Are you ok? Do I need to send brisket? My smallest packer is 14lbs. I don’t want you to run out, friend!

Does anyone really go through life without a hurricane brisket? I’ve also started keeping a freeze brisket just in case. Plus my generic emergency brisket and my weekly brisket.

I’m partial to El Cerrito Taqueria on 249 during the day because they only serve breakfast and lunch. Any other time (literally, it’s 24 hours a day) is Taqueria Ruby. There’s a dim sum joint in Chinatown called Golden Dumpling that’s pretty dope. It’s cash only. Thien Thanh is pretty great if you’re into Vietnamese food, also cash only. I think every decent barbecue joint has been covered by a hundred TV shows. Xochi downtown if you’re looking for upscale Oaxacan food. You can’t really go wrong downtown because they’re all fighting for your business. There’s a dude that sells tamales at the bars in Spring and between 6 and Cypress on the northwest side of town. There’s a little too much masa for my particular taste but he’s a great guy, they’re delicious, and he sells homemade red sauce and green sauce by the jar. Tony’s New York Pizza is really good and the only place I’ll go for real New York style pizza. I lived up there for a while and this scratches the itch.

If you want a little more well known, Pinkerton’s Barbecue is good. Texas de Brazil is spendy but if I died there I’d die happy. Burns BBQ is really good. Truth is really good. Don’t go to Papas or Spring Creek. They’re fine, but they’re only one step better than going to an Applebee’s.

I know there are others but it’s 6am and I was out until almost 3 drinking. Good luck!

Happy treason day! My ancestors fought to make sure we didn’t have to live under a monarch. SCOTUS would do well to remember that.

Y’all only get to hear about our shitty politicians, and they do suck diseased horse wang. However, there’s a lot of cool shit to do and a lot of cool people to hang out with.

“Come to Texas! We have Mexican andTexMex food, delicious brisket, and some drunk idiot will blow shit up for your entertainment! Just don’t come if you’re pregnant and planning to get an abortion.”

Uncle Nub (yes, that was a real person) would be proud of me for bringing people to watch that and eat.

I didn’t have a chance to be this year, but I’m usually that uncle. I’ve also been known to repackage individual fireworks into much larger fireworks. I used to make thermite but I’m too nervous for that now.

I do take safety precautions and the kids don’t get to play with the shit that will blow you up. If an adult wants to blow off their fingers that’s their problem.

Blasting a bucket into orbit is fun!

My arteries are so strong that you could shoot me with the breakfast gun and I wouldn’t spring a leak.

Well according to commercials from the 80s when I was a kid that’s part of a balanced breakfast.

I drank a drink made from a potato once and I say you’re qualified.

Came here to say this. I’ve worked on systems for a restaurant on the beach and it was corroded as hell. We had the wireless access points in cheap “weatherproof” boxes and they got corroded. We replaced them once a year or so because it was so bad.

I take B vitamins because I don’t feel like a dirt grub after a bender. I’m not worried about living longer or I wouldn’t go on benders. I just want to feel good while I’m here.

Simpson, eh?

Best utility belt, best Batman, best Catwoman, second best Catwoman, second best Joker…1966 Batman was awesome.

You’re both right! It started as 7 for the default and changed to 5 because 7 was also the default for the parallel port.

I’m glad that my nephew’s teacher last year sent out a message to allow family to donate to those parties. I’ve paid for a few.

I’m also sad that it has come to that.

They won’t have me, friend. I can stand on a stage and sound like a Pentecostal preacher. I’m not inbred but I dress like I am. With exactly the right amount of alcohol I’m pretty likable (too little and I’m weird, too much and I’m over the top, and the difference is razor thin). And there’s pictures of me at a whole bunch of Pride events and taco trucks. I support the gays and the immigrants.

It’s an uphill battle that I’m not prepared for, don’t really have time for, and have no desire to get into. But we’ve got 2 years to find someone who hasn’t said “Hell, yes, we’re going to take your AR-15, your AK-47”. There are a lot of single issue firearm voters in Texas, as stupid as that is. I like Beto but pragmatically there’s no way back from that statement here at this time.

There may be enough cop hate here to run on a platform of grinding 1/5th of them into a fine powder. Even the staunchly red area I come from hates the cops, who are at best thought of as meddling piles of shit.

I picked Elden Ring back up today (why no, it has nothing to do with the DLC). I’m still garbage.

Considering some of the sellers, they deserve each other. I have cash, don’t want to haggle, and can pick it up whenever it’s convenient. Three weeks later I’m either told it’s gone or asked what time I can be there.

I could have been there weeks ago. I already purchased one elsewhere. No need to get pissy when it’s been so long.

They’ve got 55 police per 10,000 residents. That’s more than twice as many as LA per capita with a 3% decrease in violent crime per capita. That tells me we could, but definitely shouldn’t, grind up one fifth of them into a fine powder freeing up a whole bunch of money in the budget. NYC does seem to have a significantly smaller property crime rate than the national average but that number is suspect. How much of that is them just not dealing with property crime and not filing the paperwork?

And that $5b? That’s not their whole budget, that’s their personnel budget. Total budget for FY2025 is closer to $11.9b/yr. Their salary is closer to 80k/yr/officer on average.

So you’re telling me that if we just started grinding cops into a fine powder we’d not only save on their salaries and benefits, we’d also save on the amount of equipment they need and could fund things like libraries and social safety nets? And that we could sell that fine powder for uses such as food for heads, surgery, delousing, cosmetics, bomb disposal, firepower, and head transplants and fund even more things?

I’m not saying we should be grinding cops into a fine powder. I’m saying let’s take a look at where we could save more money while helping more people.

Torgo’s Police Powder is certainly not a thing we should turn those fucking pigs into. No sir. And if someone tries laying this at my feet I’ll deny it.