Everything posted by Ollie Slatt
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The Robert Mueller Investigation
How many neighborhoods in America could Ocho Cinco move in and not be the flamboyant weird neighbor? Amazing
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W Anderson Lane
Anybody know when the new Tatsu-ya place is opening on Burnet next to the TacoDeli? It seems like it has been rumored for almost a year, but I have not heard anything about an opening date. I know this is a thread about Anderson, but its the same general area.
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Austin Restaurants You Miss The Most
East Side Cafe is closing at the end of the month. Not many restaurants in Austin that I would be truly upset if they closed, but this is one of them. I have been going there for 15+ years, and that buttermilk pie is one of the best food items in the city.
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2019 Body Transformation Thread
This was basically my thinking with Keto first time around. I dropped 35 pounds over 5-6 months and then started reintroducing some carbs into the diet. The problem was that I had grown accustomed to eating a lot of high fat food, and when you add carbs back it is a recipe for fast weight gain. I gained everything back over the course of a year. Now in round 2 of keto and this time will do a lot more thinking about my exist plan and what a post-keto diet should look like.
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2019 Body Transformation Thread
My understanding of Keto has always been that you only count net carbs anyway (i.e., fiber doesn't count as a carb). So I eat a lot of high fiber stuff on Keto.
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Best Mexican Food place in Texas (and every state)
Agree with most of this except about Fonda. The atmosphere is great, but its food is not blowing anyone out of the water. Suerte is easily better and El Naranjo is at least as good.
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Best Dining Experience
I like the 10+ course tasting menus just like everyone else, but they all kind of run together in my memory to the point that no specific one stands out. So here are some simpler meals: - Cafe Jacqueline in SF: Tiny restaurant run by an old french woman. The entire menu is comprised of souffles. - Antico Noe in Florence: Sandwich shop in an alley. I just remember sitting outside with some friends and eating what had to be the best sandwich of my life. - I once finished up an 8 day backpacking trip that included some epic trout fishing. Body was completely breaking down by the end of the hike. We get back to the car and I polish off a sleeve of thin mints and a beer. 15 years later it is still lodged in my memory. Nothing tastes better than good food after a long day of backpacking or hunting.
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Midland
I like some of Midland's songs, but they are not in the same league as Sturgill, Margo Price, or a lot of the other indie country acts out there now. In fact, these guys are more of a creation of the Nashville machine reacting to the fact that country audiences were suddenly interested in more authentic music (e.g., Chris Stapleton). The front man is a former model, they are signed on Big Machine (Taylor Swift label), and the songs were written by Shane McAnally (same guy writing hits for the Sam Hunts and Luke Bryans of the world). There are also articles out there calling bullshit on the entire backstory about them being a hard-working Austin band: https://www.savingcountrymusic.com/despite-the-quality-of-on-the-rocks-midland-are-still-bullshitters/ All that said, the songs are catchy and not bad.
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The Robert Mueller Investigation
Maybe he was only admitted there due to his swimming prowess
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2020 Presidential Election
Klobuchar is interesting. I don't know much about her other than she seems likable and is wildly popular in her home state. Any negatives?
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What should be my son's first bike?
Most bikes for kids that age weigh a ton when you compare them to the weight of the kid. So get something light. Our son has a Woom and rides it like a champ. He started riding it at 4 and is not a particularly athletic/strong kid, but having a bike that fit and did not weigh much made all the difference. I think Woom's primary US location is in Austin.
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The Robert Mueller Investigation
https://www.businessinsider.com/matthew-whitaker-robert-mueller-investigation-defunding-2018-11 Apparently the new AG previously floated a plan to simply strip necessary funding from Mueller rather than firing him. I wonder if they will go this route . . . strip funding and do everything possible to limit the scope of the investigation rather than firing. It would be similar to the way they made sure the Kavanaugh investigation lacked teeth. And that plan would be a lot less likely to draw public ire than firing Mueller since most Americans are incapable of understanding something this nuanced. Hopefully the investigation is far enough along that none of this matters.
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Sammiches
I like the french dip at Biderman's. For Pastrami, Pieous is pretty hard to beat. Just wish they had a location in central Austin.
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Weird College Roommate
My freshman roommate is a great guy. We have been friends most of our lives. But during freshman year he just sort of lost all inhibitions and gave in to weirder impulses, most of which involved trolling the other dudes on our dorm floor. We still keep up and laugh about all this shit now. Examples include: - upon realizing most of the other guys on the dorm floor were small town redneck dudes, he painted our dorm room pink. Also started wearing a sweater with a big rainbow across the front. - He hung up a bunch of pinups in the room that I am pretty sure came from vintage copies of JET magazine. I had to take them down because it freaked out every girl that came to our room. - He found a hat/mask from a child's blues clues Halloween costume. Would wear it -- and nothing else -- down to the communal bathroom on the floor to take a piss (often in the sink). Would also occasionally urinate in the dorm elevator (while sober) - He downloaded a mp3 of loud sex noises. When we were going out for the evening, he would sometimes crank that up on his computer and then leave it on for hours while we were gone. I think there is a ton of other stuff I am forgetting. Eventually the other guys in our dorm decided they liked the roommate after realizing he was not gay and was a musician (which somehow made all the strange behavior seem acceptable to them).
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Jade Bird (click these, you will not regret)
I saw her at SXSW this year. Probably the best show I attended.
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W Anderson Lane
And awesomely crowded. They need about twice the seating. But the food is great.
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The Mail Bomb Poll Thread
That was actually just a clever ploy by Gander Mountain to attract customers. They were overstocked with 223 ammo and tactical clothing and needed to clear out some inventory.
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Great songs by Austin artists
- Texas is being invaded by migrants
To those saying it no longer feels like the rest of Texas . . . Austin may have never truly been for you. And if you left Austin to move to some generic Houston suburb, then I can guarantee that is the case. It has always been unique and different from the rest of Texas, and hopefully it always will be. Now this feels like a more legit point. But I think it is more down to the increased availability of real career-focused jobs in Austin and the increased cost of living that has accompanied the economic growth. That has little to do with whether new arrivals to Austin are from out of state. An influx of career-minded processionals from Dallas or Houston would have the same effect (or worse) on Austin culture.- What are the most depressing songs you like?
Keeping with the theme of parent abandonment. Here is a Sufjan track discussing his mother, who had serious mental issues, abandoning him in a video store. Actually, half of Sufjan's songs could qualify for this thread.- Brett Kavanaugh Confirmation Thread
Isn't that the beauty of "originalism"? You get to ascribe a single intent to a large group of people with varying viewpoints who after lengthy debate and negotiation put down a single compromised position on paper. Its always bullshit, so the judge gets to pretend like whatever interpretation fits their political leaning is what the original drafters must have intended.- What are the most depressing songs you like?
This one always gets me- What are the most depressing songs you like?
When I saw the thread title my first thoughts were Grand Tour and TVZ's Marie (already posted above). Here is a nice little version of Grand Tour- Brett Kavanaugh Confirmation Thread
Of course it will be. These are largely the same people people still talking about welfare queens 20 years after they go the welfare reforms they wanted. Republican fear mongering does not have to be rooted in truth to work.- GOP supports "state's rights and small federal government"
That is interesting and very funny. I had just assumed California was doing this more as a political stunt . . . I never considered that the feds failed to preempt state action. - Texas is being invaded by migrants
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