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Brisketexan

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  1. Haven't read enough King to have a truly encyclopedic take. I read The Body as a stand-alone, not as part of the Different Seasons collection. Read pretty much everything McMurtry wrote, though. And my mother was a trained dramatic actress (state champ, that sort of thing). I recall her reading Texasville aloud on a road trip one year; she did all the characters with different voices and inflections and whatnot (these were her people, after all). It was actually brilliant, and maybe my first "audiobook" experience after my childhood experiences of mom reading books to me as a toddler and such. On trips with my family to west Texas a few times, I read some Hank the Cowdog books aloud, same style (made sure to have a proper voice and approach for each character). We loved those experiences. But for the most part, the speed thing is what gets me. An audiobook that takes 8 hours to play out, I can usually read in 2-3 hours or less.
  2. The Shining movie IS better than the book. But the ONLY one? Stand By Me would like a word.
  3. Didn't want to have to give away your seat on the ledge.
  4. Dude, are you me? I'm a fast reader, and I can paint imagery and nuance in my head, as I read, better than most any audiobook I've ever listened to. When I read something that's just incredible prose, I may read it multiple times. Not because I don't understand it, but because I want to feel it wash over me in different ways.
  5. Except in just the past few years, we have examples of massive, deadly floods at "unprecedented" levels that happened in identical geography just a few miles away (talk to folks in Wimberly). Any reasonable person (esp. one living in/near the hill country) knows that "unprecedented" flooding doesn't mean "impossible" flooding -- it actually means "the kind of shit that is happening with increasing frequency." And "nobody could have known this would be this dangerous or could have done anything to protect against the outcome" isn't going to sell when upstream properties literally DID anticipate the risk, monitor the risk, and take real-time action to protect life and property. Not only could it be done, it WAS done. Just not by Mystic.
  6. Fuck that. It's like you haven't heard of this thing called "all the alcohol."
  7. FUCKING YES. I've given that rant on plays (esp. Shakespeare, who I love) since I was 14. We read Taming of the Shrew. It was fine. Then I saw a live performance, and I GOT IT. In fact, I LOVED IT (it remains my favorite SP comedy). Making people read something that is meant to be either watched or performed is stupid.
  8. I didn't take Classic Civ till fall of 90. The semester I started dating my now-wife, who was BIG into Classic Civ. I was, ummm, not a particularly focused student. Had a test coming up on the Iliad, which I 100% had not even cracked open. Thought I'd hit up this cute girl to give me the story. Dumbass I was. She decided she wanted me to learn. So, she starts with "okay....so you've read the Odyssey, right? And you know that's about the trip back from the Trojan war. The Iliad happens before the Odyssey, so....what do you think it's about?" Displaying my best Brian Reagan face... I answered "uhhh......Ilia?" 35 years later, she has NEVER let me forget that.
  9. You should be worried about both. America is a perfect toxic stew of stupid and evil right now, and it tastes like it.
  10. Shades of "Soviet solider at the Katyn Forest Massacre implored his colleagues to slow down on the killing, they're running low on ammo, so he's a hero." Fucking hell. "I was aware of massive child sexual abuse, but hey, I asked the abuser to stop" is pretty much the perfect "I'm the good guy" moral flex for this wretched era. It will work.
  11. I'm pretty sure there were 400 separate IP violations in that clip. Didn't license the song, didn't license the clip from car commercials, movie sequences, etc., to be used for political purposes....in violation of the Hatch Act. At this point, the administration's consistent, repeated, and flagrant disregard for intellectual property -- layered on using it for illegal purposes -- merits a blanket injunction against using ANY licensable material without prior consent. Seriously, there's a viable suit to be filed and pursued there.
