Posts posted by Brisketexan
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On 5/7/2025 at 12:24 PM, Js1 said:
I just assume everything is a scam.
Toll road violation texts? Scam
Job offers to work from home and make $3k/month? Scam
Offers to buy my house? Scam
Friends want to hang out? Scam
Save the whales? SCAM!
True story:
Brisketexan, circa 1992, setting up my shitty but new Packard Bell 386 before law school. Opens CD-Rom for this outfit called "Prodigy." Read the literature with it. I consciously recall tossing it all into my trash, saying out loud, "'Internet?' Sounds like a scam."
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On a flight home from LAS at present (long delay, Austin weather). Wife and I came to town to see Bruno Mars - not my favorite artist or anything, but dude puts on a helluva show. And chicks dig him, so nice crowd.
Stayed at the Aria for the first time (we usually stay at the Palazzo, but wanted to stay next to the concert venue). Liked it well enough. Dinner at Din Tai Fung (one of our all-time favorite restaurants anywhere, was happy to snag a reservation for this location). Brunch at Bardot's (second time to eat there -- everything there is really well done. We had crepes and the almond french toast which was ridiculously good).
Didn't gamble at all, we're just not that into it, but we've come to like the rhythm of a trip to see a show, have a coupla good meals, sleep in, have some quality couple time in a nice hotel room. We're coming back for the Eagles in October at the Sphere. Will stay at Palazzo then. Wife wants brunch at Bouchon that trip, which is a fave of hers.
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58 minutes ago, Steamboat1874 said:Fuck them.
Hope they lose everything.
This is the way.
There is only one thing to wish on Trump supporters. Complete, total, and unimaginable suffering. They voted to light the world on fire, because they actually WANTED to see other people burn. And now they are caught up in the flames they lit. So.....
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Mary Lou Retton Arrested on DUI Charge in West Virginia
SummarizeRetton was arrested on Saturday, May 17, on one count of DUI in Marion County
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- According to court records from the West Virginia Magistrate Court system, Retton, 57, was arrested on Saturday, May 17, on one count of "driving under influence of alcohol, controlled substances, or drugs;penalties"
- The Olympian was issued a personal recognizance bond of $1,500, of which she posted that same day
- PEOPLE has reached out to Retton's representative for comment
Mary Lou Retton was arrested on a DUI charge earlier this month in Marion County, W.V., according to court records reviewed by PEOPLE.
According to court records from the West Virginia Magistrate Court system, Retton, 57, was arrested on Saturday, May 17, on one count of "driving under influence of alcohol, controlled substances, or drugs; penalties."
The Olympian was issued a personal recognizance bond of $1,500, which she posted that same day.
PEOPLE has reached out to Retton's representative for comment.
Mary Lou Retton in the 1984 Summer Olympics. Focus on Sport/Getty
Retton is the first American woman to win a gold medal in individual all-around gymnastics. Her arrest comes nearly two years after she was in the ICU with a rare form of pneumonia.
Her daughter, McKenna Kelley, announced that she was hospitalized in October 2023 in a post on her Instagram Story which included a link to a Spotfund page dedicated to her mom.
"My amazing mom, Mary Lou, has a very rare form of pneumonia and is fighting for her life. She is not able to breathe on her own. She’s been in the ICU for over a week now. Out of respect for her and her privacy, I will not disclose all details. However, I will disclose that she not insured," said Kelley.
I’d believe that. She and her husband Shannon sat right in front of us at the Bleachergate game at UH back in the day. First CFB game we went to that sold beer. She comes back to her seat with 4 beers, holding them with her fingers in the cups. Some UH fans start giving her shit, she whirled around and ripped into them, without spilling a drop. If she’d have had a cigarette dangling from her lips, she would have been 100% Texan (or…a shorter version of my mom, a true class act). It was awesome…but gal could drink. She’d already had several brewpops by that point. -
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Honestly America would be better off if our consumption shifted back to mostly wearing clothing made in America that was fairly expensive, very high quality, and made by skilled union labor.
If you wanna wear Carhartt overalls 24/7….and I know you do…ain’t nobody stopping you.Brother I've spent the better part of multiple Saturday mornings in the Walmart on the Seawall in Galveston. I have seen some shit.
Picked up some donuts there once for breakfast before fishing the next day. They were inedible. How do you fuck up a goddamn donut that bad?
But also…the Wally World in Port Lavaca would like a word. It’s a Fortress of Sadness. -
While there are some who are behind another Allred run, I say the majority are gunshy of it at this point. He burned a lot of bridges trying to play the bi-partisan game. Beto has been rattling his sabre some. We shall see. I'd personally like to see Crockett take a swing at it.
