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LCHorn

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  1. I hope you spent less than I did. Now I can’t bring myself to drink it.
  2. True, but that was a different era and the elites from the SOS machine are old. You know Matt Mackowiack-he’s pretty much proof that there’s plenty of money sloshing around to be spent on local issues. You just need someone that can mobilize it and isn’t an asshole.
  3. I suspect @Bozo_Casanova will respond that the money’s been spent, the plans are there, but the neighborhood groups are against and there isn’t any individual stakeholder group with sufficient support to act as a political counter-weight. More from me, but I think this is a downside of 10-1. Maybe the new city manager can build some consensus, we’ll see.
  4. There was a Reddit thread on this yesterday and my straw poll was responses was something like 90% against. I was a little surprised because the posters there seem to hate anyone with money, landlords, etc., and supporting day care for the underprivileged would seem to be consistent with an opposite view. Personally, I think I’d be more supportive if it was the city and not the county administering it. I know we complain about CofA shenanigans but the county taxes make up a huge chunk of our property tax bill and they have far, far less scrutiny over it.
  5. Fugit was fine. Not everyone is Chalamet or DiCaprio talented when they are 15. Almost Famous’ biggest problem is that Crudup is admirably trying but Crowe originally wanted Brad Pitt and that Tyler Dursen charisma.
  6. My friend who went with me to see it upon release was acquainted with Ben and I remember him laughing in the theater and saying he was perfect, fwiw.
  7. He/she should get out more. Travis County DA has “Bad Cop Database” tattooed on his left bicep.
  8. That sounds like a lot of money upfront for $2450/month. I’m presuming that the $160k was purchase plus remodel and not omitting a chunk that was financed?
  9. Haha, I’m going to go half-Lobo on this one. I saw this at the premiere in Austin with John Lee Hancock in attendance. I had followed production and he said it was his dream project (we had a mutual acquaintance and connected previously over our love of Willie Morris). If you had followed the property, it had been in development hell for a decade or more and pretty much every hot shit screenwriter had done a draft. Hancock would parlay his success shooting the low budget The Rookie, and part of why he was able to get attached was that his script would be a lot cheaper than the previous iterations. Anyway, the movie wasn’t bad, but the vibe in the theater was underwhelming and you could just feel the anxiety during the post screening Q&A. Obviously Billy Bob Thornton killed, but everything else seemed like one of those TNT historical TV series but without any of the depth to actually connect to the characters. I do recall Harry Knowles was there, slobbering over Hancock and trying to pretend he saw a different movie.
  10. I’ve been wondering the same, as I think our depth chart is thinner than a recruit might presume. I also wonder if we like, but don’t love, all of those recruits, at least sufficient to commit the kind of NIL that would be needed.
  11. Fud put Skinamarink on his top 100, fwiw.
  12. A Perfect World is it for me. Agree with you about Apocalypto.
  13. I don't think Durant can be a full-time 3 anymore.
  14. While I agree with everything you wrote, I do admit to reading about generals of antiquity committing ritual suicide for losing battles and appreciating the integrity of the act.
  15. I don’t think the Rockets see him as a specialist.
  16. That doesn’t make me mad, rather, it’s a reminder that tribal cohesiveness is a dominant concern at the moment (maybe because the economy IS doing good). I want to punch myself because I’m sick of reading this particular phrase (or hearing it on podcasts), but it’s another “you have to meet the voters where they are.”
  17. That makes more sense. A Fiji would have hired someone else to do it.
  18. This is where I land, too. I find it hard to be pessimistic about Harris’ chances when the Trump campaign has done absolutely nothing to expand his support. I am hopeful, however, that following a Harris win there is a reckoning among the Dem party elites on how to bring back in white working class males. They’ve basically surrendered them to the GOP and they should be allies, particularly so on the Dem economic platform. It’s a national problem that most likely needs a local solution (i.e,, Kamala trying to create favorable conditions for union membership won’t get it done-Dems need to keep at building the party in red states at the city and county level).
  19. Business decision, less crowded marketplace and not competing with Terrifier 3 and Smile 2. Plus (totally anecdotal on this one), I think A24 has realized that horror films have kind of the same audience and they will hunt for those films rather than need it a seasonal marketing push.
  20. Tony Blair killed his own career. British history is replete with examples of mp’s in disfavor, only to sit on the sidelines and regain power when the political winds shift. I do love how their Parliament requires the PM answer questions on the floor, many of which are challenging or adversarial. There was an audio I heard of Blair in this venue and he was extraordinary.
  21. I tend to presume that people like Harris and Biden are reasonably smart and are backed by folks even smarter, and if they aren’t picking a particular line of rhetoric it’s because it can’t be boiled down to something easy to convey to a low information voter. Also, “aren’t you glad you don’t live in France? Hamburger prices are even worse there!” just lacks panache. And on this note, this is where I admit my own presumptions about election strategy beg to second guess the Harris campaign. It’s also an area where I feel Obama was the weakest-when you are in the clear right side of something you’ve got to beat that case into the minds of thick headed voters. Persuadability is about moving between areas of gray, and electing a felon is clear black and white.
  22. I don't like either, but also asked myself that same question (what sounds better?). She's clearly made it a centerpiece of her campaign message, so I presume it's been tested in survey groups against alternatives. Not to change the subject, but I'm curious whether "equity" has now picked up enough baggage that it's the new "liberal", and you'll see the left try to avoid it.
  23. Their cinnamon rolls taste like church’s old dinner rolls deep fried and then dipped in cinnamon and sugar. Delicious. I know it’s River Oaks (or River Oaks adjacent), but somehow it’s less snotty than the one in Austin.
  24. We were in Madrid this summer and I would be overjoyed if the city leaders started using it as a template for transit and street level development. They have quite a few areas like this that they’ve converted to small green spaces or pedestrian only corridors.
  25. That’s where I’m at and I like the idea. That north part of Congress is getting really ignored by developers and it feels like it should be great place for commercial and restaurants. I think the main losers are going to be that some parking garages are currently configured to push out cars to Congress but that’s fixable.
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