CooterBrown

Who the fuck flies economy?

A Bad Lieutenant Cinematic Universe isn’t something I knew I needed but I’m in for it.

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Took Lil’ Brown to Red Rocks to see Sombr. In passing I’ve heard a few songs she has played while in the car. No real opinion on him though. It was a great show. Every song was solid and I was surprised at what a rock show it was. My memory of the studio stuff is that it was mid temp electro pop but with a full live band and 2-3 electric guitars, the band brought it. During an extended jam, he made his way through the crowd and came down our row. He gave Lil’ Brown a high five and she just about stroked out. Very Killers with a bit of T Rex and Bowie mixed in. If your kid is a fan, take them. You’ll enjoy the show and the amount of talent in the crowd was ridiculous. It did make me realize Gen X and Millennial music is absolutely dead. It was the most electric crowd I’d seen in a decade.

The word is Huffines may be scarier than anticipated. Everyone thinks he is crazy but initial impressions are he’s crazy and competent. That’s a frightening combination. He has a team of attorneys who will vet every decision before it’s implemented because he wants to make sure everything he does can’t be walked back. So, he’s gonna fuck Texas as hard as he legally can.

I’ve never even seen The Ringer but I use “I can count to potato” at least once a week.

Page played a child soldier. Odysseus choosing a child to die under a lie is to show his morally gray self. It also sets up the line where he tells Patterson that Sinon is the greatest warrior he knew. That’s a lie but it’s an intentional insult to Antinous that he’s a coward.

Because he's a fucking pussy.

AISD is now holding emergency meetings to close additional schools prior to this coming school year. At least Paredes and the 3 failing middle schools are on the chopping block. Around 3 weeks out from the first day of school and around ~1,000 kids will be reassigned to a new school. Good job, AISD!

McBride said Cheech Marin (who is his uncle in law) told him early on that as a comedian, you have a window of at best 7 movies before the audience moves on. You have to figure out phase two of your career before that happens. Doesn’t sound like Will got that message.

Rumor going around is that the state budget is gonna get a 10% haircut for the next fiscal year...not out of any real numbers, just completely out of mega MAGA DOGE spite.

LOL. AISD just completely gave up. At least Mattias got that final contract signed. It'll be a nice mini golden parachute when he's shown the door next month. FWISD has lost 1,000 teachers (~20%) with the takeover this past year. It's gonna be wild at AISD with how many staff leave.

There was an old recording that was supposedly Bon working out a couple songs from BIB on stage at a pub right before he died. It was on YouTube and may still be there. I ran across it about 10 years ago. No way to verify it was him but the singer sounded just like him and the audio was poor. The arrangements definitely sounded like incomplete demos.

It’s simply that Damon is the main character and he can’t do accents so everyone else has to adjust to him for consistency.

I liked it but don’t know if I’ll revisit it. The first 3/4 of the film is very episodic. It was like it was stitched together from a mini series. I wonder if there’s a 5-6 hour cut of the movie. Each “episode” was good but there needed to be more. It’s like watching some highlight clips of each adventure. There needed to be more in each scene. If you’re going to get an R rating because of 3 unneeded “fucks” being uttered then you should have showed the trauma of war in its gory detail. There’s not much investment in why Odysseus is basically a PTSD suffering war vet. The stunt casting was a nothing burger. Page is playing a kid soldier and is in two scenes. His second scene is some great acting. Whatever her name who is playing Helen is good too. Her bitterness lends credence to the theory she left her husband willingly and wasn’t kidnapped. Once again she’s in like 2 scenes for maybe 3 minutes. The final fight scene is terribly directed and choreographed. It goes on way too long and the antagonists go out of their way to not kill Odysseus. 7 out of 10.

The 4 minutes of Dune 3 footage shown in front of the IMAX Odyssey showings has leaked. Not gonna lie. It gave me a semi. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/dyzefykmbpc41v2ha2jy7/Video-Jul-17-2026-3-54-40-PM.mov?rlkey=haejgb2fsi4xdl0991am5z2dl&st=hzfb8r0y&dl=0

We decided to buy 3 years of service for Mrs Brown because of Huffines. It’ll make her retirement date the summer of ‘28 instead of November ‘29. Just gotta hang on a bit longer.

Don’t worry about any effect on FAFSA. You have to have a household income well below $100K before you’ll qualify for any needs based aid. All you’ll get is a loan offer at a token rate that won’t cover 20% of the bill. The FAFSA form has no effect on any merit aid or other scholarships your kid will be offered.

For better or worse, she's following the Pedro Pascal model of oversaturation. It'll be interesting to see if audiences tire of her being in everything.

Massive Attack.

He already got a paycheck for doing his job.

Texas just hired the Oklahoma Secretary of Education (ranked 48th out of 50) to lead the College of Education. Got to MAGAfy those teachers before they can indoctrinate those kids.

Couldn’t the governor put in a welfare check on Mitch since his position is of state interest? Force the police to put eyes on his corpse.

My investing philosophy is being aggressive 100% of the time will always outperform a conservative portfolio because the gains are so much greater, a huge market drop still put me further ahead than if I was conservative with my investments.