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South Austin

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  1. If Tech is now playing in a world where its donors can throw down huge sums of money to compete in the college football arms race, they need to strongly consider tossing some of that money at a coach better than Joey fucking Maguire. #statingtheobvious
  2. Just to clarify, it’s not like anyone intelligent is saying “natty” or bust.
  3. I think you may have stumbled upon a genius new branding and marketing campaign for Chuy's.
  4. Yeah, the track records of football players after Achilles injuries is much less favorable than for ACL injuries. Steve Smith had a decent year after recovering from an Achilles injury, but that's the exception.
  5. It's not racist at all. In fact, I have a lot of Chinese friends. One of them will put pee pee in your Coke.
  6. Along those lines, over the past few years, I've noticed that this is me and Asian food. I used to eat a moderate to heavy portion of an Asian dinner no problem. But nowadays, I usually feel like shit when I do, even when it's higher quality and not the cheaper MSG-loaded variety. I can still throw down a thick greasy burger and be fine. But ordering Asian food these days, while still very pleasing to my palate, will usually make me feel like shit. Or maybe this is just a phase.
  7. How early do I need to throw some beach towels on chairs to call dibs for a table?
  8. I always though the green chili chicken stew at Chuy's kicked ass. But they took that off the menu right around the time they started sucking.
  9. Well, she was an actual nurse for a few years when I was real young, so do with that what you will.
  10. And don't forget Halloween sluts, which are acceptable and outstanding.
  11. Look, I'm perfectly fine if private accounts from MAGA media, interest groups, or individuals keep pumping out unfunny shit like this. But motherfucking Christ, we've gotten to a point in our government that normalizes public agencies and officials doing this shit??? We continue to circle the societal drain.
  12. Of course it did. Vance tried to cover it up once it leaked that he was serving spaghetti with chili and beans.
  13. At 50, I've evolved into this type of fan. I've never cried after a Texas loss, or after any kind of sporting victory or failure. (An exception is after my daughter's senior year basketball team lost in the second round of the playoffs, which was the end of her high school basketball career. I went home after the game, popped open a beer, and cried like a bitch.) I used to let a Texas loss ruin my weekend, and the height of this was the 2008 loss to Tech. I was a fucking miserable little shit for a few days after that, and maybe that irrational emotional reaction is what kicked me out of that level of fandom. For the most part since then, after a Texas loss, yeah I'm bummed, but I quickly shake it off and enjoy the rest of my Saturday with family or friends, or on the rare Saturday evening when I have time for just myself, I'll enjoy whatever is on the college slate that evening. And that's not only during the shitty years from Fuck-You-Pay-Me up to the Horns' recent success under Sark. Even after the Sark Horns' losses to OU, Washington, Georgia, and Ohio State, I've shrugged it off pretty quickly. And I used to watch the shit out of old games, or after a Texas win re-watch the game that Saturday evening or following Sunday. Now, maybe I'll watch a 10-minute highlight reel on Youtube after a win, or every once in a while go down the rabbit hole of past highlights. But the time I spend re-watching Texas games has significantly diminished.
  14. This is one of oddest and most outstanding things I've read on Surly in a while.
  15. Chuy's is already there, and it started its nosedive before the pandemic. But the only thing propping it up is its national chain portfolio acquisition that keeps pumping out outposts in places like Oklahoma, Ohio, Indiana, Tennessee, South Carolina, Alabama, Florida, and Kentucky, where diners will go to a place affectionately known as "Chuy's" that offers "Tex-Mex" with its origins in Austin, Texas, so it must be good. And that's because people are dumb with inoperable tastebuds.
  16. Did somebody say that a limited rotation of movies for the rest of his life would include Krull? I mean . . . . Krull?
  17. Do you think Manning lives in West Campus or Hyde Park?
  18. No. East of 183 between Anderson Mill and 620. I only know/care about Westwood since I now live in that district after moving in with my wife last March, and my stepdaughter goes there. Yeah, yeah, I know. Username doesn't check out.
  19. Seems like enough people have said it, but Westwood High School is in fact in Austin, and despite the odd fact that it's part of the Round Rock Independent School District, a huge portion of the Westwood High population lives in Austin, Texas. So your feelings about Westwood may not be strong, but they are clearly wrong.
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