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Paul Wesley

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  1. 51 minutes ago, AnotherUTFan said:


    I had to dig up the invoice. Its "Sunrise Teaburst Gloss".

     

     

    Teaburst is the best-looking Les Paul finish, IMO.  I think it's much more appealing than the more red-tinted "--bursts."

  2. Isn't it fucking weird how we had one menacing, evil, caravan full of ISIS and MS-13, and that looming threat got nonstop heavy news coverage for several weeks leading up to the midterm election, and then it all just wafted away -- in the words of Warden Norton, "like a fart in the wind" -- just hours after the polls closed?

    And now, when the Republicans are getting a beating in the polls for shutting down government, suddenly another caravan just materialized, and there's a crisis that needs dramatic action?

    Maybe it's just me.  

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  3. I am trying to tidy up my place, Marie Kondo-style (look her up... it's a thing).  

    I own a big collection of song books.  Mostly classic rock, but a little songwriter/folk/pop stuff too.  Not sure what to do with them.  

    When I was a kid, and trying to learn the guitar, I spent a considerable amount of my lawn-mowing money (the only money I had) on records and song books.  They were purchases that you considered very carefully.  There was a music store (musical instruments) 4 or 5 miles from my house, and I'd ride my bike there on a summer day, and then I'd just stand at the song book section and try to memorize as many chords as I could.  Then I'd ride home and immediately try to play what I had seen.  If I were smarter, I'd have snuck in pencil and paper.  

    Anyway, I've got probably 30 songbooks that haven't been opened for a couple decades now.  Probably getting rid of them.

    If it's any consolation to you gear-hoarding bastards, I'll use the space on the bookshelf for more pedals.  

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  4. 14 hours ago, Grandioso said:

     

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    I still have my RG550 that I bought sometime around 1990.  Has this color scheme, except with blue mirrored pick guard (because it rocks, people) and a single-coil pickup in between the humbuckers.  

    Last year I dug it out, adjusted the floating tremolo, and restrung it.  

    I gotta say:  I still dig a wide maple neck, and it sounds pretty great.  

  5. Fuck Georgia, Fuck Bama, and fuck that SEC-apologist intro to the Sugar Bowl. 

    For a fucking month leading up to this game, the media gave us story after story from the Georgia camp about how they were focused on Texas, focused on winning, ready to show the world how good they were, and how Georgia was ready to play well, and how they wouldn't have any excuses.  

    And then they got physically dominated and embarrassed, and now we're just in a fucking monsoon of Georgia excuses about how distracted and unfocused and not-ready they were.  

     

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  6. 8 minutes ago, Sejjr said:

    Yesterday the SEC was dominant in every way, and we’d get pummeled by mighty Georgia playing “real football”. Today, the SEC East is actually SOFT, and it is the SEC WEST that is the dominant part of the conference. 

    It’s pretty strange.  The Big 12 South was the saltiest division in football for half a decade.  Stoops, Mack, Leach, Gundy— all four were pretty tough outs, especially on the road.  

    The ags accomplished jack shit during that era, yet I don’t remember them spending all year affirming to one another how tough the league was, and claiming all the conference’s achievements as their own.  

    Now, everything is about CONFERENCE PRIDE—. It’s far and away their single strongest identity as fans. 

    What changed?   Did they just give up hope of winning anything for themselves?

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  7. On 12/9/2018 at 3:10 PM, youdunnf'dup said:

     but under mark Richt, they were always preseason ranked top 15 and always finishing outside of the top 25. That’s a recipe for making the SEC look better than it really was at that time. 

    Yeah, they were the poster child for perennially over rated programs... and yet their fan base fully believed that they were blue bloods anyway.  

  8. 7 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

     

    First fucking day of a New Year, and Trump is tweeting attacks on actual patriots.  

    He's incapable of taking a day off from being a petulant piece of shit.  

    Good job, Republicans.  

  9. 1 minute ago, Js1 said:

    Sadly, we asked our OL to be extremely physical in run-blocking after 2009 when every OL on our roster was better suited for not very physical spread offense.   Mack tried to stick a square dick in a round pussy.

    Well, I would argue that the O-line was kind of shitty even in '09.  That fact got hidden many weeks by a superb college QB who was extremely accurate and very mobile.  Plus we had great slot receivers in Shipley and Cosby.

    But even in '09, you often had Colt running for his life and improvising (Nebraska and Suh say "hi.").  I mean, in the 09 Big 12 championship, we won ONLY because we had an elite defense.  

     

  10. A couple thoughts:

    ---  It's unbelievable how badly Texas squandered the built-in advantages we had in 2009.  We had like four (?) top-5 finishes and two national title games between '04 and '09?  And in a nice city with all the "Texas" advantages (recruiting hotbed)?  And almost immediately (starting in 2010), we start trotting out offensive line talent that was clearly below-average for a power-five conference.  No competent QB, no game-breaking receivers, and an O-line that got physically whipped week after week.  For that post-Colt half decade, Mack Brown has to be a first-ballot, unanimous selection for the Grossly Overpaid and Wildly Underachieving Hall of Fucking Fame.

    Sometimes what your critics say about you is right on the money.

    Meanwhile, you had sleepy-eyed Mike Fucking Sherman the human ambien at an also-ran university (that has accomplished pretty much nothing for the better part of a century), and during that same time period, he somehow loaded his roster with NFL-bound linemen, NFL-caliber receivers, a stable of dynamic backs, and a Heisman-winning QB.  

    I need a drink.

    ----  I'm no fan-boy of Major, but I think he and Harsin did a competent job here... scoring points despite a relative dearth of offensive talent.  Texas fans are pretty fickle, and the ever-shifting attitudes toward Major as a coach demonstrate that.  I mean, he's been reasonably successful at numerous stops in his career, and you could make an argument that during his time in Austin, his competence as an OC helped to mask the incompetence of Mack Brown as a CEO.

    So yeah, who knows how Muschamp would have worked out?  I guess it depends on 1) who does he hire as OC, and 2) how cognizant was he of Mack's profound ineptitude in evaluating and recruiting talent.

     

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