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  1. Just now, ztejas said:

    Woof. Really? You gonna do the White Stripes like that?

    Yeah.  I like them (a lot, actually) but "Consolers of the Lonely" just kicks ass at a different level.  I like the fleshed out sound of the bass and extra guitars more than the bare bones approach.

    His solo stuff and The Dead Weather pale to both the Raconteurs or White Stripes, IMO.

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  2. We're going to have sub zero lows for the next week.  They're calling for a day with a high of -13 next week.

    A week ago I was thinking "we're halfway through January, and almost out of the woods on the subzero front".  I'm an idiot.  Although this should really be the only shot of it we get*.

    *nervously taps on wooden desk top*

  3. I had forgotten the purchase of the single bag of seed.

    A 50 lb bag of seed can fill maybe 1 individual row box on a planter that Costner would have been using.  Given the era and the (presumed) scale of his operation, he'd likely have a 6 row planter.  That's enough seed to fill 1/6th of his planter.  It could plant 2.5 acres, about.  Judging off Google Earth, the field that the Field of Dreams appears to be part of what's essentially a 240 acre farm with maybe 210 acres in production.  So about 1% of the farm.

    Not to mention the timing, as Offerman points out (although I remember it being mid summer in the movie, not harvest). 

  4. 8 minutes ago, 'stache said:

    Can it still be called "bedlam" if nobody gives a shit? I expect attendance of less than half the arena in GIA. 

    It's just sad that it's come to this.  

    Every once and awhile some of my buddies who live in Des Moines look at OKC and think "we could support an NBA team".  I ask if they're ready for Hilton to suffer.  I'm sure there are other factors, but GIA has been sad since the Thunder came along.

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  5. I've never heard the term graupel in my life.  I'm not sure where you grew up Lobo, but that sounds harsher than what we deal with.

    February is when we get our most snow in big snow years, but in light snow years, shit starts turning around in late February.  But then you get one of those random, violent March blizzards that fucks everything up, but is melted in less than a week.  January is the cold as balls month, although this year it looks like early February will be part of that "cold as balls" rotation too.

  6. 5 minutes ago, F250 said:

    I should have been more clear. I had activities like golf and baseball in mind when I wrote that post with the target audience being Texans. My kids were the ones who recently made the snow comment.

    Their winter snow experience is limited to annual ski trips to Colorado. Which isn't close to the same thing as living up north.

    Yeah, they get more snow in one shot than we get in a lot of entire winters.

    There's still a lot you can do outdoors in winter in a northern climate.  You just have to invest in the gear to stay comfortable.  Baseball and golf for kids are definitely not among those activities.  We grew up spending a lot of time dragging sleds behind snowmobiles or 3 wheelers, building snow forts, and shit like that.  Iowa isn't quite far enough north to have ever generated much hockey culture, which blows.  Because hockey is awesome.

  7. 4 minutes ago, Jhawk said:

    No joke, that game was the first time I have ever cheered for a KU opponent to shoot threes.  I was actually laughing at 1 pass 35 feet from the basket and then shoot plays.  It was unreal and I was loving it.

    The game is definitely trending to a 3 point game but it still isn't a great tactic in the college game where the talent level is all over the board.  Defense, inside scoring, the fast break, and FTs will win 90% of games at the college level.  Many kids shoot the 3 because of ego and many teams decide that the 3 ball is the way to go because it is easier to shoot 3s than it is to coach staunch D and inside scoring.  Basically, the 3 point shot just covers up one or two massive deficiencies elsewhere in my opinion.

    My honest opinion is that if you get rid of the 3 point arc we don't win the 2008 championship but we probably win 3-4 other championships since 1990. 

    I wouldn't argue that.  KU has struggled to defend really good 3 point shooting teams over that time frame, and has rarely been an elite shooting team itself.  As I opined up the thread, your consistent ability to score and defend the paint via elite big men has been a huge factor in your Big 12 dominance, and in a one-off tournament setting, would be a lot less susceptible to being beaten by lesser talented squads if 3s didn't exist.

  8. 32 minutes ago, Jhawk said:

    I don't know why it is that way.  The only thing I can think of is "culture."  I was shocked when you guys hit 47 points monday and just decided to jack up fast 3 pointers for the next 5-6 minutes straight.  Even after a timeout you came out and shot fast shots when it clearly wasn't working.  I just don't understand the constant head banging against the wall when it isn't falling.  Wigginton, Shayok, and babb can all get to the bucket and get to the FT line (have in the past at least).  Get some points the easy way to get the lid off the bucket.

    It is like ISU has this worldview where they have to hit a ton of outside shots to win and that really just isn't the case in the big12.  Get that out of the player's minds and you'll win the conference.  KU has only relied on the outside shot twice in 14 seasons.  ISU continues to play like a midmajor and they don't need to do that to win.

