You just reminded me of the Big Easy, and I had to google to make sure it’s still there
When I first moved here, the Crush Bar on Westheimer had a 3-hour happy hour where beer was $1, there was free food and sunshine and girls. Fuck Disneyland, that was the happiest place on earth.
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Before it was the Big Easy, that location was the Crown and Serpent. They had good live shows there.
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The best price on beer was at Valhalla at Rice University. Shiner was 25 cents a cup and $2/pitcher. The food was a bag of pretzels, and the girls were…genetically female, but five bucks got you a helluva night.
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Nice, abouts when was that?
More R&B than blues joints, but I also used to love Etta’s on James, and the Gallant Knight
Reports from the European front lines (literally) thus far are that Palace fans have had a very warm welcome from Dynamo fans as well as the city of Lublin, and have been gracious guests themselves. Everything is exceptionally cordial and joyous and beery and I’m jealous as fuck.
Also, the frequency of the “Fuck UEFA” song was due mainly to the unfortunate stadium announcer at the Motor Lublin (which sounds like something you do with large breasts) asking Palace fans - presumably at the insistence of UEFA - to “keep things positive” whenever they sang it. So they’d sing it, be told to keep things positive, and therefore sing it again but louder.
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All of this checks out, and is what I would expect
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Speaking of “Fuck UEFA”, a Marinakis-owned team is heading for defeat in Europe for the second night in a row. Forest may regret their unmerited promotion to the Europa.
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Losing badly now, and getting booed at home.
The mighty team from [checks notes] Midtjylland has sent the home fans streaming for the exits. What a bunch of ungrateful frontrunners. They deserve Marinakis and he deserves them.
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I was looking at something else and saw this:
https://www.chron.com/culture/article/half-price-books-closure-21080735.php
I don’t guess anyone much cares, but I went into this store a number of months ago. Hopefully they’ll put in a Torchys.
Halloween is just around the corner…
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That’s great and…something
“get me a lager, I’m trying to sober up”
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It’s sad but most people don’t read books, and many that do use tablets and audio readers. I admire the remaining brick and mortar book retailers and resellers, and wonder how they make it work.
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I read a lot of books on a tablet, especially library books. But I read a lot of actual books, too, and I go out of my way to patronize independent bookstores. Although the last time I was in an independent bookstore I turned around to see that my son had a gushing bloody nose. I managed to avert disaster but only just.
This would have been around 1988-90 or so, that I remember. I also remember the Gallant Knight. I liked that place
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~10 years before my move back to Houston. I doubt it changed much
I’ve tried podcasts and books on tape and Kindles and all that…it just doesn’t work for me.
I can read news articles on the screen/phone, but books just need to be in my hands.
As my need for readers grew my ability to read paper books suffered.
It seems to have stabilized and I can read books now worth more ease.
But I was sure glad to have the e versions available.
I’m so nearsighted that I can take my glasses off and read comfortably. Eye doctor says it’ll probably always be that way. I had to get multifocal lenses with the bottom reading portion clear with no prescription. First time I got glasses with that the optician said “is this right? There’s no reading prescription”. Yep. That’s me.
A pharmacist i worked for as a tech took me there in the early 90s once. Fantastic place, but unfortunately never made it back.
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