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Buddy of mine lives in the neighborhood said they got the all clear so he rode bikes with his kid to Barton Hills Elementary and later found out they rode right past the suspect dude was just casually walking down Barton Hills Dr. so the all clear was a fuck up. Also said the perp broke into a house on one of the side streets and the homeowner shot the dude.
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Too hot now but for later season oot games butler pitch and put is fun place to watch a game.
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just got a last minute invite so headed up there tomorrow heading back right after the game. We have never been to Columbus. i'm sure it's been discussed but I don't have time to comb through the thread -- i'm sure all of the restaurants will be slammed but it'll only be two of us for dinner tomorrow night and we don't mind sitting at the bar / waiting for a table. Questions -- (1) what are the best steakhouses in Columbus (I see Jeff Ruby's and Butcher & Rose that both look ok); (2) what about other good places to eat; (3) are any of the steakhouses / good places to eat in an area that would be fun to walk around?; (4) is there a fun place to walk around and pop in for a drink/beer where our old asses won't get assaulted? Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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The Statesman has started a cool series on old Austin landmarks. A retired city planner has written something like 600 short history articles on different Austin landmarks and they're putting out 2 or 3 at a time on the website. Recent topics include the building Clay Pit is in, Peter Pan, Sandy's, and the old general store at NW corner of 6th and Congress.
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God help me, I have to spend a night in Fayetteville!
Gale Snoats replied to locodos's topic in Food and Travel
Bentonville is like the town in Truman Show. Picture perfect downtown with good restaurants and nice stores, perfectly clean and laid out, etc. 21c is a cool hotel and Crystal Bridges and the outdoor activities make it worth a visit. They had a really cool music festival there in a field outside of town for a few years but i think it died around Covid times. -
Agreed on getting there early. Also, there's a real time camera of the tee box and picnic table area on the website so you can get an idea of how stacked up it is.
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Little deli is awesome. The pizzas are fine and the sandwiches and desserts are great. That little shopping center is like going back in time. It reminds me of dazed and confused.
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liam neeson is frank drebin, jr. naked gun is back.
Gale Snoats replied to henrygandorf's topic in Movies and TV
I loved the original but this might be the worst movie I’ve ever seen. Horrible. Jesus Christ -
quick update -- The Fenway tour was great and definitely worth your time. The Country Club was amazing and as Ron noted, we had perfect weather. Really cool holes with a lot of undulation and elevated greens and tee boxes on a beautiful piece of property. Most probably know this (I didn't) but they have 3 nines and the format they have for the open and other big tournaments is an 18 hole combination of the 3 nines (something like 1-3 on one nine, 5-6 on another, then back, then to the third nine etc.). The day we played was the open set up (which the members tell me is pretty rare) so that was really cool. Clubhouse and everything else is really something else. We had caddies which is definitely out of the ordinary for me and really cool. Ballgame was a lot of fun but for the final score. We were a few rows behind the Stros dugout and my 12 year old was trying to get Framber and some other guys to throw him a ball all night. A few kids around him got one but he did not. Late in the game the Sox had a guy on third with less than two outs -- fly ball to left, runner tags and scores easy, LF throws the ball to Correa. Dead ball at that point so Correa looks at the Stros fans behind the dugout. I'm raising my hands pointing at my boy next to me. Correa and I make eye contact, he nods at me and throws me the ball. I reach up and catch it one handed and hand it to my boy and the crowd around us goes wild. It was so great.
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We’re booked for tour first thing am tomorrow. Fenway tour then playing the country club with a friend then Sox Astros. Pretty Good Friday.
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In Boston going to game tomorrow night. Hopefully Carlos will be there! My boy is pissed he brought his Pena jersey and left Carlos at home.
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Got in last night going to see Astros tomorrow night. Hitting the usual spots today and thinking about a Fenway tour in the morning. I’ve been to Fenway but my 12 yr old has not. I have never done or really considered any kind of stadium tour. Has anyone done a Fenway tour? If so how was it?
