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  1. well this was all terribly disappointing. i was looking forward to reading tigersnake's posts at 3am freaking out during the stall and jacking up the temperature super high and burning the shit out of the brisket and his mother in law writing him out of the will.
  2. lulz, kind of funny. props to the champs.
  3. hmm, three way with blake and scarlet. hmm.
  4. as a resident of west lake hills and an eanes property tax payor (25% property value increase yoy this year holla!), i suspect the one of the contributing factors is that dallas and houston have some much more extreme poor ass areas that austin just does not have. austin has extremely high property value areas but with the gentrification of the east side and even dove springs, north east austin is the only truly ghetto ass area left in austin from a property tax perspective. Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, and El Paso all have some extremely nice areas but the extreme on the other end for them is far more extreme than austin. austin has somewhat insulated itself from those extremes. hisd doesn't just serve the areas west of 45, the also serve the areas east of 45. so they probably even out a bit more. the other thing is places like frisco fucking gaming the system and resetting their the tax % regularly to ensure they are not in a net payor position. that is the shit that needs to be revised. but the thing about it that pisses me off by far the most about it all is not the concept of recapture as a principle. i grew up in poor ass east texas and we would have probably had school in a creek bed if it weren't for it...but it is that it is not being utilized for education necessarily but instead is absconded with by the general fund and held hostage by politically motivated pieces of shit who are hell bent on pushing through voucher bullshit so their p.e. buddies with their boiler room charter schools can make a fortune. and that money very well may go to putting up razor balls for performative bullshit on the rio grande as opposed to actually funding schools in economically challenged communities. fucking makes me irate and i with nothing but pain and misery on every fucking cocksucking piece of shit involved in texas politics that allows this horseshit to go on.
  5. over a billion this year. austin and westlake property taxes fund this fucking state.
  6. trade deal week got tied up with infrastructure week and health care overhaul week. two weeks.
  7. just follow lincoln riley and john cornyn's lead and you'll be fine. definitely a bold move to pop your brisket cherry for a crowd of 25. but at least it is just in laws.
  8. just booked for a little more than a week in the summer low season in july. fingers crossed on weather and hurricanes. taking kids and staying at cheval blanc the whole time. still need to get a car and will start looking at restaurants as we get closer. shoutout thanks to wild turkey for some generous planning advice.
  9. Some last minute tix just fell into my lap for this tonight in Austin.
  10. while you're at it, any update on your wife and sister's evolving relationship?
  11. sidis

    Fat People

    anyone on this site could have won everything i own betting me that he was older than 20.
  12. sidis

    Fat People

    no. fucking. way. that is god damned incredible.
  13. that is pathetic. the swatting stuff is so fucking out of control and i wish nothing but terrible things on the people that perpetrate it.
  14. grand hotel tremezzo, stayed there a couple of years ago...posted lots of pics in this thread. it's a phenomenal spot and i suspect your son's friend is having a nice time. monica and i certainly did. edited to add link to pics:
  15. Pierbattista Pizzaballa is literally the most fun sequence of nine syllables I can possibly imagine in human linguistic expression. that is fucking awesome.
  16. can you point me to the post you are referring to please?
  17. finished the last two. enjoyed eulogy a lot and the uss callister sequel was better than i expected as well. as for an all time list, hated in the nation gets a big push for me from having kelly macdonald who at one point was desperately in love with me despite not being aware. my list would be hated in the nation, white bear, be right back, entire history of you, san junipero, nosedive (special callout for max richter's soundtrack for it), white christmas, hang the dj, loch henry, and black museum.
  18. really enjoyed "hotel reverie" a lot. "plaything" was meh but a clever way to storyboard skynet taking over.
  19. needs more rothschilds...
  20. this is one of those stories that bugs the ever loving shit out of me. what facts are associated with this situation? Did some nutjob terrorist purposefully build a fucking bomb in their house that apd found out about and detonated? was the explosive material assembled inadvertently while doing a science experiment at home and the person freaked out and called the cops? how the fuck is this information not forthcoming?
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    West Wing

    for a brief time, i was inspired to adopt lord john marbury's memorable greetings in my own life by complimenting women more effusively about their magnificent breasts...as well as referring to people i wanted to needle as gerald.
  22. watched the first two so far. the first one is a true black mirror mindfuck as it feels not too far off and completely tracks with precisely how that would go. second one was kind of meh imo...completely altering realities by speaking it into a pendant is less black mirror to me and more just a 4th grade fantasy.
  23. sidis

    Songbirds

    i don't know, she seems nice to me...
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