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abuelo gringo

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  1. Dick Law Firm. "Put our name in their mouth." He looks more like a car salesman than an attorney - but then I've never met the average Surly barrister. "It's easy getting Dick." "Better get Dick."
  2. Sandy Berger, former Clinton adviser, took classified documents out of the National Archives. It was reported he tried to smuggle them out in his socks. He pled guilty. He was working for Kerry's election campaign at the time.
  3. They're now calling Mark Welsh Trev? I can see Trey (he's Mark Welsh III) but can't see the Trev.
  4. As stated many times in the Fuck the Police thread, the police will always protect their own from accountability. This includes retired police officers working as independent investigators. Just another scam.
  5. Apologies to Abe Lemons - like scoring one less point than a dead man.
  6. Weren't all those (including Trump) who came in below William Henry Harrison like coming in second to a dead man?
  7. Michael Corcoran had a good write up. You can read a lot of his work at michaelcorcoran.net or subscribe to his emails at the same location. Great for long time Austinites or people who want to learn Austin music history. Spoilered for length.
  8. I feel similarly, only it's been over 50 years since I was at UT. Yes, I'm a boomer, but not one of those with an "inability to think critically about how the common good and the individual interest can be aligned." At times, I get angry and revert to the borderline radicalism of my youth. I guess what has changed the most is my opinion on how to go about effecting change and how quickly we can expect it. (If ever.)
  9. Only if the good guys win ultimately.
  10. Reminiscent of the brown shirts.
  11. My wife likes to repurpose leftover fries as hashbrowns. Add to a little braised onion and spices. We almost never eat all the fries some places serve and it saves her time and trouble cutting up or shredding potatoes.
  12. I was at that 1964 Cotton Bowl also. My brother was home for the Christmas break of his plebe year at USNA. He had secured four tickets in the south end zone and he and I (a junior in high school) double dated to the game. He seemed very sure that Staubach and company would prevail, but me and my date had the last laugh. I came down to Austin for school in September of '65, but my date ended up at SMU. We both ended up meeting our spouses at college. It would be nice to have kept my ticket, but it would probably have been lost in a flood several years ago with many other mementos.
  13. Yes, Second Ave. was the closest to the grove. Dallas was dry in all but precinct 1. In high school, we would drive down there and have some old character near the liquor store go in and buy us a half pint. I was never ripped off, but it did happen. this was in the mid sixties.
  14. I guess he was lucky the Uber driver had the Waze app.
  15. Isn't that the bowl our wealthy fans created for us one year we didn't have an invite? Formerly the Bluebonnet Bowl.
  16. I just installed the ABC app on my Roku. The schedule shows games tonight and tomorrow. It looks like this is an option for me.
  17. Disappointed they didn't televise Sark's after game press conference last night. Sometimes they cut it off early. I watched it this AM on Youtube, however. Always liked to watch the post game show.
  18. I know a couple of guys from the class of '63 (one recently dec'd), but don't recognize either from that photo. Most St. Ed's guys I know graduated in class of '65.
  19. I filed when I was in jr. high and high schools but didn't need to taxwise. All my employers back then withheld from my pay, so I had to file to get that witholding refunded.
  20. A little off topic, but I didn't want to start another. Sometime in the '70s, there were some smaller, progressive country music concerts at Steiner Ranch. Not sure if before or after the Sunday Break concerts, as I don't remember them. Wish I had seen the Band live, though. One of these had Willie, Billy Joe, Alex Harvey (wrote Delta Dawn, played LA swamp rock), and the Wheel. The other had Waylon, Jimmy Buffett, and Rusty Wier. I know Tommy Steiner performed at one of them. Other performers were there, but I can't remember who or recognize in what photos I had. All I have are contact sheets, as I lost any original photos and the original negatives in a flood in 2015. Only stories I have are that some hippies went skinny dipping in Bull Creek, but we stayed away as we had our young kids (under 10 yo) with us. I also missed what could have been the best photo I could have taken. Willie had come out and sat in the audience, apparently chatting up some cutie. One of our party told my 5-6 year old daughter to go give Willie a kiss, which she did. All of us thought it was great, but sitting there with a camera in my lap, I didn't even think to capture the moment. Lotsa beer that day. I do have some old scans, however.
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