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  1. Wait, wasn't Antone's on the West Side where that strip center is now with the shoes and used clothing and all that shit? Or am I confusing my old ass with the record store? Anyway, this place wasn't Nasty's or Ruby's BBQ. Maybe have been Austin Outhouse but I swear it was on the East side of the street with the backdeck stage facing west and Soulhat was there on the weekly. Fuck me, middle aged sober me has a worse memory than shitfaced 20yo me.
  2. Lemme guess, Blumenthal is totally different when it's just the two of you? He seems angry and ignorant to us, but when you're alone with him, he's just...different? We couldn't possibly understand your connection? PSA to visitors to campus in the next 2 weeks: DPS trooper lines do not appreciate it when you walk past them and mumble, "If only you fellas acted this boldly at Uvalde."
  3. Probably for another thread, but if you could elaborate on your experience...I'd be interested. I haven't really seen that. I just see teller lanes open one day and the next day they're closed down with pylons in front of them on a weekly basis in Austin. And the interior lobbies are shuttering down too (although not as quite the same speed). But I've yet to see a teller direct somebody to get out of line and go the ATM instead. They're just accelerating their own obsolescence. I once had my own analyst work up a quick fake pro-forma and preliminary business loan application on a "store" that would make $15/foot in revenue on a $25/foot lease (we didn't get into other G&A, just a quick beta test). The loan officer of course immediately told him, "Well your other expenses and employee costs aside, just on the real estate model---we couldn't loan you the money because of your inability to just pay off the NNN lease costs." Obviously the branch was subsidized by online activities and corporate, but Drew tells him, "Well your branch costs $25/foot and you only bring in $15/foot in revenue through this branch on its own." Apparently the Asst. Mgr. was quite shocked and maybe rebooted his life choices after that. There's lots of dying physical business models, but the banking one is so surly-inducing because they're the gatekeepers to most real estate, their model is so fucked up, they tend to put their branches in the most prime locations, and they pass all those costs along to us in the form of higher payments/fees and we get less in interest.
  4. What was the bar/outdoor music venue on Guadalupe, north of 'the Drag' proper? Like somewhere between 27th & 32nd? It was across from the old Antone's and Centennial. On the east side of the street. they had some minimal food menu but for a few years in the late 90's/early 2000's...they'd have this sunset HH shot special on Wednesday or Thursday, like $1/shot just during sunset and I swear Soulhat played every one 'em for at least a year or two we used to bike over there from Cherrywood.
  5. The live music is better these days, but the quantity isn't what it used to be. It's gotten way more expensive (well above regular inflation), and the accessibility is a fucking shit-show now. Even if was a mediocre band, I miss being able to roll up to Steamboat for $2 in parking a block away and listen to some music with friends and meet girls. Now it's $15 and a half hour just for parking. And then the tickets, expensive drinks, etc. Hell, even the proper "college town" I went to in a Florida has gotten sprawl and pricey. But I romanticize it not because it was particularly great, but I was just 19 and everything was cool and different to me after leaving home. There are some cool pockets of Old Austin neighborhoods that really are different now, for the worse. And that's a shame. But downtown? It's light years better than it used to be. We all remember a handful of favorite bars, venues, and restaurants. But we conveniently overlook that it was 50% surface lots, government buildings, vacant structures, and warehouses. The entire CBD will be completely developed within a decade. What Stream has planned, if the renderings their drunken VPs have shown me hold to even 75% of their vision, even old farts like us will look back at the current Dirty Sixth Shitshow and think, "Yeah, Austin's changed man."
  6. Rex, not the tough guy flex you think it is to develop a separate handle from your usual one just to call a woman a cunt using another well known username. If you're gonna say it, say it. And own it. Don't try clever little sock handles that are well known to pull their sexist attempts at "humor." Honestly man, this is beneath even you.
  7. Bottom row, middle pic. That dude looks like the half-brother of both Jimmy Smits and Rafi from "The League." Apparently being the middle sibling made him a rage-fueled campus stalker.
  8. Didn't realize this bill was still active. Before both chambers, a bill to allow for easier/fuller refunds to passengers who have had flights cancelled or long delayed due to airline issues. This should go over really well with the already robust amount of psychopaths we have up in the air at any one given time. "Uh ladies and gentleman, welcome to Spirit Airlines. I regret to inform you that we have to deplane due to a scheduling error. But you will all be receiving a food court voucher and $14 towards your next flight!" The Zucker Bros. were so prophetic with that scene in "Airplane!" where all the passengers start brawling in the aisles and Torpedo Tits runs across the still-shot.
  9. There's a "Trump's rally dance move" joke in here somewhere if the Village People have the courage to do what's right.
