Sensitive Ponytail Man

The last line of defense may be stand up comics, or other forms of satirical comedy. Or, in all seriousness, just the arts in general. Allowing the arts to be defunded, monopolized, politicized, or marginalized may indicate that the end is near. Organic, artistic expression keeps people awake.

I always appreciate these posts man

A great song. As an aside, I watched a movie from the 80s called Local Hero the other day. Kind of a weird little movie. Music by...Mark Knopfler.

People are not static beings. They can evolve. I don't think he's a huge POS and not predisposed to abuse women. I think he allowed himself to remain in a bad situation for such a high strung individual. It indicates poor self-knowledge or inability to manage and resolve conflict. Those issues don't go away. Who knows how the rest of his career will go. But Hookem2147 said it best. Not being mugshotted in an orange jump suit on game day is a minimum qualification for this job, for better or worse. Milk is spilled. Move on.

That stumped me because I had no idea Adelaide was a queen of anything.

So, lots of undeveloped and/or undisciplined talent. That doesn't happen in a short period of time. There must be something rotten in youth and lower level school sports that feed that school. Or just overall community rot. It's a shame for kids coming up in that system if that's the case.

Maggie Moores. Had a similar feel to Fargo. Idiots vs Normal Cops. I won't tell you who wins. The hired killer kind of steals the show at the end imo.

The girl who plays the bar co-owner is good. Would like to see more of her.

Might be too far south for you but we loved Durham and York. Especially Durham. It's the kind of place that seems frozen in time. The cathedrals in both towns are spectacular. There's more shopping and what not in York but it's more crowded. Great ancient history museum in York next to the old abbey ruins. And a fabulous train museum. we spent a few days in Newcastle and were pleasantly surprised. Aside from the interesting architecture it had a real modern upbeat vibe compared to my expectations.

When we lived there we loved Paloma Blanca. No idea if it's still good. Used to love split pea soup and a root beer from Schilos and the biscuits and gravy from Gunther House. The days when everybody drove slow.

Lake Como is the most beautiful place I have ever seen. Padua was also lovely. But that was 30 years ago. In Rome I got a slice of pizza from a street vendor and could not believe how good it was. Driving around Tuscany seemed like heaven. Enjoy.

If you're visiting the Dday beaches it's probably worth a side trip to see the town of Bayeux, with the highlight being the tapestry. The audio tour of the tapestry is magical. We did it twice in a row. The adjoining museum upstairs is really interesting too. There's also a military museum on the outskirts of town that's kind of a hike but fairly interesting. As far as the beaches, of course you'll want to see the American Cemetary and Omaha. I did not make it to Utah. I also found the town of Arromanches-Les-Bains worth a visit, with a little museum and lookout point onto the artificial port. You could spend days in the area. We used the Rick Steves guidebook to figure out what to do. Or, just driving along the coast from town to town is a nice way to spend a day. The weather can be really shitty in the Spring (and obviously into June) but there's so much to do and see you don't have to let it mess things up. Rick Steves recommended some small guided van tours of the beaches. We looked into those and almost did one, but in the end just decided to wing it.

Love you.

I believe this is correct. It sucks.

Her name is Mudd.

The guy is (now was) an Aggie/aggy/Aggy or however you want to write it. Longhorn tattoo claims notwithstanding. He may well have one. His daddy was about the biggest burnt orange backer there was, so I can see why he would get bevo tattoos and hang out on UT message boards claiming to be a Horn. I know the name of you and your brother's band, dude. I know the names of most of the mountains you've climbed. I know it's you.

I know who MountainHorn is. I am not going to dox him (although he has given enough clues here if you really want to figure it out). Suffice it to say that, yes, no matter what he says in response to this or anything else, he is an aggy. And by that I mean directly that he is a graduate of Texas A&M University.

Nothing warms the heart like hoping for a person to commit suicide on Christmas Day

Where's win?

Coach was in the gate area of my flight back to Austin today. He was putting two little African American boys on the flight as unaccompanied minors.

I have his autograph. Fred Akers used to bring the players up to the upper deck on the west side for autographs during fall camp. I should go on ebay and offer it for a reserve of __zero__ dollars and __zero__ cents.

I want to retire as soon as my last kid is through college and I can get my cash flow under control. They've been warned that living at home in their 20s and 30s is not part of my 21st century reality. Unless they bring their job and approved jumbo mortgage application. It will be well before I'm 65 or 67 or whatever the normal age is supposed to be. So like some others here, by "retire" I also mean "get a low-stress part-time job" that meets most of my cash flow needs. I got into a highly technical field after about 10 years in the workforce and I've constantly battled the lack of a solid early foundation that I should have gotten right out of school. I've outworked a lot of people and been 99.9% reliable, so my managers have typically liked me and paid me well, but I am constantly nagged by a feeling that I am a fraud and will be found out. Technical presentations are highly stressful and usually followed by either a huge high or a crushing letdown and sleepless night. I'm pretty much mentally done with all that, but there's nowhere else I can make this kind of money, and these are my best earning years, during which I am socking away large chunks of it. Walking away right now would be accepting a step function down in standard of living both now and in the future. The "retirement" career is going to be something low-stress that I like doing. Like growing apples or doing bike tours.

While we wait on a commit and ponder EJ’s Oedipal frappe tendencies, I thought I would mention an interesting factoid about beautiful European women viz a viz Aspen. If you watched the Hedy Lamarr story the other night you heard that she basically invented Aspen as a ski resort. One of her many wealthy husbands built a village there to remind her of her native Austria and assuage her boredom. Eventually and inevitable she tried to claim it in the subsuequebt divorce but to no avail which I assume was due to her having a much shittier or possibly nonexistent lawyer compared to nth rich hubby. Anyway this little tidbit of Aspen’s origins as a ski resort seems to be at odds with the Wikipedia version but I can’t offer any sort of reconciliation. Anyway this Hedy Lamarr in addition to being a fox of the highest order (at least until she sadly disfigured herself with a series of ill advised plastic surgeries) was apparently also some sort of home spun scientific genious, who was posthumously credited with inventing the idea of frequency hopping to defeat German jamming of torpedo remote control signals. Frequency hopping, we are told, became an essential component of modern wireless communications and had Ms Lamarr been properly componesated for the patent she coauthored would have reaped billions instead of just receiving an obscure and worthless pat on the back post death.

Fire Pierce.