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RDCanecutter

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  1. I'm totally a Deep State man. There's nothing they can't do.
  2. I feel that it is the eventual fate of every special object to wind up in the trembling hands of a relative who is addicted to a drug or a habit that demands cash faster than an honest job can provide. The pawn shop is the sandbar on which these treasures wash up. Therefore, to really keep things in the family, train a spare kid to become a pawn broker. Good on-the-spot arithmetic skills, a jailhouse lawyer's eye for detail, and a jaundiced view of the frailty of humanity. Look around your house-- which kid looks the most like Humphrey Bogart? That's your man.
  3. I think @SimonBolivar was painting in broad strokes. No need to drag him behind a truck until his head pops off.
  4. The car crash was unfortunate but taught them useful skills they will use to prosper later in life.
  5. Didn't something similar happen in the Late Western Roman Empire?
  6. In Tennessee. Flatlander Floridians careening through the hills.
  7. Yep. If somebody wants to stay in actual downtown Homewood there are two options, Aloft Birmingham Soho Square, and Valley Hotel Homewood. Both are surrounded by bars and restaurants that might as well be bars if you eat at the bar, which we do. There is a stretch of foo-foo shopping between them, including Wallace-Burke where maybe y'all can help a cracker out by buying my art. https://www.guestreservations.com/aloft-birmingham-soho-square/booking?gclid=Cj0KCQjw5f2lBhCkARIsAHeTvliAfYwWCvxRyWFkd3Jzfbkmkd95j2oqnwEOL8mU7SV5oArKKSFC5WIaAmM9EALw_wcB https://www.valleyhotelbirmingham.com/ Outside of downtown, but still in Homewood, are various generic hotels where once every 4 or 5 years they'll find somebody dead, which probably won't happen while you're there, but they are in pretty ordinary strip-mall areas. For going a smidge north and staying inside Birmingham proper in areas with nightlife, Five Points South has several new hotels. (Make sure you remember it's 5 Points SOUTH and not 5 Points WEST. West in Birmingham is where the bullets fly.) Mild caution advised in 5 Points South as well due to fairly tame mental health panhandler stuff, and I did walk up on a dude rooting through my car one night. Farther north in Actual Downtown Birmingham, if you like restored gems there's the Tutwiler and the Redmont, though I am not current on what there is to do around them at night. Finally, snuggled up by and under I-20/I-59 is the "Uptown" region which is sort of a manufactured sports and nightlife area with all your favorite airport eateries, and the Sheraton. Me I'm partial to Homewood. There is a 30 cent bus that goes from Homewood into Birmingham a couple times an hour, stops right by the Aloft and probably the Valley Hotel too. Not sure how late it runs.
  8. Yep. Mrs. Canecutter had a Delta Sigma Theta friend suggest that she join. Probably woulda been cool but she couldn't commit to the hours. I mean, even the Marine Corps let you retire at some point.
  9. http://imgflip.com/i/7tmue7 Yeah maybe. But the Tri-Delts can fight.
  10. OK, from what I can tell: Holiday Inn Express in "Tuscaloosa East" is way out (8+ miles) from the stadium, or anything else Tuscaloosa-ish in the real sense as opposed to a fanciful line on a map. Nothing close by except an Interstate exit. There is a Holiday Inn Express in Homewood, a suburb touching Birmingham and therefore about 55 miles from the UA stadium. Homewood has a pretty cool little downtown and some good restaurants, but you won't walk to any of it from this Holiday Inn Express because it is in a half-empty shopping development named "Wildwood" which has no woods or wildlife. While there you could romp around various chain restaurants with sticky tables, or maybe go check out this new concept they call "Walmart." There is also a Hooters where young ladies work because they love 40-year-old men who frequent Hooters. Oh and I forgot Lowes. Gotta hit Lowes tomorrow for more packing tape.
  11. I believe that's a Decatur thing. People act like it's the whole state but it ain't.
  12. Well it's still Martha's Vineyard, so you know it's one o them liberals that done it.
  13. If he got the idea of selling them once they became teenagers it's easier to understand.
  14. Let me tell you a little about myself, I'm a College Man and VERY wealthy...
  15. I dunno. Son of Canecutter is a dab hand with a pintle mount machinegun on top of the Mad Max wagon. A bit like his old man that way...
  16. It's your bus. Any part of it is the bathroom if you say it is.
  17. Simply magnificent. And yes theatricality runs through my veins. Here is a photo of Great-Grandfather of RDCanecutter (in the monkey hat) and friends in some sort of college drama in Upstate New York, most likely in one of the Grover Cleveland administrations. The photo is a mystery and a cause of dispute among the descendants. For though he attended college in Niagara, there was "Oswego" penciled on the back of this one. I caught Mother trying to erase it, and, to my shame, there were words.
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