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  1. 22 hours ago, wutang75 said:

    Baby Reindeer. Wow - that was unlike anything I’ve seen and I think it’s about to blow up. Was it amazing? Possibly. I need to process, it definitely wasn’t what I expected. The fact this is based on a true story and the guy is playing himself is incredible. I’m excited to see what Surly thinks.

    In after second episode.  Certainly a different storyline.  Good, not great so far.  Wondering where it all goes, so will watch it all.

  2. 3 hours ago, TexPx said:

    My extended family could be extras in Gone With the Wind.

    Annis
    Clynese
    Gladys
    Li’l Mae
    Marypat
    Mildred
    Minnie Mae
    Ola
    Tillis

    My paternal grandmother (Pauline Olenda)  had five sisters - Neva, Opal Lorene, Elba Iona, Verna, and Myrtie Mae.  And my mother's name was Mildred.  None of which I think were gay or trans. 

    God knows the source of some of these old names.

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  3. 1 hour ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    Nothing connotates an acid like the term bleach. 
     

    and wasn’t it one of Clinton’s cabinet members that took documents from the presidential library in his socks?  And it was a bad thing?  

    Sandy Berger, former Clinton adviser, took classified documents out of the National Archives.  It was reported he tried to smuggle them out in his socks.  He pled guilty.  He was working for Kerry's election campaign at the time.

  4. 9 hours ago, ImissWallyPryor said:

    Two Trevs? Really? I guess it’s an ice breaker in the interview. 
     

    "With Trev's expertise, the Aggies are poised to not only excel on the fields, tracks and courts, but also successfully navigate the multi-faceted intersection of sports, commerce and student-athlete empowerment," Texas A&M president Trev Welsh said in a statement released by the school. "He has a profound understanding of the intricate business of athletics and the evolving landscape of college athletics, particularly in the realm of Name, Image and Likeness (NIL)."

    https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/texas-a-m-hires-trev-alberts-as-athletic-director-nebraska-football-legend-will-replace-ross-bjork

    They're now calling Mark Welsh Trev?  I can see Trey (he's Mark Welsh III) but can't see the Trev.

  5. As stated many times in the Fuck the Police thread, the police will always protect their own from accountability.  This includes retired police officers working as independent investigators.  Just another scam.

     

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  6. 50 minutes ago, abuelo gringo said:

    Weren't all those (including Trump) who came in below William Henry Harrison like coming in second to a dead man?

    Apologies to Abe Lemons - like scoring one less point than a dead man.

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  7. Michael Corcoran had a good write up.  You can read a lot of his work at michaelcorcoran.net or subscribe to his emails at the same location.  Great for long time Austinites or people who want to learn Austin music history.

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    “Mo-Jo! Mo-Jo! Mo-Jo!” The rabid crowd packed in around the small Magnum’s stage of the Norwegian Pearl Tuesday night as if anticipating a cock fight. They were waiting for their man, their spiritual captain in the red aloha shirt and daisy dukes, and when he arrived with his Toadliquors band, insanity broke loose like an overwhelmed mooring. “Debbie Gibson is pregnant, with my two-headed love child,” Mojo Nixon started the set, with the band- Wet Dawg on piano, Earl B. Freedom on bass, and a drummer on loan from Jesse Dayton christened Caveman Muthafucka for the gig. There were rants. There were randy singalongs (“A.I. Can Suck My Dick”). And there was Mojo on the guitar, as wild as I’d ever heard him in the 37 years since he first played the Continental Club with swinging stickman Skid Roper. Mojo Nixon had something to prove- that he was still harder than Chinese algebra- and the audience’s affirmation, always a big part of Mojo’s mayhem, was especially delirious on this 8th annual Outlaw Country Cruise. This was Mojo’s ship, after all. Leading up to the set, he stepped out of the SiriusXM’s Outlaw Country channel to meet and greet and josh and jiggle until these folks were family. “Were we in jail together?” he asked one fan. “Did I make out with your mama?” to another.

    The day after the show, at lunch with wife Adaire and son Ruben, Mojo handled accolades by saying “Not bad for an old fat man.” He was in high spirits.

