Bama Llama

FWIW I’ve been focusing on estate planning since 1985, first with a small firm for four years, then solo for the next four, then with two associates for the next three, then solo since 1996. I’ve learned some things and continue learning every day. DIY estate planning is like DIY surgery. Robert Shapiro did the estate planning bar a huge favor with LegalZoom; I’ve fixed or replaced enough LZ wills, trusts, POAs and health care directives to pay my annual overhead. LZ is not the problem, its users are. You’re better off consulting an experienced attorney provided you establish right up front the terms of representation. The services to be rendered, turnaround time and fee. Beware of document factory law firms which send direct mail or email announcing free seminars with blurbs designed to scare senior citizens, e.g., “The federal government has enacted new laws which will impact your estate plan!” Dozens of my clients started with document factory firms. They came to me dragging huge four-inch thick binders containing multiple documents such as 100-plus page “loving” trusts asking me to explain, fix and boil them down. I practice in a common law state. I realize Texas is community property. However the same simple questions apply to all estate planning: 1. Who gets what? 2. When do they get it? 3. Who’s in charge? Blended families are now the rule instead of the exception. Beware of any estate plan which permits the surviving partner to revamp the plan. Fix your shit right. There are multiple routes your assets can follow when you become a croakee. Figure it out - make your advisor explain it to uour satusfaction before you sign anything except the engagement agreement. Then relax and live your life out doing what you enjoy, posting outrageous shit on Surly, ridiculing anyone and everyone, reveling in a beautiful whatever, and keeping it real.

SIAP but when a "warrior" draws a sword from a leather scabbard, or even a good sized knife from a leather sheath, and the multichannel audio comes alive with a reverberating metal on metal ZZZZ-I-I-I-I-ING-ing-ing" sound. Stuff and nonsense. Bull. Fucking. Shit. We see the damned blade. That's enough. We get it. Sincere apology to the visually challenged.

Methinks we be devolving as a species. We can make a comeback but the fourth quarter is upon us and our qb is dinged up and we’re playing on the road with Big XII refs. Stay tuned.

Well, I’ll be damned. I didn’t know that was true for the “uniform pron” special one and done unis, helmets and shoes. WTB, thanks for the most UnSurly tone of your information sharing, as old Llama learns about the commercial world of college sports marketing.

All this variety, creativity and homage-paying is fine, but . . . what are all these alternate helmets, unis and shoes costing? Texas, Bama, Pedo St, Michigan, even hated and despised Auburn and aggy unis are just fine as is, freeing up their athletic departments’ monies for better use. I guess I’m just an old fart and fiscally conservative, hate to see good money spent on what’s essentially a never ending series of football fashion weeks. Phil Knight started all this shit. Seriously, what does an entire (85? 100?) set of alternate helmets cost? I mean there are oligarchs starving in Russia, Phil. I picked a bad week to stop taking psilocybin. I blame Hypnotoad.

Bumpuses! Sonsabitches! Jean Shepard was a fucking genius, with a perfect narrator’s voice. Check out YouTubes of his WOR radio shows, a veritable plethora of raconteur gold. I’ll give the remake a look, but won’t expect the jewel-like majesty of the original. Maybe we’ll be pleasantly surprised, like getting a cool slingshot instead of a pair of socks.

I witnessed a couple of dozen individuals rush the field at Legion Field when Gene Stallings’ 1991(?) Alabama team ended a 5 or 6 year consecutive losing streak vs Pat Dye’s Auburn teams. Bham PD had those punks zip tied and sitting in the South end zone in five minutes. Showed a lot more tenacity and quickness than any of our defensive backs did Saturday, I tell you what. Burton acted a fool and should be punished. Mass rushing the field will result in multiple injuries and deaths eventually, somewhere other than Tajikistan.

Bingo!

If there ever was a real "dynasty," a word that is as tired and overused as "iconic" and "storied," the end of it has begun every couple of years since Cam Newton shit in our mess kit in 2010. Somehow, Nick Saban never seems to get the memo. You might be right but only time will tell. I just enjoy watching college football, especially when the unexpected happens and an underdog plays like a team on a mission and humbles a favorite. Sucks when it's Bama, but it happens. We could still make the playoff, even win it. Several bad habits are going to have to change, though.

There's the Surly I know and love. Seriously, Surly is the best message board on the Interweb, and what's more, it doesn't cost a penny.

I have seen 71 years come and go and absorbed some of what I observed and considered facts as facts. Also, after Tua-to-Devanta for the title on 2nd and 26 a few years ago, I pledged not to ever again bitch about anything related to Alabama football. Give credit where it’s due.

Fookin Derry Girls is both grand and brilliant! It moves at the speed of sound and at times beyond. Ah canna folls the speed Ulster ox-int at times. Mrs Llama, Baby Llama and I just discovered it. Beginning to see what’s meant by “Fighting Irish,” Lord luv ‘em.

