Everything posted by Al_4_ISU
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Todd Snider - Has Anyone seen this guy?
My money is on drug deal gone wrong and a mid-withdrawal Todd snapping at the hospital. I read an interview ahead of this last album (which is another dud) where it sounded like he’s in a bad place mentally. He’s halfway crippled with spinal stenosis and id be shocked if he wasn’t self medicating with opiates.
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Letterkenny
Toronto is nothing like the world pictured in Letterkenny. The ruralness is as critical to the show as the Canadian-ness.
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Jason Isbell, Sturgill Simpson, Chris Stapleton, and Other Good Stuff
https://kutv.com/news/local/singersongwriter-todd-snider-arrested-in-utah-accused-of-threatening-hospital-staff Pure speculation, but given his spinal condition and history it sure seems like he’s fucked up on opiates.
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Letterkenny
Our mechanic on the farm does the unnecessary pluralization thing. “Anyhows” is the big one. Guy is absolutely brilliant in his own way, but it can be jarring. Possessive “s” on proper nouns is super common in the upper Midwest and Canada. You don’t go to Aldi, you go to Aldi’s.
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Letterkenny
Yes they do (I have Canadian family). There's a ton of overlap with rural life in the Upper Midwest as well. It's not 1 for 1, but it's awful close.
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Letterkenny
Give yer balls a tug, ya tit fucker.
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Jason Isbell, Sturgill Simpson, Chris Stapleton, and Other Good Stuff
My top 3 albums are probably Turnpike, Wednesday, and Snocaps. Fust will be Top 5ish.
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Jason Isbell, Sturgill Simpson, Chris Stapleton, and Other Good Stuff
Goat House Blues is a contender for song of the year
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Jason Isbell, Sturgill Simpson, Chris Stapleton, and Other Good Stuff
Yup. Lenderman and Cook both played on every track of Tiger’s Blood
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Jason Isbell, Sturgill Simpson, Chris Stapleton, and Other Good Stuff
This album is fantastic. Granted, I’ve loved everything Katie’s touched in the past 5 years, and I’m turning into a Jake fanboy to boot.
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Surly Dad Thread
She didn’t get the memo that we raise hogs
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Have you ever seen a ghost?
I love that the Pomeranian was named "Brutus". It's a fucking show dog.
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Have you ever seen a ghost?
I don't believe in any of that kind of stuff, but a weird thing happened to my brother that I've had a hard time explaining. When I was 5 and he was 3, my dad and uncle bought a farm with a building site, barns, and relatively new (compared to the place we were living) prefab ranch house. We moved into the house shortly thereafter. It had been owned by an old bachelor who had died a couple years prior and it took his nieces and nephews time to sort it all out. So this dude actually died before my brother was born. Within a few months, my brother started telling my mom that he would talk to the ghost of Otto Bartz (that was the guy's name) at night when he couldn't sleep. My mom asked my brother asked who Otto Bartz was and my brother said "well he used to live here" (a detail my brother would not have been aware of at the time) and then he went on to perfectly describe the guy, right down to the psuedo uniform he was always seen wearing. Again, my brother had never actually seen this man alive and it wasn't like we had his picture hanging up. My guess is somehow, somewhere, his likeness was pointed out to my brother unbeknownst to my folks but it's always seemed weird to me.
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Could this be the craziest coaching carousel of all time?
It's kind of it's own tier. It's a big public university with a much larger and more passionate fanbase than any private school outside of Notre Dame or USC, but it's in an isolated place and doesn't have the statewide presence of the other two. I've always assumed they were a pretty clear #3 in Texas. It always seemed to me that it was UT (gap) Aggy (gap) Tech (big gap) everyone else.
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Turnpike Troubadours appreciation thread
We got Des Moines tickets today. Going with 3 real close buddies and their wives. Gonna be a blast
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Jason Isbell, Sturgill Simpson, Chris Stapleton, and Other Good Stuff
Yeah, I can’t imagine he’d casually just start drinking again on film. Sobriety is a HUGE part of his brand, and he’s an actual alcoholic.
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Hey Steel Shank!
Leftovers, sure. I always season it up off the cob. Fresh sweet corn on the cob needs literally nothing, unless you’re eating inferior corn.
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Hey Steel Shank!
Pickled eggs (turned green by the brine), pretzels, and pickled peppers
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Turnpike Troubadours appreciation thread
And they literally just announced a show in Des Moines the next day. One of the couples planning on going lives in Des Moines, so I’d imagine we pivot that direction.
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Turnpike Troubadours appreciation thread
Gonna see them with Dave Simmonet doing a Pheasant’s Forever benefit at a relatively intimate theatre in Minneapolis in February. They’ve never been afraid of the northern plains in winter (seen them in both Minneapolis and Lincoln in February over the years) and it’s just another reason I fucking love these guys. It’s almost like they know their audience gets real busy in Fall and Spring
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Surly Dad Thread
She thinks Michael Meyers is cuddly.
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The Biggest Scam Profession
I have a fake tooth from a tractor tire incident as a child. Our local dentist kept insisting that instead of having a permanent fake drilled into my jawbone, we keep trying a less invasive fake that was bonded to the back of the other teeth. After the third time it broke on regular food, and he tried to suggest the same procedure that failed a bunch of times, my old man told him to fuck off and we went and got a permanent installation that's had no issues 20+ years in. Dude just wanted to keep me coming through the door every 3 months.
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Hey Steel Shank!
I want that
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Hey Steel Shank!
Very garlicky though
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Could this be the craziest coaching carousel of all time?
You don’t need to be a blue blood to have billionaires in your alumni list.