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  1. Who is your audience? What sort of music do you want. I like .38 special but do I see them filling a 4500 person venue? Probably not? If you are allocating $50K fro up front band expense that is $11 a seat. If it's a complete sell out! i would maximize other potential areas of revenue if possible depending on the venue. 1) food and drink are those solely the venues? 2) parking 3) sell sponsorships for shirts or whatever you need to supply for the event. Again I am figuring out my audience first. I figure the first band is... Suede...
  2. You know, I think I have decided that Texas rolls in this one. Or rolls barely over the finish line with a win. Either way I think that the team is very, very close to truly having a "next man up" mentality that can actually be backed up by the personnel. I am excited to see Johnathan Brooks for example. I hate not having our two best running backs, one of the better combinations in the country. But I have to be excited about the kids getting opportunities. I think Washington has motivation and not the player attrition that Texas will have, but I think we are going to see some new kids step up into the limelight. What I do not see if Washington rolling Texas. Not to say it's not possible, but I think the team is a LOT more of a TEAM than they were even a year ago. The leadership of guys like Bijan and Roshon for example cannot be underestimated. This game will show us a lot of whether that leadership and dedication has been permanently instilled in the team, as the younger kids step forward to take their place in the line up. I am very optimistic about this game. It probably means more to Washington, as simply playing Texas is most team's "Superbowl." However,I think it is going to be very exciting seeing the new kids step up and take advantage of opportunities. I also expect some brutal mistake by the new personnel, that gives Washington some easy points. That will be when the adversity comes. The response to that adversity will tell me a lot about how much the team itself has evolved. Simply as much of the leadership on the team is sitting this one out prepping for the NFL. I think we are going to be happy with both the outcome and what we see from the next group of kids stepping into the shoes of some very, very good players. I am fervently hoping to see a new group of team leaders take the reign. IF that happens, we are really on our way to something special as long as we can keep the two deep full with talent. Team leadership is the single biggest factor in most championship level teams. Coaches cannot be the motivators, nor the standard enforcers. To me seeing who steps up to fill the leadership roles vacated by guys like Roshon, Bijan and DeMo is the detail I will be looking most closely for. But you are going to need to see some adversity to see who really steps forward. Hook'em!
  3. There is one way you can for sure win if you are headed to SA.
  4. Say what you want about Card, but I guarantee he also could easily throw 45 yard incompletions. With less hair and a LOT less cash. 😉 I wish card well. He was limping most every game he started in. I hope he kicks ass.
  5. All Robin hood is for is to allow millionaires toy ranches and farms with Ag exemptions, and shift the bill to city folks. If the toy ranches and farms had to pay property taxes then the need to shift money into these "poorer" districts would be unnecessary. But hey when you can spend $20,000 on some pregnant cows, sell the cows for close to what you paid and avoid property tax on a $5,000,000 property, that's a bargain. Now this is in no way denigrating to actual ranchers and farmers who make their living ranching and farming, but a lot of taxes are not collected because of folks taking the ag exemption whose income is nearly entirely unrelated to ranching. And the income supposedly produced that created the exemption is far less than the tax avoided. Of course there is also shit tons of money in the state coffers, but it must be spent without any accountability on "the border" instead. But hell the bottom line the only children the majority of the Republican party cares about from a legislative capacity is unborn children. What needs to happen is parents and ESPECIALLY younger voters need to vote on education. When that changes Texas will move out of the basement of school funding.
  6. First and foremost. Set your thermometer 10 degrees cooler than the temp you want to pull at. I use this as my "go on alert" alarm, to start watching closely. Even a smaller roast will go up 5-6 degrees from the time you pull it. Seems like the bigger ones rise like 7-10 degrees when pulled. But hopefully you are going to have leftovers! If not buy a bigger damn roast! But other than the usual sandwiches we have doing two things mainly with the leftovers. IF we used Hawaiian rolls then I keep 3-4 of the rolls intact and create one larger roll. Then we make Philly Cheese Steak, by browning the Hawaiian rolls in butter, and cook up some onion and shrooms in a pan and add in the thinly cut ribeye to finish. We put the cheese on the to side of the toasted Hawaiian roll buns rather than melt it on the meat in the pan, simply as the control on the narrower Hawaiian rolls is tougher to manage. But if you have both leftover roast and horseradish sauce, try making some quesadillas! We have been making quesadillas of late with the leftovers. Pick your own cheese, but I am telling you, the ribeye quesadillas are the frigging bomb. And they are frigging something different! I think I like them actually more than the cheese steaks. So instead of that roast beef sandwich, take a look at the leftover cheese from the charcuterie board and make yourself a quesadilla, and dip it into the horseradish sauce. Delicioso! PSA - Sprouts has Choice Angus Ribeye roast for $9.99 that I believe they will (or already have) cut the ribs away and tied it, until the 27th. HEB by contrast has the same cut for $15.99 ending today the 24th. Think I am gonna grab one for either the Alamo Bowl or New Year's Eve. Good eating this holiday season!