  10. Rodney Dangerfield is rolling over in his grave at the casting for "Back to School II: Senior Year"
  11. Okay, that makes more sense. Doesn't make sense, but it makes more sense. If that makes any sense. That was a great shot though. Exit velocity had to be off the charts. I know there's more disparity than ever in the game, but to see two teams already---on May 1st---to be 13.5 games behind is just fucking incredible to me. I know it's a cruel game and that's the point, but to be that far back on May Day, how do fans even bother this summer? Ah well, at least my hometown Cubbies are starting to get their shit together again. Anecdotal, but Mookie Betts has been playing out of his fucking mind this past month.
  12. Does that announcer accidentally say, "That was an absolutely blistered ball into the upper taint?" What in the hell?
  13. MUGA-CHAKA, MUGA-MUGA MUGA-CHAKA, MUGA-MUGA I can't stop this feeling Deep inside of me...
  14. Those tits aren't gonna march on themselves. I mean come on their own. Dammit, I had a banner for this!
  15. You know, as clumsy as she usually is in front of a mic. And as fucking delusional and illogical as her argument is...if you're a MAGA diehard...that MTG speech was actually quite effective. Two major flaws though---she'll hold her seat, but she's just estranging herself from her party leadership at this point and will be given lesser and lesser committee assignments and fundraising help as time goes on. And also, while it sounds good on the surface to MAGA nation, to proclaim that Democratic members voting for Johnson will have to shrug their heads down when they return home to be primary'd. They're too fucking stupid to game it out. Only one of two mathematical outcomes there MTG and MAGA. Those Democrats may actually lose a primary because of it to a more left-wing candidate, thus bringing about the evil socialist dystopia you keep warning us about. Or they simply are smart enough to realize, "Meh, I don't like Mike but he was the least shitty choice for the last year of Biden's first term when we had real geopolitical shit going on." Either way, it's not the flex you think it is. But again, having said that, I think was actually one of your more rousing speeches to your barrel of buffoons.
  16. "I guess I'm not more educated. I'm not either. I came from Columbia." That was all said in 3 seconds by 2 students from arguably one of the 5 best universities in North America. Wow. That should really help their next capital campaign. Holy shit. Give 'em credit though, at least they were honest and not just loud and shitty about it all. The "I Do my Own Research" paradigm seems to now have officially crossed the Rubicon. The simulation was angry that day my friends, like an dumb Ivy Leaguer trying to send back pork at a kosher deli.
  17. Probably the widows? I know it's a big caveat, but it's also a big period of history. 170 years is beyond anecdote, that's almost 70% of our history. That's not nothing. No back-to-back elected Democrats. But for Eisenhower (who was a great POTUS, IMO), yes that party had a helluva run but a lot of it was due to no term limits and death. I think 2028 can be the first time it can happen again. And then after 2032, we can get onto a proper track again. But of course, the elephant in the room is we gotta survive 2024 first in the Oval and both Chambers of Congress. Because this SCOTUS ain't tilting anytime soon, and the 25mm MAGA loyalists are aging but they're only getting crazier and angrier. Bottom line though, the fact that people I take real serious are now going from Class I landslide for GOP to "maybe a 51-49 Republican majority" to "Kamala may be even more important to the Senate in 2025+" is quite telling.
  18. Gotcha, never saw it truncated like that. Usually just "Always Sunny." Yeah, that show is hilarious but has had some crap episodes. But I think I read somewhere that with its next episode, it'll the longest running comedy show in history (in terms of # of episodes, not necessarily seasons or calendar years). That's not nothing. I'm gonna back and binge watch it someday when I have the time. Another one that didn't really fit the "sitcom" model was "Bored to Death" on HBO. Kinda reminds me of "Only Murders" in that the 'mystery' aspect of it is only made more subtly amplified by the goofy, but congenial cast trio who play it so absurdly deadpan that you can't really put into a comedy pigeonhole. they are both just beautiful to watch and chuckle, and then out of the blue, fall over laughing so hard.
  19. Yes, the message of their protest is about the actual issue. But they're just directing that frustration at other students and administrators who have 0% control over where their endowment money is being deployed. I can rant and rally all I want about the expenditures of university endowments into company investments that support dumping plastics into the ocean and then hear "But sir, this is a Wendy's." It doesn't make me effective. Their message is sound. But it's silenced by its execution. They need to go where the decisions on how the money is invested and the to where the money is actually deployed from. That's how they gain leverage. Yelling at the Tower does not alter UTIMCO's investment thesis. It never has and it never will.
