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Damor

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  1. Hilltop is great. Somebody added it. Added The Real New Orleans Style Restaurant - Marble Falls TX. Great Cajun from members of a church displaced by Katrina who decided to stick around.
  2. I wish I remembered who started it, but back at Kevin's Folly there was a post asking for recommendations for movie night for older kids/teenagers. It generated some good ideas (as well as some horribad ones, of course) and sounded like a cool thing to do as mine get older, so I put some of them on a list to keep around. The point was primarily to entertain them as a group, and to mix in some classic and essential films that they might not seek out on their own. And also to warp their minds and scar them emotionally. Anyway, I thought it was worth resurrecting and adding on to, so here's what I had: Classics Giant Casablanca Treasure of the Sierra Madre Inherit the Wind Grapes of Wrath To Kill a Mockingbird Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf Catch 22 Citizen Kane Gone with the Wind Comedy Groundhog Day Caddyshack Can't Buy Me Love Ferris Bueller's Day Off Young Frankenstein Dr. Strangelove Airplane! Monty Python and the Holy Grail Raising Arizona Pink Panther Three Amigos Stripes Weird Science Better Off Dead Napoleon Dynamite Planes, Trains, and Automobiles Beetlejuice O Brother Where Art Thou Rushmore Bottle Rocket Life Aquatic Wayne's World Peewee's Big Adventure Top Secret Real Genius Spies Like Us Teen Wolf Big Drama Stand by Me Breakfast Club Amadeus Shawshank Redemption Forrest Gump Dead Poets Society The Right Stuff Apocalypse Now Wargames Edward Scissorhands Spirited Away Akira Big Fish Say Anything Wings of Desire Action Raiders/Indy Top Gun Red Dawn Karate Kid Braveheart Terminator Predator Crouching TIger Hidden Dragon Drunken Master Robocop Mystery/Crime Miller's Crossing The Untouchables North by Northwest The Sting Cloak and Dagger The Usual Suspects Hot Fuzz Western The Searchers Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Lonesome Dove Cool Hand Luke Good, Bad, and Ugly Outlaw Josie Wales Shane Unforgiven Dances with Wolves Sports Field of Dreams The Natural Rocky Hoosiers A League of their Own Brian's Song Bull Durham SciFi/Fantasy Alien(s) 2001: Space Odyssey Matrix Metropolis Total Recall Blade Runner Dune Flash Gordon Conan the Barbarian Horror The Birds Poltergeist Evil Dead Psycho The Shining It Jaws The Exorcist Shaun of the Dead Documentary King of Kong Jiro Dreams of Sushi God Grew Tired of Us Restrepo Darkon
  3. Damn. The Asylum Street Spankers version of this is pretty good, too.
  4. I don't know jack about horticulture, but the Chihuahuan Desert Research Institute botanical gardens right outside of Ft. Davis are pretty cool and make for a nice quiet walk for an hour or so.
  5. I like to think that Capsela ultimately gave us
  6. That's the chicken/cheese/jap wrapped in bacon? They were good. Johnny's in Salado does them better, though. I think that, deep deep down, I just wanted to shit on something that people in Waco like.
  7. I like LL AWH is good but a bit unwieldy. Sound Exchange wouldn't be bad.
  8. After having a serious nostalgia chuckle during the movie, I'm making my boys watch Krull. They're loving it. Times may change, but us boys still have predictably terrible and marketable taste.
  9. I'm going to be honest that I never liked that the Gene Wilder version changed things up from the book and made Charlie and his grandpa into whiny bitches. But Wilder killed it in the role he was given and made it iconic. Even if Depp was handed a turd sandwich, he just ate it.
  10. Burger and kick-ass Scorpion margarita at Starlight
  11. Went to the Capri a couple years ago, not knowing anything about it. Took two grubby boys there and we were pretty gross from camping, but they took our money (plenty of it). It was a bit precious, but the drinks were good, as was the ribeye:
  12. George O's. I get it, it's in Waco and that's probably as good as Waco gets, but the food is meh, the beer selection is meh, and the Big O is just a schooner like I could probably get at any crappy chain. 2 barfs, because while it's not frankly disgusting, it needs to be more clearly stated that it is simply the least shitty option you have if you can't wait until you get out of Waco.
  13. I'm in a similar boat. Wife has had her Armada for 10+ years, and trying to decide new Armada vs QX80 vs dropping down to something smaller. It's my understanding that the QX80 isn't due for a major redesign for several years, so that might help if she needs to have the latest stuff. For whatever reason, I prefer the Armada styling to the QX, but that's probably because I'm cheap. And Land Cruisers are awesome, but holy shit, the prices. And if you gave me my pick, it'd be an FJ55.
  14. Agree that the era of HBO/Netflix series opens some possibilities for some previously 'unfilmables' like Blood Meridian and Confederacy of Dunces. I wish World War Z had gotten that treatment, and would love to see a do-over.
  15. These were my school supply boxes.
  16. Protip: Heat a needle and make multiple punctures in the fuselage, then paint the tops silver for Super Realistic Bulletholes. Then blow up plane with firecrackers.
  17. Just walked out. It's a win. Totally entertained.
  18. Sweet. Just to get further off track, we went to see Tom Wilson (Biff Tannen) years ago at the Laff Stop in Houston (he's pretty funny). One of the audience members had a Delorean and got him to autograph the dashboard afterward. /oldcsb
  19. Saw this in Temple a while back and took a picture for my obsessed sons: Kinda don't see Cline as a disabled vet type, unless it's carpal tunnel from drone piloting.
  20. I'll shamelessly plug C-man as well. We got significantly better coverage and our cost did go down a little. The worst part was nearly making my old State Farm agent cry. I'd been with them my entire adult life.
  21. Damor

    Old School

    Jealous. I always wanted to have a couple around. I regret passing on an upright Space Harrier for $200 years ago, even though I have no idea where I would have put it.
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