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billfromlaketravis

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  1. Jay Kelly. What a beautiful, grounded, movie about life and regret from the least likely sources you’d expect. Bravo.
  2. I love it. Great toasted barrel expression, but I understand some of the varying single barrel reviews. As Bozo has laid out so many times, opinions vary with single barrels.
  3. The good ole days when there was still top notch MGP distillate for sale.
  4. I’m OK with how the game went last night. I expected a 40 burger from Harden. That would have sunk us. Thank goodness Treasures is open until 4am and Ty Lue has no balls to police that shit. I didn’t see Zubs beating our ass like a drum and the Clippers playing with max effort on defense all game. I think the team maybe wanted to win one for Harden. I’d still be nervous as shit about the OKC getting their 2026 pick. Kawhi is one bad mental health week away from shutting it down. Harden can ball out all he wants, but he can’t save them from the lottery.
  5. They’re going to full on blow Amazon and the networks for quality games. Not surprised. The Pels will need a crazy game from Queen to keep it close, but we are 1000% losing the back to back in Denver. Scheduled losses are a fact of life in the NBA.
  6. Mom and pops have a place in this world. Especially with their attention to store picks that the big box stores have no interest in. But they shouldn’t do this to their regulars. I’m sure y’all would gladly pay $400 cash for BTAC. There’s still making money, and their regulars get a terrific bottle. Win-win.
  7. Well Michigan has their media people rowing in the same direction. Eisen: I didn’t know anything. I heard a horrible rumor that I couldn’t believe. But I didn’t know anything. Portnoy: Personal issue. Not an institutional issue. Nothing to see here. Move on everybody.
  8. I gave them the puppy dog eyes at Smith Street today and they pulled a MWND for me. $157 after taxes. No complaints
  9. Now call that on SGA on every fucking play.
  10. Playing with their food…
  11. Those titties behind the Rockets bench.
  12. Alpie’s Dominican barber haircut is everything to me.
  13. Making piggy come to Austin twice in 2 years is a nice touch. They begged for that game and they should pay dearly for it.
  14. Bulleitt BIB is nothing special. I’m pretty sure I still haven’t finished a bottle I opened months ago.
  15. Not necessarily a generational thing, but definitely a hard ass parent thing. I graduated from UT in 2009, and my dad is the Old Man.
  16. A guy on another message board admitting to spending $22k in 9 months at the Midtown Spec’s. He’s had some nice Vault pulls, but he’s not exactly blowing me out of the water and I’ve spent a small fraction of that. There’s some bottles like Heaven Hill 19 or OF Presidential that know I’m never going to get and that’s just fine.
  17. RIP Mr. Limmer and I’m glad they got a conviction.
  18. The first rule of Houston McDonald’s is never leave your car.
  19. Not a bad week. WLW and Lot B. About what I usually get for Christmas. No idea when I can pick it up. Their turnaround is is averaging 10 business days.
  20. Would be very Gilligan. Like I said, the dude isn’t interested in some Independence Day type show.
  21. Gilligan was inspired by 2 things. The rise of AI and Covid. AI is obviously the virus.The ensuing disaster is Covid. Some people like AI. Some people liked staying home during Covid. Let’s call them an analogue for the Others, people like Laxmi that want to join the hive mind, and Others sympathizers like Diabate. Vince is asking what it means to be human. If we let AI do everything for us, are we still human? If Carol asked the Others (AI) to bury Helen while she drank iced tea and chatted with Zosia (ChatGPT) on the back porch, is she really mourning Helen? She did it herself with immense pain and exertion. She bled, sweated, and cried over Helen’s grave. She suffered. She mourned. She achieved emotional closure.
  22. I’m not mad at the team getting 5 days off. Alpie was sick, and KD is 37.
  23. MSRP on Eagle Rare and ETL essentially doubled. Blanton’s is a cool $90-95 now. I still think ER is a good buy at $50, but I won’t buy another bottle of Blanton’s or ETL unless I’m forced to in a bundle situation. Weller 12 and Antique have been $50 for several years. They priced ER12 well. I believe it’s the same price as ER10. The new cask strength Sazerac rye is supposed to be under $50. BT is kind of a mixed bag on MSRP.
  24. Random thoughts: - I remain convinced Gilligan doesn’t want to do a big VFX show with hundreds of extras in alien makeup. I think there will be a build up for an invasion and they’ll converse with Carol, but little green men aren’t coming. - Something stuck with me after the poker scene. The others clean up broken glass with their bare hands. No brooms or dust pans or hell gloves. This could demonstrate the aliens don’t give a shit if the others injure themselves in their service. They’re worker bees. - Maybe the virus didn’t kill anyone because the aliens need worker bees? What if their biology prevents them from doing some tasks on Earth? What if they don’t like dirty jobs? - Again everything is deliberate with Gilligan. He went out of his way in the previous episode to say they can gather and eat fallen fruit. There’s probably enough healthy orchids on Earth to keep a small number of humans alive.
  25. Yep. All the NBA Cup games pushed it back.
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