Posts posted by CooterBrown
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Check out ATX Record Players. Local guy refurbishes MCM turntable consoles and outfits them with hifi components.
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Jimmy - You know that song "the girl is on fire"
Greg - no
Jimmy - It got replaced with eyes
Greg - .....what?
Jimmy - my eyes are burningJimmy: Y'all wanna hear a crazy story?
Us: no
Jimmy: ....ok, check it out"This lady had a dog with her, it was a snickerdoodle"
When you die and they pull out your safety closet box.....
I haven't seen you in a dog's age, buddy
Lisa: "This Saturday is my work anniversary"
Jimmy: "You started on a Saturday?"Didn't the new John Wick win the Oscar last week?
Lisa (after walking in from the rain): I'm soaking wet.
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I heard of a guy who can get your kid a PWO spot at Texas for $8k...
Years ago I knew someone who did this at aggy. Her grades were shit, even for aggy, but was good enough to get the track coach to have her be a PWO so she only had to meet the minimum NCAA requirements for admission. Once she got accepted, that was the end of her athletic career. -
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The public parks are worth it if the kid is still into playgrounds. There's a lot you can just drop in to when walking around. We went to Joe DiMaggio Playground, Dolores Park, and one in Chinatown. The first two in particular were really awesome. Both had some really unique playground equipment I've never seen anywhere.
The Joe playground had this crazy fucking thing. Where the guy is holding on, there's another seat for a 2nd kid. The kids were getting insanely high.
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7 minutes ago, South Austin said:there's the potential for drugs and violence in our children's lives much earlier than many of us might have suspected.
Is there more potential or is it just our faulty/selective memory as adults? my wife and I were talking about this last night. I grew up in a small town around Victoria with a graduating class of just over 100 kids. I was in junior high '84-'86.Thinking back on it, I remember in 6th grade, a couple of students offering to sell us joints for a $1 each (really good deal in hindsight!). There was the kid who bragged about snorting coke in 8th grade. A couple of 7th graders who had something called ice - which I'm pretty sure is meth. I hadn't even thought about any of this until we had that discussion last night. Violence wise, an 8th grader raped and murdered a 7th grader's mom. There were a couple of stabbings. If you would've asked me if my junior high had a drug/violence problem, my immediate reaction would've been absolutely not. But, once I added up all the stories, apparently it did have a problem.
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What's getting a bit lost in all of this is that it wasn't a school issue at all.
A drug dealer got killed by a couple of drug buyers nowhere near school. All involved just happened to attend good schools. Guess what. Every single school has drug dealers and drug buyers. All of them. Back in the day, a former coworker's son went to Anderson and was a major heroin addict. His dealer was a girl at Westlake High School. Lake Travis and Dripping Springs had several heroin ODs a decade ago. No telling what happened at the "bad" schools...well, that murder at Reagan. None of it really moved the needle on my opinion of any of the schools.
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If Election Day was a holiday, voter participation would probably drop. Many would see it as a long weekend with only burning Monday as a PTO day. Maybe if there was a way to confirm you used that day for voting, then it’d probably be really successful in getting out the vote. Go vote at 7am and spend the rest of the day fucking off.
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My Lamar 6th grader said a girl in one of her classes said she had bought a vape from the dead kid. Yesterday, that girl was pulled from class. Today, that girl’s best friend said she’s being expelled. I wonder if they are going scorched earth. Being a dumb kid, his phone was probably full of his customers.

Shows at Waterloo Records
in Music
I assume an in store performance? You just show up and stand in the few clear feet in front of the stage or in an aisle. The band plays about 20-30 minutes and signs shit afterwards. I’ve been to a dozen or so but none that have been at capacity so I don’t know if it pays to queue up early for a popular artist.