    At about 1 or 2 p.m. there was a “code alpha” on the ship’s loudspeaker. A passenger was in distress on the 14th Deck, where the artists’ cabins are. Mojo Nixon had gone back to take a nap after lunch, and his wife noticed he’d stopped breathing. Paramedics spent an hour trying to revive him as band members, sent upstairs by a text from manager Scott “Bullethead” Riley, looked on in horror. “Should we have done this one last show?”

    Hard to believe because he had only one speed, full throttle, but Mojo had longtime cardiac trouble that a heart procedure, an ablation, seemed to alleviate a couple years ago. Heart disease was in his family, with father Neil Kirby McMillan Sr., who owned a Black radio station in Virginia, dropping dead at age 42. Kirby Jr. ending up living 24 years longer.

    Mojo Nixon was taken off the boat, docked at San Juan, Puerto Rico, Wednesday afternoon in a covered stretcher, and flown back home to Cincinnati with his wife and son. There would not be an official announcement on the boat until the 10 p.m. set by Mojo fave, Dash Rip Rock, on the same stage as Mojo’s swan song 23 hours earlier.

    But the word had seeped out that the man who shared himself with everybody was no more. You could tell who knew.

    In their friend and mentor’s honor, Dash guitarist Bill Davis announced, this would be an especially hard and fast set, “just like Mojo would want.” “The Loon in the Afternoon” at Outlaw Country  never liked anything half-assed. The set opened with a singalong of Mojo’s “Are You Drinkin’ With Me Jesus,” followed by the punkest version ever of “I Saw the Light” by Mojo hero Hank Williams.

    The next morning, a screening of Matt Eskey’s 2021 documentary The Mojo Manifesto was put together for a packed Spinnaker Lounge, wobbled by waves of salt water and grief. After the film (which is available on Amazon Prime) there was a talk afterwards with Outlaw Country curator Jeremy Tepper, manager Bullethead, members of the Toadliquors, Dash’s Davis and Rosie Flores, the only act who’s played all nine Outlaw Country Cruises besides Mojo.

    “I would say let’s take a moment of silence,” said Tepper, who hired Mojo for satellite radio 20 years ago. “But that wouldn’t be appropriate in this case.”

    There was the Mojo Nixon character and then there was Kirby McMillan Jr. “When Mojo asked me to be in his band he said we’d be best friends,” said pianist Gordon. “And we have been for 35 years. Mojo taught me how to be a husband and a father. He’s always been there for me.”

    There were stories that just scratched the surface, but here’s one. Right wing country singer John Rich bristled at liberal Mojo in an interview: “You look like a guy I killed once.” Mojo shot back, “You look like a guy I fucked in prison,” and Rich stormed out.

    Every act I saw the rest of the cruise mentioned Mojo. Lucinda Williams dedicated the fantastic tribute show in her honor to “a true artist” after closing with an all-hands-on-deck version of “Go with God,” and Jesse Dayton detailed how Mojo’s radio support made it viable for him to get out of the Central Texas dives and tour the country. The Dayton tune that clicked with Mogey Wogey was “I’m Home Getting’ Hammered While She’s Out Getting Nailed” and Jesse gave communion to the crowd that turned the Atrium into a raging honky tonk.

    Playing at the same 10:30 p.m. timeslot, Shinyribs returned to the Stardust Theater where they had, just two hours earlier, practically stole the Lucinda show with a soul/funk version of “Can’t Let Go.” I wasn’t there for the full Ribs set, but heard Kevin Russell dedicated a gospel song to the profane prophet. Maybe Outlaw Country recorded it, as they did the Lu fete.

    The feelgood turn from tears to a celebration of life culminated with a 1 a.m. set by Flores, keyboardist Emily Gimble, guitarist Eve Monsees and a crack rhythm section.. Everyone was dancing wildly to the mix of oldies and Rosie origs- including the Toadliquors and former Pogues bassist Cait “Rocky” O’Riordan, who’s been friend with Mojo since her band gave Mojo and Skid Roper their first road gig 40 years ago as their opening act.

    The last line of The Mojo Manifesto reverberated: “You’ve got one chance,” Mojo said, challenging the camera to come along on his wild ride. “You gonna party up in heaven? I hear there’s no beer!”

    This year at SXSW was supposed to feature the 25th and final Mojo’s Mayhem day party at the Continental Club. Now, it’s going to be a memorial show, with the Knitters, Beat Farmers, Dan Baird and many more expected. I’ll go deeper on Mojo leading up to that blowout. The wifi situation onboard is such that I’ve been trying to post this for a couple days. And photos didn’t work here.