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From the Texas Tribune: https://www.texastribune.org/2025/07/24/ken-paxton-private-lawyers-texas-cases/ One day in late May 2024, lawyer Zina Bash spent 6 1/2 hours working on a case against Facebook parent company Meta on behalf of the state of Texas. She reviewed draft legal filings. She participated in a court-ordered mediation session and then discussed the outcome with state Attorney General Ken Paxton. In her previous job as senior counsel on Paxton’s leadership team, that labor would have cost Texas taxpayers $641. But Bash had moved to private practice. Paxton hired her firm to work on the Meta case, allowing her to bill $3,780 an hour, so that day of work will cost taxpayers $24,570. In the past five years, Paxton has grown increasingly reliant on pricey private lawyers to argue cases on behalf of the state, rather than the hundreds of attorneys who work within his office, an investigation by The Texas Tribune and ProPublica found. These are often attorneys, like Bash, with whom Paxton has personal or political ties. In addition to Bash, one such contract went to Tony Buzbee, the trial lawyer who successfully defended Paxton during his 2023 impeachment trial on corruption charges. Three other contracts went to firms whose senior attorneys have donated to Paxton’s political campaigns. Despite these connections and what experts say are potential conflicts of interest, Paxton does not appear to have recused himself from the selection process. Although he is not required to by law, this raises a concern about appearing improper, experts who study attorneys general said. Paxton appears to have also outsourced cases more frequently than his predecessors, available records show. And he’s inked the kind of contingent-fee contracts, in which firms receive a share of a settlement if they win, far more often than the attorneys general in other large states, including California, New York and Pennsylvania. Since 2015, the New York and California attorneys general have awarded zero contingent-fee contracts; Pennsylvania’s has signed one. During that period, Paxton’s office approved 13. One of those was with Bash’s firm, Chicago-based Keller Postman, at the time known as Keller Lenkner, which she joined as partner in February 2021 after resigning from her job at the attorney general’s office. Paxton had signed a contract with the company two months earlier to investigate Google for deceptive business practices and violations of antitrust law. A little more than a year later, Bash’s firm won a state contract to work on the Meta litigation, alleging its facial recognition software violated Texans’ privacy. This time, Bash was the co-lead counsel. Meta, which called the lawsuit meritless, settled the case for $1.4 billion in the summer of 2024. It was a windfall for Keller Postman. The firm billed $97 million, the largest fee charged by outside counsel under Paxton’s tenure. Bash’s work alone accounted for $3.6 million of that total.
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I think I've asked this question before but it was on the old site. Any good places for Rolex Sub repair in Austin? It runs once you start moving it around but the dial won't turn the time hands or the date.
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A lot of information and who knows what’s true but some hope - one of our good friends daughters is named in tha note that Cajun posted and we just heard that the east lands and the 26 young girls are stranded on an island but safe waiting for helicopters to pick them up. I worry about posting inaccurate info but hopeful this is correct
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I love the drive from Asheville to Brevard to Cashiers to Highlands. It is beautiful. Highlands is a great little town with a cool main street and some great restaurants and hotels. There are several great hikes within 10 or 15 minutes of downtown Highlands. Glen Falls is a good one. That whole area is a rainforest. Super lush and green, elevation nearly 4500 ft, waterfalls everywhere, never gets above 75 of so. You might see a few people on the Glen Falls trail but not crowded at all. In Asheville the Grove Park Inn got bought by Omni so the restaurants suck but the building is really cool and the outdoor bar / restaurants have awesome vies and are a great place to get a drink.
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Will be interesting to see what Abbott does with the THC bill. He said earlier this week (first time he's addressed the issues as far as I know) that he'll 'put on his judge's hat and consider evidence from all sides' or something like that. I'm sure the decision will go to whichever side contributes the most. Patrick is gonna lose his shit if Abbott vetoes.
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Very close to you. Huge tree across the street cracked in half. Was sitting on the porch and watched it happen.
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FB was fine but doubt I’ll be back. Long uber ride to sphere. Was actually pretty crowded with kind of young crazy rich Asian contingent and (strangely) what I can best describe as yankee douche bag frat bros. Almost like a spring break vibe. It is a huge hotel and the service wasn’t bad but it definitely kind of like a cattle call. I left my fucking AirPods in the room and called from the airport and they said their process is if housekeeping finds what they find and they’ll contact me but nothing else they can do. I haven’t heard anything. Wynn is huge but for us service has always been great and I feel like if that happens there they’d find them and make it right. Hotel and rooms are beautiful but casino is open air with lots of natural light which isn’t what I think a casino should be. Had a late lunch at poolside Greek seafood spot and it was fine. Didn’t get to eat at any of the places that interested me as it was a one night deal and the leader of our group made reservations at Chica in Venetian as it was a pre show dinner that wasn’t focused on food. Going forward I’ll be back at the Wynn.
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We love wing lei at Wynn. Great American style old school Chinese food.
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Thank y’all. Just a short guys trip no wives - show and a good steak so I’m gonna try it. I’m old and broken down so fine with it not being crowded. Will get plenty of that at the sphere.
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Heading out for a show soon and typically stay at the Wynn but the folks we're going with are thinking Fountainbleau. I like the restaurants at the Wynn and the easy walk to the Sphere but would be easier to stay with the group at the Fountainbleau. Any thoughts on or experiences at the Fountainbleau?
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I think I noted it above but this is our first go-around in select and the tournaments are crazy. Every family has a cart full of a ton of shit. A bunch of tarps and boomboxes with pre-game and walk-up music. The parents (98% of whom are morbidly obese and shit-faced by late afternoon as they sell booze which is crazy to me) are nuts -- yelling at the umps, their own players, other players, other parents, their coaches, other coaches. This was our fourth tournament and last weekend I saw my first near fight. A bunch of country rednecks v a bunch of hispanic folks. I don't know what happened (was on the field next to us and wasn't paying attention) but a bunch of the parents (dads and moms too!) got into a shouting shoving match, screaming f-bombs, gonna kick your fucking ass, etc. Rednecks got tossed and promised to be waiting in the parking lot for the other group after the game. I'm not sure if that happened. A bunch of 11 and 12 year olds just standing the whole thing.
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