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  1. Advertisers getting their money’s worth.
  2. At least we have a bright future when The Olds are gone. https://crunder30.com/
  3. Saw it at The Inwood when it was released. Brought back good memories from a year before.
  4. Done that a couple of times with my Vespa. Most recently last month. They only did that to me when I did it online. When I do it in person they ask me if it has been driven or if I’ve gotten any tickets and give me a sticker from the current month.
  5. Can’t remember why I bought this when it was released. It seemed so intense it took numerous listens before it wormed its way into my brain. “More recently, other musicians have written very favorably of the album; for instance, Lydia Lunch named it one of her 13 favorite albums in 2013.[16] A 2009 article in Magnet called the album a "lost classic", and said that on the album, "the Fibbers' warped alt-country twang haunted the City of Angels like ghosts of California country’s past, full of grinding violin and poisoned tales of junkies, madness and lost innocence."[17] Nels Cline, who joined the Geraldine Fibbers for the recording of their second album, Butch, called Lost "a stone classic" in an interview with the Vancouver Sun in 2014.[18] Also in 2014, Spin ranked the album as the 9th best album of 1995, and, like previous reviews of the album, compared its sound to that of X.[19] In 2017, Al Shipley described the album as a "country feedback masterpiece", adding that it was his "...favorite rock album of the 90's.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Somewhere_Between_the_Earth_and_My_Home
  6. His “Kari Lake Camera Filter” is back ordered on Amazon.
  7. Does the couple who bought it after the murder still own it? Thought I heard they sold it. I met David Kaczynski there one night.
  8. This was a go to party album for us in the 90’s. Fun intoxicating blend of reggae/tex-mex/Caribbean/rock… Some of the coolest covers ever. Werewolves of London, Papa was a Rolling Stone and others. Nothing like a room full of very greasy and lubricated heathens singing along to “Tiki Torches at Twilight” “Tiki torches at twilight Hula girls at the bar All the guys from the office Are throwing up in their cars” Also, just found this at the thrift store last month.
  9. First time I’ve seen them admit the objective is to put a “filter” on what is being taught. I looked up the school mentioned and they teach using the ABEKA Book curriculum. Apparently one of the top curriculums for Christian schools and homeschooling, along with ACE and Bob Jones University Press. After reading excerpts from their history books, I will invoke my Sovereign Citizen rights if they try to make me help fund that insanity.
  10. Yup. Quiet part out loud. “CORSICANA — In this small city southeast of Dallas, where residents are protective of their public schools, Gov. Greg Abbott touted his plan to allow private school vouchers as necessary to give parents control of their children’s education. “Parents are angry about woke agendas being pushed on their children in our schools,” Abbott said this week during a speech at Park Meadows Academy, a church and school that stresses a Christian education. “Our schools are for education, not indoctrination.” As he made the argument that “parental empowerment” was needed to help filter what’s being taught in schools, Abbott said that empowerment should include creating a system where parents can use taxpayer-funded vouchers to send their children to private schools” https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/texas-gov-greg-abbott-hits-road-to-tout-school-voucher-plan/ar-AA1868UY
  11. “We're most pleased to announce some very special tour dates in celebration of the 40th anniversary of our debut album. We will be performing the album cover to cover, plus playing other favorites, and have Jesse Ahern on as support. Presale tickets will be available starting at 10am local time tomorrow using the code: ADDITUP” Find ticket links on VFemmes.com/tour
  12. Try “ADDITUP” Worked for me
  13. My favorite thing was the carousel that plays a calliope rendition of the Cure’s “Just Like Heaven.”
  14. Yeah, careful with window pane. They stick together and it’s hard to tell until it’s too late[emoji3061] I remember Orange Sunshine blotter Mr Natural blotter Plain blotter Orange barrel Blue microdot Purple microdot
  15. This could be trouble. Behind the Pine Curtain middle schools are “ institutes of higher learning” Actually I thought the bill was to outlaw drop boxes at Colleges. The polling place where I live that has the highest turnout is the Community College. This sucks.
  16. Imagine the shit Abner Haynes and Leon King had to put up with. Interesting that a College in Denton, Tx was a leader in desegregation of college football in the South. DENTON – Ten years before Jerry LeVias and John Westbrook made history in the Southwest Conference and a half-dozen years before a Maryland player broke the Old South’s color line, a cab pulled up at Fouts Field, home of North Texas State’s football team. Two Black Dallas teenagers got out, more than a little afraid of what to expect as three white men approached. One stuck out his hand. “Welcome to the team,” he said. On a glorious Saturday afternoon 66 years later, North Texas officials celebrated that handshake with the dedication of Unity Plaza, commemorating the courage of Abner Haynes, Leon King, a football team and a university. And courage it was, because the same month Haynes and King enrolled at UNT, a white mob in Mansfield, an hour south, hung an effigy of a Black male from a flagpole at the local high school with an inscription: This Negro tried to enter a white school. This would be a terrible way to die. Back in the heyday of Jim Crow, a federal desegregation order offered little in the way of security or comfort for anyone in Texas or the South in general thinking of crossing the color line. Under the cloak of a so-called “gentlemen’s agreement,” assuring complicity in maintaining a lily-white Southwest Conference, the state’s most prominent athletic programs didn’t dare buck a racist system in the ‘50s. What made UNT different? “That’s the question everybody’s always asked,” Haynes, 85, said Saturday. " ‘How do you think those guys did that? How did they get away with it?’ “That’s a question they’ll be asking a hundred years from now.” King, Haynes’ old Lincoln High teammate, credited J.C. Matthews, UNT’s president from 1951-68, who saw change coming and embraced it. “And I don’t know of a single incident that came because of it,” said King, who went on to a long career as a Dallas ISD educator. “If anyone ever needed a blueprint of how to integrate a school, they had to get it from North Texas.” Only it wasn’t quite as smooth as all that. As Jeff Miller writes in his fine book, “The Game Changers,” one of Haynes’ new teammates confronted him after their first practice together and asked why Haynes and King didn’t just go to one of the colleges intended for Black students and leave whites to theirs. Even after Odus Mitchell, UNT’s coach, asked his veterans to welcome the newcomers, a handful chafed. At least a couple were certain Haynes and King wouldn’t play. But any lingering resentment dissipated after the freshman team got off the bus in Corsicana for a meal in the fall of ‘56 before a game against Navarro Junior College. A diner employee told the team that Blacks couldn’t eat in the main dining room, at which point three of the white players – Charlie Cole, George Herring and Joe Mack Pryor – led the team out. The hospitality was no better at the stadium. An attendant asked Ken Bahnsen, the freshmen coach, if he really planned to use the Black players. Told he would, indeed, the attendant replied, “Well, they might die.” In the game that followed -- a 39-21 UNT victory, with Haynes scoring four touchdowns and King catching two passes – a bond was formed…” https://www.dallasnews.com/sports/unt-mean-green/2022/11/07/north-texas-commemorates-most-important-legacy-of-mean-green-football-with-unity-plaza/
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