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  1. Totally missed this show until now. So good. Conan the Red! Conan the Red! That first episode was ridiculously funny. I'm trying not to overhype it in my mind, but it is an overly-strong first episode of anything.
  2. Nah. It probably isn't.
  3. Damn. They proud they beef chips.
  4. One addition: In no small part, Dazed and Confused. Not even supposed to be Austin, but it's Austin as far as a lot of people who flocked there after that are concerned.
  5. I don't like it, but she sang on two songs on the White Album. She still sucks. Thankfully, Billy Preston had more appearances.
  6. Austin is a City, which has died by one thousand paper cuts. One nostalgic one was the closing of the Villa Capri. It was long past its late 60s prime when I stayed there for a week as a 10-year old kid because it was across from the Disch, and I was going to baseball camp there in the early 80s. But it had a pool, and, even 40 years later, I still remember staying there. But that place was a top place back in the day. When Mad Dog & Beans closed: My sister is eleven years older than I am, but when we would visit her at UT, we'd hit up MD&B for burgers, but mostly for the Cookies 'n' Cream milkshake (no drugs were exchanged as far as I know). That place was craft burger long before such a dumb phrase existed. Probably my #1a burger (Hamburgers by Gourmet in Houston was the top-spot contender). Anyway, it closed two weeks after I got to Austin as a freshman in 92. I ate there twice during that short period of time. Porky's Demise, Fries, Cookies 'n' Cream (or mint chocolate chip) milkshake. Perfect. So that 5 years after you got there thing is an average. I'm apparently to one extreme of the curve in some respects. 1,000 paper cuts.
  7. Well, and his album, Best Hits.
  8. Damn. You got the 5th post in this thread. 5th (although, subjectively, George Martin is the fifth Beee-AHtl). But Good on ya, Pete. RIP
  9. Responded with this clip to a post in the TXBBQ thread. At the time, I thought it was a fairly funny to average episode. I don't seem to catch it much on random Seinfeld viewings (lots of those on Saturday mornings). But after decades of Curb, it's such an exaggerated Larry scenario, it hits differently. This could be a real deep dive into George's neuroses. It's really great, right down to the intro business about Steinbrenner wanting a new scoreboard. "Gotta give the big guy what he wants." is so
  10. Yeah, well the jerk store called . . .
  11. Usually a 12AT7
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    Vinyl

    If you spotted a couple of tourists at one of your favorite record shops, would you find their car, remove the carburetor, show it to them, then throw it in the ocean?
  13. Unsplitting infinitives in real time during conversation.
  14. Take it to the Kansas City BBQ thread.
  15. So tell me what's special about Altmeister Vinegar. I know alt means old and meister is master. So the name isn't helping me on what the flavor is.
  16. Here's a great one. Also, my #1 concert.
  17. You can wrap in towels, but you also want to crumple up a couple of towels and fill the head space over your bundles of meat with towels too. I'll microwave a few cups of water in a pyrex dish and place it on a tray in the bottom of the cooler for about 15 minutes to preheat it rather than dumping water in the cooler. I have an Igloo Ice Cube that does a fine job of holding meats warm.
  18. I had the same problem with a Capresso burr grinder. Went with a Gaggia MDF after that and, ultimately, a super automatic. I never could figure out the static problem with the Carpresso. For drip coffee, I now just use a whirly-bird grinder and ask for forgiveness later.
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    Vinyl

    Oh, wow. I was just there with my son doing some vinyl shopping, and I told him to his surprise that it was in the same location it was when I was at UT in the 90s. Sad for me for nostalgia's sake, but probably a good move overall. North Austin is more Austin than that location at this point anyway.
  20. Since my source was questionable last year, when I suggested this to be the case, I can confirm that all UT residence halls have A/C and heat, but the individual rooms do not all have their own thermostats. https://housing.utexas.edu/housing/virtual-tours/andrews-hall-virtual-tours#:~:text=All of our residence halls have AC and heat.
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