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Ghost of LL

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  1. Would you care to expand on that? Why do you think this particular shit is stupid? I mean, seriously--what's the cost? It would close a road that very few vehicles use. I'm sorry--I really can't tell whether this is sarcasm. Are you not aware that Pennsylvania Avenue has been closed for decades? And it's kinda great. People are walking around and bicycling right out in front of the White House.
  2. Let's just remember that for the first two weeks after the "grab them by the pussy" video came out, most Republicans were calling on Trump to withdraw from the race. And it was about this time in 2016 that Jim Comey had a little press conference. This is exactly the time when a race-determinative piece of news would come out. It gives little time for a campaign to react and rally. But still plenty of time for it to sink in with voters and have them be swayed in a way that is decisive.
  3. I think you mean Chicago? Because the opening paragraphs describe how State Street (Madison) has succeeded and evolved. And @MAUFRAIS beat me to it in quoting the most important paragraph in your piece. It's like the authors are directly describing Austin. Ok, old man--we get it. You're not coming Downtown regardless because it's faaaar too scary and full of "street bums." Whatever. Just keep your wrinkled ass up in Williamson County and let those of us who live or work Downtown decide what to do with it.
  4. Ok--I'm just going to tell you one thing right now as someone who (1) has been peripherally involved in politics for 30 years, and (2) is married to someone who was in financial services for 25 years, finance people don't know or understand shit about politics. They don't understand how Congress works. They don't understand how regulatory agencies work. They know nothing of rulemaking or legislating or lobbying. And they damned sure know nothing about electoral politics. Which is really quite funny, given how much Members of Congress seem to understand finance based on their average portfolio.
  5. Well, please name one place in the world in the last 50 years where that happened. Can you give me one place where the city pedestrianized a lightly trafficked vehicular thoroughfare and the surrounding area was depressed? I can give you dozens where pedestrianization revitalized the area--in New York, Los Angeles/Santa Monica, Las Vegas, Miami, Cleveland, Brussels, London, Copenhagen, . . . . The one real complaint I have ever seen from a surrounding "business" was in London, where the director of the National Gallery complained about the pedestrianization of Trafalgar Square because it brought too many pedestrians, who were making a bunch of noise that could be heard inside the museum.
  6. He's all I can tell you, @BrickHorn--in 2017 when Trump implemented his "Muslim ban," a bunch of lawyers sprinted down to airports right across the country to greet Muslims (including green-card holders) who were being denied entry to file lawsuits on their behalf pro bono. When Trump does it again in 2025, fucking nobody's going to any airport to help.
  7. Not just 6th, but really from the Paramount and State theaters, too. Have those as anchors at the south side of the project and draw foot traffic north. It would not close 7th, 8th, or 11th--those would remain as cross-streets. I'm not exactly clear on it, but it looks like it might close 10th and 9th. Ninth is no loss. It is closed at San Jac anyway because of the Pickle Federal Building. And 10th really only sees very modest traffic across Congress.
  8. Yeah--let's dig through the cushions of our couch to come up with . . . [suppresses laughter] . . . $250,000.
  9. Fuck aggy--for all their talk about how hard it is to play at Pyle, their fans have never earned their team a goddamned turnover. And if the message to the SEC refereeing community is "you can't fuck Texas in Austin and expect to escape unharmed," then it's a message I'm glad that we conveyed. Frankly, it's a message that should've been conveyed back in October 2015 with Kelly Deterding's head on a fucking pike.
  10. I mean, yeah. But I care so much about women's sports that I have to vote for the rapist.
  11. Cam Williams could've done quite a lot more holding, I can tell you that.
  12. There's no question that they would've snapped the ball before it could've been reversed. Georgia was lined up and ready to go when the first bottle flew, and the refs were in position for the next play. Which does raise the point that it was actually Kirby Smart who stopped the play for going ahead, as WBT pointed out-- Yep--some hero in pretty expensive seats on the East Side threw the first bottle that landed around the numbers at the 35 (so probably about ten yards behind the line of scrimmage after the penalty). Kirby ran out screaming about the bottle, obviously trying to get a penalty call, as it was so far behind the LOS that it couldn't really affect the upcoming play. It was only after the refs blew the whistle to pick up the first bottle that the student section started throwing bottles en masse. So yeah--maybe people shouldn't throw shit on the field. And maybe SEC refs shouldn't suck. But let's not overlook that the entire episode started because Kirby Smart stopped the game trying to get a flag on Texas.
  13. Barron picked the ball off and returned it to the Georgia 10. Refs called PI. Terrible call, and the fans went apeshit. Students started throwing shit on the field, and they had to pause the game for about five minutes. When they came back, the refs discussed it, picked up the flag, and gave Texas the ball on the Georgia 10. I’ve never seen anything like that before.
  14. Student section was the player of the game—legit generated a turnover.
  15. Yeah—I don’t think the CCA has jurisdiction. Not that law and shit should get in the way of killing a man.
  16. I see the Republicans are taking a page from the Obama playbook.
  17. Mrs.LL just sent me a video of the ad--you and she were apparently watching ABC at the same time. Hey, . . . wait a minute . . . .
  18. If you see Judge Jessica Mangrum around town, you ought to buy her a beer.
  19. This is a really good idea, and long overdue. There really is no traffic on Congress north of Sixth. Congress dead-ends into the Capitol at 11th, so the only traffic on Congress is whatever is coming from north/south of 7th to go over to I-35 on 11th. And that's really not much. With no vehicle traffic and with very little in the way of office or residential north of 7th, there's little to keep retail/restaurants in business. The only things you have are a couple small restaurants and a coffee shop. It's really the only area in downtown that you have a bunch of empty storefronts. Pedestrianizing roads is great for street-level retail. It is an absolute magnet for pedestrians. And pedestrians are more likely to go into street-level retail than car drivers. After seeing something they might want to visit, a car driver has to find a parking space, get out of the car, and walk over to the business. A pedestrian just has to walk in. For an example, just take a look around Madison Square Park after Broadway was pedestrianized. Or take a look at Akard & Jackson streets in Dallas. Or fuck--look at Speedway on campus and how much nicer that is than when most of us were students. If you pedestrianize Congress north of Sixth, you'd turn a lot of those empty storefronts into some of the most desirable retail in the state.
  20. An important point for all of us who care about our preferred candidate(s)--please vote on the first day of early voting. Every night, the campaigns get a list of people who early voted from each county's office. When they see that you voted, they can cross you off their GOTV list. So that is one less call and one less door-knock the campaign's GOTV people need to do. And that frees them to focus on other people who actually might not vote. If you're on this thread, then you're fucking voting. Even a single minute the party or the candidate spends on GOTV on you is a fucking waste. So don't make them waste that time/resources. Go vote the first day of early voting!
  21. Seriously—why is Ted yelling at me?
  22. I guess to precisely that point, . . . I was looking at the schedule of weekday games this week, because those are often a lot of fun and I like having them in the background while I do other shit around the house after work. And so I see Okie State at BYU on Friday. And it occurs to me . . . I don't have the first fucking clue what Okie State's record is. Are they any good? Are they terrible? Is Coach Whatshisface on the hotseat? I have no clue. Do any of you? And what about Tech. Or Baylor. Or TCU. Ok--I know TCU got its shit pushed in by SMU, and that was awesome. But apart from that? Absolutely no fucking clue. God, I love this post-Big12 reality in which not only do I not have to care about those programs; I'm blissfully unaware that they even exist.
  23. Can't say that I do.
  24. Hey, guys—we’re bowl-eligible!
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