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  1. We run by the LH location every so often. The Mexico City bowl is good. Their menu is super pared down now but what they serve is all solid and pretty sure I read that the burger is one of the most popular items. So theres that. I think they are just winding down the concept as leases expire.
  2. On the list of shittiest east Texas towns, Marshall doesn’t even crack the top 50. In fact, Marshall with absolutely no running water for weeks would still not be on the list. Here’s some actual advice, OP: when your wife decides that the dog is lonely and it would be soooo great to get him a companion, stay in Jefferson and eat at/stay here: https://stillwaterinn.com/ Legit. And it will almost make you feel like dropping another $3500 (because inflation and shit) was worth it.
  3. Also, they always close the concerts with the Radetzky March and YouTube has many years of it for your viewing please. I’m posting from my phone otherwise I’d figure out how to link some of my favorites. 2014 comes to mind. Barenboim is a stud.
  4. I’ll start contributing to this thread more soon, as I’m really pleased to know there are people out there that are getting drunk and listening to Hayden! Although it will hurt my odds of winning, I’ll share that registration for the 2022/23 Vienna Philharmonic New Years concerts is open until the end of February. Info: demand is so high for these concerts that for a long time now they have conducted a drawing to select who is able to buy tickets. I’ve done this for many many years and if I’m ever selected, the family knows we are booking a European Christmas vacation that will make Clark G blush.
  5. Figured I had to circle back to this since I posted about it previously. Kacey Musgraves last night (v-day, wife). She actually puts on a really good, entertaining show. Her voice is even better in person than when I hear her albums or on TV. Say what you want about her music or style but she is really talented. So if anyone wants to score easy points with significant other, consider it a safe option. As a sidenote for some of you folks, the AAC was jam packed and the sheer volume of hot, young, well-dressed, single Dallas ass there was almost overwhelming. There were prides of 3-10 20-somethings everywhere you looked. Just spectacular.
  6. That one, yes. I recommend but if you aren’t experienced, there will be a learning curve. I have learned a whole lot but still am a total novice because I have very little committed to memory. I mentioned this in another thread, but along with the scope, take a week to read and re-read The Stars by HA Rey (at least the first half). Makes it so much easier to identify a good 2nd star for auto-align. Polaris and………. Being in the sticks will be a major benefit also. We have it out at a weekend place and the number of nights where conditions are very good for viewing have been a handful so far. Trying to view on a windy, cold, full moon night sucks, especially compounded by a frustrated and impatient 9 year old. I will say that the night or two that I got lucky with all conditions and had the perfect eyepiece and filter in place to view the moon made it all worth it. Both me and the boy freaked when we focused that image on the lens. Do it. The world needs more telescope owners IMO.
  7. Family went there several times a month, decades ago and for a long time. They had an old school cigarette machine in the entryway and I remember every time mom stuffing a dollar and half or so of quarters into it for a pack of Winston Reds. Mama Ojeda and two of the daughters came to my dad's funeral because they saw the obit in the paper totally by coincidence and recognized him. He was a smooth man.
  8. Bumping because I "read" this last week in a few days and a 12 yo could do the same. Me and the boy are getting into astronomy and this is a fantastic guide meant as an intro but it also describes pretty complex concepts in easy language. If he is STEM and is curious about whats up there at all or wants a casual side hobby, consider it. $12 or so on Amazon. The book also makes clear that H.A. Rey, of Curious George fame, was a really smart and funny person.
  9. Also was there on Friday and had a super time. I'm starting a petition to get Laura Lee's left leg nominated for a Grammy.
  10. I didn't see it mentioned in this thread, but Kazy's Gourmet Shop is the importer / distributor of sushi and other related foods for a ton of local restaurants, meaning that the yellowfin you are eating at Oishii probably comes from the same place as the stuff at Deep Sushi. Obviously how its handled and prepared at the restaurant is the key, but the fish all arrives from the same place usually, and these guys are it unless you are talking super-high end or specialty places ($650?? I assume that came with geisha service for both of you...) which probably have their own direct distributor. They do sell wholesale to the public so if you, ya know, want to make sushi for you and 50 of your best friends, call em. Looking through their catalog is awesome, do you happen to be in the market for whole frozen octopus? They got it. What is (was) even more awesome is that they had a lunch and dinner counter inside their onsite grocery shop, now shut down bcs covid, but I pray it returns. They served really basic rolls, sashimi, etc. but the fish itself was all the high quality stuff you'd get elsewhere, just no fuss about the preparation. And it was CHEAP. After work I could stop in and get a glass of Kirin, miso, a roll, and a few strips of whatever they had available that day for around $10-12. No shit.
  11. Khruangbin at the Factory next Friday like someone else mentioned. Also got primo seats at the AAC for Kacey Musgraves on Valentines Day. Wife is obsessed and it'll be a surprise. I'm so-so on KM personally but like several of her tunes. I expect the real reward for me will occur after the concert anyway...
