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abuelo gringo

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  1. From the '60s: Long time story that "Bicycle Annie" was an Indian Princess. Debunked here, but with interesting background: https://jeffeepalmer.com/2011/07/21/zelma-for-president/ Also, there was supposedly a guy who had been a student for 10 or so years, changing majors to continue in school just to party. His parties were supposedly very popular. I wasn't, so I wan't invited. Don't remember his name, though. May be true or legend.
  2. That's Maddie Rice - she's about 25. She's the guitarist for Jon Batiste and Stay Human, the Late Show with Stephen Colbert house band. We don't usually hear her solos, played during commercial breaks.
  3. 24th and San Antonio. Next to the building which housed the Texas Observer and Inner Sanctum records.
  4. Not to mention living in two different worlds, Colleyville and the grove. Connor or Hood Jr. High?
  5. St. Joseph's Island (aka St. Joe's Island) is the island the north jetty runs along on the other side of the entrance to the inter-coastal waterway at Port Aransas. It's unoccupied, but a jetty boat takes fishermen across to fish from the north jetty several times a day.
  6. Wife likes their fried shrimp and I like their fried oysters. Not fans of the garlic fish so many rave about. Differences in taste, I guess. Agree on their stuffed avacados.
  7. Second the rec for La Playa. Great food. Be sure to have cash - they don't do cards. They do have an ATM, but I don't know the charge.
  8. Launched by a team of young entrepreneurs in Austin, Texas, Rev Gum™ was created with one goal in mind: to make energy products more portable and better tasting. One pack contains 6 gems, the caffeine equivalent of 6 cups of coffee in a better tasting, more efficient form. No matter where you are, what your goal is, carrying a pack of Rev Gum™ enables you to be Be Intensely Here™. Maybe friends or relatives?
  9. Certainly one of the highlights of my trip also. Well worth the journey to the outskirts of town. And don't forget Maria Callas, Edith Piaf, and Mezz Mezzrow. We could have spent all day, but had to get back. No crowd at Morrison's when we went, but that was in the fall of 2002. He'd only been dead 30 years.
  10. We generally do cereal every other day, alternating with a cooked breakfast. Wife does most of the cooking, so I'm good with whatever she wants. We usually doctor it up with fruit, fresh strawberries or peaches, frozen blueberries from Sam's, etc. In Winter, we often have instant oatmeal, to which we add apples or other fruit. I love a good breakfast of sausage and eggs, breakfast tacos, pancakes, or mcmuffin type breakfast sandwiches, but the quick and easy cereal is good. When we have grandkids over (often during summer) they always get a cooked breakfast, so I eat less cereal. I would probably eat more cereal if I was doing the cooking.
  11. That was Harrell's. That and Deutchman's on S. First are greatly missed by fix it yourself guys. We are a throw away society.
  12. Hope you're not staying on ground level. Looks like a lot of water went through there.
  13. Yep. Had breakfast at Cancun a week ago today. Pretty crowded, but good to see a lot of people on the island (other than contractors.)
  14. The Laughing Horse Lodge on Avenue G is being taken down
  15. Called both grandmothers Mommee (both syllables same accent, not first like Mommy). Have no idea where that came from, but all the other cousins used the same, and had much older cousins on both sides. I was raised in Dallas, but parents, aunts, and uncles raised in Sherman, where my grandparents lived until they died. Maternal grandfather was Grandad, paternal was Poppy. Called step grandfather and step grandmother by their first names, Arthur and Frankie. Wife is Granma. DIL wanted something different for me. Oldest grandchild born about when Sean Combs changed his name from Puff Daddy to P Diddy, so she started the granddaughter to using G-Daddy. That's evolved to Gee. All grandkids use that for me. As a side note about adults using childish monikers, my dad and his sister called and referred to each other as Bubba and Baby until their deaths (age 82 and 90) Grandmother (Mommie Reynolds) called them that until her death, in her eighties.
  16. A couple that remind me of the reprobates on this site:
  17. I loved this song on the Kiko album: And, as a gringo, also liked the longer version on the Los Super Seven album with Rick Trevino and Doug:
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