    That's pretty much the only explanation.  It crosses all sports.  The football team has done it a million times.  It's why Dan McCarney got fired way back when.

    I was ripping my hair out watching us continue to jack threes when they weren't falling, and we were drawing fouls every time we attacked the hoop.

    I do find the KU "shooting 3's is not legitimate basketball" thing a bit old being as the game is trending that way, but a great team needs to adjust when things aren't working, and the 3 point shot wasn't working.  We didn't adjust, and it was a major contributor to the outcome.

  9. 7 minutes ago, Underdog said:

    Yeah.  That's a whole lot of stupid with that take.  You layer up and have a good time. 

    There are people who choose to stay inside all winter, and bitch, moan, and get depressed about it - F250 isn't wrong about that part.  I know I'm susceptible to SAD, so I chose to find ways to deal with winter.  I have almost zero sympathy for people who live in places with cold and snow that bitch about it.  There's a remedy.  You either layer up and navigate the cold, or you move.

  10. 25 minutes ago, Jhawk said:

    2014-15 was the year.  That ISU team was loaded even with the Kane departure.  Such a balanced scoring team and the roster was packed with oddball guys who were a bad match up all over the court. We were so young and the only real scorer we had was a 10th year junior in Perry Ellis who averaged 13.8 that year.  Mason was a sophomore and his drives weren't falling yet.  He averaged 12.6ppg.  No one else at KU averaged more than 9.4ppg.  That is how you know bill self is a hell of a coach.  He was big12 COY but didn't get a single national nod, which really surprises me looking back on that year and what we had and we still went 27-9.  Amazing really.

    We went 2-1 against you guys, and seemed to be the better head to head team, but you just didn't step on your dicks the way we did.

    That was also the team that got beat by UAB in the 3/14 game.  Which unfortunately is nowhere near the most embarrassing loss in program history.

    Gagging on the universe's cock when presented with unprecedented opportunity is the ISU way.  

  11. 6 minutes ago, F250 said:

    People in Texas that wish they lived up north where it snows. That is a miserable existence that causes people with SAD to off themselves. Appreciate the fact that you can participate in outdoor activities in the middle of January.

    Who says we don't?

    I'm helping run an ice fishing contest on Saturday.  Sunny, with a high of 4.  The booze will flow, and the fish will bite.  If you spend the winter stuck inside, it's on you, IMO.  They make cold weather gear.

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  12. On 1/17/2019 at 9:34 PM, Llano Estacado said:

    Scan credit card at gas station.

    No, not debit.

    Zip code.

    Enter.

    Confirmed.

    Select grade.

    Grade lights up.

    Take nozzle from rack.

    Insert nozzle in orifice.

    Squeeze trigger.

    .01 oz flows through hose.

    Squeeze trigger again.

    ...

    Turn around grade is still selected.

    Confirmed is on screen.

    Squeeze trigger again.

    ...

    ...

    Would you like a car wash today?

     

     

    Every damn time. No! You slow piece of shit.

     

    Then you get instantaneously blasted by pop news buzz and streaming ads as soon as the pump kicks on. You have enough computing power to blast ads in my face, but not enough to juice over your 2400 baud modem to display a single sentence prompt?

     

     

     

    Holy fuck, this.  It's worse this time of year when the cold seems to make that shit run slower, and also makes you antsier to get out of the elements.

  13. 10 minutes ago, F250 said:

    The Big 12 should have gone with the name Tornado Alley.

    I always thought the Great Plains Conference would have worked, if not for WVU.  Regional descriptor, and not tied to a number that isn't accurate.

    "GPC" has a nice, convenient zip to it.

  14. 9 minutes ago, VolenteHawk said:

    Actually, I can't even hate those signs, given their awesomeness at idiot detection when the Chiefs are on the road.

     

    Every road game we play any more has some student section sign with a reference to "magic".

  15. 16 minutes ago, Jhawk said:

    If KU football could even be a 7-8 win program we’d be a top 15 athletic department. 

    Regarding the streak, if it ends this year I’ll be pissed. It has to end sometime and this is the best year for it but I’ll still be mad, especially if we have a first weekend exit in March. This year had so much potential and to see that potential rotting on the bench would be the worst way for this to end. If it has to be lost I want it lose because tech or ISU went to battle when we both were at full strength. If we lost it to those Niang teams you wouldn’t have heard anything but praise out of me. 

    I was going over this with some buddies yesterday.

    With the exception of last year, we've had a team capable of breaking the streak going back to the 2013-2014 squad (Niang's sophomore year; DeAndre Kane at point).  But we always choked somewhere along the way in a games we could have won (and most of them games we were favored in).

