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Ghost of LL

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  1. Did the head to Argentina? Or was it Paraguay?
  2. All this game proves to me is that Florida State is the best team in the country and should be your true champion.
  3. I don't see how that'd be possible, just looking at that building. Anybody in the bottom two or three floors has got to be in pretty bad shape. And anybody on the street outside almost certainly suffered life-threatening injuries.
  4. I really don't want to hear it when Boeing gets all the largesse that it does from the DOD. It's all dressed up as a procurement, but let's be real clear--the United States Government makes sure nothing too bad happens to Boeing. It's the only explanation I can come up with, but it's an absolutely shocking conclusion to reach. Boeing has a real corporate-culture problem right now that needs to be addressed ASAP.
  5. I thought Lucky Boy was very meh. Perhaps it's just that a SoCal breakfast burrito is never going to hold a candle to a good ATX breakfast taco. But regardless, it was underseasoned, over-potatoed, and the salsa wasn't good. We went to brunch at The Butcher, the Baker, and the Cappuccino Maker on Sunset, and it was fantastic. Highly recommend. Also recommend Katana on Sunset. That was a fun place for dinner.
  6. So with AA massively cutting its schedule out of AUS and DL saying that it is going to (slowly) increase its flights, I'm wondering if I ought to switch from AAdvantage to SkyMiles. I've not flown DL in about 25 years after a really bad experience. But maybe it's time to end that embargo. But the thing is, switching primary airline rewards programs seems like such a pain in the ass. It's not just starting from scratch on the program, it's getting all new credit cards and all that shit.
  7. So we're leaving next Thursday to go to the Billy Joel concert at MSG. Friday night is dinner at Atera. Saturday night is Gutenberg. Don't have any plans for the daytime. I've never been to the Museum of New York City--that looks kind of interesting with a subsequent walk through northern Central Park. Thanks for your suggestions @PenelopeWitherspoon.
  8. Was thinking that, Founders Ale House on Pico, or 3rd Stop on 3rd.
  9. Alright—about time to head out to find a bar here in West Hollywood. I saw the boy march this morning in the Tournament of Roses Parade and got plenty of comments on my Longhorns sweater—quick observation: the Tournament of Roses people all speak very fondly of Texas’s trips out here. But fun time is over—time to get down to business. Fuck Washington. And while we’re at it, fuck Alabama and fuck Michigan, too.
  10. It was a nice letter.
  11. Yeah—imma gonna hafta disagree with you there, friend. She’s a fucking moron.
  12. Craziest finish I’ve ever seen.
  13. I love a good race to the courthouse. "You thought we were playing down in Tallahassee? Nah, fuckers--our team's already on the field up here in Charlotte. Get your asses up here."
  14. I don't know the actual cost. But there's a cost of maintaining the physical plant of the reserve. And then there's the cost of acquiring the petroleum.
  15. I always stop at Steamboat Bill's in Lake Charles. It's right off I-10, and super easy in and out. What's the place I stop at for beignets in (I think) Breaux Bridge? If you're heading back in the morning, that's a great stop for coffee and a beignet.
  16. Jesus, it was bad enough when the Ticket stream was airing ads for some Christian medical "insurance," which isn't really insurance but a well-known and -documented scam. Shit, John Oliver even had a segment about these outfits. They're a complete fraud aimed at the most vulnerable. But Cumulus still happily took their money. But now they're airing ads for the Alliance Defending Freedom, which is a fucking hate group. Fuck that shit--I'm about ready to turn off that stream.
  17. . . . for Texas in particular. We'll never have to see him play at Georgia, where he'd be throwing to NFL-caliber receivers from a well-defined and -protected pocket. Instead, he'll be playing at Nebraska in complete anonymity.
  18. The amazing thing is that together, the United States and Canada now produce more petroleum than do Saudi Arabia and Russia combined. We're kind of caught in this very Boomer mindset that the Arabs control the global petroleum market. Today, that couldn't be further from the truth. Combined, the Gulf Arab producers (i.e., Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Kuwait, the UAE, and Qatar) produce less annually than the United States and Canada. Yes--the SPR is stored in salt domes in Texas and Louisiana. So there is a lag not only in production, but in transportation. But whether that lag is meaningful is another question. When it comes to addressing economic considerations, which is the only purpose to which the SPR has ever been put, the lag has not been material.
  19. But we have the reserve inventory. It's in the ground. It's not going anywhere. Your point makes sense for Oklahoma as it continues to weigh the benefits of creating a Strategic Meth Reserve. Unlike petroleum, meth has to be manufactured. And it has to be manufactured from chemicals that themselves have to be manufactured. So there is the potential for a shortage if there is any interruption in the manufacturing process. But petroleum isn't manufactured. It's already there. All we're doing with the SPR is transferring petroleum from one hole in the ground to another hole in the ground. And yeah, it's more accessible when it's in the second hole. But it's not like we're ever going to have a real shortage of production equipment sufficient to justify the costs of the SPR.
  20. I love BUR. My favorite BUR story was from the 2005 NCG. We spent all week in LA, going to the Tournament of Roses Parade and everything before the game. So since we were going to be in LA for nearly a week, we decided to take one light and fly to Vegas, have dinner, make a few bets on the Longhorns, and gamble all night. So around 8:00, we head over to BUR for the Southwest flight to LAS. We're not even getting a hotel room, so we had no luggage. And so Mrs.LL (back when she was just LL's Girlfriend) is dressed to go out in Vegas. Very short tight black dress with lots of cleavage. Cool. I mean, it's maybe a bit of an outfit for a weekend night at the airport, but there's a flight to Vegas leaving, so it's not completely out of the realm. We gamble all night. Amazingly, we hit "10" on the roulette wheel. That was fun. Thanks, Vince. And around 5:00 AM we head to the airport to catch the 6:15 flight back to BUR. We land at Burbank at around 7:15 at BUR in the same clothes we went out in last night, and . . . well, Mrs.LL didn't feel terribly comfortable walking through early-morning weekday travelers at BUR in her going-out-in-Vegas attire.
  21. I initially completely misread this to mean that you thought Arkansas vs. aggy should play every year in Austin (instead of Jerryworld), and I personally think that would be awful, hilarious, and fantastic all at the same time.
  22. He needs to be enrolled in school for the spring semester. The shit’s that borked is that the playoffs go so far into January that football is now also a spring sport.
  23. Hell, no—I wouldn’t want to play Texas.
  24. Well, unless we're the defending national champions.
  25. Fuck that. I'm cheering for Maalik wherever he goes. He could go to aggy, and I'd hope he would go 25-25 for 350 yards and 4 TDs in every game. Just so long as aggy then loses every game 70-24. Which, in light of the fact that their entire defense is apparently transferring, is not entirely out of the question.
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