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Paul Wesley

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  1. Joe Pug is thoughtful and engaging. His "Working Songwriter" podcast has some really good guests and conversations. I sometimes wish they'd talk more about the mechanics of writing songs, but I understand that there's a finite public appetite for talking about the best chord progressions for building tension, or about the glorious uncertainty of the major 7 chord. His latest episode is a good one - a conversation with Bob Schneider. This episode has some observations from each of them that I found really relatable. You songwriter dudes will like it. If you don't care about his own housekeeping topics, you can skip the first five minutes. https://theworkingsongwriter.com/episodes-1/2024/1/2/episode-234-bob-schneider
  2. *rainbow* was the operative word there. It was the US flag with rainbow colors instead of red, white, and blue.
  3. I was on a Texas beach a few years back, and there was a business selling flags out of this big tent. Basically, you could buy *your* version of the American flag. Many had some kind of "Trump won" sewn onto it. They also had the LGBTQ rainbow version of the American flag (13 stripes and 50 stars). It was one of those moments where I just thought, "We're going to have a civil war, aren't we?" I hate all the adulterations of our flag. It's all just very sad to me. I really hate the Blue Lives Matter flag, especially when I see it displayed by members of law enforcement or veterans - all of whom took, you know, an oath and shit to uphold the laws of the flag they've abandoned.
  4. Jackson Arnold needs to practice his tackling.
  5. It's a simple question, Nikki. Just say "slavery" and we'll move on.
  6. 100% this. Even more than that, it's only 24 months since the Aggies signed a historically great class at the moment that Texas was coming off an embarrassing 5-7 season that including a home loss to Kansas. To think that we're leaving the Big 12 with scoreboard on all the left-behinds, winning the conference, in the playoffs, signing our own monster class... and like you said, they paid out an insane amount of money for a ho-hum hire, an incomplete staff, and an recruiting class that's unraveled. Nobody could have imagined how violently the wheel of fortune turned for both programs. Edit to add: we're also about to put a shit ton of guys in the NFL. Who would have thought that *we* would be successfully selling "come here and maximize your NFL draft potential" only 24 months after 5-7?
  7. Yeah, if Georgia had won, it would have been the four undefeated conference champions, and we'd be out. It's really crazy what the Bama win over Georgia meant for the Texas program. Had Georgia won the SEC, we'd be looking at a meaningless bowl, we'd have a TON of opt-outs, we'd be bitching about how the entire season slipped away on a last-second loss just like 2008. Instead, we're killing it on the recruiting trail, and we might have the best all-around sales pitch in the nation right now - a playoff team, NIL money, first-class academics, moving to the SEC, a coaching staff that's about to put a shit ton of guys into the NFL, etc.
  8. This. He starts each broadcast with calm, flowery, scripted praise for Texas. But if the game is tight in the 4Q, he excitedly reacts in an anti-Texas way to every single important play (score, spot of the ball, possession of the ball, penalty, etc).
  9. That fucking clip, man... Every year or so, I grab my keyboard and start typing, "I still cannot get my head around the fact that America elected this comically stupid buffoon to be president." All these people at his country club, just gleefully trying to capture this moment like they're 14-year old girls at a BTS concert - presumably those are wealthy and reasonably well-educated adults. And to see how joyful they are to be in his presence, like they're all trying to touch the hem of his garment, just soooo excited to cheer while he tells them demonstrably false lies... I still cannot get my head around it. Lately I just come back to the same conclusion/explanation: Propaganda works.
  10. I’m on a phone… not sure if this link will work: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/gold-bars-featured-bob-menendez-bribery-case-linked-2013-robbery-recor-rcna128006
  11. I had to work yesterday, and I couldn't watch the playoff selection show until today, and I'm right at the point where they interview Harbaugh. (let me pause here for context: I have generally rooted for Michigan, and I see them as a fellow top-flight public university) Paraphrasing just a little here: ESPN: "So, anyway, Jim, you got suspended for cheating, then you cheated some more, then you agreed to be suspended because you definitely have been cheating a long time, and also you were concurrently cheating while also running a ring of cheating cheaters. And you've had to miss a bunch of games this year. First, for cheating. Again, for more cheating. And now, you're ranked number one. How does that feel?" (and now, this is verbatim) Harbaugh: (points fingers upward). "Yeah, thanks to God, first. It's been, uh.... He's had his hand on this team the entire year. It's been a spiritual journey for us, so uh, all thanks, all thanks to God and our Lord and savior, Jesus Christ." (Really. He said that.)
  12. How 'bout Texas plays FSU with our 3rd string QB just to make it fair?
  13. This game now features a combined 19 points and 18 punts.
  14. 1. Penix would be the best qb we've played all year 2. They'd be perfectly happy to throw it 50-60 times 3. Our safeties are just kind of average We might beat them, but they're not a great matchup for us
  15. "This has been a dominating performance by the Florida State defense!" Total yards 169 to 159
  16. FSU opens second half with 1 yard on three plays, and a punt.
  17. Best case for us is: 1. Washington 2. Michigan 3. Texas 4. Bama I don't want any part of Washington in the first round
  18. Yeah, hard to feel bad for him.
  19. Florida State is gonna finish the first quarter with 3 yards of offense. 3.
  20. The pro-SEC crowd is suddenly forced to be pro-Texas, since their champ got an ass kicking by the Big 12's champ. They're all suddenly ready to fuck over undefeated Florida State
  21. Weird how the elephant in the room is a Longhorn.
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