Everything posted by Al_4_ISU
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Turnpike Troubadours appreciation thread
This has a lot more new Felker material than Cat In The Rain. Hope Ruby Mae is as much of an ear worm as the last Edwards/Roark song.
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Turnpike Troubadours appreciation thread
Probably just a few songs. I saw them the week after Cat In the Rain dropped and they only played the advance singles
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Turnpike Troubadours appreciation thread
New album out Friday. Doing the “drop the single on TouchTunes while the website crashes” thing. LFG.
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Jason Isbell, Sturgill Simpson, Chris Stapleton, and Other Good Stuff
That’s the one. I like (don’t love) Bert, and get why some people can’t stand him, but he definitely has a way of making people comfortable and getting honesty from them.
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Jason Isbell, Sturgill Simpson, Chris Stapleton, and Other Good Stuff
He talked about her on a podcast interview this winter. It sounds pretty complicated. She bailed on the family when he was pretty young and had some serious mental health and drug problems. But he credits her for his artistic gifts, and loves her fiercely in spite of that.
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Hooters done gone tits up.
The last time I went to a Hooter's was during Oktoberfest in La Crosse, Wisconsin. It was the only place that didn't have a wait beyond 15 minutes. You would have thought that they could have busted out some German beer maid outfits for the occasion, but nein.
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Hooters done gone tits up.
Gen Z fuckin' loves Chilis for reasons that I don't really understand. That said, I'm an elder Millennial and we're notorious for our disdain in chain places.
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College basketball coaching carousel: 2025 edition
I saw it a few pages back, but holy shit, I'd be over the moon if Aggy went and got Hoiberg before he gets fired in Lincoln. Those two deserve each other. That said, I can't see Hoiberg going there. He's never been based outside of the Midwest as a player or coach. The best part is it would force Nebraska to hire a coach now, and that would likely mean they don't get Drake's new coach (who I assumed they'd hire after he Drakes to the dance next season and they can Fred).
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College basketball coaching carousel: 2025 edition
I don't know Beard as well as you guys, but this absolutely the vibe I get from him. My guess is he thinks that Texas's administration fucked him over, and he's going to be out for revenge. In no way does he strike me as a reformed man who understands how he ended up where he is.
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Beach Towns (US)
I remember being 4 years old and too short to ride that roller coaster. Utter meltdown. A lot of my good buddies from ISU grew up there, so I spent a lot of time hanging out there in the summers in college drinking way too much and chasing tail. It has a special place in my heart, even though it's a bit laughable to include it in a list of great beach communities (but it really sorta is).
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Non-Texas weather. The all-encompassing thread
Midwest April Fool’s
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Beach Towns (US)
Go to Okoboji, Iowa and visit my other alma mater
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Beach Towns (US)
Door County, WI in general. Sister Bay and Bailey's Harbor in particular.
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Hey Steel Shank!
I might honestly consider ending it if this happened to me.
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Songs that hit you or someone you love in the feels
This song was released the day before my daughter was born (August of '23). Turnpike's probably my favorite active band. It's generally written towards the singer's wife, and the fans of the band, but it a lot of the sentiment can be applied to our situation. We first met with fertility doctors in July of 2017 and went through a bunch of IVF, egg retrieval, spent hundreds of thousands, and had gotten nowhere. My went down the surrogacy road and the first person who agreed to be a surrogate backed out right before implementation. It just seemed like it would never happen. And then it did. When the "with a dance or two still left in me" comes through, it makes me think of her getting married someday and it wrecks me.
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Hey Steel Shank!
That picture was shortly after I set it up. It's now home to a pink Princess tent, a Bluey bubble wand, dog chew toys, and an endless array of stuffed animals.
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Hey Steel Shank!
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It’s a bar my buddy built. I designed it partially- Hey Steel Shank!
Well, yeah.- Hey Steel Shank!
Made some chili, grilled some dogs made out of one of our hogs. Got buns from the bakery in town. Giddy up- Beer 2025: Merry Christmas Everyone, Including the Haters and Losers
Droppin’ Hops. Ten Wasp, Sumner IA- College basketball coaching carousel: 2025 edition
Kevin Willard is leaving the Big 10 for the Big East. Basketball ain’t football when it comes to conference hierarchy. The Big 12 is not at the same disadvantage on the hardwood as the gridiron.- College basketball coaching carousel: 2025 edition
Big part of why Otz isn’t leaving ISU. His wife is ISU WBB royalty. She’s also an Aussie who considers central Iowa her American home- Non-Texas weather. The all-encompassing thread
Down to 27 by Sunday. Roller coaster never ends.- What makes you angry?
To steer the convo away from Nazis, this is really making me angry lately... My in-laws have all of their packages delivered to our house, because they believe delivery services won't take packages to their house. We live in town, they live out in the country, but right on a 4 lane Federal highway. My MIL used to work at their county courthouse, and she would have things delivered to a PO Box in that town. Now that she's retired, she was worried that she wouldn't be going to town every day and it would become inconvenient. My wife works in the same town (which is not the town we live in), so when they have the packages delivered to our house, my wife has to load them up and bring them to work with her. My MIL then runs into town (the same town she has a PO box) to get them out of the car. A couple of times we've been out of town in the winter, and they've had something delivered that could freeze. So I had to call a buddy to go by the house and pick it up. This whole thing is fucking insane, but if I make a big deal out of it, it will turn into a shitfest who's downside will dramatically outweigh the upside of them having packages delivered to their easily accessible home like sane people would. I brought up the idea of anonymously mailing them a gift last night, and my wife yelled at me for "trying to make her parents feel stupid" and "prove a point". They're (my in-laws) all very protective of each others' irrational neuroses and get offended when I push against them. It's not a hill worth dying on, but it fuck, it makes me annoyed. - Hey Steel Shank!
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