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  1. 7 minutes ago, TexasEd said:

      

    Party like it's 1989

     

    I was there too and guys tried to tackle me a couple blocks from the border and drag me off into the street but I had friends nearby and was not that drunk that night.

    It seemed like the entire country turned on us that night.

  2. 1 hour ago, Your Mom said:

    Just putting this here because you can’t have a thread about Matamoros without talking about the night they took Mark Kilroy.


    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Mark_Kilroy

    https://www.texasmonthly.com/true-crime/the-work-of-the-devil/

     

    Was there that night. They tried to snatch my best buddy from hs that very night. He came running up to me and my future wife in that border plaza and told us about it in real time. He was lucky he had three older brothers because he was able to fight his way out of getting thrown in the back of that truck. 

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  3. 38 minutes ago, Augustus said:

    Whoever asked about the opioid dosage upthread...

    I find it difficult to believe Alex was taking 1000mg of oxy (or fentanyl equivalent) per day.  Yes, over time one's tolerance increases, and can increase to pretty insane amounts relative to a non-opioid tolerant individual.

    But 1000mg a day is beyond insane.  I just don't see how anyone's central nervous system could withstand that, nor do I understand how anyone's digestive tract could handle that.

    I'm sure he was popping a lot of pills.  I'm sure it was a staggering amount, if he was using oxy for 20 years.  But I also can't help wonder if his opioid use was so ridiculously overblown that he was ignorant of just how much of that stuff one human being can take.  

     

    Isn't there acetominaphen in it? If so there is only so much your liver can take.

  4. Billionaires proving to be shitty sailors....

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    I don’t like to post anything until I find out the full details, but as of now here is what I know. They were not properly tied up to a state funded mooring. They also apparently over extended their stay. They broke loose of their mooring while they were below deck. They were not able to get back on deck in time. When they did in fact get back at the helm and started the engines, they accidentally went forward instead of reverse and went straight into the reef.

    All eight aboard were rescued, but sadly they did not get their deserved Captain Cook treatment.

     

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  5. Unless I missed it, nobody's mentioned Tom T fuckin Hall and he just might be the right answer. Everybody knows the hits but listen to "Pay No Attention to Alice" and "Trip to Hyden," the best songs about alcoholism and coal disasters ever. And those are just a couple of deep cuts. 

     

  6. Which in turn reminds me of son jarocho, from Veracruz, where the Mexican slaves came in. A sub-professor of music at Vanderbilt once told me African kora/harp traveled from Africa to some royal duchy in what's now Germany in time for Bach to catch a show, and it altered his perspective on musical counterpoint. And from Bach on down, the entire western world. 

     

     

     

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  7. 6 hours ago, trza-hawk said:

    Portuguese music tends to not be popular among world music obsessives, or fans of foreign language music. The best and most clear explanation for this is the lack of rhythm and african influence that has made Brazilian or Cape Verdean music successful in the various ways "world music" has been used as a category form music in the past several decades. In Portugal today, Fado is known as music for tourists in seafood restaurants.

    Bad fado, I am sure, but Gisela is a superstar in any genre.

     

     

  8. Via my online Hawaiian / Portuguese cowgirl poet girlfriend, I've been exposed to fado, sort of akin to the blues of Portugal. Most of the songs are about mourning and the sea, and often mourning caused by the sea, and lost love and such, but I'm gonna share this rare upbeat fado by the incredible Gisela, a superstar of the genre. I just can't stop watching this.

     

  9. 10 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Well, you assume that the bar really tests skills an attorney needs.  I'm not so sure of that, frankly.  It does test knowledge of Texas law and an ability to deal with a fairly immense amount of information at once.  But as for the skills to make a career out of it  . . . .

    I have found it interesting that journalists and other writers frequently got by on a high-school education.  A lot of writing is innate talent, but another lot of it is just practice, and college/law school or whatever give you a lot of practice, with built-in critique, that you don't otherwise get. A lot of it, too, is clarity of thinking, particularly on complex subject matter but that may be more the territory of "essayists" and editorial writers than workaday journos.

    I didn't really become a decent writer, mostly lack of practice, until I actually began practicing law and actually basically writing for a living.  I did take extra writing classes from Terri LeClerq in law school because I knew my skills had atrophied in undergrad.

    Another Dad anecdote.  His father graduated from a one-room schoolhouse in Rosalie, Texas at age 16 and went back home to work on his thrice-widowed mother's farm.  Inasmuch as she had 12 other kids, she told him to go and make his way in the world, so he did.  I guess that lack of education/opportunity propelled him to value education.  He opened up a store in an oil boom town in Arkansas and became the superintendent of schools and was responsible for building a state of the art school building, where my Dad went to high school.

    Dad was taught by his elder sister, a graduate of William & Mary and Henderson State Teacher's College.  He said she was the hardest and best English teacher he ever had, including in college at Hendrix and SMU.  He originally wanted to be a journalist.  And he was one of the best writers, both in terms of innate talent and in terms of rules of composition, style, and grammar, that I have ever known.  Giving Dad one of my papers to read/evaluate in high school, or even college, was an exercise in humiliation.

    Dad may well have been exposed to that paper @Beau Vine mentions, because he was adjunct faculty in business at SMU until about 1960 or so.

    I think of guys like Sam Houston, Abe Lincoln anf Huey Long, all of whom passed bar exams (such as they existed at the time) who are all heroes of mine.

  10. I work in a field that was apprenticeship-based until the '60s for the most part. When I was 18 all I really wanted to do was jump right in and start learning first-hand and earning, but instead I had to go college, rack up debts, and take courses like higher math that I was incapable of passing and were entirely, utterly irrelevant to my chosen profession. Because of my feeble math mind, I flunked out of two colleges (UT being one of them) and lost a whole decade of earning and career advancement. Even when I was taking classes that were purported to be in my chosen field, they were often teaching us antiquated and useless bullshit, and taught by people who had failed in the field and so sought refuge as professors. My son has followed in my career path and is currently in school and he describes that the situation with our shared major is exactly the same right now.

    Of course you should have to go to college to become a doctor, an engineer, or a chemist, and so on....But I don't think you should have to get an undergrad degree to become an attorney. I think it would be helpful to have some education as you entered law school, but if you can pass the Bar, then you should be allowed to become a lawyer no matter how you came about the skills to do so. 

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  11. Interesting that the pillow princess's* name is Scylla -- in Greek mythology Scylla and Charybdis were two dangerous navigational hazards next to each other in the Mediterranean through which mariners had to often pass. Without further context I can't say much more about that graphic novel.

    *I just learned that term from my bi little sister. I had told her that my first wife once told me she would have preferred to have been with women but she could not abide the idea of eating pussy. So my sister told me there was a term for women like her that liked to receive but not give oral sex.

    On another note relevant to this thread, one of my HS buddies had a very hot girlfriend all through school. His parents and her mom (single mother) mutually agreed that their kids could fuck each other's brains out all through HS. (They arranged birth control) Although he was far from the sharpest Ginsu in the rack, my buddy wound up graduating summa cum laude from our academically rigorous HS, never got in any trouble on weekends (because he had other things to do that didn't include carousing while chasing girls), and while they did break up freshman year of college, the guy is now an attorney. His parents were not hippies or anything like that. Far from it. They were old-school Texans who just happened to have very, very enlightened views on teen sexuality.

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