    Pivotal games for each squad

    2013-2014:  @ OU, @ KSU, @ Baylor, @ Texas. @ WVU.  Final Big 12 record 11-7.  KU record:  14-4.  We ended up winning Big 12 tourney and going to the Sweet 16

    2014-2015:  @ Baylor, @ TTU, @ KSU, Baylor.  Final Big 12 record 12-6.  KU record:  13-5.  Ended up winning Big 12 tournament.  This was the year we should have done it.  The loss at Baylor was at the buzzer.  TTU was trash that year.  KSU loss was at the buzzer.  One win, and we tie.  Win two, and we win the league.

    2015-2016:  @UT, WVU, @ TTU, @ Baylor, Baylor.  FInal Big 12 record 10-8.  KU record 15-3.  Ok, we weren't going to end the streak this year, but we made the Sweet 16.

    2016-2017:  @ Baylor, @ TCU, KU, WVU.  Final Big 12 record 12-6.  KU record 16-2.  Win the Big 12 tournament.  Would have been tougher, but possible.

    2018-2019:  @ Baylor, KSU, (arguably) @ KU

  16. 2 minutes ago, VolenteHawk said:

    Meh, you could be most famous for some bitch getting swept away by a tornado, yielding 12,374 "You're Not in Kansas Anymore" signs at road games.

     

    That's a fair point.

    Along those lines, I'm still butt hurt that they filmed most of Twister in Iowa, but set it in Oklahoma.  It's not like we're strangers to the ways of the tornado.

    tornado_alley.jpg

  17. 1 hour ago, hullabelew said:

    One thing for sure, Isbell's voice has gotten a lot better (stronger and clearer) since he got sober.  Also, he significantly upgraded in the wife category.  

    Agreed.  He quit smoking once he got off booze too.  It was rare in his whiskey days for their NOT to be a cigarette hanging from his lips or stuck between his head stock and strings.

    No doubt on the wife front, either.  Of course, when he met Shonna, he looked like this:

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    Dude was still outkicking his coverage.

  18. 42 minutes ago, SwanderedTalent said:

    you'll get what you get and you'll like it, else we won't make any more movies about Iowa

    That's why it's a state law that we have to pretend it's our favorite movie.

    Shit, I liked it when I was a kid simply because it was literally the only pop culture reference to Iowa at the time - other than the episode of Saved By The Bell where Dan Gable is recruiting Slater.

  19. I had seen Isbell in his drinking days and had no idea how bad he had gotten, drinking wise.  He always had a bottle on stage, but those shows fucking smoked.  He kind of likes to bag on his performances when he was drinking, but I think it's more of a defense mechanism to keep from romanticizing about that point in his life.

    Those were the most entertaining shows I've ever seen him play.  His current level of success speaks for itself, but he owes that as much to becoming more accessible with his sound and having a powerful story to tell.  I don't think sobriety has improved his music.  But it's kept him alive, and his sober albums are still pretty god damn good.  This isn't Aerosmith "Pump" we're talking about.

     

    Really good article.  I only read the excerpts from the artists I enjoy, but there was some really good insight.  Joe Walsh is just such a genuine guy, and I could listen to Isbell talk about damn near anything.  I wasn't really aware of how far into the pill box Trey Anastasio got.  Glad to see him on his way. 

  20. On 1/11/2019 at 12:51 PM, Gene Parmesan said:

    I think Field of Dreams sucks.  I mean the acting sucks and the story sucks and the emotional reveal at the end is roll your eyes cheesy. 

    It's also an absurdly comical, pandering, stereotypical display of life in Iowa.  I've never seen a local PTA try to ban books from the school library, and the idea that a guy farming for a living is going to walk out into a 200 acre cornfield and tend to his weed issues with a fucking garden hoe is, well, I can't even start with that shit.

  21. They're alright to a point.  Something like Bonaroo or Coachella just looks like hell on earth.

    I've gone to the aptly named Hinterland Festival between KC and Des Moines.  They do two days, and manage things right.  Day 1 is an alt-rock/electric pop day, and Day 2 is an Americana line up.  In the two times I've gone we've seen Willie, Sturgill Simpson, Turnpike Troubadours, Hayes Carll, Cold War Kids, Chvrchvs (however the fuck you spell it), Grace Potter, Blackberry Smoke, Tyler Childers, Lake Street Dive, Houndmouth, Shovels & Rope, Margo Price, Nathaniel Rateliff, and others.  Getting in isn't much of a problem at all.  Concessions and bathrooms aren't overrurn, and there's a large crowd, but it's a big enough area to not be completely stacked on top of one another.  The only hitch is getting on the shuttle out of there, which was pretty understaffed last year, and we spent a long time just standing in line for it.

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