  7. Yeah I really wished I would have saved my tix. While I NEVER INVITED ANY AGGIES (not cool enough) in high school all I did was buy 10 tix, sell 8 tix to my friends. Saw a LOT of those shows. The ZZ Top Jeppenson Stadium show stood out as I had that ticket... then we took the family vacation that week. Sorry to disrupt the joke show that is A&M. However, I can assure you that when you glance at PTINS ticket montage above, the one thing you DID NOT FIND at those shows.... was fucking Aggies! 😉
  8. Glad I popped in, but never took history of Rock and Roll. Did see U2 at Club Foot when I was working there in 81, the at Opera House in '82 to flex... 😉 Clash at Austin Auditorium when it was basically a military storage like facility where UT would host the frat's fight nights. Saw Tom Petty at Opera house after winning tix from KLBJ in Fall of '79. I went to tons of concerts in HS but Austin was a lot smaller than Houston and the ability to see quality in a small venue is a jewel that should never be passed up. Music is another reason I could never, ever, ever consider attending A&M. How would you like to be a Ag Grad and spend the rest of your life seeing your Alma mater reinforce it's reputation for stupidity again, and again, and again. Every time they get optimistic, the cruel reality of Agginess always rules the day. Hell they even years ago claimed to be able to turn salt water into gold... If you can believe that fucking stupidity. Ags are never to be hated. They are to be mocked, with likely many episodes of repeated head shaking and laughter... That's is what Aggies are all about, something to giggle at!
  9. Oh and I would like to nominate Bulevar in the old Z-tejas Arboretum location as perhaps the champion of overrated in Austin. Maybe it's me but when you start getting into the $30+ dollar range on pulled pork pabil, and Roasted chicken... you start to lose me. But hey I'm not from Cali....
  10. I wil chime in on Chuy's simply because damn it they used to be damn good. Of course this was the early days when the Barton Springs location was basically the kitchen and the hubcap room. They sponsored our T-shirts for a soccer team (Austin United) and it was important that we went after games at Zilker to help them keep the place open. Back then their Fajitas, especially chicken really were the bomb. What was genius and I still miss were the "Banditos" a mixture of cheese and green chile wrapped in a wheat tortilla (might have been rice paper) and deep fried with Jalepeno ranch. That was some good shit. Of course that was a Looooonnnng time ago. Now Chuy's to me is a kid's restaurant, with parents and the unknowing making up most of the crowd. Sad though because they used to have really good quality control. But as they expanded... the suckery did too. I will say the one place I do really miss is old Shady Grove. I used to have all the recipes, and lost the damn things. But that Veggie Chili really was the bomb. And Veggie is NOT my usual go to.
  11. I prefer to think of this candidate as simply a natural extension of the "morals and principles" held by the Republican Party as a whole.
  12. Forgot to put the back end of the roast that I had to cut off. My first Cowboy Ribeye on the grill.
  13. The horseradish Recipe we use is a blend of roughly 50/50 mayo and sour cream, then we just add horseradish to taste and add some lemon juice to taste as well. I will say that you can always cheat and just buy some Woeber's Horseradish sauce (which we always keep in fridge) and add some sour cream to bulk it up and give it texture. But for a prepared squeezable Woeber's is the bomb. It's pretty strong but delicious!
