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Brisketexan

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  1. good at....getting every major rental car company to make the Taurus the bulk of their rental fleet. There was a good window of time there where if you rented a car, there was a 75% chance it was gonna be a Taurus. And the utterly generic nature of the rental car experience actually ended up harming the brand. When people thought "Taurus," they thought "cheapest car Hertz offers at Love Field."
  2. Popeyes calms my soul, and my innards.
  3. Hairy approach and landing at AUS. Got a few screams from some passengers as we went into short freefall a coupla times in downdrafts. Landed fine, now backed up because every plane on earth waited till now to come in. No gates.
  4. Love this. I hope he suffers. I hope his family suffers. And collapses. Nothing but their own pain has even a CHANCE of getting through to these fucking assholes. So....let's boost the signal, shall we?
  5. 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.
  6. There's gotta be some other techbro douche in Austin who's got the #1 spot.
  7. 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."
  8. 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.
  9. 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.....
  10. Seriously. You’re more likely to see new state laws that mandate that all homes be set up to burn crude oil directly.
  11. 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.
  12. Con: delayed at airport. Pro: the delay granted me time to run over to the C gates and get a Popeyes spicy dark with RBAR. Who says you can’t win in Vegas?
  13. Boarded our plane in Vegas (original 4:45 departure, delayed till 6:45). Then they kicked us off. Delayed till 9:10…maybe. Will be a nice 2:00 am arrival. If the weather is done with us then. At least I’m parked under cover. Good luck, fellas.
  14. Sure. But Machete.
  15. If you wanna wear Carhartt overalls 24/7….and I know you do…ain’t nobody stopping you. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. Trying to fly back to Austin tonight. Not optimistic.
  18. Man…forgot about those. Bet I haven’t eaten one since a year with a 7- in it.
  19. 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.
  20. If you ask me why I am still a patriot and love my country - in spite of where it may be at a given point in time - days like today are why. It doesn't have to be perfect to be worth fighting for. They fight to make it better.
  21. 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.
  22. Tell em how that would violate any law. Hint: it wouldn’t. Not in the slightest. Make it an interactive learning exercise, just here to educate the children.
  23. Who predicted this happening upthread a coupla weeks ago? This ledge-dweller. It’s the only thing that makes sense.
  24. Brisketexan

    Austin FC

    Z with his first MLS goal - sweet! And good for me, as wife is excited because he’s one of her two favorite players. It was a solid sequence as well - man, I’d love to see a lot more play like that.
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