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Please God. Let Adams fight Aaron Rodgers on the sideline.

Did Noah Brown make a big play or something recently? Haha.

Green’s agent so called that in.

Green still in. Trying to get CJ killed.

Green needs to be shot on the sideline. I can’t believe the coaches and/or Caserio thought it was good idea to let him work his way through it. The guy is shit. Do me a favor Texans, cross out every aggy on your future draft boards.

The Valley guys would like a word. I’ll agree, the farther you get from the border, the more they have to substitute authentic ingredients for generic shit from Sysco and Ben E. Keith. In my opinion, the best tacos are very, very cheap. This started as poor people food and it’s morphed into some culinary school cuteness bullshit.

Not discussed in the book or film: - Paul Vario had an affair with Karen Hill while Henry was away. Tommy attempted to rape Karen. This was likely the catalyst for Paul to give Tommy up to the Gambinos/Gotti. Movie morality car wash. They were scum bags. - Billy Batts probably purchased his button for $50k from Albert Anastasia back in the 50s. Likely 1 of the reasons Anastasia was murdered. - Tommy also killed Foxy Jerothe in late 1974. Jerothe was a mentee of Gotti’s. I doubt he cared about Batts, but Jerothe would have been a bridge too far. Most of the speculation on Tommy’s shooter centers around Tommy Agro in the Gambinos. Gotti was probably there, as well as Tuddy Vario or Peter Vario.

Gun to my head, pun intended, I think Goodfellas is a better film than a book, and Casino is a better book than a film. Pesci is great as Tommy. Tommy in the book is a just lunatic with no sense of humor. I think they basically combined Lenny Vario, Hill’s long time running mate, with Tommy in the film. The film character is much more interesting.

I reread Wise Guy. - Hill claims that Jimmy was such a money maker that Lucchese and Colombo split him. I think he misspoke. There’s nothing that links Burke to the Colombos. He worked for Paul Vario. Vario got $60k and a Colombo captain also received $60k for Air France. And that’s it. - Hill says the Luccheses split JFK with Bonannos by the Lufthansa heist in 1978. Vincent Asaro got a 6 figure tribute after the heist. I honestly think Jimmy paid tribute to Vario and Asaro and that was it. He might have pocketed somewhere in the neighborhood of $4 million dollars. - Hill couldn’t give the government shit on Lufthansa because he wasn’t involved. If he did anything, he brought Krugman’s tip to Jimmy. That’s it. - I’ll buy Hill didn’t directly participate in any murders. He worked pretty hard to keep the Air France security guard alive. - I believe Hill put Vario and Burke away on the Boston College point shaving scheme. Other cases put them away for life. The book definitely glosses over this in the prologue. While I think Vario and Hill might have been personally close, Hill wasn’t intimately involved in Vario’s criminal life. Hill snitched on a bunch of two bit crooks in his drug ring. - Famous labor racketeer and Lucchese capo Johhny Dio knew Hill was dealing drugs in prison and wanted to clip Hill in the can. Vario made a big mistake intervening. - Hill blames every pinch and mess up on his crew. Never takes responsibility. The guy was a drunk and an addict, but the book and the movie just gloss over it and turn Henry into some super functional criminal. He was a hanger on that made most his money on bootleg cigarettes, credit card fraud, working in Burke’s bookie rooms, and later drugs.

Rama would work best as a movie in my opinion. It’s not a very long book, and as others have pointed the sequels aren’t very good.

The Netflix documentary while entertaining has an agenda. They almost always do. Their agenda was to prove Arthur Leigh Allen was the Zodiac based on circumstantial evidence and interviews with Seawater kids. The circumstantial evidence looks bad for Allen. The physical evidence probably exonerates him: 1) Saliva/DNA from a stamp from a verified Zodiac letter wasn’t a match for Allen. 2) They lifted some good prints off of his first murder. Again, Allen wasn’t a match. 3) They took handwriting samples of both hands, and didn’t move forward on arresting Allen. 4) Police served search warrants on his residence in the 70s and again in 1991, and again didn’t make an arrest. I’ll give SFPD some credit. A less professional police force would have coerced a confession. Allen was an anonymous, lonely, sex offender. People thinking he’s a the Zodiac is the only interesting aspect of his life. Of course he enjoyed the attention. The Seawater stuff is sick and quite sad. I think the mother knew and took money or sexual favors from Allen in exchange for unfettered access to her kids.

$500-$1000 per net acre seems to be the going rate in Colorado. 3 year term, 2 year extension. Around 20% royalty. The extension payment should be the same as the original bonus. The more contiguous acreage, the better the rock, the higher the bonus and royalty. The link you provided is for a land broker. Things are pretty tight for land brokers at all times, so I doubt they’re leasing on spec and trying to sell it later. They’re almost certainly leasing for a much larger O&G company. It’s an old trick. If the landowners find out they’re taking the lease for a company like Chevron, they’re going to ask for more money. I don’t think you have much leverage, but I’d compare notes with your neighbors. Royalty, bonus, and production costs are all things neighbors should share and discuss. I’d hire a Kansas landman for a flat rate to review your lease. I doubt attorneys in your area would have much knowledge of a lease form. Be very careful with hourly rates. I’ve been burned before. Guy didn’t know shit, and spent 2 weeks researching a bullshit opinion. Just make sure there are lease provisions that requires them to drill. I’d ask for a separate lease tract provision (SLT). It’s cleaner than pughs. I doubt you want to track production at different depths. If they drill, you can monitor production on the state oil and gas site. They should have administrative people that can walk you through it. Basically with SLT, the spacing unit for each well functions as its own lease. If a well doesn’t produce for 60 days to a year, it releases that acreage and you can lease it again. And if they want put anything on your property that isn’t a wellhead, you need to compensated for it. If you can’t use part of your property because of their operations, you need to get paid. Be patient. If they’re wildcatting it might take them the full 5 years to drill. Good luck.

I think they didn’t give a shit about the pipe bombs, and they wanted Allen on the street so they could observe him. Hindsight is 20-20, but he would have died in prison if he went dow for the pipe bombs.

Excellent cautionary tale. If you’re a 30 year old WR, don’t force your way out a good situation and then beg the team to void guaranteed years of your contract in a desperate attempt to get a third contract. He is 100% playing for the Jets next year on a 1 year deal.

RE Rama: I thought about the description some. Imagine a totally self contained world shows up in our solar system. Humans pop the hatch, and discover a dead, frozen tomb with abandoned cities inside. But as the tomb approaches the Sun, the world slowly thaws and comes to life. Organic plants start to appear, but also worker ants that aren’t entirely organic or entirely robotic. The ants then start preparing the tomb for habitation.

That Wild Turkey Gold Foil and King of Kentucky have my attention. Very nice.

Rams want a second, and won’t help on his contract. All the way out.

Any places with good Sunday Gravy? Laurenzo’s Prime Rib looks one of the few places in town.

So they can’t give the new Lioness a weekend pass and drop in on her in a Kuwait hotel room instead of, I dunno, an active combat zone?! Just silly. She should tell Saldana no because of her regarded plan to contact her.

Is alibi bit is hilarious.

Good episode except for the Modelo commercial at the end.

Yup.

RIP Squid aka Mikey Day.

I haven’t had a good steak finger in 10 years. Can’t get them crispy. The CFS sandwich is usually good. They usually nail chicken tenders. Hard to figure. My wife still loves DQ tacos. Dily bars are still great. Blizzards still go hard. Their locations are certainly dwindling. Probably 3 locations within reasonable driving distance of central Houston.

Also, I believe Allen wasn’t a fingerprint match for Zodiac. He’s just very problematic as suspect.