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Texzilla58

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  1. What the fuck as I smoking?. Yep RA is on Netflix. First 2 seasons.
  2. Shit just do a shrimp boil. I got jumbo gulf wild at Tom Thumb the other day for $7.99/lb
  3. Wife bought two six packs at Sam’s a while back. Don’t know when we’ll plow through it. It’s not the same. You really have to doctor it up.
  4. The crazy increase in overhead with folks building massive structures with big staffs is dumb too. No enterprise has more negative factors impacting profitability. Food costs, labor, fuel, rent, everything just costs more. Growing up most Texas barbecue was a roadside shack with an old dude selling some “beef” (what was it? Shoulder clods? Brisket? Knuckles?), chicken, and sausage. Bags of chips on a rack. Cokes in an ancient machine that were somehow colder than 32 but still liquid. That’s it. Or a diner in town that served it as a special on a plate lunch with vegetables. Or a little shop on the square or across the tracks on the black side of town. Always owner operated. I think there is a bubble busting. It’s not just the financial pressure. It’s hard fucking work. Derek Allen had award winning barbecue and opened a joint in the medical district (where Hurtado is now). He and his super hot wife ran it hard, and had to keep adding hours like breakfast, then evening hours, and it just burned him out. He shut it down blaming the lifestyle it inflicts. It’s why I respect the Goldee’s model. Three days. Open til sold out. Done.
  5. When we lived in Portland we went on several train trips. Got grounded from flying for a while so rode down the coast a couple times to the bay area and LA and it was great. Up to Seattle and Vancouver the across to Banff. Spectacular. Took one across the cascades and Rockies to Boise. The Denver to winter park is the way to go skiiing but it’s an hour. I wanted to do an Alaskan rail trip but we moved away.
  6. My wife takes this occassionally to see the kids in the once area. It’s great. Big seat like first class. WiFi. Nice scenery. $28-36.
  7. It’s fairly simple. Learn how to cook fucking choice or select grade briskets the way OG pit guys did it and still do it. Railhead and David’s sell very good sliced brisket for less than $20 a pound. Last time I was at Railhead the brisket was $17.50 lb. Chopped $13.50. Same as their great salami. And they have killer fries and ice cold beer. This is the way. Get back to roots smoking scraps and problem cuts expertly and give up all this crafts farm prime meat.
  8. Word is HBO wanted 8-10 episodes and Lopez could only give them 6. Apparently this was originally a 21 minute episode of Twilight Zone that she had the inflate and conflate into this mess. Hence all these elaborate scenes, elk suicide. Long shots of darkness, plot dead ends. Etc. just a fucking mess.
  9. America was a better place when a man could make a living repairing radios, toasters, and lamps. And buy the wife a mink.
  10. S4 doesn’t feel like a Max show. It’s more like a freshman film school project with a bigger budget.
  11. I believe Kish is Tom’s heir apparent when he leaves, and they bring in another to be the host. Glad immunity is gone. Here’s your truckload of Mountain Dew and PopTarts for winning the quickfire.
  12. It’s like Aykroyd said; he never equaled funny like BassOMatic ever. “That’s great bass!”
  13. I can buy that he wanted to rest his defense that was out there forever. But you have to score a TD. So when they got close I thought the playcalling sucked and you gotta go for it on 4th down.
  14. We just discovered Resident Alien last night and watched the first three eps. It’s like Northern Exposure with an alien theme. Enjoyed it. S3 debuts tonight.
  15. Won’t happen. I’m surprised they haven’t pushed it an hour later for all prime time. The networks like it where it is so they can stick a new show at the end to premiere. CBS launched Tracker. It kinda sucked.
  16. I haven’t seen anything to rival “beloved aunt” in several seasons.
  17. I hate these undeposited skippers. “I believe in this crew!” Fuck that. You know your bosun is a complete moron.
  18. Agreed. Dervla Kirwan last got nekkid 27 years ago. Shes a nice 52 now. Fine wine.
  19. The best acting job belongs to Foster. She says in the promo interviews “it’s her finest work!” Sounds convincing. Give her an Emmy for that.
  20. McNabb never had a step. Terrible big game qb. Puking on TOs shoes in the huddle of the Super Bowl. He was the protoDak. Reid might have made a real career for VY. The fact is Jeff fisher would have turned Roger Staubach, Bart Starr, and Otto Graham into Sage Rosenfeld.
  21. This is just stupidity. I don’t follow her music but you don’t just waltz into big record deals at 14 and get ordained a superstar. You have to have serious talent, and you have to be an entertainer genetically. It’s fucking hard work and the odds of actually putting together a sustainable long career are infinitesimal. I was in the music business in college in Memphis. The band made more money doing demo records for aspiring singers on Tuesdays and Wednesdays than playing bars on weekends. Every girl singer in town was either funded by wealthy parents or had hustled a local rich couple or two to bankroll them. The white ones all wanted to be Crystal Gayle or Tanya Tucker, the black ones Carla Thomas or Diana Ross. Most had years of voice lessons or pageant work. We’d do a few songs at a studio with the singer and charge an inflated fee, send her home then we’d get the excess studio time for ourselves. That band has continued to work forty years later but despite them having a bankroll none made it past a gut wrenching trip of rejection in Nashville or LA. The typical common issue: they could sing but couldn’t entertain. You either got it or you don’t.
  22. I was talking about why Shanahan took the ball. All the media criticizing that are saying Reid would have deferred had chiefs won the toss. I am saying it might have been his choice to take the ball as wee against a tired Niner defense.
  23. 28-3 and two 10 point leads all turning into losses. Shanahan simply doesn’t know how to put a foot on their neck and finish them. And like Dak choking in big games the pressure gets worse in the next one. Reid is one of the few to turn it around. He was a perennial loser in Philly, mainly because McNabb was the definition of choke job.
  24. Shanahan knew his d was gassed from being on the field the last seven minutes. The smart play for Reid would have been take the ball first and bring em up.
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