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  1. I kind of like that the takes on the main characters don’t quite match what I had in my head. Also, the actress that plays Mariko is ridiculously hot.
  2. I tried to bring that home the other day and my wife got upset because it’s not organic. She’ll happily eat Chuy’s, of course, which I’m sure is all grass-fed and antibiotic free.
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    Allred “did I mention I played in the NFL?” is basically a sacrificial lamb. Surely there’s local races where the money might be spent to more advantage.
  4. Dalio has spent way too much time with sycophants…
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    Don't ask @Neonmoon for advice, he managed to pick something even worse than O&G....
  6. Admittedly I follow Texas baseball less closely than I do football and basketball, but I think some of his lack of support is an acknowledgment that he’s not a good fit. Good coach, bad fit. It’s a little like a marriage where it works but everyone is exhausted from trying so hard. I think the jury is still out on Sark but he at least knows (and/or has help) to fully utilize all the advantages that UT can provide to build a program. I think the programs (regardless of sport) that will be most successful in the next decade will need to have more than a good coach-they are going to have to be able speak to today’s athlete, be able to provide a robust suite of training tools (nutrition, mental health, facilities), promote the program state-wide to help midwife NIL support, help provide promotional opportunities, etc. Ironically I think Mack Brown would be particularly well suited to it if he were 30 years younger.
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    I certainly don’t wish him ill, but Allred doesn’t appear to have any of the personal charisma that made Beto a tremendous fundraiser.
  8. Me too, I think I read he moved out of Austin. My only interest after seeing that trailer is based on my appreciation for his past films.
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    I think the problem is more that the right is happy to acknowledge it’s fascism and will wear those anti-democratic bonafides happily. That makes pointing it kind of a “Don’t throw me in the briar patch” kind of thing.
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    As long as I’m shitting on Democratic organizations I should probably hit Travis County, too. They are appear to be well-run, have enormous local support, and would potentially be the ideal county organization for grooming the next generation of statewide office holders. However, to get there you’ve got to sit people on the council, at the county, on school boards, etc., and they are terribly captive to careerists like Watson, Celia Israel, and Brigid Shea. I don’t have a problem with any of those people politically but they need to step aside so someone else can/must get some experience.
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    Not that anyone asked my advice, but one message I would be spending every state dollar I could beg would be “Republicans-bad for business.” They’ve got to crack that messaging nut because there’s just not enough of the 2020 Biden constituency groups here where (to your point) rallying them wins a state election.
  12. I know via secondhand that he needed to rally basketball stakeholders around the firing and it was far from a consensus. I also think that part of it was because he was personally reluctant and hoped that Beard could somehow exonerate himself or that some alternative option (to firing) might present itself. That said, I think there was pressure from other donors and from the Presidents office and his attorney acting like a giant asshole didn’t help. Anyway, to bring it back to Pierce, I don’t think the investment is there (both because he’s not a CDC hire and because a Mack Brown like cultivation of donors is unusual). He’s clearly a good coach and the team usually improves as the season goes on but he may be a relatively inferior program manager to other options.
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    I actually wasn’t proposing that-I meant run for a state-wide office and win it. Whoever is first on the Dem side to do so is going to wield an enormous amount of power over what the next iteration of the state party looks like (for one they are going to have built a parallel organization that will likely BECOME the state party in order to win in the first place). This might be wishful thinking on my part but I would hope the money would follow. His two main jobs, in my opinion, are to fundraise and recruit candidates for office and he’s very weak at both. His second job (and that of the state board) is to articulate a vision that appeals to TEXAS voters (regardless of what’s going on nationally). In this they’ve regard they are particularly terrible. Finally, with what limited resources they do have they should be trying to a) using Texas as a laboratory and b) trying build up the county chairs. I think they are risk averse and kind of lazy overall and have been hoping that demographics and urban centers would save us and it’s clearly not happening.
  14. I think that’s a good point but the context is different. If that coach (the one we’re potentially firing) had taken over from a two time national championship winning coach and the program had lost momentum but it wasn’t a total rebuild, then yes, I think we would entertain it. Particularly if we could see that we, regardless of the performance overall, appeared to be 4th or worse amongst regional rivals.
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    I think part of the problem is no one else wants to do it (take on the role, I mean-I’m sure you can find plenty who’d happily fire him). I hate to bash Beto but there’s a case to be made that he’d have been a far more dangerous AG candidate than governor. Until you can mount some kind of state wide victory you’re going to be working against the leftover Ann Richards brigade and whose corpses run the state party. That said, if Lina Hidalgo wants to take that next step and doesn’t use it for something Federal she could do it.
  16. That’s what a five year contract is for and we’d want that anyway. Frankly, I’d agree with you if we are talking about Rodney Terry but racial dynamics play a part in that one, too (also the fact he’s known more for his recruiting rather than his coaching acumen-it’s just a bad look if he’s not given the opportunity to fail). Pierce is different-he’s in year 7, he’s notoriously prickly and he’s got regional rivals that appear to have greater institutional support-it might just be wrong man, wrong time. Either way, if CDC can’t sell that version of the story to some agent then he should get fired, too.
  17. CSB alert: my wife and I looked at a house that Andy Allen was showing on Bell Mountain Dr back in early 2021 and it was clear that they weren’t doing ANYTHING to beautify the house. Great big carpet stains, drywall nicks and cracks, scratches on base boards and cabinetry. I asked him about it and he said “the next buyer is going to rip out the carpet anyway.” I can’t recall if we put in an offer but it did end up going for 10% or more above list (and it wasn’t a modestly priced house to begin with).
  18. He was backed into that one. He didn’t want to fire Beard in the first place. I don’t want to hunt for the quote but I don’t think the next coach is going to give two shits if Pierce got fired despite some relatively recent good performance. It’s too storied a program, too much money, too much potential-someone great will happily take that on.
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    It’s actually not that hard to understand-there are tons of folks with money besides a couple of oil billionaires and that live in Texas. Unfortunately, they don’t appear to be invested in running the state with the exception of Charles Butt.
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    I’m not ready to be glass half full on anything but usually the more extreme the GOP gets, the more appealing a Democratic candidate might be. It probably has to happen this way to get to the other side.
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    He was targeted by Red money because he sucks and Dem money won’t be spent to oust a Democratic incumbent. If you wanted to see a change in the policing of downtown this would have been a great way to encourage that.
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    The Chronicle is consistent in its support for leftist candidates that check the racial/gender/LGBTQ regardless of resume weakness in other areas. It’s particularly galling when they endorse an incumbent who has shown to be ineffective.
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    As tempting as it might have been to vote against Ted Cruz I went ahead and voted in the Dem primary. Time for a new DA in Travis County.
  24. This may be stale data but about 30% of houses are going above list. I kind of expect that percentage to be higher going forward. I’ve got two borrowers that went under contract in the last week and both were above list (in Austin). Someone else’s opinion but he thinks the $1m-$1.4m are sitting longer-kind of a dead zone as jumbo lenders have gotten out of the market or underwriting requirements gotten steeper, and a lot of those buyers are in tech and a lot more cautious in light of recent layoffs.
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