Fuck this shit.
We need Danny Trejo to move here and run as Machete.
You think I’m kidding. I’m not. The GQP redefined itself with a “celebrity.” We have to do the same. That’s the American attention economy at work. -
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I, perhaps falsely, like think at some point the egomaniacal aspect of his personality will out weigh is bully aspects. That, should it occur, his own most important goal will start to take priority over his need to be a vindictive ass in internal US affairs and Europe, that goal being his legacy as "the best president ever".
I think the turning point will be if the Maga minion finally start to see not engaging Putin as "un-American" or far worse for Trump, as cowardly.
Putin will continue to push, his ego will, I hope, at some point push him to belittle Trump.
If that happens, I firmly believe, things change rapidly.
But hope in one hand shit in the other.
A concerted campaign, mostly of the whisper, just at the surface-type, that him not confronting Putin is because he’s a coward, has an actually decent chance of succeeding. -
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May 24th is up there with 9/11 as far as I’ll always remember where I was when it happened. I walked out of my daughter’s 5th grade talent show and saw my phone had been blowing up. All kinds of chatter flying around online. I called my mom and I told her I heard there was a shooting at Robb and that a couple people had died. She said it was way worse than that. Then word trickles out and you hear of all the people you know connected to victims and it’s a just such a terribly sad situation. Then it’s just hanging over the town. Like living in a cemetery if you’re there. It’s just a weird feeling to have your hometown become notorious because of the acts of one person.
I don’t forgive him. I don’t forget.
Your state leaders do. They actively want it to happen again. That’s the only reasonable way to read their policy choices. Uvalde is the system working EXACTLY as they designed it. -
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In the summer of 1995 I was in the middle of the Wisconsin country, around a place called Cataract, which was nothing but dairy farms and wheat fields. I knocked on this door of an old, white house, with wood siding that desperately needed a paint job, and packed inside were about 50+ of the darkest-skinned Latin Americans I've ever seen. None of them spoke a word of English.
I'll never forget it.
To be fair, my people love beer and cheese as much as anyone. -

Allison Russell at Scoot Inn.
She’s ethereal, defiant, badass, bilingual, Québécois de l'île de Montréal, and one helluva singer. This is our fourth time to see her, and she’s getting better and better. The possessive lesbians in the crowd can be a bit much (she kind of broke through playing with Brandi Carlisle), but they’re at least happy about things.


I want to embrace my country again
in Cloak Room
Dad?
Also.....man, do I feel this post. I am a patriot. I always have been. I'm a big believer in "what can be." Or, at least I used to be. Today? Every chance we get to choose the wrong fork in the road....that's what we choose. What would a shitheel country do? Then that's what we'll do.\
And it's not our government. We're getting the government that a sizable chunk of "we the people" want. The problem with America is Americans.
Yet...I still can't quit it. Bozo and I talked about this at the time, but a few years ago at an Austin FC match, Gina Chavez sang the national anthem. And she fucking SANG it. A hispanic, queer woman - this country and its leadership fucking HATE her. She has every reason to hate it back. But she didn't. She fucking embraced it. She declared with her voice that the anthem, the flag, this nation, belonged to her too. It is ours, too. In the last year or so, we've flown our flag on American holidays because fuck those fuckers who think they own it, and then use it as a shroud to wrap themselves in as they do utterly un-American shit.
But will I stay here, long-term? I don't know. My daughter won't be coming back. Odds are 90% or better she'll make her life in Germany or the UK, based on her current grad school direction. My son, on the other hand....he lives overseas. He goes to school overseas. But he wants to save the world. And he wants to come back and save this country. I'm pretty sure he wants to come back and fight. With his life, if he has to. I've told him this country isn't worth his life, but I don't think he agrees with me. And I respect that. I'm pretty sure I felt that way too when I was 22.
Are there enough people like him to make a difference? I don't know. And it makes me sad that at my age, I probably won't be alive to find out if it really did make a difference (I think we're a good 30-40 years from seeing if we can recover....because we've still got many years of "getting worse" to go).
It makes me sad. It makes me so fucking angry. Because I love this country, and what it was becoming....a little bit better, bit by bit, every day. We made progress forward measured in inches (but it WAS forward). Now....we are lurching back miles, and miles, and miles. What takes generations to build can be destroyed in, literally, days.
How can I feel proud of this country? I can't. Not right now. But I'm proud of my son. That's what I can muster, for now.