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GhostOfTomJoad

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  1. Ace in the hole: the SEZ expansion is already funded via luxury suit sales. Those checks are in the bank. All CDC has to do at this point is secure Herman's buyout (never a problem) then throw $70mm plus to the next HC and staff (might take a week).

    We've got to stop fucking this up. 

  2. 50 minutes ago, Deej said:

    Can't You Hear Me Knocking is the greatest first half of a song ever. Then the second half turns into Santana.

    That's pretty spot on. But that extended Taylor solo/jam session at the end was a live, one take so fuck it...if you're gonna go noodling and come up with something that solid you're goddamn right it's album worthy.

    Can we talk Lou Reed? Because Dirty Boulevard is about as good as it gets. 

  3. With regards to Seger's "Night Moves" the best lyrical sequence to me in the song is "I used her/She used me/Neither one cared/We were gettin' our share." The bitterness & regret in that exchange when the protagonist is reflecting on his teenage years is damn good stuff. 

    The Stones....were they ever better than they were on Sticky Fingers? As much as I love Gimme Shelter, to paraphrase Keef if you were leading me to the firing squad I might ask to hear Can't You Hear me Knocking or Moonlight Mile as a last request.

    If I'm late to the Tom Petty suggestions, American Girl has got to be option 1A. 

     

  4. Tangled up in Blue is my favorite Dylan song, but when I hear the live version of Visions of Johanna I'll be damned if I don't think that's as perfect as Bob has ever been.

    I absolutely love the Springsteen submissions of Tunnel of Love and Racing in the Street. I love his darker stuff. Atlantic City changed me forever before I was 15.

    Van Morrison's Into the Mystic will be the first song played at my funeral.

    And as an aside to those who've mentioned Prince earlier, I recently hired his home studio tech/engineer from the early '80s. He's an old man now, but generating lots of interest from reporters wanting to interview him about the sessions for 1999 and Purple Rain. He's a different cat, that's for sure.

  5. Where did you see it? It appears the only showings in Austin are at Drafthouse Ritz and South Lamar for a few days. I'm heading to Dallas this weekend to see the Vikings-Cowboys game so unless they expand the screenings it looks like I'm SOL to see it on the big screen.

  6. I uh. I think we need a story here. 

    Told it on the old site. About 4 years ago. We spent the weekend at in laws ranch west of Fredericksburg. As usual, I brought & grilled the steaks. Pleasant time until later in evening when I went to listen to old drunken FIL hold court and yell at the stars while my wife & her mom sipped wine in the house.

     

    FIL kept downing his cheap scotch & bitching about the world. No CR, but he's been a no count leech most of his life. Lived off his dad's success and his wife's hard work despite being given every advantage.

     

    At one point he decided to unholster his Glock, drawing it right across my path in the process of putting it on his work table . He's deaf & has arthritis so bad he can barely clutch his ever present smokes & booze. I dove hard to the side to get out of the way of his barrel.

     

    When he saw me duck he said "what's your problem?" I yelled back "what the hell ever happened to the first rule of gun safety?"

     

    He picked it back up, stared at it, said "it's safe" and pointed it dead at me before putting it back on his bench.

     

    We left at dawn. I didn't tell my wife about it until a few months later. She didn't tell her mom until a year ago when they wondered why we'd been absent for so long. Turns out he's had other similar incidents. My MIL recorded him on her phone last spring drunkenly messing with his sidearm. Showed it to him the next day. He had no memory of it. Scared him straight, so much he didn't drink for 5 whole days.

     

    Now he's back to his drinking and then some. MIL brushes it off with the rest of the family, but my wife is holding her ground. If he's drinking & his guns are available we're not going. A cocked up mess all around.

     

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  7. Thanksgiving will include a getaway the weekend before so Mrs GOTJ and I can unwind & celebrate my bday a little early. Probably a Friendsgiving this year which would be perfect.

    Xmas is still in the air. FIL is probably on his way out. My wife's handling it well (she's got more brains & guts than her siblings, including her lt col brother). The big challenge is to get the FILto adhere to the recently enacted "if you're drinking, the guns are locked" policy. Drunks with firearms = bad times, m'kay?

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  8. 4 hours ago, MNLonghornFUKM said:
    10 hours ago, ImissWallyPryor said:
    Bettendorf or Davenport, IA (the quad-cities area also includes the equally shitty Moline and Rock Island, IL)
    See above for IL 
    Williston, ND
    Huron, SD
    I’ve been to MN enough to know it’s not Edina
    Cut Bank, MT (maybe it was Shelby...it was on the Rez)

    Ok but every city in the state hates edina.

    Edina's full of snobs & faux millionaires. And yes, your douchebag facebook friend from ND would totally live there. But Bemidji, Fridley  and St. Cloud are just a few cities that laugh at Edina being the worst in MN. They've got it beat in spades.

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