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Ollie Slatt

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  1. 41 minutes ago, ztejas said:

    Honestly Matt's is probably the best TexMex in Austin. Shit, the original Chuy's is actually pretty good still. For more traditional/interior (even though it's pretty tex-mexy) Fonda still blows anything else out of the water. Manuel's is okay. 

    Agree with most of this except about Fonda. The atmosphere is great, but its food is not blowing anyone out of the water.  Suerte is easily better and El Naranjo is at least as good.  

  2. I like the 10+ course tasting menus just like everyone else, but they all kind of run together in my memory to the point that no specific one stands out.  So here are some simpler meals: 

    - Cafe Jacqueline in SF:  Tiny restaurant run by an old french woman.  The entire menu is comprised of souffles. 

    - Antico Noe in Florence:  Sandwich shop in an alley.  I just remember sitting outside with some friends and eating what had to be the best sandwich of my life.     

    - I once finished up an 8 day backpacking trip that included some epic trout fishing.  Body was completely breaking down by the end of the hike.  We get back to the car and I polish off a sleeve of thin mints and a beer.  15 years later it is still lodged in my memory.  Nothing tastes better than good food after a long day of backpacking or hunting.  

  3. I like some of Midland's songs, but they are not in the same league as Sturgill, Margo Price, or a lot of the other indie country acts out there now.  

    In fact, these guys are more of a creation of the Nashville machine reacting to the fact that country audiences were suddenly interested in more authentic music (e.g., Chris Stapleton).  The front man is a former model, they are signed on Big Machine (Taylor Swift label), and the songs were written by Shane McAnally (same guy writing hits for the Sam Hunts and Luke Bryans of the world).  There are also articles out there calling bullshit on the entire backstory about them being a hard-working Austin band:  https://www.savingcountrymusic.com/despite-the-quality-of-on-the-rocks-midland-are-still-bullshitters/

    All that said, the songs are catchy and not bad.  

     

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  4. Most bikes for kids that age weigh a ton when you compare them to the weight of the kid.  So get something light. 

    Our son has a Woom and rides it like a champ.  He started riding it at 4 and is not a particularly athletic/strong kid, but having a bike that fit and did not weigh much made all the difference.  I think Woom's primary US location is in Austin.  

  5. https://www.businessinsider.com/matthew-whitaker-robert-mueller-investigation-defunding-2018-11

    Apparently the new AG previously floated a plan to simply strip necessary funding from Mueller rather than firing him.   I wonder if they will go this route . . . strip funding and do everything possible to limit the scope of the investigation rather than firing.  It would be similar to the way they made sure the Kavanaugh investigation lacked teeth.  And that plan would be a lot less likely to draw public ire than firing Mueller since most Americans are incapable of understanding something this nuanced.   Hopefully the investigation is far enough along that none of this matters.  

  6. My freshman roommate is a great guy.  We have been friends most of our lives. But during freshman year he just sort of lost all inhibitions and gave in to weirder impulses, most of which involved trolling the other dudes on our dorm floor.  We still keep up and laugh about all this shit now.  Examples include:

    - upon realizing most of the other guys on the dorm floor were small town redneck dudes, he painted our dorm room pink.  Also started wearing a sweater with a big rainbow across the front.  

    -  He hung up a bunch of pinups in the room that I am pretty sure came from vintage copies of JET magazine.   I had to take them down because it freaked out every girl that came to our room. 

    - He found a hat/mask from a child's blues clues Halloween costume. Would wear it -- and nothing else -- down to the communal bathroom on the floor to take a piss (often in the sink).  Would also occasionally urinate in the dorm elevator (while sober)  

    - He downloaded a mp3 of loud sex noises.  When we were going out for the evening, he would sometimes crank that up on his computer and then leave it on for hours while we were gone.  

     I think there is a ton of other stuff I am forgetting.  Eventually the other guys in our dorm decided they liked the roommate after realizing he was not gay and was a musician (which somehow made all the strange behavior seem acceptable to them).  

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  7. 12 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    Like the band of yahoos that showed up at a Gander Mountain to defend against a fake antifa demonstration that was a complete disinformation put-on.

