Justice on being attached to his alma mater
"On the day of the national championship game, an A&M honors grad posted on his Facebook page, ''(Bleep) Mack Brown. (Bleep) Texas.'' He went on for about 500 words. His parents must be so proud. Money well spent."
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‘’Hey, Richard, Texas is nothing but a bunch of pot-smoking, Obama-loving, tree-hugging nuts. What do you think of that?’’
These Chronicle readers are bright bulbs, aren’t they?
I have beat wholesale ass for a whole lot less.
by burntorangehorn on Mar 5, 2010 12:02 PM CST reply actions
Silly Aggies
On the day of the national championship game, Colt chocked.
What is that anyway?
"The best decision I ever made was coming to Texas," James said. "The second-best decision was coming back."
I see beergut has a chron.com account
"Texas played without its best player for nearly 56 minutes. There's an asterisk." -- Ivan Maisel, ESPN.com
So, so much fail...
I didn’t live and die with them now and damn sure don’t live and die with them now.
I’ll have a McFail combo, please. Aggie-size it.
by Magnificent Bastard on Mar 5, 2010 2:20 PM CST reply actions
Might be my favorite line of the year thus far...touche sir.
"Stats are for losers. I like winning games." ~ Will Muschamp
""I always felt like, and I paid a price for it, that it didn't seem right for one guy to bring me down." ~ The Tyler Rose
by Mulliganville on Mar 6, 2010 10:46 AM CST up reply actions
I think he is actually a bit sad and depressing
How sad that a sportswriter claims to have no pride in his alma mater’s sports teams just becuase 34 years has passed and that people who do are abnormally attached.
Put me down as a severe case of abnormal.
Why he is even a sports writer/blogger anyway? He sounds like the kind of guy PB met at the combines; guys that dont’ really care but going through the motions.
Keep Austin Weird, Keep UT Grads Abnormal.
I honestly do not care how weird Austin is...
nobody on the west side is “werid.” Downtown and as you venture down South Congress, I suppose it gets “werid.” Put me down for a severe case of abnormal as well. While I did not attend UT, I have been a fan for 33 years. RJ is too wrapped up in the pro teams he covers and all of his time and energy is spent there.
"Stats are for losers. I like winning games." ~ Will Muschamp
""I always felt like, and I paid a price for it, that it didn't seem right for one guy to bring me down." ~ The Tyler Rose
by Mulliganville on Mar 6, 2010 10:51 AM CST up reply actions
"Weird" is what makes me love Austin.
If it weren’t for Austin’s flavor, I probably wouldn’t bother moving back to Texas. But since Austin (and, to a lesser extent, San Antonio) the weirdness that I find so fulfilling, I’m moving there. Love it. Good food, great people, lots of cheap concerts worth watching, the best sports, awesome school I never attended but love anyway, counter-culture…Austin is like a mini-SF in the middle of Texas, except it lacks most of the parts of SF that suck most.
I have beat wholesale ass for a whole lot less.
by burntorangehorn on Mar 9, 2010 7:11 AM CST up reply actions
After living in downtown Austin for the last 2 years
I just have to say, The “Keep Austin Weird” is just a face that is put on for visitors. In fact, I think the only reason we get that label is we were the first willing to put it on a bumper sticker. 9.75 out of 10 people here are just people trying to make ends meet. I wouldn’t say the people here are any more accepting of everyone’s quirks. I have met life long Austinites that have been to 6th street 2 or 3 times total. I don’t want to disappoint you and I fully endorse you relocating to Austin but if “counter-culture” is a main reason and finding a mini SF, you can find about as much of that in any other city. After all, you’re still going to be in the heart of Texas.
"I live in the tower with Coach Brown." -Bevo
by run Bevo run on Mar 9, 2010 11:15 AM CST up reply actions
I really disagree on that
I’ve gone to countless cities, and nowhere have I seen the same mix of counter-culture, great food, live music, etc. that I found all in one place in Austin, at least not at any sort of affordable price. I mean, sure, NYC has a lot of those things, but sports suck there, and costs are prohibitive. Same with SF. Granted, you and I might have very different priorities than I do, but I’ve invariably found Austin to provide ten times as much I’m interested in doing as any other place I’ve lived, at least for someone who isn’t a top-2% earner.
I have beat wholesale ass for a whole lot less.
by burntorangehorn on Mar 9, 2010 12:04 PM CST up reply actions
Maybe a definition is in order
Maybe I don’t understand your meaning of counter-culture.
I would say Memphis offers everything you are looking for too. Counter-culture, great food, live music.
When you say that I think Leslie Cochran. I had a real nice conversation with Leslie at Twin Liquors #1 which the gist was he started cross dressing because he could hide a flask in a bra and continued it because people were giving him enough money to continue a drinking habit. To me that is just another man trying to earn a buck from people wanting to buy the hype.
"I live in the tower with Coach Brown." -Bevo
Counter-culture
To me, this means the types who inhabit or wander in, say, Haight-Ashbury, Castro, etc. People who establish their own ghettos (not slums), such as hippies, punks, bohemians, and GLBT, among others. I am not a hippy, punk, bohemian, or gay, but I love being in places that have strong cultures of…counter-cultures.
I have beat wholesale ass for a whole lot less.
by burntorangehorn on Mar 9, 2010 2:53 PM CST up reply actions
Breakfast Tacos
So far it’s been the gem of me moving here. I thought many of the other cities had some players. Hell I’ll even stand on the lawn of San Antonio City Hall, Miami, Los Angeles, Las Vegas grab my crotch and say they all need to bow down to the greatness of Austin.
"I live in the tower with Coach Brown." -Bevo
Oh man, you're not kidding
Our flight was delayed from Baltimore to Austin for the KU game in Nov., and when we finally got into our hotel, the weef and I thought we’d stroll over and see what trouble we could start after eleven on a Friday. It had been about 5-6 years since we’d been to Austin, so I was a little hazy on where to find a non-fast-food dinner that late, so we went from place to place looking for one that was still serving. We came upon El Sol y La Luna, and after they scared us up some solid vittles to go with some great drinks that night, we decided to go back for breakfast the next morning. I’m sure there are better places in Austin, but man, it was terrific. Very simple and unassuming, but terrific, and it was the first Mexican place that ever respected our anti-pig diet. We’ve been trying to duplicate their breakfast tacos ever since.
Also terrific for breakfast: Sunday brunch buffet at Stubbs, complete with live, soulful, gospel blues. That’s as close as the wife and I have been to being in church in five years. We’ve vowed to do it every time we go to Austin from now on.
I have beat wholesale ass for a whole lot less.
by burntorangehorn on Mar 9, 2010 9:42 PM CST up reply actions
Not really.
Figured it was worth a chuckle.
by Infield Elephant on Mar 5, 2010 8:47 PM CST up reply actions
I gotta agree with him somewhat...
I’m only a few years removed from UT, and I’m still attached. I don’t know if I’ll be THIS invested in, say, 10 years when I’m married, have a full-time job (right now I’m working from home via the net, thus all the free time to hop on here), and have rugrats running around. Then again, I suppose we’ll see.
By the way, of course the Aggies hate us. Every year we’re playing for a chance to go to the champ again. For them, it’s to just beat us. I mean, that’s gotta suck when your entire year is built around one game while the other guy looks at you as an afterthought.
In-VINCE-able.
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