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  1. She died on Saturday. I was the last one to hold her. There is blood on my shirt from some of her last breaths. She cradled me in her arms the moment after I came into this world, and I realized that I was the last to carry her as she prepared to leave it. Before she was even taken from the house, through tears, I confessed that realization with my father, and he shared that as of late, he had been thinking of a line from one of his favorite songs by Jose Alfredo – “La vida empieza lorrando, y asi llorando acaba.” Roughly translated, life begins with crying, and so it ends with crying. Es la verdad. It came faster than we expected, and she was in distress near the end, but we did all we could, and when the fine men and women of AFD and Austin EMS arrived and got her breathing stabilized, her body could rest. And then, shortly thereafter, her soul joined it, and she was gone. Nothing but praise for the kindness and sensitivity shown by AFD and EMS. They were everything you would hope for. She passed away on a gurney, but they carefully brought her back inside, and laid her back on her bed. The entire crew stood solemnly with us in our grief. They bowed their heads and were silent. We were embraced by strangers in our loss, if but for a moment. But the moment mattered. After she was gone, and everyone had departed the scene, I went outside to talk to her friends, who had gathered. I told them of her passing, and their response was perfect in two parts: “She was a good woman . . . and a kick in the ass.” She was born in New Orleans spitting-distance from the Mississippi, met her life-long love on the north bank of the Rio Grande, and lived her life at points between, almost all along the Gulf Coast. She was a daughter of hurricane country, and she had a Category 5 personality to go with it. Her early years were so hard. Because people can be hard, and cruel. Her early family life was a nightmare. But that gave her a vision of what she wanted, a vision of a life with safety, security, and family. To the child, it was a dream that gave her hope. To the woman she became, it was a glorious reality. She gave me a home where I wanted for nothing, where I never feared for my safety or security. And she gave that freely to everyone who passed through her door. She was a second mother to so many of my friends. When I came along, my parents didn’t have a pot to piss in, living in a little apartment off of Woodway in Houston. But there they would sit, on the furniture they had bought from a motel close-out auction, reveling in the wealth that mattered, the wealth of their family, telling each other “somos millionarios.” And she believed it, because she had a family, a roof, and unconditional love to give and receive. That feeling remained her one true treasure. As I grew up, our home was a refuge, security, a warm embrace and mothering for my friends, and whoever else walked through our door. She was a mother to the world, and in turn, a grandmother to the world. When we began sharing the news of her death, we got tearful calls from Mexico, Argentina, Norway, and dozens of other places full of people she loved, and who loved her dearly in return. Even we had no idea of the breadth and depth of her reach. She was no delicate flower. The lung cancer that eventually got her came from a lifetime of a cigarette flapping between her lips as she told anyone who needed to hear it to kiss her ass. She was a child of Louisiana and Texas oilfield trash, and it still showed. She could pull off elegant, and she appreciated the finer things…..but she’d call you some shit that you can only imagine in your darkest dreams if you got on her bad side. She clocked the hell out of a snatch-and-grab robber in Buenos Aires as he tried to take my old man’s watch; she had a heavy wooden box in a shopping bag, swung it over her head to clock the guy on the top of his dome, at the same time that she took her cigarette and burned his arm. He sprinted back to his accomplice’s motorbike and GTFO of there. We are positive that when he returned to his lair with his amigos, they gave him a world of shit. There’s no good time to lose your mother. But in retrospect, I’m grateful for so many things. I’m grateful that we had gotten her onboarded to hospice just two days before she died, so her death was an at-home death under hospice care, which is much easier for all. I’m grateful that just over a month ago, before her health took its precipitous decline, I got a wild hair in my ass to have an oyster shucking and grilling session, followed immediately by a crawfish boil Oysters and crawfish were two of her favorite things. As we prepped dozens of oysters, I called her and my dad and told them to hustle on over (they were planning on the crawfish boil later, but I hadn’t told her about the oysters because I didn’t know how her strength would be). She got here lickety split. She stood next to us while we shucked and shot the bullshit, slurping fresh oysters as we handed them to her. Then she went in and sat down, where we brought her a half dozen grilled. She wasn’t eating a lot by this stage of her illness, but she ATE. Then she went home to rest a bit, and came back for crawfish. We sat at long tables, and she held court surrounded by joy and friendship. And as we told stories, she chipped in with a horrifically perfect, totally NSFW, pure-dee S. Texas off-color observation that had all of us howling, including @Pescado_Rojo and @Kyrie Eleison (pescado’s teen son just lowered his head and grinned). I was mildly mortified. They damn near pissed themselves. She was in her element. But one of the most important things was something Pescado just shared with me the other day – as he was leaving with his son that evening, my mom pulled him aside and told him “you’re raising a fine young man.” Which is true. She was so proud of all of my friends, and loved them as if they were her own kin. Because that’s how she rolled. So, I wake up for the first time in a world without my mother. As we all will someday, if the order of things stays as we would hope. And my father wakes up alone for the first time in over half a century. And we will move forward, with those who matter. My mother spun threads that stretched far and wide, and can never be cut. They can only be tied together into the tapestry in which we all live together. And those of us who knew her and were touched by her love, nurturing, and strength, can genuinely say “somos millionarios.” Soy millionario.
