiefs because he likes the quarterback’s wife. So he hightailed it home before the cameras could catch him. After leaving, to make himself feel better, he banned the penny.

    As for the game, the Eagles wrecked the Chiefs, before a couple of late garbage Kansas City touchdowns made it a final score of 40-22. Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts, who was clearly the most salty about Trump’s presence in the lead-up to the game—when other players were walking on eggshells—was the official MVP. Now, we’ll see if the Eagles, a team that after winning in 2018 boycotted going to the White House, will even get an invite from the King of Petty. Since he couldn’t stay to congratulate them, I can’t imagine why, if an invitation is offered, they would accept. (If the Chiefs had won, Trump would have preened on the field and chased cameras like a Hollywood ingénue.)

    But as great as Hurts was, the real MVPs were the dancers, the choreographers, the costume designers, SZA, and Lamar. They created something collective, and we should understand it as cooperative political art, instead of decrying it because Lamar didn’t stand there reading a lefty pamphlet. The Eagles won, and the Chiefs lost. But I’ll remember this as the night when Kendrick Lamar sent Donald Trump home.


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    "After leaving, to make himself feel better, he banned the penny."

    hahaha awesome line 🤣

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  7. speaking of the Olympics...if Canadians booing our anthem is any indication, it might be an unusually hostile experience for US athletes next year. i know the Olympics are supposed to be apolitical, but we are literally in unchartered territory. i could see the purposely cultivated and provoked animosity between us and all of our allies bleeding into fans reactions and reception to Team USA. 

    ETA depending on what has transpired by 2028, it's not beyond the realm of possibility that some nations might actually boycott LA.

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  8. i saw at least two vids from people at the game when Trump walked out, and it certainly sounded like a lot of boos... one of them was just above the field where he came out and everyone in that section seemed to be booing, with one really deep voiced guy just screaming 'TRAITOR! TRAITOR! YOU'RE A FUCKING TRAITOR!' 

    so that was cool lol

    i 100% believe FOX inserted cheers bc they absolutely fucked with the cc during KL's performance... there were multiple reports on reddit last night immediately after and then people started rewinding and pausing to take pics of their tvs...

    what he said: 'you picked the right time but the wrong guy"

    what cc showed: 'you picked the right guy but the wrong time'

     

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  9. i baked some bread. never tried before but i saw a super easy recipe. not bad... although it didn't get as big as i expected /thatswhatshesaid

    i probably need to adjust it for high altitude baking. anyways...pretty tasty, warm with salted butter 🍞 😊

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  10. so is anybody talking about this? 

    https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/07/health/west-texas-measles-outbreak/index.html

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    A measles outbreak is growing in a rural area of West Texas where vaccination rates are well below the recommended level.

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    As of Friday afternoon, the outbreak has jumped to 14 confirmed cases and six probable cases among people who are symptomatic and had close contact with infected individuals, Zach Holbrooks, executive director of the South Plains Public Health District, told CNN.

     

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    All the cases are believed to be among people who are not vaccinated against measles, Holbrooks said, and most of them are in children.

    if only there were a way to mitigate the threat of this disease! 🤔

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