    That was actually just a clever ploy by Gander Mountain to attract customers.  They were overstocked with 223 ammo and tactical clothing and needed to clear out some inventory.  

  8. To those saying it no longer feels like the rest of Texas . . . Austin may have never truly been for you.  And if you left Austin to move to some generic Houston suburb, then I can guarantee that is the case.  It has always been unique and different from the rest of Texas, and hopefully it always will be.  

    41 minutes ago, F250 said:

    But it doesn't feel like the Austin a lot of us remember and love. No one is trying to sell Madonna's pap smear in present day Austin.

     

    Now this feels like a more legit point.  But I think it is more down to the increased availability of real career-focused jobs in Austin and the increased cost of living that has accompanied the economic growth.  That has little to do with whether new arrivals to Austin are from out of state.  An influx of career-minded processionals from Dallas or Houston would have the same effect (or worse) on Austin culture.     

  9. 1 hour ago, Longhorn94 said:

    There is no way an "originalist" or "textualist" can look at that statute and honestly believe that "when released" means anytime after they have been released or served their time, whether it be in close proximity or 50 years after.

    Isn't that the beauty of "originalism"?  You get to ascribe a single intent to a large group of people with varying viewpoints who after lengthy debate and negotiation put down a single compromised position on paper.  Its always bullshit, so the judge gets to pretend like whatever interpretation fits their political leaning is what the original drafters must have intended.      

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  10. 1 hour ago, Chad Fuck said:

    The Grand Tour.  May be the greatest of all time feel bad songs.

    Anytime you have a kid in the mix, that song is going to rip your heart out.

    When I saw the thread title my first thoughts were Grand Tour and TVZ's Marie (already posted above).  Here is a nice little version of Grand Tour

     

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  11. 35 minutes ago, SimonBolivar said:

    What will be the rallying cry for the Evangelicals to be politically active if RvW is overturned? Is the threat of it coming back enough to keep them voting?

    Of course it will be.  These are largely the same people people still talking about welfare queens 20 years after they go the welfare reforms they wanted.  Republican fear mongering does not have to be rooted in truth to work.  

  12. 1 hour ago, TwiceHorn said:

    I had thought at first glance that this was a pretty clear cut case of federal preemption.  But apparently not.  By couching its repeal of net neutrailty rules as an invalid exercise under TItle II of the Telecom Act, and by telecoms arguing that there is no consumer protection authority under Title i, the FCC has opened the field to state regulation geared to consumer protection.

     

    Hahahaha.

    That is interesting and very funny.  I had just assumed California was doing this more as a political stunt . . . I never considered that the feds failed to preempt state action. 

     

  13. This thread reminded me of law school when we had to go though all of the commerce clauses cases chronologically up through Gonzales v. Raich, which is a case worth reading for anyone interested in this issue.   You dip into the case law and it becomes very clear that some conservatives (Rehnquist) actually do care about states' rights.  Others (Scalia) care about it only up to the point where the consequences become politically unpalatable for them.   

    In this instance, there is an obvious interstate element -- certainly a lot more of an impact on interstate commerce than homegrown medical MJ, which was at stake in Raich.  From a legal perspective, the Feds should probably be able to win the case.  And rightly so.  But that does not change the hypocrisy.  We had many decades of conservatives bloviating about states being a laboratory for new ideas, a substantive 10th amendment, etc. They largely abandoned those principles when "states rights" stopped being code for protecting racists and started being code for states liberalizing MJ laws and trying to protect the environment. 

     

  14. Interesting.  The few times I have been there it was filled with olds in pleated pants.  I think of it as a spot for convention attendees.     

    I don't think the food is bad, but it is certainly not exciting.  Very generic southern food. 

  15. 55 minutes ago, 'stache said:

    I heard this guy on a podcast recently.  He's a piece of shit.  Thinks he's some super smart guy on a mission, but is just an attention whore.  I hope he goes away for a long time.

    This.  I heard an interview with this guy recently (maybe on NPR).  Seemed like a complete ass.  The interviewer would ask thoughtful questions, and his response to every question was both moronic (he basically answered every question with some version of "because I believe in the 2nd amendment") and said in the most condescending tone imaginable.  

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