  12. This ranks fairly low on the Dumbass scale I suppose, but last week I'm upstairs working on the computer and I hear her come in the garage after a Starbucks run. Shes milling around in the kitchen but I'm not paying attention. I hear the microwave start and then about 30 seconds later... BOOM. I could literally feel it in the floor. I hear "oh my god, what the fuck?" from downstairs. I sigh, get up and check it out. Get there and shes got the microwave door open staring into it repeating "what the FUCK?" I look inside and there is egg everywhere, like an egg grenade went off. Not just that but the glass carousel thing is wrecked into about a dozen pieces. Damn thing is, the bowl that she put the egg in was perfectly fine. "Did you microwave a cold boiled egg from Starbucks??" "Yes, what the FUCK? I wanted it warmed up." "We have a brand new carton of eggs in the fridge - what didn't you just BOIL ONE??" "You shouldn't be an asshole to me right now!! I'm pretty traumatized..." So I just walk off... Now, it would never cross my mind to microwave a boiled egg, but I admit I didn't know it could be problematic. Upstairs, I googled it and about eleventy billion results pop up about how you should NEVER EVER EVER microwave a hardboiled egg. So there you have it, lesson learned. $45 + S&H for a new glass tray was nice. As is the faint exploded egg smell that lingers.
  13. Agree with a lot of these lists and opinions. Meridian is indeed solid and was packed solid several Saturdays ago - lots of action sitting and standing at the bar also. We split the swordfish and had a bunch of small plates, wine, drinks, and it was reflected by the bill for sure. Across the street is a sports bar Over Under which was pretty good from the handful of times I've been. They are still working out service kinks but that's not unique to them. Good rooftop, lots of TVs. Strangely, the wedge salad there is really, really good. Good enough for me to go for lunch on a weekend when no major sports were on. Free arcade games on 2nd level so basically pointed the kids to them and forgot about em. Except when I had to whip the boy a few times on Street Fighter II. Guile's still got it. Not sure if it was on the 'brunch' list but we hit up Dream Cafe a few weekends each month for brunch and never have had a bad time. And for a small taco lunch, I prefer Resident to just about anywhere else.
  14. Nolan signed that card for me at a Beckett card convention at the Ft. Worth convention center sometime in the late 80's. There was a gun show going on in the hall next door so I vividly remember a bunch of camo-clad dudes with shouldered rifles and shotguns just wandering through the aisles looking at all the cards.
  15. I completely forgot about my cards when I left for Austin in 96 and really thought they were thrown away/lost from moms house until a couple years ago. Like many have said here, my faves are the ones I remember buying in the 80's using lawn mowing funds. Growing up, there was a pretty awesome card shop a 10 minute bike ride away, so spent a ton of time there. Crazy, but all my complete sets and hand organized binders were all still there in my old closet. As well as all my "good cards" in shoeboxes. Thanks mom. No idea at all what anything is worth and don't care, I'm happy just looking at all of 'em now. A few ones I pulled out:
  16. If you happen to go this month, the downtown strip along Plandome Rd. is decorated up like a scene out of Its a Wonderful Life. It's almost silly. Almost.
  17. Necro bump. I was always mildly interested in astronomy but never made much of an attempt to educate myself. Now the boy has shown interest, so I dove in and got the Celestron SE 8" and some eyepieces including a Barlow. The only chance I've had to work with it was the week of Thanksgiving and it was really windy and the moon was bright so I wasn't able to get auto-aligned properly. Still got a few glimpses of Jupiter and some closeups of the moon, so that was a dad win. I'm heading back out to east TX Sunday so hoping for clear skies. I'm also going to join the Texas Astronomical Society of Dallas http://texasastro.org for no real reason other than its only $50/year, you get access to their viewing camp up near Atoka, OK, and I might just learn a thing or 2 during their monthly meetings. Wife loves nerd me so that will probably work in my favor too... Really just bumped this to see if anyone else wanted to chime in and keep this thread somewhat active. I did get the phone camera adapter thing too but haven't had a chance to play with it but hope to post some pics in the future.
  18. This may be a little too high-brow for the topic, but anyone remember the Judge Roy Bean's chain? Famous for their 2-fer Tuesday chicken fried steak dinner. This was a huge steak too, not some Furr's-sized BS. In HS, the crew would go and the small guys would get two huge plates of CFS, mashed potatoes, both doused in gravy, and some other veggie, and the football players would get 2x so 4 total plates per person. All would be dominated. Think the 2-fer was $7.99 back then and a single plate must have been about 1,500 calories. Again, yay for metabolism at that age.
  19. Bottlerocket: That looks really good and is something I'll be looking, perhaps next year. Same awful gravel you had... What is the material or process that you had done? Did a pool company or someone else do it? Warranty?
  20. Personal loan from a large bank will get you much better terms than a CC and will help your credit after repayment rather than likely dinging it down the road when total available credit is factored in (you likely won't close said CC after payment in all likelihood). As someone else mentioned, for $5k, save and pay cash.
  21. I don't know how to edit my post, but it looks like Clooney directed a movie adaptation of the book that will get released in about a month. Small world.
  22. Great place, small-town feel and strong community identity. MIL grew up there and her mom lived in the same house for 75+ years so we'd visit a few times a year when we'd hit up NYC. Its just a 20-30 minute ride on LIRR so easy commute if you needed. I'd live there without reservation. Housing is very expensive even compared to other nice parts of NY - after grandma died a few years ago, MIL sold the house for lot value for well over $1mm. But you get all the amenities of a nice community for paying that, everything is clean, generally safe, good public schools, upscale, etc. As an aside, there's a nonfiction book written about the author basically growing up in a bar on the main street called Publicans - The Tender Bar. Good read. Grandma had her 100th birthday there and her scotches were on the house.
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