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thrillhammer

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  1. not near as funny as last season. the kids are flat, the wife is flat. martin freeman and his parents are leading the way so far this season. still worth following this season, just more of a drama than it was at first.
  2. disagree. gin is flavored vodka as much as bourbon or rum are. vodka is grain alcohol. has no flavor. all other spirits get their flavor from their process and ingredients. my point about flavored gin was that, though i love a cucumber-flavored gin and tonic, i dont want that flavor every time i have a gin and tonic. that's why i dont buy hendricks.
  3. i have that exact knife. it's my edc. a little bulky for my pocket but a great quality knife.
  4. dvr set for the season
  5. old raj is good shit. great for martinis. i like hendricks okay but dont like the idea of flavored gin. I think i posted this on the other gin thread, but there's a UT botany professor that picks juniper berries from the Davis Mountains and ships it off to Washington to make gin. There are two of them and I can't recall the names. Wild June seems to be one of them. They're decent and quite affordable.
  6. sorry, i forgot bardstown is distilling, just not been doing it for that long. i was thinking they were blenders for some demented reason.
  7. get both. all the bardstown is worth tasting, fusion or discovery. they're doing interesting stuff as ndp's. they've kind of bypassed the barrel folks. woodford double-oaked is also an excellent bourbon. not a collectors bottle, but a great drinker.
  8. wes anderson coen brothers terrance malick scorsese spielberg ridley scott kathryn bigelow steve mcqueen soderbergh
  9. i'm quite sure there is a thread on this already. but hey, if there were 20 threads about oysters i would post on all of them. fine by me. i'm a huge oyster fan. on the halfshell is a part of my every new years eve. sometimes i fry some new years day for bowl game watching. I hate meuniere sauce, cocktail sauce is the way to go. something magic happens when you combine ketchup, horseradish, black pepper, lemon juice, and tabasco. Just this past january i came across an old recipe for louis sauce. it reminds me of something from the 50's and even earlier. you can probably google it. it's basically cocktail sauce with a little mayo added. i made it for boiled shrimp, but it would be perfect for fried oysters. it's kind of pricey, but like onboard said, shucking oysters can be a bitch. this company has a great idea. would be a classy touch for a party. https://www.austinoysterco.com/
  10. is this years balmorhea out already? i got it last year at total. let me know if you've heard of any in the austin area please.
  11. conservative logic is more voters means less chance of winning. limiting voters means better chance of winning. instead of adopting policies that are popular and would win elections, their only chance is to rig the elections instead.
  12. both the kids were stellar. martin freeman's parents too. very funny show. looking forward to the new season.
  13. fredricksburg makes for a nice weekend getaway. good food, good wine. port aransas is 4 hrs away. that would be my second choice.
  14. i was wondering about that too, but with that kind of wound and loss of blood unlikely. if that character has been killed off, which i hope, then that leaves the writers so much more character development for stories theyve hardly gone into, like the mayor and the mil. those are worldclass actors too so should be getting more airtime.
  15. that last episode took a surprising turn. saved us next year from a season of their roadtrip journal though. whew. next season will be better with that character gone. though i know it's going to send the judge even further off the deep end, he seems to be losing allies quickly. the detective, the lawyer/gf, the mil, etc. i'm guessing the mayor will stick with him.
  16. when you're coming from texas, thats basically the same neck of the woods. besides, say what you want about their bourbon, jack daniels is one of the better distilleries and tours in the country.
  17. i dont think it's terrible. the worst part to me is the relationship between the judges son and the gangster's daughter. they dont even know each other, he basically manipulated the whole thing, he's keeping a critical secret from her, etc. stupid. as for the judge, he seems to have no moral compass. i'm wondering if we're going to find out he killed his wife.
  18. are you going to read the other three?
  19. i finished gates of the alamo and thought it was pretty poor, but it got me in the mode so i picked up michener's texas. i gotta say it is not very good. i'm halfway done so will finish it, but it got so much hype when it came out and buzz through the years i was expecting more.
  20. the bourbon alone is worth the trip, but then you have the green, rolling hills along the drive. very scenic. if you're still having a hard time justifying the trip, you can work in civil war history (shiloh), baseball (louisville slugger), and horseracing (churchill downs).
  21. do it. i got my certification in lake travis, in january no less. visibility is 10' max, but you'll make it fine. the divemasters know what they're doing. My first certification was through the texas union informal classes, at j rich sports in anderson square mall, taught by jim bowden who would go on to be a legendary austin diver. sadly, he died doing a cave dive in mexico several years ago.
  22. you definitely did. that dude needs some negotiating skills. as good as weller is, you need 2-4 to make for 1 btac.
  23. signing means nothing. decommitments happen. if sark was one of the reasons they committed to bama they might have moved with him. apparently sark wasnt what drew them to bama.
  24. was holding onto hope that the brockermeyers would change their commit after sark left. probably the two biggest losses of the recruiting class, and most mysterious.
  25. i eat at jewboy burgers. does that count?
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