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South Austin

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  1. I think Liz Lambert is still part of McGuire Mooreman Lambert Hospitality.
  2. What’s the best vessel for it? And don’t say my mom.
  3. Similar device with E.T. Keep the audience in suspense with only a few partial shots of the alien until a decent way into the movie.
  4. Even Mary and Joseph wouldn't stoop so low.
  5. Bijan's mustard wasn't the only Longhorn product you had in your mouth last fall.
  6. I never saw Jurassic Park until my early 40s. It came out when I was in college and for some reason I just wasn't drawn to movie about dinosaurs, even though I was a HUGE Spielberg fan. And I might have been a bit of a hype contrarian. But dialed it up when my kids were young, and we all loved it, watched the rest of the trilogy, and then saw Jurassic World in the theaters.
  7. Really makes no sense that all Civil War generals were on meth (and I'm not even sure meth existed as far back as the Civil War). Yet, I giggled.
  8. You're my Surly doppleganger. My dad brought this bootlegged VCR tape back from his deployment in Okinawa when I was in third or fourth grade, and I watched it all the time. I've always thought it was weird that a kid who's only about 7 years old loved such a mature movie about aging and an estranged father-daughter relationship. In my 20s when I got my first DVD and was subbing out all of my VCR movies, I bought On Golden Pond, which included an interview with the screenwriter. In addition to the four adult actors you reference, Doug McKeon delivered a solid performance as an abandoned child of divorce, who more then held up his own with Henry Fonda. And Dave Grusin's score is fantastic, one of my favorites. And yeah, as a kid I also loved comedies, actions, and stuff like the Star Wars and Indiana Jones flicks, all the movies that a kid of the 1980s loved. But at an early age I seemed to be drawn to more serious films, stuff like On Golden Pond.
  9. "You like that word, don't you? Bullshit." "Yeah." "It's a good word."
  10. I agree it'll be somewhere south of 75%, but still a shitload of people. And I'm by no means an expert in the jobs market, but just this morning NPR reported that the jobs report to end December 2024 showed a pretty low unemployment rate, so I think the private sector is going to be hard pressed to absorb these former-federal workers. And yes, getting those folks new jobs is one thing, keeping essential federal services that the MAGAs take for granted is a whole other. It's going to be like the fucking tariffs, which all the MAGAs cheer on, until a farmer in Iowa or a steel plant manager in Pennsylvania feels the pain.
  11. I hear Surly is hiring.
  12. Completely agree. I see middle-aged to old guys at the gym who just hop on a bike or elliptical machine doing nothing else, and I shout at them in my head, "You're doing it wrong!"
  13. I know, I know. But he's proud of his recruiting forum. You know, that's a damn rare thing these days.
  14. They beat Texas twice last season and still can't stop bitching about us. Jesus.
  15. I've had this one in the queue for a while and will try on Sunday. https://cafedelites.com/buffalo-chicken-dip/
  16. Same. I'm 50 and I'm long past the days of maxing out with 5-6 reps. I'm not trying to get swole. I lift to failure in the 8-12 rep range, focusing on form, and on most exercises I rest just a minute between sets. It works just fine to maintain lean muscle mass, tone, and endurance.
  17. I saw Jeremy Allen White with a film crew at the Chili’s off 45th and Lamar.
  18. Oh Jesus Christ.
  19. They're not being deported, they just ran out of papers.
  20. Really? I never thought he was all that attractive.
  21. Yep. Chip is a badass, and one of the nation's experts in media and defamation law. He's also a really nice guy, as long ago through a mutual work relationship I had dinner with him several times. Lively's lawyers are going to have their hands full with him.
  22. Justin Tucker would disagree.
  23. Following up on my comment about Cobain above, I think Layne Staley, with or without Alice 'N Chains, might have kept a musical career going had it not been for his suicide. From everything I remember and have read about Cobain, he seemed so sick and tired of fame and touring in front of crowds. Not to compare him musically to Jim Morrison, but before Morrison died he appeared to have given up on music and retreated away to focus on poetry and stuff other than being in a rock band. I think Kurt Cobain would've done something like that.
  24. Would've loved to see what John Lennon did in the 80s and beyond. Same with Marvin Gaye, especially how R&B evolved so much in the 80s and 90s. I'm sure a lot of people would mention Kurt Cobain. I think folks forget that the "grunge" genre which exploded with Nirvana and other bands in the early 90s very quickly got diluted and essentially destroyed with the crap that the latter part of the decade produced. I've wondered how Cobain would've deal with that, and if he hadn't eventually killed himself, he may just have faded into the background.
  25. I know this is all incredibly so fucked up and infuriating. But that bit about resettling Chuck Shumer made me chuckle.
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