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  1. This is Bolivar Peninsula right now.  I’m guessing it’s normally 3 feet from the bulkhead to the canal and that water is 6” over the bulkhead so, +\- 2.5 - 4 feet (tide swings 6-12” there) above average and raining.  99% of that water is high tide or surge - not rain.

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  2. 16 minutes ago, Blotto said:

    Anybody hit up this joint in RR yet? https://eat.kyokasushi.site/

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    For $20, I assume they source their fish from the closest Petco. Will I try it? Possibly. Will I permanently wreck my GI tract? Probably. 

    If you want the stuff that is about to go in the dumpster, or was found on the side of the road on the way to work, order the "chef's special roll."  That is basically raw opossum and snake meat with a thin slice of tuna on top and those little fried crunchy things, slathered in some sriracha/mayo blend to disguise the fact that you're eating garbage unfit for buzzards.  

  3. Got 1 child at UT right now, tennis camp, ends Thursday afternoon.  Got other child in Hunt at summer camp.  That ends on 29th but she's the captain of the canoe for the damned canoe race, tomorrow afternoon.

    And, leaving on 7/2 to go to BVI to sail for a week.

    Likelihood a tropical weather event jams me up - gotta be approaching 100%.  My best prediction is that tennis camp gets rained out on Wednesday, canoe race goes forward (farther west and south), and then my entire family survives a Cat 5 in the west indies, and we live like the Swiss Family Robinson or Castaway until Marriott and the cruise lines show up to rebuild.

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  4. I was at the Hyatt in Downtown Houston when Ike was coming ashore in ‘08.  Hotel lobby was full of search and rescue teams from places like Los Angeles.  They had all their gear and shit stacked everywhere.  National Guard must have showed up after I left.

    #teamhobby

    #pappasstrong

  5. 3 hours ago, YGIFS said:

    I know we are "In Spirit", but I don't really consider El Paso to have much in common with Port Arthur.  I think one is the Desert Southwest and the other is the 'Deep South.'  Same with Pampa with the RGV.  One is more of a Great Plains area, the other is not really 'The South', more like 'La Frontera.'  

    I think you could make this distinction everywhere.  Memphis isnt much like Knoxville.  Philadelphia - little different than the dutch country.

    El Paso is Texas.  Port Arthur isn’t any less Texas.

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  6. 5 minutes ago, billfromlaketravis said:

    I think you nailed it. They all use the Brat Pack article as a crutch for why they weren’t more successful. No acknowledgement that they just weren’t good enough. 
     

    I think Ringwald was the only member with Oscar level talent, but she made her bed and slept in it. 

    Maybe they should blame John Hughes.  He could have found some serious script and cast them all.  
     

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  7. On 6/14/2024 at 5:51 PM, Chooky said:

    That turned into a complete carnival. 

    My grandmother told me not to fight the dudes that worked out in the oil fields or the dudes from the rodeo.  I think she had learned from watching her brothers down in the valley enough that she composed a model of fight success.

    She left out carnies, however, somewhere in my DNA I know that I also don’t want to ever fight a carnie.  What’s the most you could win?  Fake stuffed animal and hepatitis?  Then the bearded lady knifes you?

    WTF?

    Fihting a carnie has got to be like fighting those people from snatch.  The whole family.

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  8. 1 hour ago, YGIFS said:

    Mike Elko, "Dad?"  

    This documentary seems like an annoying premise and I want to avoid it.  But the films of John Hughes, many filmed just a few miles from where I grew up as I came of age just behind this generation will always be near and dear to my heart.  Even if most of the actors involved turned out to be complete douchebags.  I realize he didn't create all their films, but he captured lightning in a bottle.  Too bad most of them went on to do little else of note.  But they did some good work together and managed to not lose one another to overdoses or suicide, so that's something I guess.  Some of their movies aged horribly, but some stick with you like a forgotten song from childhood.  

    I like most of the actors - what I know about them.  Emilio seemed pretty balanced.  Sheedy seemed warm and kind.  Lowe seemed like life was good to him, he knew it, and was truly grateful, Demi turned being pretty and having a husky voice into a good career, Timothy Hutton wasn’t worried about much - beekeeper.

