MidTexHorn

Hitting Vegas for a couple nights in a couple weeks. Got a comped stay at Venetian. Gonna go to the Texas-Stanford game at T-Mobile and throw the wife in the spa that day. Hitting SW Steakhouse one night. Recs for something solid but casual for one night at Venetian or very nearby? We’re feeling very lazy and just want to chill and gamble since normally our Vegas trips are pretty manic and party filled. Don’t really want to jump casinos much if we can help it.

Seriously. It’s lame.

Man, if those are winning issues with most Texans than I am really not aligned with most Texans because I don't give a shit about any of that stuff.

OP with the seriously overly dramatic take. I've bitched for years about our fans, but all things considered last night was a pretty good showing and a good baby step in the right direction

Pretty sure Swindell isn’t. I believe he’s an anti-vaxxer.

Only way Zags don’t win it all this year is if someone gets ridiculously hot against them from 3 in the tourney, and even then they’ll probably still win it.

I’m going but only because I have seats in one of the swanky new South endzone suites. Gonna take it out of the school in free booze and food.

Watkins is a fucking national treasure. Wish I could talk like that but my corporate clients would probably frown on that.

Oops

Anyone else going to see Drive By Truckers at Scoot Inn this weekend? Friend just invited me. I don’t know their music well. Big fan of Jason Isbell but that’s kinda irrelevant.

Got an invite to one of the new south endzone suites on the east side of the Jumbotron. Holy fuck are those things amazing. Huge bar with two bartenders, wall of TVs showing the game plus other games, massive leather seats each with their own small TV showing the game and stats, cushy sofas, huge dining table, private shitter with a 50” TV on the wall so you don’t miss any of our shitty football team. Had finger foods set out and the drinks were flowing. Then you go down to the 4th floor Founders Club to eat. More bars down there, no charge for anything. Menu includes an ice bar with badass raw oysters, lobster and shrimp, a s’mores bar, truffle deviled eggs with slices of truffle on each one, crazy good charcuterie, etc. so ridiculously good and over the top. Spent the whole third quarter down there eating instead of watching our abomination of a football team. May have been the most luxurious place I’ve ever been and I’ve stayed at plenty of Four Seasons, Ritz Carlton’s, etc. and been in Jerryworld suites. Game view is wild. Look to your left and there’s the massive Jumbotron screen. Look down and it feels like you’re hanging over the field on one of those Skycam cameras. Look out over the stadium and it’s all at your feet - you feel like god. Being rich would be nice. Guess a $10 million+ donation to the University buys you some cool stuff. I wanna live there.

Salty Sow Haymaker if you want bar food/poutine.

As a guy who played HS hoops and failed miserably at college hoops, but knows good basketball when I see it, it simply blows my mind that someone who claims to love basketball as much as Bitterwhiteguy could be a fan of Shaka's brand of hoops. I like Shaka, but not for the brand of basketball he put on the floor at Texas. It was abysmal.

NOLA

Blocked that weekend on my work calendar last week so my secretary doesn't book me for anything. I'm ready for this shit!

Man that article was such a load of horseshit. I liked Shaka, wanted him to succeed, but he sucked. Really sucked. And it had nothing to do with Texas, he just didn’t get it done.

Any handjobs yet?

That’s a unique experience for sure.

From South of Slaughter - Fight!!!

Another on Team Dog checking in. We have four little rescues.

I like their single. They seem fun.

Idles show at Stubbs was pretty fucking epic. Non stop action. Been a long while since I sweated that much. Easy in and out despite it being a sold out show. Stubbs has never been one of my favorite venues but we found a sweet spot tonight and it worked well (despite the poor girl who showed up randomly to spray a shower of puke all over the walkway behind us before moving on).

Gracias. I’ll report back.

What’s the entry scene like at Stubbs these days? Scoot Inn was a shit show a couple weeks back with a massive hour long line. Emos was great the other night. Just wondering how early I need to get there for the sold out Idles show tomorrow night.