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Celery Man

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  1. Wait wait wait wait wait Sweetwater
  2. Basically the thesis of that Peter Attia book is that, past the basic "stop smoking don't be fat get some sleep" stuff you should be doing for your health, the thing that takes a lot of people down (or severely degrades their quality of life in their final years rendering them useuless and contributing to other factors leading up to their death) is an injury that they never bounce back from. It's hard to build muscle and recover as we age, most of us are fat and weak, you toddle along for a long time and then have a bad fall and get laid up for a few months (losing hard to regain muscle) and never regain your quality of life or your physical health. Anyways, that piqued my interest because while I don't care that much about having a body builders body or being able to do feats of strength, I want to be able to get through the airport and roll out of bed and walk at a brisk pace and etc etc etc deep into old age. Interesting to see the observations here of that thing he talks about - having to fight to regain strength after injury.
  3. for real though, I remember going into the GC on south Mopac at one point to get some strings and grabbing some random guitars off the wall as one does. I picked up a very inexpensive tv yellow Epiphone Les Paul Junior off the wall and thought "man this thing is great". I've probably relayed this story before because that is the thing that put the "I sould have one of these" in my head and, in retrospect, it was very stupid that I didn't just buy the thing right there.
  4. The junior was what I really wanted when I ended up getting the gold top. I could still see getting a junior at some point. I don't know how much I buy that the single pickup makes a tonal difference, but from a vibes perspective one pickup guitars are great.
  5. well you boys drank $300 worth of beer
  6. Not quite the right thread, but about the right audience and I'm not starting a new thread for this - I have no idea who Thor Harris even is but the original post popped up on my instagram the other night and I was bemused by some of the comments. Trying to decide if I'm taking too much of a "we've all had nights where we get paid zilch you should suffer too" approach or if it is in fact the children who are wrong. Original post. anyways, I was thinking about that while I was walking around last night and eventually landed on I can't believe this guy posted this shit online, of course you didn't get paid, and yes it's fine that lights and sound and everyone else got paid but you didn't because you are not an employee as a band who is putting on a concert at a music venue. You are a business in partnership with the venue to produce a concert. The guy who shows up to do lights is working as an employee, you are working as a business owner. Unless of course you are hired to perform live music, which is different than booking a concert as a band. Also it made me think about the various corporate gigs I've played and why those were always so great. Playing a gig at the Dirty Dog during SXSW with a half pipe in front of the stage with an Adobe logo on it and then some lady is giving us a check for $1000 dollars and asking if everything is all good while we try to pretend like we wouldn't have done this gig for $50 and plates of food.
  7. 😔 i just pulled my smallest can barely button this motherfucker sport coat off the hanger and put it on. it is very large. also the barbour. and my little patagonia jacket. fuck.
  8. Yeah I think that one scene is like being able to see through a briefly open door. It tells you a bit about that character, you can try and understand how that part of his life works with the rest of his life and drives his fears and motivations and actions and etc, but it also gives you a sense of scale. Like Twice said, there’s no main character. Everyone in this show has their own shit going on. Everyone you meet out in the world is the tip of an iceberg.
  9. I miss Mister Tramps Do we have a pedophile thread?
  10. I googled draoi to see if it was some kind of tobacco
  11. She’s now experimenting. Bao pepperoni rolls are 👌 pb+j is great too
  12. Ask your pastor
  13. I stopped counting calories and haven't been tracking my protein, but my normal breakfast alone is 42g it looks like - about a cup of cottage cheese, 2 eggs, a couple of those walla crispbreads. hot sauce. But I'm fairly weird in that I really like cottage cheese.
  14. well he didn't say how he takes it in
  15. inviting surly conservatives back into the political discussion with a freak off is a good way for immamac to get his servers seized by the fbi
  16. Those scooters are fucking everywhere in my burb with the kids riding them. Not a fan, it seems very likely that it's a matter of time before locally I'm hearing about a fatality of some kid on one of these things.
  17. When we moved to the Raleigh area I obviously changed dentists. The new office sold me on invisalign, which wasn't hard to make me believe I needed (nobody made me wear my retainer after my mom died) although I did circle around to make sure they were recommending it for my dental health rather than for cosmetics. Then one day I went in and there was a new dentist and she explained I needed an expensive mouthguard and they started doing all the stuff and eventually I asked how this works with the invisalign retainers and she said 'oh you've had invisalign' and at that immediately broke any trust I had with that office (which is a corporate office with many locations across the triangle). I never went back, found a small local practice and we moved the kids to a different pediatric office and my wife got a new dentist as well. I don't track news about the dental industry, but when I decided to get a new dentist, I did specifically decide I would find a local practice run by the dentists with a couple of last names on the front of the building like every practice I went to growing up. It was interesting how few options like that there were - it seems like most of the places around here are run as part of larger operations and it would not be hard to convince me that there has been a movement towards this type of structure and that practices of this type push more of these products and procedures.
  18. NoCa(rolina). Wegmans is good in comparison but goddamn it sucks
  19. I was thinking of doing a rewatch on s1 true detective but maybe I’ll just turn on the fucking news
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