  14. Well I was going to post in shit I cooked lately, but here you go. This was a big boy 7 bone or whole side 15+ lbs. Had to cut off a double cut Ribeye to fit in my roasting pan. Did 475 degrees for right at 50 minutes, basically until it starts smoking. Then turn it off and let is sit a minimum of one hour, before turning the oven back on at 350 degrees until the desired temp. I usually pull it out just before 120 internal temp to let it rest as you will usually gain 5-10 degrees while resting before the temp begins to fall. I may try to cook at 200 degree and pull at 120 degrees and lest rest for 45 minutes method, where you then return to over at 500 degrees for a few minutes for a good crust like Alton Brown and some other chefs suggest. Simply as less rest time after the second firing next go round. However the great thing about the cook and hold in oven method, is that the timing on the meat is a lot more flexible. ALSO - kudos on the temp chart. As somebody who has tried to educate folks on the stupidity of overcooking meats until the taste and texture is crap it explains why the suggested temp is so much higher than the NECESSARY temp to cook safely. So as I said above I basically had a cowboy cut ribeye steak left over. I was worried about such a large ribeye on the grill catching fire as the fat melted. So I knew I was going to end up with a hard sear on the outside to preserve the juice (Pittsburgh). The drippings repeatedly caught fire and I moved it around to keep the flames at bay to some degree. I cook a lot of stuff on the grill with a sear and the indirect, but nothing as fatty as a ribeye at this high a temp. Set it off to the edge of the fire in a closed pit and rotated it so all the edges. So I guess it's WTF do you do when your prime rib eyes are bigger than your prime rib pan. But not bad for first attempt!
  15. Well kids thought I would give this a bump (not the 80's variety). Now we have had a few weeks of downward trajectory of the Trump train. Not that the true believers will ever say there were wrong, mistaken, of fooled like rubes. What you are going to gradually hear, is that... they supported Trumps policies... but he's changed... Or pull a page out of Trump's playbook and say "Trump? I don't even know who that is?" But that's next Christmas. This Christmas will be the first free for all since covid, and the same folks that ALWAYS want to talk politics will have a tough time not regurgitating the propaganda of Fox News as their own thought. But you still need to be ready, to inject factual information. I think the best questions should focus on "I know you were outraged that Hillary had some confidential emails on her private server. But what do you think about Trump stealing documents and all the empty Top Secret files folders without any contents? You may also hear some forward looking attacks on Hunter Biden who may very well be guilty of something unrelated to President Biden. Ask them. "I understand your concern about Hunter. What do you think about Jared Kushner refusing to turn over his communications with the Saudi Government, and receiving $2 billion from the murderer Prince? Do you think the new Republican congress should investigate that?" Their head will probably explode if they know any factual information. But more likely will be... I don't know about that (because I only listen to propaganda). Anyhow hopefully some relatives are slowly beginning to realize they have been fucking idiots, but to admit such means... they are fucking idiots. But hope Springs eternal! Hang in there kids and do you part to save Democracy!
  16. Again who know WTF the truth is. Relationship seemed to be ending and the catalyst was the breaking of Beard's glasses according to Randi Trew's statements to police. Beard said he had audio recordings initially to the police that he did not turn over. But what is he does have said tapes that backup his story and makes her statements seem like misrepresentation of fact? Does that put enough doubt into the episode for a full dismissal of charges? For example if she broke his glasses (there was no explanation of how the glasses were broken) and hers were knocked off her face, and the tapes clearly show she was the initial aggressor, how does the University view that? If for example the only thing Beard will plead to is knocking glasses off her face in retaliation. Does that leave a window open for retention? Of would that act alone as a response to her aggression justify a firing, versus counseling for example? Again far, far too early to assume anything as the facts have not fully come out. But just wondering if you all think certain transgressions along a spectrum might allow retention, or whether you think most any transgression in this arena is a fireable offense. The University is clearly within it's rights to dismiss Beard, but is also waiting for the facts to come out. The last thing they need is to fire Beard, find out that a lot of the initial reports were inaccurate and become party to a $35 million wrongful dismissal suit. In all honestly, in my mind Beard's only real hope of survival here is he does indeed have audio tapes on the interaction, that put a lot of her assertions in doubt. Without that he's gone. I have thought he's gone for a while, but my curious mind wondered what if he does have tapes...?
  17. I think Ewers should cut the mullet before the Alamo Bowl. Then proclaim he will shave his head after each loss he starts at QB in 2023. Then we will know he is truly serious about next year! 😉
  18. I guess if I was going to work full time remote one of the primary things I would look at might be the ability to rent my primary residence if I wanted to hit the road and travel/work remotely. If I am just pure remote I am looking for nature and access to more nature. Likely coastal for me because I like to fish. If I have the ability to be flexible I am going to take advantage of it. Likely in an RV part of the time. But I am an empty nester now.
