My wife strongly suggested I watch his last movie, which was all about how being too grumpy and cynical makes everyone around you miserable, even if you're right. It was okay. I still don't know why she wanted me to watch it.
He's not going to get those eyes uncrossed without some serious cash. Kind of you to think of him.
I'm sorry you experienced this. I was fairly young (13) the first time I saw someone die up close. I've seen others since, but that one has always stuck with me.
I see that train starting to teeter side to side and expect the complete derailment to happen any year now. The world won't prop up zero-value-added twerps forever.
I haven't heard or read specific info on structures, but given how large the burn area is, there have undoubtedly been some losses. Shelters are in place for those forced to evacuate. Someone mentioned it above, but the Watch Duty app is a great resource for finding all of the relevant info on active fires. Latest news is that they are focused on the SE edge of the fire today given that strong winds could likely pick up embers and spread them further East toward Blanco County.
Those Gaines mother fuckers bought Larry McMurtry's bookstore in Archer after he passed just so they could put the books in the "library" of their stupid ass hotel and give it some gravitas even though they stand diametrically opposed to everything Larry believed in. One has to wonder what they did with all of the books their book-burning asses didn't approve of, as he had that bookstore, in part, to make sure folks in his hometown had access to books other than the Bible and other evangelical-approved literature (whatever that is). Plenty of stuff on his shelves was too "progressive" or too "gay" for the Gaines. I suppose the obvious answer is they had a bonfire with the "bad" books and roasted marshmallows with Scott Drew and other local Antioch cult members. Of course, that didn't stop them from using McMurtry's status to boost their hotel's "genuine" Texan flavor. Fuck those assholes.
The silver lining is that a local group repurchased the actual bookstore from the Waco cult dipshits and has turned it into a nonprofit literary center, something both of the Gaines could likely benefit from utilizing.
It's a shame that there was a crossover between lab leak arguments and the anti-vax crowd. It made it all too easy to dismiss the most likely cause of the outbreak from the very beginning by attaching it to the bungheaded conspiracies of the anti-vax ignorance brigade. And now, as facts emerge that the experts and scientists involved actively worked to cover their own asses and/or that of their profession, it only adds fuel to the fire of the RFK dumbass parade participants in dismissing education and experience in favor of ignorant caveman conjecture. These scientists and bureaucrats have inadvertently done more to undercut their own work and weaken our ability to manage the next pandemic than anything the antivax crowd has done, which is kind of incredible.
Two more pieces of shit out of the gene pool, at least for a while (I hope).
If your masculinity is so fragile as to get into a road rage incident, we're all better off without you around.