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  1. C'mon, Othello. The line is "Put the money in thy purse," not put the weenie in thy jelly. And that's not the worst thing he did. Anyone eaten at Kulture in downtown Houston recently? https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2024/04/26/houston-restaurant-employee-accused-of-putting-his-genitals-in-food-items-possessing-child-pornography/
  2. Drinking it wasn't so much the issue. It was the once-per-month, 6--7-hour brew sessions in the garage. I sold the big brew rig and ordered the Countertop Model the Microsoft guy was involved in. The first production run took so long that I got out of the hobby, asked for my money back, and used it to buy an induction cooktop for the kitchen. I made the right decision.
  3. Ha, I was doing the sales pitch again. And then I read a couple of posts up. Won't someone buy my memories. See two posts up.
  4. Quite literally a Strummer.
  5. The bar side was nice. The main dining room left a bit to be desired. The food was very good.
  6. "Donald just upped his sleepy-time fart game. Checkmate libtards!"
  7. If that happens, hopefully, it comes down to this.
  8. I don't think there's any rule about this unfortunately. If there is, it's state by state.
  9. I'm going off memory here. Stanley's was a B&M since the 1950s. The Pencis family got involved around 2003 or 2004 and got the opportunity to buy out the partners around 2005. Shortly after they took over, the City of Tyler condemned their pits. Out of necessity, they purchased rotisserie cookers and figured out how to inject wood smoke to cook ribs. Around 2009, Texas Monthly awarded them "best ribs." They won it either the next year or the year after as well. Jon Shaw became the pitmaster sometime in late 2000s or early 2010s and the got their brisket game together in the years that followed along with some big offsets. During the early 2010s, things like the Mother Clucker started showing up. Shortly before that, they added the deck and eventually covered it and added the original bar. They thought about adding a location in south Tyler around this time, but, instead, extended their hours to dinner service, upped their bar game, and started booking live music. For some of those first shows, I was supplying microphones and mic stands. They really put a ton of work, blood, sweat, and tears into getting that place into the machine it is today. Right before COVID, they purchased the rest of the building on their lot, built a really nice bar, and then watched it sit for months during the pandemic. They'd opened up another restaurant called Roast a few years prior and, while it survived the pandemic off and on, it closed when the lease ended. Too bad, it was really good.
  10. What could you expect from a pig but a grunt?
  11. I sold my PedalPower 2 and went with a $30 OneSpot since I was going with Nano boards. It's been great except when I've tried to run the Topanga Reverb off of it. It will power it, but I get a pop from the switch unless I run it on its own power supply.
  12. The invited error doctrine (I'm paraphrasing): you don't have a legal basis to complain of error for which you are responsible. If they can tie back any prejudice toward Trump as being caused by Trump in the first place, he doesn't have a legal basis for that argument. The mob always was smart enough not to overtly intimidate jurors. They'd find out who they were, go up to them during their day to day life outside of court, and try to reason with them to see it the defendant's way. That juror would be afraid for his own, Mrs. Juror's and little Timmy's safety, and would hang the jury during deliberations rather than squeal about it. But Trump's "mob" isn't The Mob, so when he or one of his minions tries to intimidate people, it tends to be in a loud, blundering way, and they get caught and it gets linked to some blather on Trump's Truth social. Wash. Rinse. Repeat. Plus, Trump's fixers are kind of busy testifying against him at the moment.
  13. You can run analog pedals off a One-Spot daisy chain all day long. But digital pedals are thirsty and picky.
  14. I assume the defense would move for a mistrial, arguing that Trump tried to intimidate a juror, got caught, and now the rest of the jury likely will hold that against him. The argument for the prosecution would be something like, "You don't get a mistrial for something you created (invited error). They stick an alternate in the slot and move on. That's my best guess for a Wednesday.
  15. Yeah. They have been preparing for this for over a year, and it showed. One of my long-time concert buddies basically said he felt no compulsion to ever see another band perform there. But I quickly responded that I would buy tickets to see David Byrne there in a heartbeat.
  16. Also, when this first was announced, I remember thinking, like most people probably, that this would become an annual event of short runs at the Sphere for Phish. Same owner as MSG and obviously, they have they relationship. But after seeing it first hand, I'm guessing the amount of work that goes into this to make these performances unique is, suffice it to say, a ridiculous feat. They surely will play there again, but I'd be surprised if it's with any sort of regularity.
  17. There was, in fact, no Reba at the Sphere, and that seems like it should be a crime. I was at the two Shoreline shows before the first Hiatus. After the funerary feel after that last show, there was no way I wanted to go see the last show at Coventry, which turns out to have been a good decision. Big Cypress took a lot out of me physically and, today, if I'm going to camp and see more than one show, it's going to need to be at the Gorge. I'll have to dig up my first stub. It was Austin Music Hall (10/16/1995). Wish I could have seen both shows, but it was TX/OU weekend.
  18. Have I heard a better version of the song? Probably. Can it fairly be compared to hearing/seeing this performance? Nah. I got choked up a couple of times. And yes, the stoppage time has gotten silly over the years. The first set struck me as a "this is what the Sphere can do" tutorial at first. They started small and played things with tighter jam sections or mostly composed tunes like Divided Sky. By the time they got to Character Zero to end the first set, they were starting to cook. The second set dug in and didn't feel like it ever let go. The visuals were more intense and complete in coverage. If you watched the stage, you got the feeling that the entire venue was moving, tilting, and shifting. And the floor was definitely moving with all the people dancing. It was no polite show where everyone sat in his/her seats. The audience seemed to me like any other show. Divided sky was really the only landscape we got if you don't count the "sky full of stars" we got for 2001/ASZ. I haven't been to a show since 2016, and, as usual, there were a few tunes I didn't recognize. But most of the songs hit hard, and I felt like we got a really solid show. I intentionally avoided spoilers before we went so I wouldn't know what songs to expect or, more importantly, what I'd missed. The people I went with and I were talking about how ridiculous it would seem to us in the 90s if someone had told us we would see something like this 30 years later.
  19. Checking in. I just got back from Vegas. I was Section 105 for night 4 and that was the coolest shit I ever have seen. This was my 19th show over 29 years. And while it's not really fair to compare it to anything I've seen before from them, I'm so glad I went. The second set was an absolute ripper. They way they set up the stereo field in that unforgiving space was miraculous.
  20. Meanwhile, MAGA types are trying out as the latest drummer for Spinal Tap.
  21. That shit was the closest thing I'll see to the Hindenburg Disaster reporting in my lifetime. "Burning flesh and accelerant . . . ."
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