  12. Aunt Mavis knew what was UP.
  13. I mean....several of y'all above are spot-on. How this ends is "actually, child-rape is fine, especially when it's a powerful man and a tempting girl. Why, in real alpha societies in the past, the emperor always had underage concubines, to satisfy his powerful, manly urges. It just goes with the territory of having a REAL alpha male in the White House. Frankly, I wouldn't vote for a presidential candidate who WASN'T manly enough to fuck multiple teenage girls." They come around. They always do. It's a cult, and it's simp enablers who think that getting in line with the cult will open the pathway to power (and they are largely correct, as the only qualification for advancement in the regime is loyalty). It will happen. It will work. Rape of underage girls will be deemed a political positive before the 2026 elections happen.
  14. Yeah, side note....I wonder if there's a vulture-type play to be made here. I know that several data centers are being built in connection with independent generation facilities/projects nearby, subject to Power Supply Agreements with the data center. So, it looks like this: Data Center Delta, LLC (an independent LLC, owned by a larger outfit, or even a partnership/consortium of outfits under outfits) contracts with Generator Company Beta, LLC (an independent LLC, owned by a larger outfit like AEP, or some similar arrangement). The contract calls for Generator Co to construct a 200 MW facility to supply power to Data Center. Now, here in Texas, that generation is also going to be hooked up to the grid, per ERCOT requirements. But its contractual purpose is to provide dedicated power to the data center. What happens when Data Center goes tits up? In bankruptcy, that PSA with Generator Co is repudiated, and Generator Co no longer has a steady source of revenue that makes the numbers on that facility (financed in part with debt) work. So, independent Generator Co files for bankruptcy as well. Will there be opportunities to sweep in and acquire these orphan (as in, they no longer have a PSA to support them) generation assets? Because, that asset -- if not overly encumbered by debt (now canceled via the bankruptcy) -- may be a revenue-positive asset as just another generation facility in whatever grid it may be found (ERCOT, MISO, SPP, etc.). Or, will that already be pre-packaged -- the parent co (like AEP) will acquire its own orphan in the bankruptcy process?
  15. Y'all realize that if Epstein was alive, (1) Trump already would have pardoned him because "he was treated very unfairly, maybe more unfairly than anyone but me," and (2) appointed him special envoy for children's safety or something like that, right?
  16. If you want to know why America is going to shit, that clip is exhibit A in the case of "because this country is totally pussified." FFS, this country was the leader of the free world while holiday spreads included jello salads and shit like this: And these soft ass wusses can't appreciate a fucking McRib? Fucking Kruschev said he'd take this country without firing a shot and by God, I think it happened.
  17. Some more enshittification coming your way, owing to the Trump economy working EXACTLY as designed. Remember, the giant spiked dildo being rammed up the people's ass so the billionaires can extract a bit more blood from each of us is a FEATURE, not a bug, of the Trump economy: Enjoy paying more for electricity and to heat your house this winter, peasants. It's the least you can do to enrich the regime and its cronies.
  18. Good thing that AI is only bringing glory and prosperity to the masses. Wait, what's that? It's already fucking us all over, and we're all going to pay more for our electricity and heating this winter, which surely won't have any impact on the increasing percentage of Americans that has to pinch every penny just to survive..... Shut up and take it, peasants.
  19. And the world’s deepest hand-dug well. And the world’s largest pallasite meteorite. I’ve seen both. There ain’t much to do in Kansas.
  20. …if’n you think round is funny.
  21. Monkey sideeye gif
  22. Update: no charges yet. Prosecutor says they're going through "a mountain of evidence." Yeah....a mountain that looks a lot like "he's an old white cop. Gotta find a way to smear the victim and blame her so it's a justified shooting" or some shit like that.
  23. Watts is not shabby. But goddamn, this case is a defense nightmare. Shit, I represented a hospital back in the day (complex civil matters, NOT their medmal matters). I remember having a drink with the CEO one evening, discussing the various legal goings on, and he related that they'd just settled a med mal case. "It was a dead baby case. Those are the absolute worst. Doesn't matter what happened, what you did or didn't do....there's a dead baby. You settle those cases. Always." Well, here....there's 27 dead little girls. I don't know what outcome the plaintiffs want. But whatever it is, they'll likely get something close to it.
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