    44 points
  2. The pride and winning tradition of the Texas Longhorns will definitely not be entrusted to some of the posters in this thread.
    25 points
  3. Any record below 10-3 for this team should be considered a disappointment and an indictment of Seven Win Steve's hopes as the head man. It feels like every 3-5 pages of this thread gets infected with vaginal secretions and a craven need to lower the expectations of the collective because of a few posters' own weak-willed ability to do anything in life but hide from the sunlight. I see a lot of knobs on this board continue to buy into the premise that something like an 8 win season will be okay because ... "transition". Right. I was talking to someone in the AD last week and they are pushing that same narrative out. Fuck them and fuck you too. "Arkansas will be tough. Louisiana will be ranked. Someone in the Big 12 is always better than expected. OU and ISU will be top 6 teams." Just thoughtless, dickless whining trying to lower expectations for the new regime. Guess what? This is a "transition" fucking schedule. -Arkansas may return a lot, but they lost their best defensive player, the QB, and the #2 WR, at least. Oh, and they went 3 and fucking 7 in a terrible SEC. The fucking expectation is that Texas should beat them, on the road, in a hostile environment. If you don't see it that, you're wrong and you need to fix your bullshit. -Louisiana returns a lot - a lot of fucking players no one wanted. They may be well coached but if your expectations are so milquetoast and pussified that you don't expect a talented and well-coached Texas roster to go out and beat a fucking Sun Belt team in front of the largest crowd this state has seen in 2 fucking years, with a newly built-out south end zone and its noise wall in structure, then maybe cheering for Texas football isn't the right past time for you. Maybe take up painting or croquet. -The Big 12 team that will be and should be better than everyone expects? Yeah, that is Texas. Enough equivocating about OSU or TCU or other drivel from dithering dildos. -OU and ISU will be plenty good. Neither team carries more talent into the stadium on game day than Texas. More experience at QB? Sure. It ends there. Texas has a full roster. Texas has talent everywhere on the field. Someone whined about depth on defense up above, and I assume it's because they can't read and don't understand what they're watching when they watch the sport. Texas has depth on the DL and in the secondary. Texas has made strides in creating depth at LB. Worried about a pass rush? Fine, but that's what the money is for with this defensive staff. On offense there is no dearth of talent at any spot except WR and even there, the starting talent is fine. Whittington and Omeire, if healthy, can play anywhere. TB talent and depth? Check. QB talent and depth? Check. OL talent and depth? Check. If they fucking let Wiley play, there's plenty of help at TE too.
    23 points
  4. I've posted less lately and with less verbiage than most of my 20+ years of posting, so I don't know what in the fuck you're whining about my style "lately". It's bizarre. Prior performance is not indicative of future returns. This is year 1 of a new regime inheriting a ton of talent relative to schedule. Whatever the complaints are about Herman and crew, he brought in quality classes and they're not highly rated in an illusory way. There are players spread throughout the roster and depth chart. Regarding this sentiment that Texas hasn't won shit and the expectations are, gasp!, too damned high - I'm merely comparing the outcome for 2021 to that of roughly 2018. I don't even expect UT to play for the conference title, as I've said multiple times on this thread alone. 10-3 does not indicate a fucking conference title game appearance. Hell, it could even be 3 regular season losses and a bowl win. To fall further down the win column than 10 wins indicates things like losing 2 of the non-con games or the team shitting itself in Ft. Worth or to OSU or fucking Tech. OSU will not, in fact, be better than last year. They lost some fucking stars. The QB is a turnover machine that can't stay healthy. Patterson gets his team up for Texas and outcoached the last two guys. Either this new staff is worthy of the fucking hype and praise that has been bestowed upon them, along with the money to match, or, yeah, they need not fully unpack their fucking bags. 10-3 in the Big 12 is not a lofty expectation, sorry. Betting on 5 or more losses is fucking laughable. If it happens, it means abject failure in Year 1. Frankly, I object to the premise that we're supposed to immediately value the OU and ISU outcomes as sure fire losses. God, that is pussification on every level as a fucking fan. Texas has beaten OU when OU had more talent and was the better team on like 20 occasions historically. Right now, they don't have a better roster unless it's a slight advantage. ISU has plenty of returning talent, but it's still fucking ISU. Most of the players weren't highly recruited and their overall talent level isn't daunting. They're well-developed, experienced and well-coached, so I see no harm in viewing the game as a possible loss, but the notion that that is a given is fucking dumb. Regarding your OL and TE commentary, I'm not getting into a pissing match. I'm happy judging you for your take on those two groups in the exact manner you claim to be doing with mine. We can revisit after the 2021 season and see who fared better. Some of you guys are so beaten down from the last few years of Mack, the Chuckles Era, and Fuckface's charade that you really do believe that winning in the Big 12 or beating teams like Louisiana Lafayette is really, really hard.
