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cafe society

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  1. Maybe I was jaded having worked in the motion picture industry, but Blair Witch Project was a bore. Woody Allen's Shadows and Fog was too. Moving a film camera to create a sense of unease isn't special and requires no talent. It's like getting sea sick. The Blair Witch Project only provided interest in the final scene, which despite the many years I won't spoiler. The Haunting is far scarier taking the opposite effect of the camera remaining on a single atmospheric shot and allowing the viewer's imagination to fill in the gaps.
  2. I was a student from 1978-82. There was the theatre in the student union, above the rec center. Batts Hall used to show movies on weekends, as did Jester Auditorium semi-regularly. Dobie during that period was two screens, larger than the screen after the renovation. Even rarer was the movie screened in the Burdine Auditorium. The Varsity Theatre was at 24th & Guadalupe, which later and sadder became a Tower Records. On the Drag down between Wallace's Book Store and Quackenbush's (reference point, Quackenbush's wasn't there then) was the Texas Theatre, which showed porn films.
  3. We'll force more turnover because QBs are going to be getting rid of the ball before the play calls for it. And because continued pressure and hits will force fumbles from said QBs. Our DTs are going to be better than last year. We don't have any questionable talents like we did going into last year. Alex January is going to be better (before he's through) than Collins, Broughton and anyone not named Sweat and Murphy. And I'm not positive on that. I shit you not, we're going to terrify offenses this season. The only game I think we might lose is at tOSU, just because it's the first game. And we probably win that one. And then Katie bar the door.
  4. My parents loaded up the entire brood when I was 5 and took us to see 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, and whew boy, that giant squid made my sleep pure torture for several weeks. Seeing Old Yeller for the first time was traumatic too, albeit in a different way.
  5. People underestimated pretty much everything sans kickoff returns about Golden last year. And to the Whittington work ethic and leadership, OTF has said that Moore is the first one at practice and the last to leave. All I'm saying is, let's see. Jackson seems pretty good at WR development.
  6. Taaffe is back. Practice reports say that he isn't allowed to call the signals much of the time so everybody learns to recognize and make those calls. We have several coaches devoted to just the secondary. We have - by my count - 16 scholarship players in the secondary, and those scholarships are hard-earned. They are aggressive, intelligent, coached-up and hungry. Our entire defense is going to be a fucking abattoir. Think '85 Bears.
  7. I don't think run blocking is the worry.
  8. Maybe they maxed out their DL/EDGE budget on Guervil.
  9. Bowden wasn't ever what I would call fat for a 70 year-old man. You could fit two of him in that Elko wardrobe. I mean, Elko requires a parade permit just to leave the house.
  10. Things have changed somewhat on the Arkie end. Gone are the days of Hillbilly U. They actively recruit good students now. I was there as a 10 year-old in '69 and witness to horrors in addition to being accosted by a grown ass man who cussed me out. That never happened at Kyle Field (the aggies were nice to kids) or even Jones Stadium. But you're correct that Arkie was second in rivalry behind OU. Hell, OU fans at the fair were nicer to me than fucking Arkies were. I just don't think the new generation of Hogs feels the same hatred.
  11. And the maroon Rock "Em Sock 'Em Robot lands an uppercut.
  12. Stahp it! I'm not one of those who even engaged in that silly discussion.
  13. USC is in over its head and will drown. Winfield, Bowman, Wafle come on down. Benjamin, Henderson, Lott, what you want Texas has got. Malakai, Michigan is fine but Austin is better; we've got your ties and your kind of weather.
  14. This is a recruit asking Texas to up their offer.
  15. You would think after all these years of SEC bagmen and their "Gentlemen's Agreement" (not to be confused with that imaginary covenant that aggies whine about) Georgia fans would have some insight or at least a pragmatic understanding of things, but apparently not. I've never known or met a Georgia fan, unless you count the members of the B52s, whom I got to party with back around 1982. None of them seemed interested in sports.
  16. Yeah, but he burned the map on his way to Pullman.
  17. Tim Rossovich approves of this message.
  18. Gerry and Bobby have been saying for a while that they didn't think Philip Rivers would send his kid to a crowded qb room.
  19. Fuck you, of course you did. Ketchum has well known leanings and you're using him as a stalking horse. You're not usually horseshit, but you are here.
  20. My favorite pizza ever. I need to get one next time I'm in Austin.
  21. Reluctantly I am going to ask about the $20.5 and probably irrelevant offshoots. Is that money supposed to be spread around to the other sports, I thought so? Is there going to be a fuckton of Title IX litigation coming out of all this?
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