  20. Yeah, the pet thing is a non-starter. You either gotta drive or pay for the furry one to fly. I love my Vonlane pass. I've accrued some decent rewards on it and still redeem it for free drinks and give to whomever I'm traveling with as tempting as knocking back a drink is with my feet up on those comfy seats. Now that my youngest is 5...I gotta check the rules again....but I think we're gonna take the girls up to Fort Worth to visit their Aunt/uncle before we head onto summer vacation. I think they'll get a kick outta watching movies and the snacks get to see Dad on IH-35 not screaming at other drivers. And yes, like you, there be a conspiracy afoot here by Big Airplane! Make the experience more miserable, put drugs in people's drinks to make them flip the fuck out at altitude. And then convince you on your next trip to upgrade to a premium cabin or lounge and avoid the craziness. But sooner or later, we all know what's gonna happen. One of these mid-air freak-outs is actually gonna cause an actual fatal incident. It's still the safest way to travel but that was based on statistical analysis done when even though flights had stupid people on them, the stupid people just sat and read People magazine. Now they've been told they're the good ones, and we're the deep passenger state.
  21. What's "IAS"? Eastbound & Down, like most HBO short-form comedy series, isn't necessarily a "sit-com", but most funny shows aren't anymore so I'd lump them in as eligible. The live studio-audience/laugh track, on-set 3 camera deal has been dead for years. E&D was beyond hilarious, but it burned itself out, which is understandable given the arc of the main character. Seinfeld, Cheers, Curb, 30Rock they were all incredibly clever, hilarious (Cheers even had heart to boot), and just delivered time and time again year after year after year after year. There were shorter run shows that were maybe just as funny at their peak, but to deliver those kinda high-level laughs for a decade or more. People don't understand how hard that is to do with a rotating writer's room. A current running example would be "Only Murders." Very smart and dry but goofy at the same time. But by the nature of its premise and aging of the stars, it probably won't run but one more season. It's best episodes are some of the best high-level comedy I've seen in years, and they know that---so while it's an absolutely pause-worthy because I'm crying laughing type of show, it simply won't have the staying power of some of the others we're discussing. Nothing wrong with that. Sometimes when you nail the half-court shot, best to just get subbed out and sit in your glory for awhile.
  22. True. But we all know it's baked into the price of our meals/drinks. And we all know who is behind the purchasing cartels, BIG QUESO! This is actually a good idea by everyone involved. Human life and freedom is certainly more important than taking tests. But if you choose between fucking up final exams for everybody on all sides or doing it on Sunday when there's nothing but quiet study going on, pick the Sunday. Now what happens at graduation becomes the next big question.
  23. Well Cinco de Mayo has certainly taken a weird twist. I did not have "From the River to the Sea, Are the Chips & Salsa Free?" on my 2024 Geopolitical Bingo Card.
  24. Sometimes I think he's growing it so fast so SWA will buy him out. I used to fly to the metroplex for work, but 30 mts. to wait for uber/ride to ABIA, 60 mts. in the terminal being miserable, 60 minutes gate to gate, 30 mts to get out of terminal/wait for uber and ride to hotel. That's 3 hours and i can't really do much else but stand or have 9 minutes of flight time where it's okay to take out laptops. I can make the same trip in about 3:30 on IH-35 and get absolutely nothing done, not even a phone call because I'm trying just not to die or get pulled over. And then along comes Vonlane. The Hyatt pickup is less than 10 minutes from my home. I can get there 5 minutes before it leaves. I can start work the second I sit down or just watch TV. Food is decent, cheap drinks, bathrooms are nicer than the ones in my house, and 1/3rd of the time, the 'hostess' is pretty damn cute. Plus, it takes 60 seconds to get off a Vonlane because everybody knows what the fuck they're doing. It's not 100 people standing up to sort their shit in the aisle and file their taxes. I'm in an uber and on my way within 3 minutes of pulling into the Westin Dallas. Other than some business in El Paso and Midland/Odessa, if you live in Austin...there is no reason to fly within the state for business anymore. And the airlines know that now. SWA interstate flights is what built them, but that portion of their business model isn't Netflix anymore, they're Blockbuster.
  25. Truman was elected office after a fellow Democrat left office alive/termed-out? I didn't know that. Perhaps the Roosevelt family would care to know more about that. I suppose Johnson took over for a living Kennedy? I'll make it not-so-funny. No Democratic President has ever been elected to POTUS after a fellow Democratic President voluntarily left office/termed-out (remember we've only had term limits for 74 years) since Buchanan won after Pearce voluntarily declined to run for re-election after awhile. That was in 1856. Everyone else you're thinking of since then, either lost or took over the Oval from a corpse.
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