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GhostOfTomJoad

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  1. Dammit, Mrs Whiggins has got me jonesing for grasshopper pie right now. 

    Chill Thanksgiving is still intact. I've been on vacation since Tuesday so I spent yesterday cleaning & making the cornbread for the dressing. Mrs. Ghost made a couple sides yesterday afternoon before we went to the Drafthouse to see Ford v. Ferrari (very good film). The dog's walked, coffee's on, fireplace is lit, and our fattest cat is holding my lap down as I type this. Sister & family get here around 3PM. Food will be fine, and just pulling for my numbers in the Bills/Dallas game (Dallas 8, Buffalo 1) for a tasty $750 pot.

    Cheers y'all.

  2. Tomorrow's my b'day. A big one. I'm not as old as Army Brat's t-shirts, but getting there. Gonna hit HEB around 6AM (yes, they'll be open) to knock out the bit of shopping we need done for our small feast Thursday (6 total). Should be home by 7. I'll get breakfast after that then be waiting in the parking lot of Total Wine when they open. If I've got my shit straight I'll be home with the booze by 10:30 and won't have to deal with the unclean masses for several days. 

    Be safe, you surly bastards. 

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  3. 1 hour ago, NOMAAA said:

    they know it sucks.

    Yep. And it will still gross a billion $.

    Nine movies. One good one that changed pop culture (IV), one great one that gave the franchise a true foundation (V), and 7 others that prove we'll pretty much open up our wallets to anything with Star Wars in the title in the foolish hope that the magic/storytelling of ANH or ESB will somehow be recaptured.

     

  4. 3 hours ago, workswithseed said:

    Was Snax wearing gray pants slacks?

    Gotta call ya out. The devil's in the details.

     

    Glad you, your dog, and your certainly hot wife are all safe, snacks. Fuck yippy little dogs.

  5. 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. 

  6. 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. 

  7. 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. 

     

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

  10. 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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