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Saint Tacky

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  1. He was my grandmother’s neighbor at Horseshoe Bay. By far the most likable guy of that group running around out there.
  2. Paging @Sbbruin, please pick up the nearest powder blue courtesy phone.
  3. It’s not local government that’s the problem—it’s the soulless, behemoth that is big government. The same sanctimonious machine that offered the money that would have paid for a warning system — twice — then sat back as nothing got built, no one got warned, and people died.
  4. After She Posted 'I Stand With ICE,' Trump Fan's Husband Facing Deportation Ironically, this may save the POS.
  5. Some of my favorite mornings as a kid were early weekend mornings rolling the Chronicle and throwing my neighborhood paper route. Once I finished, I’d head to Shipley’s to meet up with my buddies who had just wrapped up their routes. We’d eat too many fresh donuts, talk and feel important, and then I’d go home and sleep until early afternoon.
  6. Barry was putting it in Larry's wife.
  7. paging @Vic Mackey. Please see above for an important message.
  8. Look, I invested too many Saturday mornings hopped up on chocolate milk, Froot Loops, and barely prescribed amphetamines to let you betray the Saturday morning ethos. I'm sorry, but if I don't speak up the next thing you know, you’ll be turning “jinkies” into “WTF!”
  9. When I was a youngster I bumped into Ozzy Osbourne at Sound Warehouse on Shepard. He was there to do a promo for KLOL. The only thing I could find for him to sign was a large poster board… I asked him to sign it "pretty big." He did.
  10. Like watching a highlight reel of Aaron Judge's greatest post-season moments?
  11. From unhinged, derelict heavy metal outcast to pop-culture icon is one of the most fascinating image makeovers in entertainment history. Much too talented to ignore, too nice and self-deprecating to hate, and too well-managed to cancel.
  12. 2026 Astros College Classic lineup...
  13. Thank you for illustrating my point so perfectly — Dallas folks may not talk about Houston much, but when they do, it’s with the exact kind of reflexive superiority and baseless bullshit you just demonstrated. You’ve lived in Dallas and, by your own admission, not recently — and certainly not in Houston — so you’re speaking from a place of willful ignorance. You’ve got no comparative frame of reference, just tired generalizations and secondhand pablum. Also, nobody outside of DFW gives a damn about the Dallas vs. Fort Worth dynamic. It’s like watching two mouth breathers slap-fight over a parking spot in front of Walmart while everyone else is just wondering why no one’s put a pillow over your faces yet. If you’re happy in your echo chamber of cultivated indifference, knock yourself out. Just don’t mistake your lack of exposure for a meaningful counterpoint.
  14. Having lived in both, Houstonians don’t wake up thinking about Dallas, but Dallas folks sure seem to bring up Houston a lot. Dallas has a superiority complex and Houston lives rent-free in their heads.
  15. The Galveston Seawall could never be built today—unless Greg Abbott thought it might stop a migrant from paddling ashore on a pool float. Then it’d be a “border security monument” with a billion-dollar price tag and a press conference thanking God. You can waive a lot of things—mosquito bites, sprained ankles, questionable food. What you can’t waive is gross negligence. That’s a legal line in the sand, and if this ends up in court, the line between negligence and gross negligence will be where the battle begins.
  16. Aidan Heartfield’s remains have been found today. Hopefully this brings a little closure to that young man’s family.
  17. Word of mouth or citing an investigation/article?
  18. I respect what you're doing and the reasons behind it. I’m actively considering how to support and help make this happen. I do want to offer a word of caution. While some threads here have mentioned survivor’s guilt or PTSD in the context of this disaster, there’s another layer that’s just as real—the toll that comes from simply showing up in good faith and working tirelessly under extreme circumstances. The emotional and mental weight of that effort can be just as enduring as any physical pain. Case in point: my former law partner flew overseas with a group that went to Thailand after the 2004 tsunami. Within a year of returning, he took his own life. I’m not saying the trip caused it—but I am saying that what he witnessed and endured over there may have contributed. It added to the weight he was already carrying. So please, before you leap head first into this, take a hard look at where you are mentally and emotionally, and whether you’re ready to bear that kind of burden. My friend wasn’t. He couldn’t. And that only compounded the tragedy.
  19. Here is the WSJ article referencing the maintenance worker (sorry for the pay wall). In the article on Camp Mystic, alumna Amy Hudson—who spent 14 years at the camp beginning in 1980—recounts that during her time: “J.C. Mattox, the longtime maintenance man, would stand watch during a storm to monitor the river.” 'How a Flash Flood Turned Camp Mystic Into a Disaster Zone'
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