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C-Man

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  1. 35 here in Dallas this AM. It will be 80 on Thursday.
  2. Went to Far Out for the second time last night with my best college friend and the wives. He went to HS with Chris Jeffers and they’ve been friends forever. Anyway, it was our first time since Misti was cooking there. It’s a cool spot and I appreciate what they’re doing there. Then dishes are meant to be shared and the most expensive thing on menu was $28. Chris came by and hung out with us for a bit. The aim is to keep it affordable for more people, partly because of their location just east of Fair Park. Misti (Petra and the Beast) is there full time now. She started on a temp basis after she closed Petra. Chris’s initial chef was supposed to be the guy from The Green Room but he had health issues (brain tumor, I think) and was never able to start. Misti offered to help while they waited for the Green Room guy to get well enough but never made it. Misti is there permanently now. Anyway, it was pretty good. I thought both desserts were a miss, though.
  3. Fuck this cunt too https://www.threads.com/@senschumer/post/DQ2_0YyDZB-?xmt=AQF0MBb-5tIs1K5mSn8HPSHavTvdD4S085HAa3AOWV8WOoS3T6AhBJq4XzYH6RjedqI7aKnL&slof=1
  4. Fuck this stupid, naive cunt
  5. Abbott announced he’s running for a fourth term (oh goodie). This picture is real. https://www.texastribune.org/2025/11/09/texas-greg-abbott-reelection-campaign-governor/
  6. https://www.threads.com/@mamaoffthegrid/post/DQ1yp-MEZbv?xmt=AQF0ZnG_7Em0zW8dUfrnCpAGRp5dc46oIwAaTMEur-1izjR2mFbSpNJUgc8MM9FIbrOk-eA&slof=1
  7. C-Man

    Dallas | Pizza

    Za Lat’s quality has gone downhill dramatically since its massive expansion. It’s too bad because it used to be pretty good.
  8. Sorry, Thanksgiving gets an exemption.
  9. Nah, NFL is still pretty entertaining. It’s just on too many days now. Give it to me on Sunday, one game on Monday night and the couple Saturdays at end of season. I’ll allow a kickoff game on Thursday to start season if you must.
  10. The chance is greater than zero that I consume enough booze and illicit substances that I immediately join him in the hereafter.
  11. https://www.threads.com/@adamschefter/post/DQzPPyvjbh8?xmt=AQF0zbrb4vBCHGDU1fBwZmhrDphcXOePWXkA-2-HYd2jOQ5g5cZMua0pbeFwmLadX7mDgiiz&slof=1
  12. Property Brothers with Miles Teller at the White House was pretty fucking funny.
  13. My point is get the majority in the House/Senate and then you can (hopefully) stymie the last two years of Trump's reign of terror and not allow him a third term situation or do more irreparable harm to the country. Elect Dem POTUS in '28 and go scorched earth on the MAGAts who are left. '27 and '28 would likely be painful years but there'd be light at the end of the tunnel. If we lose '26, it's game over, man. Game over.
  14. Get a year for the subsidies, hope to flip the House (and maybe Senate) in '26 mid-terms and then you can run out the clock on Trump 2.0. (Yes, I know. There's going to be so much fucky-fucky with the '26 midterms. MAGA gonna cheat like motherfuckers -- if we have them at all. If we don't flip the House at least in '26, the country's gone and it won't fucking matter about the subsidies anyways after next year.)
  15. Dan Patrick pledges $1 million in campaign funds to install Turning Point USA at every Texas college and high school https://www.texastribune.org/2025/11/07/dan-patrick-charlie-kirk-turning-point-usa-texas/?utm_campaign=trib-social&utm_content=1762533953&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook,twitter
  16. I never thought we’d see a more self-serving, self-absorbed ridiculous ‘awards’ show than the ESPYs but here we are …
  17. https://www.threads.com/@princellasmith/post/DQvwrgAjoXv?xmt=AQF0tMhQBINCxLSxAQo10FoNphsxp9SDFXUVjUm9f9IKKhayFNfi_3Zp9DatAffHac4RUlOt&slof=1
  18. https://www.threads.com/@lwarnstedt/post/DQtpOpACEyj?xmt=AQF0imFYnMQxNtZlU14ARu2HpoEPi8MSguS1p7_6QLitRbvNVMmSJBAH2Qa23-w8dh6mENs&slof=1
  19. This is about as enjoyable as last night’s Spurs-Lakers game.
  20. The Mighty Ducks are in 1st in the Pacific?
  21. I've never liked El Fenix so I cringe a little at the comparison. (But I grew in SAT.) When Sammy's opened in 1991, Uptown was a ghetto. There was NOTHING down there. It basically sprung up around them, which is kind of wild. I moved to Dallas in '98 and started going there with my roommate. Met the owner's son (now my extremely close friend) through my ex-wife, who went to HPHS with him. At one time, Sammy's was pretty good comparatively speaking before craft BBQ took off. It was better than Sonny Bryan's or Dickey's -- back when Dickey's was the OG location and maybe a dozen or so other places around town. And there wasn't much else. My buddy opened a second Sammy's in Preston Center that I helped him run for 18 months between newspaper and insurance careers. Like I said, my affinity for the Prichard family probably skews my feelings but that is about the nicest Highland Park family you will ever run across. The downtown Sammy's will always have a place in my heart as long as my buddy owns it. Is the brisket world class? No. But it's not bad. And he's not charging $35-$40 per pound. And I stand by the sides -- baked potato casserole was practically invented there. The okra is legit as is the potato salad (if you like mayo potato salad -- I like to just a little bbq sauce to punch it up), onion rings are made from scratch (and to order) and Apple Pie is fanfuckingtastic. You can also eat lunch in there for less than $25, which has gotten impossible to do at many BBQ places in this state. EDIT: /csb time. My buddy's parents used to be in the movie business. They used to do the low-budget type movies but they were ultimately put out of business by VHS. His grandfather (I think) produced Attack of the Killer Tomatoes or some shit like that. They used to own the Highland Park Theater. They went belly-up on that but his dad was a great backyard BBQ guy and his buddies said they'd stake him to open a place they could all hang out at. That's how Sammy's came about.
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