1. Kudos to Hoepel and staff for creative blitzes and stunts on D and matchup bonanzas in O. If Bryce Young weren’t Bryce Young, Bama loses by 24. 2. Hooker went unpressed and unmolested too many times and was deadly accurate when it counted. 3. Defeat, thy cousin is lack of discipline. Penalties by the bushel, most caused by lack of focus and situational ignorance. BoB sending in audibles too late. 4. Anyone else think Bama might have stood a better chance if, given 4th and long, just pooch punt and (assuming D can defend) play for O/T? Young was playing lights out at that stage of the game. 5. Congratulations to Tennessee on a well-earned win. If we’re lucky, maybe we’ll see you again.

Tennessee rolls out the Great Pumpkin early. I need something to look forward to.

Yes. Auburn series was suspended from like 1910-1948 due to, ah, fisticuffs and incidents in the early 1900s. Until LSU became a heated rival in the years after Saban left there, most Bama fans regarded Tennessee as rival 1* after #1 despised rival Auburn. Bama has played Tennessee without interruption since Hoover was president.

And Tenn, Ole Miss and LSU are away. High loss potential here unless Nick pulls some voodoo on offense.

It goes back sixty years. Paul Bryant detested Tennessee from his playing days at UA and coaching days at Kentucky and Alabama. Tennessee was always tough to beat and Bob Neyland was considered best coach in the South in the 30s, 40s and 50s. Bama's athletic trainer, Jim Goosetree, a Tennessee grad, handed out cigars after a particularly tough win over Tennessee and the tradition took hold. Link: https://www.wvua23.com/its-tennessee-week-and-that-means-cigars-are-flying-off-the-shelves/#:~:text=It's tradition that Alabama fans,the beginning of a tradition. My father played end at Alabama from 1930-32. In the Tennessee game of 1932, played in Birmingham under a constant downpour, Beatty Feathers of Tennessee and Johnny Cain of Alabama had a punting duel for the ages, over 30 punts. The coaches were calling punts on third down in case the punter bobbled a snap. Bama led 3-0 with a few minutes left but was backed up inside its own ten yard line. The field was all mud by then. I believe Darrell Royal, Mack Brown and even Nick Saban would have given Tennessee a safety and free punted it from the 20. However, Bama punted. Cain had averaged 48 yards per kick that day, but this one went off the side of his foot, badly. Tennessee had the ball inside Bama's 20 with very little time left. The Vols ran it. ran it and ran it again. Feathers finally ran it in for a TD and Tennessee won 7-3. God dammit.

I’m always glad for a win even if it’s ugly and that merde last night was hideous. Tennessee is big time on the rise. The atmosphere Saturday will be like Austin on week one, then add the extra hate factor, then add Tennessee hasn’t beaten Bama since W was president, and you have the formula for an embarrassment in Knoxville. Who the fuck knows - congrats Horns on skunking, depantsing and dry reaming OU, the ponies pulling the little wagon and Ichabod Venables.

It’s Young Frohnkunschteen for me, for a zillion reasons, but Mel’s whole magna opera has blessed humanity. Vladimir should watch more Mel Brooks.

Since the sooners are Down now, Kick them Very, very hard.

When Page kicks off that immortal lead riff at the harmonica fade, my old drummer’s heart just busts wide open with anticipation. I’ll always revere Ringo for his exquisite touch but for sheer mastery of the pedals, sticks, cymbals and skins, Bonzo is forever the Man in my rock soul. Jazz aficionados fuck off, I’m strictly talking blues rock and its descendants.

I empathize with you, thinking of my late father and his relentless five-year decline into the abyss following a cerebral aneurysm. I just really have no desire to witness Lee Corso’s struggles. I guess I’ll follow one of the above posters who recommends Fox’s show. I’ll have to overcome my aversion to all things Fox. Must admit Fox coverage of Texas-Bama was superior to CBS and ESPN.

Look at Mark Stoops first five years at Kentucky: 2013 2-7 2014 5-6 2015 5-6 2016 7-6 2017 7-6 The UK fan base, admin and money men were more patient than 90% of other schools would have been and it has really paid off. Watch them beat Ole Miss today. If he finds a way to beat Georgia and Tennessee, he’ll probably stay in Lexington with a nice fat contract and peace of mind he would never have at LSU, Florida or Texas.

They need to present Corso with a Lifetime Achievement GTFO award and put his non compos mentis ass out to pasture. And the new guy needs to cut back about 50% on the pre show Red Bulls and meth. Jesus, ESPN has more money than God. They can do better than this.

The self-narrated audiobook of his recent bio, All About Me! is excellent and well worth the listen. Some of his lines are part of the Llama family lexicon, such as “Double time harch!” and “They can all go to hell, ‘cept Cave 76!” and “Mmmmm, zee filling iss moochul.” Viva Mel.