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    Kin to Longhorns James Theodore and Ernie Jr.?
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    Always one of my favorites -- Been a fan for some time. He has written lots of good songs and performs them well.
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    Written and vocal by Powell St. John (Austin days in Waller Creek Boys), violin by Spencer Perskin (Shiva's Head Band).
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    Songbirds

    abuelo gringo replied to retread's topic in Music

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    The week before Thanksgiving 2002. Wife and I were sitting in the Erwin Center waiting to see Jackson Browne and Tom Petty on his Last DJ tour. Just about the time lights went down for Browne, the people behind us arrived, with the slight commotion of hurried people. I looked around and saw our grown daughter and a friend sit down. Neither of us knew the other was going to the concert. Shared tastes, maybe?
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    Janis Joplin and local piano player Robert Shaw at the Union theater in UT Student Union. It was called "Blues 'n Barrelhouse" and tickets were fifty cents each. First time to see Janis and fell in love. 1966.
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    Charlie Brewer

    abuelo gringo replied to dad's topic in Football

    Well, Brewer's ESPN QBR was 47.7 to Shane's 53.4 and Bohls in his column today says Shane's efficiency rating of 108.1 was higher than Brewer's, which he doesn't quote. So by preexisting standards of how we judge quarterback's performances, Shane seemed to be the better quarterback in Saturday's game. In addition to winning, of course.
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    I have a Honeywell WiFi Thermostat at my beach house. It will send an email to you when it reaches a particular high temperature for an hour or a particular low temperature. You pick the high and low. It will also send a reminder hourly if there is no change. I paid about $80 for mine several years ago. I think they're up to about $90-$100 now. It's great for cooling down a hot house in summer before you arrive. It's also programmable for the week.
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    No more embarrassed by them than my ancestors who fought for the Confederacy or owned slaves. I also had many Revolutionary Patriot ancestors. We cannot change history but only learn about it to guide how we live.
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    My fifth great grand-uncle, Aaron Biggerstaff, was mortally wounded at the Battle of King's Mountain. He died a few days later at Union Court House in Union Co, SC. He was an officer in the Loyalist militia. The Moores and Biggerstaffs of Rutherford Co, NC were mostly loyalists.
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    From the '60s: Long time story that "Bicycle Annie" was an Indian Princess. Debunked here, but with interesting background: https://jeffeepalmer.com/2011/07/21/zelma-for-president/ Also, there was supposedly a guy who had been a student for 10 or so years, changing majors to continue in school just to party. His parties were supposedly very popular. I wasn't, so I wan't invited. Don't remember his name, though. May be true or legend.
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    Is that from Georgia?
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    That's Maddie Rice - she's about 25. She's the guitarist for Jon Batiste and Stay Human, the Late Show with Stephen Colbert house band. We don't usually hear her solos, played during commercial breaks.
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    24th and San Antonio. Next to the building which housed the Texas Observer and Inner Sanctum records.
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    Not to mention living in two different worlds, Colleyville and the grove. Connor or Hood Jr. High?
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    Always one of my favorites
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    Reveille?
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    Obligatory: "that's not chili".
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    St. Joseph's Island (aka St. Joe's Island) is the island the north jetty runs along on the other side of the entrance to the inter-coastal waterway at Port Aransas. It's unoccupied, but a jetty boat takes fishermen across to fish from the north jetty several times a day.
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    OK, I'm old -- sue me.
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    Is that on a subway stop wall?
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    Wife likes their fried shrimp and I like their fried oysters. Not fans of the garlic fish so many rave about. Differences in taste, I guess. Agree on their stuffed avacados.
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    Second the rec for La Playa. Great food. Be sure to have cash - they don't do cards. They do have an ATM, but I don't know the charge.
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    Launched by a team of young entrepreneurs in Austin, Texas, Rev Gum™ was created with one goal in mind: to make energy products more portable and better tasting. One pack contains 6 gems, the caffeine equivalent of 6 cups of coffee in a better tasting, more efficient form. No matter where you are, what your goal is, carrying a pack of Rev Gum™ enables you to be Be Intensely Here™. Maybe friends or relatives?
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    Certainly one of the highlights of my trip also. Well worth the journey to the outskirts of town. And don't forget Maria Callas, Edith Piaf, and Mezz Mezzrow. We could have spent all day, but had to get back. No crowd at Morrison's when we went, but that was in the fall of 2002. He'd only been dead 30 years.

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