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  1. 3 minutes ago, AustinMT said:

    Parking is funky because there is a climbing gym that also shares the lot with the food trailers.  May have to get creative on a Saturday.

    Thanks, appreciate it.  I'll have the kids in tow so if parking isn't easy, I may have to bail. We'll see when I get there.

  2. I've only had so-so experiences at It's Italian.  It's a cool space, I like the area, I want to like the restaurant, but after trying it twice now at the insistence of a friend, I don't feel the need to go back.  

  3. Texas BBQ tend toward sspare ribs because they are way better than baby back.  Yes, that's just like, my opinion, man.  And, most of Texas, too.  

    Finally gonna be in South Austin on a Saturday for lunch so I'm hoping to hit up Leroy and Lewis today.  Anyone know how the parking is?  Looks like it's tucked away in some commercial buildings or something?

     

  4. 40 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

    How does one install grommets?  I could google I suppose.

    Grommet tools.  Basically cuts a circular hole in the fabric, and then clamps the rings on either side of the hole. They snap-lock in together, holding the fabric in-between.  But yeah, a quick google search and video demonstrates it clearly.

     

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  5. Growing up, Saturday morning breakfast was often my dad making scrambled eggs with chorizo.  Not in a taco, just straight on the plate.  When I smelled that, I knew it was time to get my tail moving.  And that's still one of my favorite breakfast foods of all time.  In a taco, straight, I even like it on a piece of toast.

  6. 9 hours ago, Focht Up said:

    Juliet and Botaceli's (near the Continental Club) are both worth visiting.

    Oh yeah, I tend to forget about Botaceli's but I've had several good meals there over the years.

  7. 9 hours ago, Irish Wrist Watch said:

    For the first few years, Tyrion was the consumate anti-hero. Then he got whiny and boring. For the last few, he's been a non-factor - a waste of air time, and giving him this fucking speech where he suggests that another do-nothing waste of time become the king was a massive let down. Fuck these fucking writers. They were truly weak.

    Jon giving the impassioned speech would have been far superior. But maybe the writers couldn't figure out a way for a fighter/rebel to recommend a mealy mouthed fuckhead should be king.

     

    How about Jon escaping from his cell, showing up at their little "summit", chopping off Grey Worms fucking head and telling everyone else that they've gone thru too much to hand over power to shitheads and foreign armies. He challenges every one of them to pick up a sword and take him on to prove that they have what it takes. Sansa is the only one brave enough and smart enough to see what he was doing. When she stands up and draws a sword, Jon kneels and says "there's your new Queen" and walks off.

    Anything would have been better than the shit they fed us in Episode 6.

    Fantastic!  

     

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  8. 8 minutes ago, Parliament said:
    3 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:
     
    Yeah, don't think it would react well with explosives...and those loads going in the water are probably going to really fuck up that river.  I caught a lot of catfish in that area (closer to Muskogee).

    The fertilizer in there is not the kind that explodes. And as bad as it is in water, yeah. Plenty of water to dilute it.

    Heck, those river banks will remain lush and green for centuries because of it!

  9. 27 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    Good, but I don’t understand how Arya has jaime’s face if Jaime isn’t dead. Other than that, much better ending. 

    Yeah, that bit was off.  I also don't think we need the white walkers to freeze the bay at King's Landing to engage the Iron Fleet, because if they possessed that power, then they would have done it millenia ago to simply freeze the ocean and walk around The Wall.

    But in general, all of that sounds much better than what we got.  It's actually pretty close to how I wanted it to end-- and expected it to end--  about 3 seasons ago before the show runners completely lost their minds. 

  10. 8 hours ago, elfenix said:

    Why does my sister always schedule her birthday brunch during the 500?

    Because you touch yourself?

    No, seriously, my folks were always trying to do stuff on the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend as well.  So my brother finally put an end to it by hosting an annual Monaco Grand Prix/Indy 500 party at his house.  We do Euro breakfast and Champagne and watch Monaco (delayed until about 10 AM) and then go immediately into American lunch and beer whilst watching Indy.  

    Perhaps you could offer to host her at your house, with the race being on your televisions throughout the event, of course? :)

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  11. 1 hour ago, Deej said:

    They needed to burn those ribs a little longer.

    Lots of sugar in the rub and plenty of heat gets you this.  I don't know if that was their particular recipe for success, but I've seen it a hundred times.

  12. 1 hour ago, Gene Parmesan said:

    Agree.  Tyrion should have been dead, not nominating Kings while in shackles.

    I'm fine with Tyiron living, since the only reason he's shackled is because he committed 'treason" against a dead tyrant who wasn't ever really a monarch of Westeros anyway.

    But definitely think Jon Snow should have been the one nominating Bran, if we're forced to endure the kingsmoot plotline.  Or better yet, Jon just drops the mic and walks away to the North and lets the 7 kingdoms sort themselves out.  His Watch is done and everyone else can GF themselves.

    What's really frustrating is that most of the ideas floated here over the past 2 months would have been better and more consistent with the first 5-6 seasons of the show than what we ended up with.  And we're just a bunch of assholes on an internet message board.

     

  13. 18 minutes ago, PilotsError said:

    I know Jon didn't want to be king, but give him the opportunity to reject it.  Make his true heritage mean something.  It doesn't even get mentioned.  The more I think on this ending, the more unbelievable it gets.

    Yes, I know he was a prisoner but that should have been rewritten.  

    Agree.  And there's simply no reason he had to be a prisoner.  He had an entire army of northmen.  Bring the army with you when you have the chat with Dany. See if the unsullied still have the urge to take you prisoner.

    Or alternatively, since it was pretty stupid and out of character to have Jon kill Dany at all, let it be Arya that offs her. It was obvious she wanted to at the end of Episode 5.  Yet another example of a ton of buildup that led to absolutely nothing.  

    I'm with you, the more I think about the ending, the more head-scratching it becomes.

  14. 1 minute ago, Gene Parmesan said:

    Jon actually left castle black with Tormund and the rest of the freefolk to go live north of the wall.  He didn't even obey his sentence for a day.  Being part of whatever is left of the nights watch doing whatever they are going to be doing for the rest of his life would probably suck a little.

    Agreed, I did like that he just blew them off.  His Watch is done.  Seeya.

     

     

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  15. 24 minutes ago, Bateshorn said:

    My kids were small when the preequals came out, I've seen each of them a dozen times, either in back ground or trapped on planes..  I can not over state how much I hat those movies. I can summarize the good parts thus:
     

    Watch the smash cut of the Darth Maul fight. 

    You're done.

    The actual action of the pod race is great.  The mildly racist stereotypical Italian grand prix driver, and the completely unnecessary two-headed Saved By The Bell-style sports announcer, not so much.  Maybe there's an edited version of the race that leaves that stuff out.

     

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