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Brisketexan

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  1. Tacos, crack, and getting stabbed. That’s a fun evening right there.
  2. Why would we fight you? It’s 100% true. I still want to do a “progressive taco trailer dinner” along there one Saturday night.
  3. For real - loaded bahn mi at either place is $6.50. A great bahn mi like that is one of the last great food bargains around.
  4. Just a note - if he really loves baseball, he can keep making it a part of his life. Umpiring is great, there's also maybe pony league or high school ball. And after that, adult rec leagues. My son loves baseball, and played out the string through high school. Then, when he got to college in Scotland, found out they have a scottish baseball league, so he plays for one of the Glasgow teams. He loves it -- they road trip all over the country, he gets to play ball (and even teach some novice players). He did a year abroad in Mainz, Germany last year, and joined their university team. He ended up functionally co-coaching it due to his level of experience, and they finished in the top 3 in the university league for the first time ever. It's one of his passions and makes him happy, and it makes us happy to see him still at it. They even broadcast one of his games last year on Youtube, and we were able to watch at home drinking our morning coffee. Seeing your kids get what they are supposed to get out of sports (that is, not being focused on "I gotta be a star, get a college scholarship," etc.) is a cool part of parenting.
  5. His bulletproof/teflon nature is perhaps the greatest indicator that all legacy media has utterly and completely failed. Not "mostly failed" -- completely failed.
  6. This. This is how you kill people. Not by the baby's parents doing something wrong, but by the fact that (1) babies aren't yet vaccinated, so they depend on low transmission rates in the community, and (2) other members of the community can't be vaccinated, or the vaccine was not 100% effective for them, so they too depend on low transmission rates. My son was fully vaxxed, but came down with pertussis in high school. He was fine, but it was no fun. And the doc explained that yeah, a very small percentage of vaccinated folks still get it, so herd immunity is really important. Especially with respect to diseases that are subject to vaccines that truly reduce the hell out of transmission (pertussis, smallpox, measles, and others), herd immunity is the goal and the key. And the "fuck you, don't tell me what to do, I did my research and take colloidal silver instead" ethos that doesn't just exist, but is now official US policy, is already killing people and will kill many more.
  7. Baguette House absolutely does, I've picked them up there. And they're outstanding. There's also a bakery across Lamar the 99 Ranch center that sells pretty good baguettes - tous le jours, I think?
  8. Oh, Austin's asian food scene is maybe 10% of what Houston's is. No pretending. Shit, when I got to Austin 35+ years ago, there were like 3-4 "decent" American-chinese restaurants (lotta kung pao chicken to be had), and that was it. I remember my now-wife and I having an excited conversation with one of our professors, a native Houstonian, when the first dim sum place opened in Austin in 1992 or so. Compared to those days, we're doing great. And honestly, the proliferation of asian places in just the last 5-7 years has been amazing. Even some of the neighborhood joints (like Seven Spice on Spicewood) are legit, real-deal shit.
  9. The 183/45 area has started gathering some decent real-deal chinese options. Special Noodle is up there, and it's damned good, as is Bahn Mi Oven. And Sunflower, off McNeil at Parmer, is one of my wife's favorite restaurants. Only place we can find cahn chua soup these days.
  10. Seriously, I love this. "There was no predatory intent." I was just...and adult male. She was....a juvenile. And...I occupied a position of trust and power in relation to said minor. So, I had no predatory intent, I just totally lucked into the "predator-victim" dynamic, why are y'all hating on me for having such good luck? And big-picture, the right has revealed that being sexually predatory and degrading to women is ingrained in their DNA in recent years. The Baylor rape scandals prompted some of this discussion -- how Baylor's first conservative baptist inclination was to blame the victims (what does she expect, hanging around....those types, and, ummm, let's not make any good Christian men lose their jobs because women are sluts, okay?), etc. Women are subservient to men, exist for men to do with as they please, and there's no age limit on that. If a powerful man wants any woman to do anything, the important thing is that we acknowledge that the man's status of power is a blessing from God, and is as God intended, and who are we to argue with God's intent? And it goes on, and on, and on. Conservative pastors, MAGA land, etc. No, it's not UNIQUE to conservatives (as many have noted above, there are 100% guaranteed many more liberal/Dem types in the Epstein files doing similar predatory evil shit). But the common thread is "men of power can do what they want," and that ethos isn't just allowed in the conservative movement, it is foundational, lionized, and preached as a social good.
  11. Quoted for emphasis. Nearly 30 years ago, we were in the tres fronteras region, and spent a couple of nights in Paraguay. We ended up stopping at the Hotel Tirol for lunch. Beautiful place, jungle flowers coming down to the courtyard, hummingbirds all over. But we all commented rather immediately "hmmm....kinda got a bit of a nazi vibe going on here. Hotel....TIROL....in Paraguay. Yeah, we probably shouldn't linger here." Turns out....
  12. China town center at Lamar and braker. In that center, Baguette House and Lily sandwich shop have fantastic Bahn mi.
  13. I presume their consensus is that the uppity SC player had it comin’, and he shoulda obeyed the cop’s orders, blah blah blah.
  14. And thank goodness, yall got to EP in time for the game.
  15. Yeah. But they’re not white. So, obviously you understand the distinction here.
  16. It didn’t used to be mutually exclusive. It shouldn’t be mutually exclusive. But it is increasingly becoming so. See “enshittification.” But to the original point, “we should run all govt functions like a business” is almost always really stupid, because business and government have quite different missions, even when business is at its best. The purpose of govt services is to serve the public/common good. The purpose of a business is to make money. Even if it’s run at its best, its purpose is to make money, by serving consumers in a good way so they’ll continue to buy your services.
  17. Wait…Lucy Worsley’s show is on PBS. She’s so damned cute. Also, she would have had Texas better prepared for tonight.
  18. So, scoping out what’s showing on the Hallmark Channel. Maybe there’s a movie where the gal from the big city ends up in a small town at the holidays and falls for a local guy. That would be a real twist. Also, she’s a better gameday coach than Sark.
  19. Sark is a fine coach. “Fine” ain’t ever gonna win a title, and isn’t going to consistently be top tier in the conference. If we want to be satisfied with 9-3 seasons, then we’ve got our guy. If we want better than that…we don’t got our guy.
  20. When you get outrecruited, out coached, and outplayed…you’re gonna lose. We gonna LOSE.
  21. Enough to lose, I suspect.
  22. As we continue the clean out of decades of life at my folks’ house, I came across a previously untouched box of record albums. It has some treasures in it, and I will share some of them with you, starting tonight (because this TX-GA game is killing me). We begin with “Jimmy Dean, Mr. Country Music.” Still sealed. I’m sure it’s a fine record…but I wonder what Randy Taylor thinks about it? What do you think, @Bozo_Casanova ? And of course, with this next one, you can’t go wrong in Texas, where Bob Wills is still the king.
  23. Yeah, Orange to Beaumont isn’t so bad. We’d drive in to Beaumont for dinner sometimes when I was working in Orange.
  24. Operation Rock Hard Cock Spurting in My Mouth, the invasion of Venezuela, is gonna be lit.
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