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South Austin

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  1. Greg Abbott will pardon his death.
  2. And talk about a fucking incredible film adaptation – actors, location, soundtrack, and one of the best film narrations of all time by Richard Dreyfuss.
  3. South Austin

    Burgers

    The fuck?
  4. All good ones, but this is by far my favorite Stephen King quote, and maybe my favorite of all books all time, the intro to The Body. It’s stayed with me since high school. “The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them -- words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller but for want of an understanding ear.“
  5. “I saw Alan this morning, and you know what I can't figure out?” “Alan's in Utah.” “I... can't figure out what I was doing in Utah this morning.”
  6. That’s . . . concerning. Anyone know what’s up?
  7. I can somewhat relate to Brisket, though I ain’t cryin’ and shit. My parents lived in Harlingen from 1993 to 2010, so I made the drive from Austin to the Valley many a times, especially while in undergrad and law school. Coming from North Carolina, “Godforsaken” was the label I used for that 5-hour stretch once you exit 35 in San Marcos (I avoided San Antonio because taking 123/181 to 37 shaved off about 20 minutes) all the way to Harlingen. My mom told me that her brother, a Navy pilot, was stationed in Beeville for a time before he went to Vietnam, so I thought, “I actually have some personal connection to this shithole.” After a time, though, I developed an affinity for that part of Texas, and winding through towns like Segiun, Kennedy, Karnes City, and Stockdale, and the spaces in between, I started to see beauty, and embrace it as sort of a home as I slowly became tied to this state. After my parents moved to Georgetown in 2010, those road trips pretty much stopped. But we went to Port A when my daughter was a toddler, and then to a wedding in Corpus around 2017, and I actually geeked out over making that drive again. For nostalgia sake, I stopped in Mathis for some beef jerky.
  8. Derka, are you sure your people didn’t accidentally send Riff Raff’s people one of your YouTube Shaggy rants by mistake?
  9. What exactly is "blue" heat? Like, depressing?
  10. I think I've gone on record as saying Luke is very "meh." Not terrible, but rather forgettable and very average for a town with a ton of above-average restaurants, so I don't see myself going there again.
  11. Looks like all the Longhorn conference championships has caused him some stress-eating.
  12. Aw shit. Someone in my organization is obviously talking to the feds.
  13. When I was a kid I could buy 20 cassette albums for only a penny!
  14. So we have Wes Anderson, Matthew McConaughy, and Marcia Gay Harden as Longhorn Oscar winners. Any others? Edit: Oh, Renee Zellwegger as a two-time winner.
  15. All the more reason my daughter is GTOF’ing Texas and going to college in the Pacific Northwest. She has my complete blessing, even if it means she never moves back.
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