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kilroydos

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  1. Will do. It's in the oven now, so hopefully by 4, it'll be ready for the final blast.
  2. I'm trying the Momofuko bo ssam tomorrow night. It's curing now, so I'm crossing fingers that it comes out alright.
  3. My local place does a good tamarind and a good mint version. They're pretty light and you can still taste the seeds and seasoning on the chip.
  4. Tell me of your chutney accompaniments.
  5. Young Shauna is also good in The Kid Detective, which is one of my recently watched favorites.
  6. Love seeing a Pat Maroon happy.
  7. Far be it from me to defend St. Louis in general. Lotta barely-concealed racism, dangerous areas cleverly mixed in near University housing, and an accent that will ruin your fucking afternoon. With that said, there's a lot of fun to be had. Blues games, a night out on Cherokee, Old Town St. Charles around Christmas, Bosnian food in Bevo Mill, and Gioia's Deli.
  8. Used to go by Girl Band. Irish. I'm really hoping to see them the next time they're in the States.
  9. If I'm cooking at home, that little extra bit is my taster piece, so I don't buy a delmonico.
  10. Just trying to gauge how "compliant" she might be.
  11. I guess we know who Pete called from jail.
  12. That one seems like it would make for a good season at some point. Maybe not quite yet, but if it goes more seasons.
  13. Agreed that the last couple of books with the co-writer seem different in tone. It's as if they found a way to simplify even a very simple formula.
  14. Supersizers, I think?
  15. It's kind of a trope that he has fun playing with. Either it'll be getting surprised and it's "oh hell, it's badguy time" and he's underprepared, or it's time to fully arm up and eviscerate a militia's worth of chumps during a video game-style compound clearing. At least some of the books have a continuity, so there are a few where he's dealing with physical limitations from the events of the prior book. Those are a little more interesting, in my opinion.
  16. Agreed. And that's not even dealing with the cratered '23 recruiting class and the length of term for Lebby. Arguably, the better OU does in the near term, the faster they have to deal with replacing an OC who wants to be a head coach somewhere in short order. This transition isn't over, and I hope Venables has a list of guys at OC who can step in quickly in the next year or two. It could go very well, or extremely poorly. The only thing I don't think is likely is a 9-3, then 8-4, then 7-5 type decline. It either improves or disintegrates when the SEC move happens.
  17. I'd love for some combo of booster/bagman to finally get pissed off enough to announce that they're tired of Saban claiming credit for what they built.
  18. The moral gymnastics required to distance himself from the fact that "someone" paid players to attend his school, but it wasn't him or the on-field coaches specifically...
  19. And what feels like 8 2023 recruits to be named later from OU -> USC.
  20. Stoops in 2020 really overachieved and outperformed his perceived ability, especially in his reliability and catch radius. This year was a big step backwards in most circumstances. People have wondered for two years why he was seeing the field over more "talented" receivers. With the attrition and lack of push from underclassmen, I wouldn't expect his snap count to go down this year.
  21. That's the rumor. He's never going to come out and say it, but I worry that's the case. Even with Clemson, it worked until it didn't and they couldn't do what Saban did and reload when injuries hit hard. The tradeoff is processing out highly-ranked and talented players like Georgia and Alabama. You operate with much thinner margins and a couple of bad evals can really tank a season or two. Nobody bats an eye when Saban tells a five star they've got to pound sand because they've been recruited over, that's just how the machine works. You try that when you've sold yourself as a caring, righteous man of god and we will see what breaks first. I've been wondering when the bloom would fade from Dabo's rose in that regard, and I don't love Venables setting himself up in the same way.
  22. Some folks are still saying this is a part of Venables/Dabo's rules about taking visits after committing. I think it's fair to take an offer or the status of "committed" seriously and to be more judicious with it than some programs are. I just feel like a lot of this culture change is performative and means nothing. I'm also aware I'm not the target audience, so if 17 year old football players and their families need to see a bunch of acronym posters and semi-religious messaging, then that's the game as it's played. Same with all of the keyboard warriors pleasuring themselves to the thought of athletes puking from workouts, etc. It's not unique to OU, but it's not at all what I enjoyed about following the team. I also think the beat writers at large are saying the same things they used to say about Lincoln up until this season. "Cares about players as people" "Family atmosphere" "Genuine and honest". It's all true until it isn't, and it's all great unless it doesn't work. 2023 is a huge opportunity to recover a cratered class, and if it doesn't happen, that's a genuinely large hurdle to clear with a move to the SEC on the horizon.
  23. I don't know why I held on to a little hope for this one. I guess just because he didn't immediately decommit. It had to be too high a bar to clear for a new staff combination.
  24. I wondered why this one was taking so long. This is the official final deconstruction of the Riley 2023 class.
  25. Cornbread waffle, maybe? I'm into it.
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