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  1. Long shot, but my former, late, step dad used to own this place and it looks like they're still renting it out. It's a 15th Century Hacienda in the Yucatan Jungle (about an hour and some change from Merida). It's amazing with plenty to explore if you don't mind driving. I don't know if it's still being rented out, but if you google Hacienda Xixim, you'll find some sites. Just something off the beaten path.
  2. "Ethel Thayer. Thoundth like I'm lythping, dothn't it." Dabny Coleman: "I think I saw a bear."
  3. I got taken along to quite a few more serious movies with my parents as a kid, and I ended up enjoying several of them. Another that stands out is the movie, Four Seasons. It wasn't always a good match though. My parents were very close friends with the parents of the guy my sister dated in high school and college. They'd go on vacations together (see, e.g., Four Seasons) and go out to dinner together pretty regularly. On my eighth birthday, our two families went out to dinner (not the place I would have chosen) and then to a movie. That movie was Mommie Dearest. I'm eight years old. It's my birthday. And they took me to see Mommie Fucking Dearest. I remember feeling ill. Maybe it was the Hungarian food we ate earlier. Anyway, one year, AMC played Mommie Dearest on a loop for 24 hours on Mother's Day. Now I find it funny in the worst sort of way because Faye Dunnaway is so over the top. I also watched a bunch of not-age-appropriate stuff as a result of our getting cable in the late 70s. Back then, TMC (the only movie channel we had) would play the movie of the month several times each day. So at age 7, I'd seen the Shining 30 times. The list goes on. About twenty years ago, a friend and I wrote a parody of Life's Little Instruction book if all of your life lessons were learned watching cable in the 80s. Somehow, I'd saved all the cable guides from back in the day and used them in a collage as the artwork for the rear dust jacket of the book.
  4. Yeah, I had a couple of albums in the 90s. But your description of the music is spot on. 2001 was the first summer of the Phish hiatus and we were looking for something sort of related. That wasn't it. We saw TAB later that summer and it really scratched the itch (with horns).
  5. Question. Is there water in the pool. If no, I'm team bear.
  6. dcbc

    Grandkids

    I meant for Surly, but good on ya.
  7. dcbc

    Grandkids

    Total turning point
  8. I mean, it's not a strict script.
  9. Unless that's the first two frames of Star Wars, yeah, no bueno. Sucks, but it's just a cheaper-to-replace situation. I'm hard pressed to splurge for much these days.
  10. Most believable movie-older-couple I can recall.
  11. I saw this with my parents as a kid. Got caught up with the fishing with grandpa scenes as a kid, but still appreciated the performances of Henry Fonda and Katherine Hepburn. And the other four actors in the movie, who I think were famous too (I'm looking at you, Dabney Coleman. Anyway, it doesn't get mentioned enough. This scene stuck with me from the first time I saw it.
  12. He's all over the place! What an asshole! Me and My Uncle was a ripper.
  13. Feels Like a Stranger is super synthy. Then, it slams on the breaks with FotD. Would have liked a little more momentum, but I'm going to shut up, listen to this, and remember good times. edit: This is painfully (heroin?) slow. edit2: Not I.
  14. Truth, in Houston, is pretty good supposedly. Toward the end of your drive though. Safe travels.
  15. One track in, and this show is hitting hard. But that's as far as I've listened.
  16. My kid was at Blanton. I didn't tell him about my relative palace at Towers in the 90s. He likes his roommate. Mine was awful. He wins.
  17. 2016 and 2017 were rough. We lost Prince, Bowie, and Petty. I think we were probably going to get some good music out of all of them. Also, this country hasn't been the same since then.
  18. A friend of mine, whose wife is a school teacher (citizen who immigrated from El Salvador) said 150 of her school's Latino kids didn't show up on Monday, presumably scared to come to school.
  19. On the "password only" front, if you are going to lose your phone to LEO, make sure to wipe your sleeve across the screen a few times. Pretty easy to see pin unlocks from greasy finger smudges on the screen.
  20. Frank Zappa. It probably wouldn't have seen commercial success, but he had more music to make.
  21. I had a dead line of pixels on my Hisense a few years ago. They were very responsive and, after a few weeks, I got a replacement. But before that, they sent someone out to take a hammer to the screen of the old one so there was no chance of it being resold. It was a process, but I got it replaced.
  22. Agree with this. I posted the thread about halfway through.
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