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  1. 15 hours ago, billfromlaketravis said:

    Detroiters is very funny. Tim Robinson from Netflix’s I Think You Should Leave  and Sam Richardson from Veep just kill for two seasons. 
     

    Richardson should get another show. Champaign Ill was mostly great. Immensely talented comedic actor. 

    Thanks for letting me know Detroiters was on Amazon.  One of the co-creators and writers was Joe Kelly, the only co-creator of Ted Lasso not to appear in the series.  Also wrote for SNL a couple of seasons.

  2. On 5/6/2023 at 11:52 AM, 927 E. 41st said:

    Moondog's and Latitude were both great. Had Marriott points, so stayed at the Fairfield. It was okay. Fairly new, but all of the glass has this bizarre blue window tint, it was strange enough to make me stay elsewhere if I was going back anytime soon. Next trip

    Otto's in Fredericksburg was also great. Had a perfect day for hiking Enchanted Rock. 

    Does anybody know why we still have the damn ferry instead of a bridge to connect to Port A? I assume that any bridge that would allow shipping to pass in the channel would be prohibitively tall/steep. Still think they could build a "climbing loop" entrance and exit with a lift bridge. 

    There is a bridge.  You just have to come through Corpus and N. Padre.

  3. Fell in love with his music with this song on the old Kirk Wilson KAZZ-FM show in the late '60s, early 70's.  So great, Edmund Fitzgerald, Canadian Railroad Trilogy, Sundown, too many great songs over the years. RIP Gord.

  4. On 4/1/2023 at 10:53 AM, Chopper said:

    Happy Valley on acorn is an excellent british cop show. S1 is on there now, S2 will be there in a couple weeks, and S3 probably next year. The icon in the app makes it look old and corny but it's far from that. Small town Britain gets overtaken by dark forces, so in that sense it's like Mare of Easttown.

    No Offence on acorn is a police show based in Manchester. Fantastic. 3 seasons. Created by the same dude who created Shameless and it shares a lot of the same style.

    The Sandbaggers on Britbox. Holy hell is this one good. I had no idea it existed until a friend mentioned it. A spy show (MI6 and the CIA) from the late 1970s during the Cold War. It's so good you won't care about the lack of a wide screen format after the first 20 minutes or so. Roy Marsden stars. Although the intrigue is mostly from conversations rather than action, so it may not be to everyone's taste.

     

    We loved both Happy Valley and  No Offense, but haven't seen Sandbaggers.  Joanna Scanlan is a hilarious comedic actress, too, especially when paired with Vicki Pepperdine and Jo Brand (Getting On).

    We just finished the third season of Staged. I thought David Tennant was great.  Third season started off slow for me, but got better.

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  5. Just finished this one:

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    Previously read this:

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    I enjoyed the Frank Smith one the most.  I could remember most of the news reporting of the Rabb incident at the time it happened, as I came to Austin in 1965.

    I had heard of Timmy Overton, but didn't know much about him and his escapades.  Both interesting looks at Austin at the time.

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  6. 21 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

    Great picture of Murray.  I knew him and two of his sisters, Dolores Viktorin (RIP) and Leora Callahan Wilson McCarthy.  I remember his mother, Lucy's, funeral.  Cars were parked all along Hwy 71 access as there wasn't enough room in the parking lot.  A good family.

  7. Port A visitors and residents woke up Saturday to an unpleasant surprise.  Problems at the source put the entire city without natural gas. Thus, no gas central heat, hot showers or cooking except where an electric alternative existed.  Most restaurants were closed.  Taqueria San Juan's parking lot was empty when we left around noon yesterday.

    The supply has been restored, but all the meters have to be shut off before the lines can be pressured back up.  They are projecting a return to normal by this afternoon.

    The city manager might be lucky he's not in Austin.  If so, he might lose his job.

    Home - City of Port Aransas

  8. 9 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

    Per some gossip over the last month, the turtle has a terminal disease

     

     

    Was Tucker at said dinner?  Was he seen near the turtle immediately before?  Just asking questions.

  9. 7 minutes ago, abuelo gringo said:

    That's Jerry Garcia, second guitar from the right.  Festival Express, train trip across Canada in 1970 with Janis, the Band, and the Dead.  Great DVD.

    Googles says streaming for free on Tubi and Pluto.

  10. On 2/28/2023 at 9:52 AM, Tylerocks said:

    Probably posted in the prior 30 pages, but I'm not going to check. lol

    Rick Danko, Janis, Jerry Garcia, Ian Tyson, Jonathan Taplin

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    That's Jerry Garcia, second guitar from the right.  Festival Express, train trip across Canada in 1970 with Janis, the Band, and the Dead.  Great DVD.

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  11. 18 hours ago, tchookem said:
    19 hours ago, YGIFS said:
    Fuck, I forgot all about that.  Man this thread is making me laugh at the strangest shit.  Yeah, there was some tee-totaler mogul of the first half of the last century that felt square dancing or box socials or somesuch shit would help us get exercise in the winter months and avoid sexual temptation and booze.  I'm not going down the google rabbit hole, you brought it uP! 
    Seriously the obsession of older rich white men about what's going on in teenager's underwear, who aren't their own children, is as timeless as...........well....a good old fashioned hootenanny!  Grab a partner! 

    Wait... other schools had square fencing in PE? I thought that was just Baytown. Shit. Learn something new every day.

    We did it (square dancing, not square fencing) in DISD in the late '50s.  Only a third or more sat it out with letters from their Baptist minister indicating they considered dancing a sin.  Probably the same all over Texas.

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  12. 51 minutes ago, TheStoicPaisano said:

    For all those who are wondering (me), this (Brent Spence Bridge) is not the bridge Secretariat jumped from in Bojack (George Rogers Clark Bridge).

    It is also not the John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge, also over the Ohio at Cincinnati, which I think is a more beautiful structure.  Of course, I am a big Brooklyn Bridge fan, of the same design and designer, so that is natural.

    Been over the Spence many times from the airport in Covington to downtown Cincy.

  13. 22 hours ago, BrazilHorn said:

    Three Pines is a good watch. I’m about 4 episodes in thus far and it’s pretty good. Set in small town in Quebec and stars Alfred Molina as lead detective. 
    Took me down a rabbit hole reading about “Residential Schools” in Canada. Talk about fucked up and horrible. 
     

    Just finished last episode last night.  Wife and I both enjoyed.  Looking forward to next season.

     

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