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  1. I was gonna suggest Esther's in Groves, but Sartin's seems more likely - Esther's was the fancy place everyone went to for special occasions, when the mid-county folks didn't want to drive to Beaumont. However, there was some place on the bayou, maybe in Orange, that everyone went to and for the love of God its name is on the tip of my tongue but I can't remember it. I swear that they would let you catch your own crabs and then they'd cook them for you, but now that I type it out it sounds ridiculous.
  2. Yeah, but we did get a of the big questions answered - who was Helly's bitch outie, why was Irv always falling alseep, Mark and Mrs Cobel meeing outside as he is an innie to her outtie. And of course, Gemma! It could've been worse but I'm happy with what we got.
  3. Just about everything Dylan says is quotable.
  4. I finally figured out where I’ve seen Stephanie Hsu before!
  5. The cars are weird, and the housing tract where Mark and Mrs. Selvig seems oddly uniform. I think they might live in Lumon housing, whether he knows it or not. The town is already called Keir, and remember early on when we saw Petey's map? At one side of it he wrote something like "Houses???" at the edge of the property he'd drawn.
  6. My son (13) and I saw this today. Overall, I really liked it. It's very Christopher Nolan in complexity, so I won't claim that I followed everything, but the acting was fantastic. Michelle Yeoh will at least get nominated for best actress, if not win, and where has Data from The Goonies been all these years? He did an amazing job. I've also been wracking my brain for where I've seen Stephanie Hsu before, but despite scouring IMDB I don't recognize anything she's been in. Anyway, I still highly recommend, even if you can't follow everything. It's still a lovely story about family, if nothing else.
  7. I was in Camp Fire, similar to Girl/Boy Scouts but co-ed, and for ten summers I went to summer camp in Silsbee. It was called Camp Waluta, and a few years ago I found out that at some point after I left in 1999 it had been converted from a kids' camp to a place that held corporate retreats and whatnot. Then, it was destroyed completely after one of the big hurricanes in the last 10 years or so. There are a lot of things I don't miss about SETX, but some of my best memories of childhood were there. It was a completely stereotypical 80s camp - the only thing missing was Jason Voorhees - but given enough time, I'm sure someone would've been murdered there. Anyway, there's not much in Silsbee, but I'll always have fond memories of summers there.
  8. My standard order there as a kid was the stuffed crabs; as an adult visiting home I go for the catfish Pontchartrain, but honestly anything that allows me a side of the au gratin potatoes is worth it. Lots of Golden Triangle restaurants have come and gone over the years and it's been sad to see them all go, but this one would hit me really hard if it went under.
  9. This is how serial killers are made. Wordle 282 X/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
  10. I realize that the Academy had to make a difficult decision, very quickly, as to how to handle it and that proceeding with the show as scheduled was probably their way of trying to just get past it. I'm also saying that Will Smith is a grown-ass man who acted like a child and assaulted someone onstage over said tasteless joke (that Chris Rock probably didn't even write) so yeah, it would've been nice to see a more nuanced response from the Academy rather than a canned "we don't condone violence" statement, in the same tweet where they congratulate the winners.
  11. The Academy: "We do not condone violence in any form." The Academy, earlier, after the incident: "Here's a trophy to the guy who just hit another guy on stage!"
  12. Boeing 737 crash in southern China was among the fastest jetliner descents ever recorded
  13. Oh blessed Christ, I'm not a teacher - AISD has a sister city in Germany and my son's elementary does an exchange with a school in Koblenz. He and I worked hard on his application and he was one the kids picked to go, so that's why I'm going. I do marketing for a tech company and would be an awful teacher. I know this because my husband is a teacher and once, years ago, I was unhappy with my job and considered a career change, so he got me to help chaperone a field trip to the TX capitol, knowing I'd get over that really quickly. He was correct.
  14. Yeah, I'm going on an exchange trip with a bunch of 4th and 5th graders and their parents so that prescription was going to get renewed anyway.
  15. This made me nauseated. The annotated transcript is incredible, especially where it documents the sheer human error that contributed to the crash. I didn't fly till I was 18 and had a couple of bad experiences early on, and until a couple of years ago I needed Xanax every time I flew. Whenever we hit turbulence I have to run through a list of reminders in my head to stay calm - the plane is more than equipped to handle bumps, this is really common, I'm more likely to die in a car crash, we'll be back to smooth skies in a few minutes, the flight crew is skilled and knows exactly what they're doing, etc. Obviously shit happens and pilots are human, but reading that play-by-play in stark detail is a tough reminder that sometimes things just go wrong. I'm going to Germany this summer on an A330. Probably gonna have to renew that Xanax prescription.
  16. What is an "extreme" tornado watch?
  17. This is exactly what I said. And they will cling even tighter now that the rest of the country is saying they should change. It's very much "us vs. everyone else" down there. I was the first person in my family to move away (move away = somewhere not in Jefferson County or Calcasieu Parish) and I've never regretted it. I loved my childhood and my family but I knew couldn't stay forever.
  18. If you are a glutton for punishment (or just want to see a bunch of rednecks with their blood up), check out the comments on any of the articles about this on the KFDM Facebook page.
  19. Oh, and the district has deleted their social media accounts since the story went viral, while several of the girls in the video have gotten threats on social media. Cowards. I keep thinking about those poor kids being left holding the bag. I can guarantee you that 99% of them genuinely had no idea that so many people would find their routine offensive. They're raised hearing "Indian pride!" and "Bleed purple!" We moved from Port Arthur when I was going into 6th grade and I thought they were all brainwashed, but by the end I was one of them.
  20. Excuse you, sir, I was in band and spent half my time trying to not get hit by the Indianettes' flags while marching. I keep seeing people go "did no administrator see this dance before they went to Disney??" and the answer is yes, of course they did. First off, PNG has been doing that dance and that song for generations, despite MANY calls from Native tribes to stop. Second, they've done this routine at Disney multiple times over several years (7-8 times, I think), so it's a little disingenuous for Disney to act like they had no idea what was going on. I also know for a fact that they wouldn't let the Indianette officers wear their headdresses, so again, they at least knew that the mascot is the Indians. Anyway, what a lot people outside of TX don't get is how insular that community is, and how very Friday Night Lights it is when it comes to football. Generations of people have born and died there with no one even moving out of the county, and on top of that, the Native songs, dances, traditions, etc that they've appropriated are heavily intertwined with the football team. And the fact that they try to justify it by saying they are honoring Native Americans (which I think most of them genuinely do) in no way mitigates the fact that it's still racist as hell. I hope that one day the staunch defenders of "Indians" as a mascot can realize that they can still have school pride and community pride without being tied to that mascot. I proudly wore that shit and sang that song when I was there, but now I'm grown and see that things need to change. When you know better, do better.
  21. That's a great one. The other we watched all the time back in the day was Hatari!, which also gave the world the Baby Elephant Walk tune.
  22. Oddly enough, I've never seen the Wayne version of True Grit. Dad doesn't like it and thinks it's weird that he won the Oscar for that movie. Another Bogey favorite of mine is The African Queen. Forgot about that one till this thread.
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