    10 points
  5. If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.
    10 points
  6. A dinner date with Lindsey Graham.
    10 points
  7. Whenever I make Salisbury steak, I always make way more onion-mushroom gravy than I need so I can then have this.
    9 points
  8. Before reintroducing them to the wild, train them to develop a taste for feral hogs.
    9 points
  9. 90% of your posts are tweets designed to stoke division. The entirety of your persona here is magnifying stories designed to induce anger at others...why?
    8 points
  10. Texas up to #2 in D1 baseball rankings. https://d1baseball.com/top-25/d1-baseball-top-25-chaos-abound-after-arkansas/
    8 points
  11. “Lady Bird” is always incorrect. It’ll always be Town Lake except to carpetbaggers.
    7 points
  12. This offseason is going to be a fucking beating if you pussies are already counting losses to arkansas or ULL before even getting to the conference schedule..right on schedule
    7 points
  13. I think one highlight of the pandemic has been exposing all the gaping pussy CR crew who can't be happy unless they are Karen'ing everyone on the planet.
    7 points
  14. You know, I typically enjoy your posts and information. But lately you’ve been prone to throw five hundred words at something that needs fifty while pontificating a bunch of bullshit and slobbering all over yourself in rabid fashion. As was said above, we haven’t won shit in over a decade and the idea that Sarksian is going to walk in and do that in year 1, while not completely impossible, is highly improbable. The fact that you don’t consider the OL and TE positions to be lacking talent tells me all I need to know about your definition of talent.
    7 points
  15. so we've reduced ourselves to shitting on UT degrees. he didn't work out in football. but he is forever a UT graduate. no need to shit on that.
    7 points
  16. Don't threaten me with a good time. And a big bravo to whoever the magnificent bastard is that started the conspiracy theory that vaccinated folk shed proteins that mutate your DNA so now all the antivax should start wearing masks to protect themselves from the vaccinated. That is just *chefs kiss*
    6 points
  17. A coaching staff in their first year. New QBs. Lots of new faces on both sides of the ball. Depth concerns at almost every positions. JAG transfers. A middling spring game. A new head coach with average HC success and a history of alcoholism. I can envision massive success with this team. But you cannot count on productivity from players who’ve never done it before. And there are too many reasonable questions on this team to count on anything. Texas hasn’t won a conference title in over a decade. In fact, we’ve barely even sniffed one outside of a few years. I’ll give the benefit of doubt to competent coaching, progress, player development, and optimized recruiting. Rinse. Repeat. Then we’ll talk championships and build expectations. No need to have unreasonably high expectations, lose a few games, piss your pants whining during the season, insult our coaches and players, actively root for the team and players to fail, and lobby for the next coach. And be a massive prick all the time.
    6 points
  18. Why not go back further and share all of the posts mocking this virus as nothing more than the flu? but I do agree with you that the projections of carnage during your desired window were wildly wrong and didn’t factor in the fact that the vaccine was making its way through the most vulnerable populations. but mostly, I just don’t think your “side” should want any part of a gotcha hindsight tour.
    6 points
  19. That sucks. I never have paid too much attention to the issue of low water dams but for some reason I clicked on this video yesterday and it really demonstrates the problems. The second video is a special boat designed to help rescues at low water dams
    6 points
  20. https://twitter.com/TheRealAndrew_/status/1394315082587332612
    6 points
  21. Luckily, no other restaurants exist in the rest of the world other than high end ones. Otherwise, their living salary model would fail.
    6 points
  22. Man a taqueria that sold kebabs and falafels on top of the regular menu would be badass.
    6 points
  23. See, now you’re just pandaring.
    6 points
  24. There is always always always one of these guys on a recruiting board
    5 points
  25. I think one highlight of the pandemic has been exposing all the gaping pussy DT crew who can't survive having a piece of cloth on their face. A bunch of soft, gaping goatse prolapsed pussies.
    5 points
  26. 5 points
  27. Breaded Pork Tenderloin courtesy of the neighborhood bar. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
    5 points
  28. Astros offensive MLB ranking: AVG: 1st RUNs: 2nd OBP: 3rd SLUG: 2nd OPS: 2nd OPS+ 1st RBI: 1st HITS: 2nd Ks: 1st
    5 points
  29. To a certain population, changing your opinion as more information becomes available makes you an idiot. Digging your feet in and never altering from your original position, regardless of new data, is definitely what real men do.
    5 points
  30. Better get two since one is always going to be at the vet.
    5 points
  31. David Ash goes to the eye doctor. The bottom line of the eye chart has the letters:C Z Y N Q S T A S Z.The Optometrist asks, "Can you read this?""Read it?" Ash replies, "He's on my team."
    5 points
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