    I’ll also have a lot more on OCC8, with photos, when I get back to my desk and my inspirado and free wifi. It’s been quite a time on the ocean from Miami to P.R. and back, with a lot more to think about than any of us expected.

     

    You’re a free subscriber to Michael Corcoran's Overserved, a book in progress about the Austin music scene. To get an autographed copy (est. 2024) and help with expensesbecome a paying subscriber. Either way, I’m happy to have you aboard.

     

     

     

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  8. 5 hours ago, gmr548 said:

    I've gotten more practical in my progressivism now in my 30's vs 10-15 years ago at UT, more willing to see the virtue of incremental progress or compromise.

    My core views have not changed and if anything I feel stronger that the vast majority of this country is getting turbofucked by the system in place having really gotten in on the fun myself. If anything my biggest policy shifts are predominantly in realizing there are places where major change is needed that I hadn't really considered when I was younger (land use, policing, etc).

    I feel similarly, only it's been over 50 years since I was at UT.  Yes, I'm a boomer, but not one of those with an "inability to think critically about how the common good and the individual interest can be aligned."

    At times, I get angry and revert to the borderline radicalism of my youth.  I guess what has changed the most is my opinion on how to go about effecting change and how quickly we can expect it.  (If ever.)

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  9. 13 hours ago, David Dennison said:

    Fox News will go down in history as one of the worst things to ever happen to this country, and that is no exaggeration.

    Only if the good guys win ultimately.

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  10. My wife likes to repurpose leftover fries as hashbrowns.  Add to a little braised onion and spices.  We almost never eat all the fries some places serve and it saves her time and trouble cutting up or shredding potatoes.

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  11. 16 hours ago, Armybrat said:

    Correct….

     

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    I was at that 1964 Cotton Bowl also.  My brother was home for the Christmas break of his plebe year at USNA. He had secured four tickets in the south end zone and he and I (a junior in high school) double dated to the game.

    He seemed very sure that Staubach and company would prevail, but me and my date had the last laugh.  I came down to Austin for school in September of '65, but my date ended up at SMU.  We both ended up meeting our spouses at college.

    It would be nice to have kept my ticket, but it would probably have been lost in a flood several years ago with many other mementos.

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  12. 6 hours ago, Dilligas said:

    I believe 2nd avenue in south Dallas was the nearest spot from the Grove when I grew up there. Remember my mom taking us to a drug store toward Fair Park in the hood for wine

    Yes, Second Ave. was the closest to the grove.  Dallas was dry in all but precinct 1.  In high school, we would drive down there and have some old character near the liquor store go in and buy us a half pint. I was never ripped off, but it did happen.

    this was in the mid sixties.

  13. 11 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

    Holy fucking shit, I thought that was a joke, but clearly they hate America and hate Texans who vote.

    33. State Sovereignty: Pursuant to Article 1, Section 1, of the Texas Constitution, the federal government has impaired our right of local self-government. Therefore, federally mandated legislation that infringes upon the 10th Amendment rights of Texas shall be ignored, opposed, refused, and nullified. Texas retains the right to secede from the United States, and the Texas Legislature should be called upon to pass a referendum consistent thereto.

    34. State Electoral College: The State Legislature shall cause to be enacted a State Constitutional Amendment creating an electoral college consisting of electors selected by the popular votes cast within each individual state senatorial district, who shall then elect all statewide office holders.

    37. Article 5 Convention of States: The Texas Legislature shall extend the call for a Convention of States to limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government.

     

    State electoral college bullshit sounds like somebody is fucking terrified of liberals  a non white majority voting.

    FIFM

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  14. 2 hours ago, MIkeHoncho said:

    You have to go back and watch his arrival to college station video - there were no good ags there to give him directions to the stadium. 

    I guess he was lucky the Uber driver had the Waze app.

  15. 15 hours ago, shadow_operative2.0 said:

    I have Direct, ABC app with a Firestick is working fine for live TV (Kimmel) now. So ESPN3/+ should also be good to go this weekend for those affected. 

     

    I'll post a stream for the P12 game tomorrow night too. 

    I just installed the ABC app on my Roku.  The schedule shows games tonight and tomorrow.  It looks like this is an option for me.

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