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Hefeweizen

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  1. Don’t make me Noc (turne) you out. You giant Debussy.
  2. Yes. And the only reason I didn’t list the Liberty Lunch concerts I went to is that they run together but that mosh pit was hilariously wild.
  3. I’m completely in agreement on Tom Petty being crap. And fuck Journey. I managed to forget them, as they are forgettable crap, but my first roommate at Jester loved them. Fuck you, Steve, for playing that dogshit.
  4. Been laughing my ass off at some of these posts. I’ll add the few that are probably unpopular but here goes: Smashing Pumpkins is pretty terrible but one of the best concerts I ever attended (Southpark Meadows right after it opened). 80s metal is pretty terrible outside of Megadeth, Metallica, and Maiden. But I’ll listen to Ratt’s “Round and Round” or the Crues bangers any time they come on the radio. The Cult is fantastic and anyone dissing them is wrong. Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit, Fallout Boy, Imagine Dragons, Creed, and Nickelback can be put on a plane to Afghanistan and play concerts for the Taliban forever. Country music should have stopped at Willie, Merle Haggard, and generally should go away. Good pop music should stick in your head for a while after you hear it. It’s supposed to be easy to listen to. I would point to Prince here and say meh. And @Patricio Swayze I part ways on Fugazi. I don’t fucking get it. At all.
  5. Elmo is a caricature. Everything he does now is so predictable it’s sad.
  6. If you like noir in general, you owe it to yourself to read Izzo’s Total Chaos. It’s spectacular, gritty, and his description of violence, food, and drink is remarkably good. Great story and a genre I didn’t know existed- Mediterranean Noir.
  7. Good point. There is one just down the road in Early though.
  8. How hard is it to fake being 55? Asking for a friend.
  9. A giant vagina. But something is wrong with the blood vessels.
  10. No, Pacific Grove. Carmel is a little out of my means unless I want to live in a tent. But the whole peninsula is a nice place to be. Hell, seaside and marina are “affordable” by Cali standards, and are nice places and pretty safe. Only area nearby that is rough is Salinas, and that’s a solid 30 minute drive away. I have a friend whose adult kids work remote from Montana and love it. I couldn’t take the winters.
  11. Not a stones throw from anything but pebble beach, but point taken. It’s an hour drive to Santa Cruz, and another hour from there to San Francisco. San Jose is about 1.5 hours without traffic. Which is never on “the 101” as they call it here.
  12. Well I never lived in anything but big cities in my life and now live in a town of 15,000. And I’ve got to say I miss nothing. I never was one for crowds, got older and decided I’d rather Texas football on TV, and love the feeling of knowing (even if just by sight) most of the people I come in contact with. So not only could i live in a small town but I don’t think I could ever live in a city again. Hard to say never but I’m pretty sure about that. Of course I’m biased because my small town is right in the Pacific Ocean and it never freezes or gets above about 75.
  13. Whenever I see MSM in the post my eyes glaze over. Can we just set up a few instances of AI chat bots to have this thread go nucular?
  14. Getting closer to the ground. So I have increased my position to a cost average of 3 bucks. Almost 30 percent of the float is short right now I see.
  15. Apparently call tbone and Stanley.
  16. Thanks for mentioning this book. Was not in my radar at all and now boughtened and awaiting finishing the Slow Horses series which has had my attention for a few weeks. I am 26 books into 2023 right now, which is almost double what I read last year. Side effect of moving to a quiet town, working from home, and gaining a few hours a day not commuting…
  17. Only if all of ourselves hold t bills, right? I am very interested in the potential outcomes here and I don’t see that ultimately it is either austerity or inflating out of debt that’s the answer. Maybe both! But it’s going to get fugly eventually.
  18. Faherty is good shit and they make clothes for big guys too. Edit: Bonobos is good quality but mostly sized for manlets. Nothing long enough for me.
  19. It’s not if you throw the cat in with the testicles.
  20. Boy the past two weeks have put the hurt on my portfolio. I thought I was positioned safely but there is nowhere to hide right now except maybe in money market or CDs. Lots of fun to watch the market realize the Fed is not going to stop the beatings until morale improves.
  21. Won’t go into the China debate here at all, but a huge part of this whole process is that the world has woken up to how bad a rogue actor can get over his skis if no one shows resistance. Putin was encouraged by the lack of response all the way through the invasion last year, and had to have been taken aback that all of a sudden, what hasn’t been an issue in taking Crimea, or downing the airliner, or poisoning people overseas, became a red line. Now there is a consensus, NATO looks like a real alliance again, and authoritarian regimes that think military might will allow them to bypass international norms are on the back foot. The world has changed a lot, and the consequences will resonate for a while. The visit to Ukraine on the eve of Putin’s speech just underlined it.
  22. I think it is all down to location, but in my hood prices have continued to climb from when I bought. That was about 7 months ago. Meanwhile the house I sold in Austin is worth about 400k less than what I sold it for. Ouch…
  23. USA letting its nuts hang will never get old. And this is definitely putting poutine in a tough spot for his state of the gulag archipelago speech.
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