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The Original Greaser Bob

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  1. In the early 90s, my Joy Division cover band was called The Genocide Convention.
  2. I don't own a drill, but my nickname in college with "The Jackhammer".
  3. I actually would bye many beers for a self aware aggy who wears a T-shirt that says "Aggie Bulldogs". bonus points for Texum Aggie Bulldogs.
  4. Fever in the Heartland was good, but didn't go where I thought it was going to go. Interested to see what you think.
  5. Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Caey Cep (2019) (Audio) I was really impressed with this book. It goes off in different directions and is sort of like four different long New Yorker articles all mashed together. But the writing is so swift and spare that the story just moves along. It's just a good read/listen. The idea of her publishers pushing for To Kill a Mockingbird over her finishing Go Set a Watchman - set years after To Kill a Mockingbird with an older and more problematic Atticus is something I never knew of but is a perfect reflection of the race politics of our own time.
  6. Saw him a couple of times riding a bike (looked very wobbley) near the Stanford Law School long, long ago. I always appreciated his strangeness and he could crack me up sometimes.
  7. Stoked. Let's do this.
  8. Oh yes... Coldman. The "d" is silent in America. It's Cole D'Isle au Man, or Cole of the Isle of Man, in France, where the kid's chateau is, Cold-e-man in Greece where Papa Coleman's work is, and finally the vulgar Coleman in Texas where the home is is.
  9. That's a random as fuck group of teams to root for.
  10. I'm not saying you need to pick up your game in terms of restaurants and hotels but have you recently been compelled to go into low company?
  11. Good old man books: The Way of All Flesh - Samuel Butler (not sure why this is one of my favorite books - just very old school style story, but the way he looks back on his life was very affecting) The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Cormac McCarthy (no way she was 23 - pure southern gothic, lots of sad wisdom) Train Dreams - Denis Johnson (this was frighteningly depressing - novella)
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