THANK YOU. That Heart video was driving me nuts.

/Yeah, yeah. Short trip and all that.

I’ve been going over to Texas Monthly Poll Dancing at least a couple of times a day. Sometimes I accidentally run into your evil twin Evan and I get confused.

Her campaign is scrappy as well (minus the “s”). Hey, I could even post that on poll dancing, no?

Re: 3. West Texas Hillbilly

Shame on you. No kicking when down. Give PL a break and say something nice about Hil.

Like this: she’s extremely intelligent and knows her stuff, and I’d love to have a shot contest with her.

DMw/P,

I’m sorry. You are right. I should just shut up. I’d love to bowl a few frames with her, toss back a couple of shots, and maybe hit her up for a loan.

/oops

I almost feel guilty commenting here. Like it’s hurting Texas Monthly’s numbers or something.

well, chit.

Re: 6. The Other Guy

oh, come one …you have more to be guilty aout than that……….

I posted some esoteric nonsense over there

keep the elite guessing………..

Presents? We’ve been working on presence here and there. TM has been infiltrated. Burka and Evan are going, WTF? Who are these people? Eileeeeeeeen!

Re: 6. The Other Guy

Here you comment, there you comment and click on the advertisers. Its like paging through the lawyer ads to find the last page of the article you were reading. Oh wait. Damn. That’s a nice piece of property. Click. Only $1.5M, and with live water…bargain. Click. Well, crap, better just pay rent on my cheap-ass suburban house and keep dreaming while I send 10s of thousands to a Texas institution of higher learning for my kid that charged me $1600 for a 4 year education I paid for with minimum wage jobs. Click. I wonder if they might need me to thin out the deer population on that place.

Need more wine. Nurse!

Bi-blogging?

Uh-oh. I can see where this is going, maybe.

Will ITPT soon become a blog of naught but links to Poll Dancing, thus making the bi-blogging question moot?

Stay tuned to find out. Same bat-time, same bat-channel!

Re: 10. treehugger

you’re either very old, or you went to smu-permian basin.

This is the beginning of the end. No I’m not talking about Hillary. For her, it’s the end of the end.

What I’m talking about is the TM blog situation. I can see they’re pressuring you. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile. They’re like Microsoft, gobbling up everything in their evil path. And you, tragically, are their handmaiden.

Re: 13. jed

Treehugger and I appear to be about the same age, so thanks for pointing that out. Now GET OFF OF MY LAWN!

Re: 14. Harold

hen she’ll be outsourced to India.

fucking corporations.

Re: 8. potted meat

So true. I’m still working through the stuff I did in junior high school.

Re: 17. The Other Guy

nsa report to follow…….

Re: 5. West Texas Hillbilly

Off topic: Pssst. I posted a link to the pics from Grand Champeen in Marfa. I mentioned a certain someone ran the lights for that show in one of the comments, too.

Re: 13. jed

SMU was an outrageous $145 per semester hour back in my college daze, so I’m thinking you mean Permian in geologic terms. I had friends who attended there. They were wealthy.

I paid a little less than $200 a semester to register plus about $80-100 a semester for books. Looks like that’s about $2400 total. Room and board? My third of the house rent was $40. Beer was $2.26 a 6er, $18 for a pony keg of Old Mill. $2.26 was also minimum wage. Nightclubs played disco music so I have no idea what a beer cost in the nightclubs. A basic summer job in the oilfield would generate about $4k living at home, which pretty much took care of everything. It was a wonderful time, in retrospect.

I’ll spend $2400 for 1 semester for my kid at regional U. UT tuition is just nuts…I’m very glad she doesn’t want to go there.

At those prices I should have stayed in school. I could be underemployed with a Master’s degree that way.

If you really want to be depressed about inflation I could tell you about the price of pot.

Re: 19. lush

Copy that. Nice country.

Re: 20. treehugger and DMw/P

I’m in the club. I recall paying $4/hour in-state tuition. Now it won’t get me a pint of latte or a gallon of diesel.

Re: 20. treehugger

i agree. UT tuition is ridiculously low, compared to in-state public univ. tuition in states where they actually care if their college grads can read & write. better to send your kid to rice. or mississippi state.

Re: 23. jed
We discouraged her from going to Houston (sorry, DMWP) or College Station. Either would be acceptable if free, however.

Ridiculously low? I haven’t seen the actual comparisons to other state U’s, but I’d expect Rice to be rather high also.

Re: 22. West Texas Hillbilly

And driving at or below the speed limit is SO HARD out there. I guess the DPS guys have to chase drug smugglers and check for inspection stickers…no one can afford to go fast these days.

$4, yep. You’re obviously on the on ramp to geezer. Its a fun place.

Re: 24. treehugger

actually, in all seriousness (we can take this offline if you want to pursue), money need no longer be an obstacle to a quality college education. some of the top privates are now offering tuition-free aid packages for middle-class kids.

my point about UT-Austin tuition was valid (it is lower than in many top states, by comparison … in fact, i think it is even lower than UT-Dallas!), although admittedly irrelevant (you can only pay in-state rates in one state, presumably).

the real point is that a UT education ain’t what it used to be (although the freefall has been arrested, and it is back on the upswing).

and there’s my “i’m old enough to remember” contribution. i’m old enough to remember when UT was actually as good as texans still think it is.

Re: 26. jed
I never got the attraction for a college where there is such a large enrollment…guess it depends on your major, legacy, and all that. Daughter feels the same way. I was one of about 20 (field) biology majors at my University…pretty nice ratio for access to professors, etc. Granted, San Angelo wasn’t the happening place that Austin was at that time, but we did okay.

We did investigate private colleges. Still pretty expensive in our case plus she didn’t care for most.

Damn. Another highjack, PL. Sorry!

I went to a huge university (Mizzou) and the big population was part of the charm - at least, for a kid from small-town backwater Mississippi like me.

Re: 28. Credentials

Salud! Whatever works.

I still live in Texas. You’re not in Mississippi any more, by your own choice. If I wanted to get away, my college choice, quite likely, would have been different. Texas takes care of its own….and those who choose to come here. Welcome to Texas Credentials. We’re happy ypu’re here. And, salud! again.

Re: 29. treehugger

Must have been that 2nd glass of wine.

Re: 29. treehugger

Aw, thanks. Happy to be here. In Austin. Where I’m never leaving. As a long as I have a job.