  19. The most dangerous thing to the GOP now is smart people. For years Colleges have been deemed liberal brain washing institutions. Mainly because there are not enough far right teachers in the system. Well fuck when you don't want to pay teachers and your party is based on make money and fuck everything else and you are surprised that there are not right wing Republicans taking lower paying jobs as professors? As if water is wet is some breakthrough discovery! What you see most from today's Republican party is most similar to the early days of the rise of nazism in Germany pre WWII. You have intellectuals attacked, you have the banning and then burning of books to feed the fervor of those who feel educationally inferior (which is true). So the solutions to all the STOKED anger is simply to attack, attack, attack. Destroy, Destry, Destroy. Texas for example hasn't increased school funding in years despite a rising population. The Republicans simply do not care about education. They do however like using education to make the uneducated angry. Which is what we have today at School board meeting around the country. Folks complaining about books they have never read, and would never read. Thus nobody should be allowed to have access to anything but what the uneducated think should be available for the children should read. Their fucking kids were NEVER going to read these books anyhow. But now they have a reason to be angry. Which is the whole point of the GOP's politics, make folks mad and keep them as uneducated as possible. What the GOP is for is school choice. Where people sending their kids to private schools (that don't have to worry about protests of ignorant Republicans wanting to ban books) be able to have the government pay for their private school choices. It's sad really. But hell I probably read more books by the end of Elementary school than the average Republican I know read perhaps by the end of their college days. They were not curious. They are not curious today. This is why Fox News is so effective. They can easily influence this demographic, the less educated and well rounded the better. You see it's a lot harder to convince educated people to form an angry mod. The uneducated? Not so much. In a nutshell the "Freedom" the GOP espouses nearly always infringes on the freedom of others. Whether it's the ability to spread covid because you don't like masks, or whether you want to protect your children from books by preventing others access to the reading material. The freedom to own assault weapons is worth the price of stacks of dead school children. The dead kids are just a cost of their freedom. Again I just wish for one fucking time in my lifetime the GOP could fix a problem of any magnitude. Instead it's just get the mob angry and onto the next false outrage. It's of course a LOT easier to foment anger than solve problems. It's an elevate the stupid as if they are the smart people. Better to have a mob of stupid angry people than a thoughtful group of educated people. So let's elevate the stupid, or worse the well educated Ivy leaguers who pretend they are not well educated. Because they have demonized the well educated. Hypocrisy is truly the seminal foundation of the Republican party.
  20. Well... if she spit in your mouth. Gravity says she was on top and winning.
  21. Would anyone like to buy some heavily discounted caps?
  22. BBCAnd we (men) are fucking assholes. But the key is to know not to fucking engage, when the BBC comes to play. 1-5 odds her search history had domestic assault in it, from the last week. Beard is gone, but in the end, it's gonna because Randi Trew knew she was going to be living in a 1 bedroom apartment rather than Terry Town. And Beard is a dumb fuck for doing anything but simply saying, "get your shit and go" last weekend. But it's hard to put a woman you used to love on the street... Unless you are Ice T.... I would love to get on Randi's computer and type in... D...O...M...E.. and see what came up, and what was highlighted as read. No matter Beard is gone, and she won.
  23. Augie had more nieces that any man in the state according to my Sullivan's bartender buddy back in the day.
  24. He lived it his way. A tip of the hat to Leach.
  25. Just win baby! Were we lost and lethargic during the first half? Absolutely! This is a streaky team. They make big runs and then seem to sit on their hands. I think there should be a special highlight reel of the soft fouls when Teas has big leads. It was nice to see the player rally around interim coach Terry in the twit video after the game. That gives me hope honestly. Basically the season is going to go one of two ways. The team will rally together and play unselfishly and they will be very, very good. Or the individual talents will try to showcase themselves and ply selfishly and we will win a lot of games, but we will only be very good. Coach Terry has to get them to buy into the former, rather than the latter. In a weird way I am almost glad this shit happened after a loss. As otherwise we know that Coach Terry would be the singular cause of the loss to some morons. I would love to find out that he charges are a bit exaggerated. But I am expecting them to be slightly muted, but not enough to save Beard's job. So I guess we are gonna see how coach Terry does this season. I for one hope he takes advantage of this opportunity and get the talented individuals to unselfishly play as a team. That's the path to success!
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