    Jon Cryer did a lot more with a lot less than McCarthy.  Kinda wish Cryer had been harder on AM. 
     

    McCarthy stepped on his own wang with this project.  Vanity project - look at me - didn’t work out.  Try again bro.

  9. To come full circle, I don’t think Terence Howard is insane.  Uneducated and susceptible to hack b.s. more like it.

    Can’t really tell from Wikipedia but my guess is he has limited education, had some spare time and a thirst for knowledge, and he got off track.  Layer in some mj smoking and tendency to believe conspiracies and voila.

    He’s just repeating some shit someone else spun up and he’s half-assing that.

    Dude would really benefit from things like:

    1.  AP world/US History

    2. Biology 1 at some community college

    3. Astronomy 1 from some university

    4. A weekly lunch with some smart successful people.

    I suspect he doesn’t really have access to any of these things.  I bet most kids of surly participants have better sounding boards than he does.

    oh, and honest question, how much do they smoke before ring turns on the camera?  That might be important.

     

     

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  10. On 6/13/2024 at 7:27 PM, CoTex said:

    I was romantically involved with aggy med student in 2001 in Temple, Texas.

    Leave Austin

    Go to Temple

    Romance aggy.

    mistakes were made.

    Shoulda gone the other direction and found me a “fashion merchandising” or “nutrition and diet” major at SWTSU.  

  11. 19 minutes ago, UpperWestside said:

    I see people several times a day on the subway or just wandering random streets here whose minds are completely gone due to lack of mental health care, drug abuse or a combination of factors. Terrence Howard is a Rhodes Scholar in comparison.

    First job after college my office was at 6th and Congress.  We saw things everyday and, as strange as this may sound, Leslie was consistent, predictable and somewhat sensible.

    there was one guy that would roll out this utility cable spool and stand on it and just go fucking berserk.  He would keep increasing the intensity of his berserkitude until the cops showed.

    One day he taped water balloons on his chest like saggy tits.  One day he brought out a full toilet and put it on top of the spool.  One day he climbed the traffic light pole out over the street.  I called him spoolman and, when spoolman showed there would be screaming and an arrest.

  12. 20 minutes ago, Underdog said:

    Ask Livia Live. 

    There was some show that was a bunch of older ladies and a dude or two with some weird background and they sang/chanted the same song for a long time.  Just nonsense - maybe it was religious - not certain - but under the right conditions that garbage would suck you in.

  13. If you gave me 10 years of royalty checks, unlimited internet, tv and marijuana, unrestrained by the responsibilities of my family and professional career, I would be worse.

    Compare him to some of the shit we watched on Austin public access from 1995-2005 and he’s average to boring.

    Maybe we should applaud him for being somewhat more sensible than Britney Spears.  I mean, his clothes are on and he’s not dancing with knives.  
     

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  14. Watched it.  Hot take - here goes.

    McCarthy comes off as insecure. He wants to say “We were all gonna be the next Tom Hanks and Orson Welles until this news article hung a label on us and ruined our careers.”

    Demi rattles off a bunch of shit she heard at therapy to calm him “there was an againstness against us.”

    Rob Lowe tells him he missed the point.  That label guaranteed your staying power - now your part of something bigger than yourself.

    What I think really happened is MCArthy couldn’t turn early success into lasting success and he wants to blame someone.  
     

    Emilio is kinda like “I’m good bro - had to springboard off all yall to get my success - feel a little bad about that but not really.”
     

    I don’t think this movie is good for his legacy.  Would have been better served saying “look at us now - we didn’t die of suicide and cocaine induced heart attacks like you all thought we would.”

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  15. 45 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    As is typical reporting, that's probably adding the maximum sentence for each count together, which rarely actually happens and you pretty much have to be brown and poor before it does.

    Edit:  And that's exactly what it is.

    Ten years is a realistic upper limit here, as all charges are closely related and stem from the same criminal episode.

    But something probably far less is actually in the cards.  The Base Level Offense seems to be 14, which yields a sentence of 15-21 months.

    I’m curious to see how the other case shakes out and what constitutes “relevant conduct.”

    Was there evidence about why he bought gun?  Ice a crack dealer?  Protect the stash?

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