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Ollie Slatt

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  1. Very true. I used to live in Cal and spent exponentially more time in my backyard than I do in Texas. We probably ate dinner on our back patio more often than we did in the house. It was also nice not having/needing an air-conditioner (and having lower bills as a consequence).
  2. If you are into the camping/nature thing and the wife wants wine country, then check out Sonoma County (especially the coast) or maybe even Paso Robles (with a side trip to Big Sur). Napa is beautiful and has fantastic wine/food, but it also has a kind of Disney Land feel to it. Some of the other wine regions in California feel much more natural.
  3. Because you don't miss the brisket when they are serving beef cheeks. Also, when they do serve brisket, its fantastic.
  4. San Francisco. With a week, you can combine with wine country or go down the coast to Carmel/Big Sur.
  5. I think half of my junior high owned this album. It was 3x platinum and had multiple radio hits. Not sure it was "overlooked."
  6. We could probably have a whole thread of people covering John Prine songs. This is one of the more interesting Prine covers I have come across:
  7. I prefer Ms. Raitt's earlier work . . . and she has always known how to pick a cover song. Here she is covering Blind Faith and Jackson Browne.
  8. I have not stayed there but have stayed at 4 other Kimptons in DC. 3 of the 4 were fine -- I think the one that sucked was called the Rouge. Best were the Mason & Rook and Monaco, which I would stay at again. Overall, most Kimptons are fine provided you are OK with the location.
  9. Ollie Slatt

    Burgers

    The real issue here is that no matter how good that burger is, nobody should go there and forego the green chili pork stew. I guess if really hungry you could order both.
  10. I once saw a werewolf drinking a piña colada at Trader Vic's . . . his hair was perfect
  11. I don’t know about best, but Tadich is the classic spot for cioppino. Also the oldest restaurant in the city and just a nice place for a martini.
  12. Cosmic coffee has a nice beer selection, and you can eat your bbq inside the coffee shop if you prefer.
  13. I guess the Honeymoon in Vegas didn't go as planned.
  14. I guess married life was too much of an adaptation for Nic.
  15. Pete's comment was, unsurprisingly, very thoughtful. It was made in the context of an Esquire interview where he explained that the focus of any campaign should not be exclusively on the candidate or the opposition; it should be on making life better for everyday Americans. Obviously, that is too much nuance for some of these idiots to understand. Pete seems like the most intelligent candidate. I will probably vote for him and be disappointed when he loses. Hopefully the nominee has the good sense to put this guy in a high-profile national position.
  16. Agree on Rasika. It is awesome Indian food, as is Bombay Club. I like Tosca a lot, and it should work for a picky eater but is a bit more on the fancy side.
  17. When you land there will be three customs lines. One will be for middle easterners, and it will move fast. One will be for white guys and it will take an hour or two. And the third line will be for south Asians and it will look like they have been sitting there for days. I found the taxis to be fine. Though the first thing my taxi driver said to me upon leaving the airport was "if you want to have any fun, it will have to be in Bahrain . . . no fun allowed here" There is a popeyes in the airport.
  18. I actually witnessed an officer yell at a scooter rider last week for riding on the road. He told him to get on the sidewalk. Part of the problem seems to be that sidewalk riding is legal on some downtown streets and not on others. Its too confusing and you cannot expect out of town visitors to know which sidewalks are OK and which are not.
  19. I used to love Ben Kweller circa 2006. I caught his set at SXSW last year and it was not what I expected. His band was just him on guitar, a dude playing some sort of electric drum kit and a keys player that looked like a suburban soccer mom.
  20. Thai Kun is good (but casual). As noted above, Andiamo is close too. There is a Roaring Fork relatively close as well.
  21. I use flies with a lot of white in them -- usually just clouser minnows. I suspect a similar looking lure would work well.
  22. She is speaking at SXSW this year. Hopefully she will play a show somewhere while in town, but I have not seen anything announced.
  23. Anyone know what the white bass in Lake Austin and Town Lake do this time of year? Do they bunch up in the moving water near the dams or head up some of the feeder creeks (like Bull Creek)?
  24. Is there some inherent advantage to using the smaller briskets? Or is the size of the brisket a biproduct of trying to source cows that were not shot full of artificial growth hormones?
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