I figure half the conversation in hear will be regarding pumpkin infused Booze and what not. Seriously though not really big on halloween. Friends want to go the whole nine and shit and my response is "my costume will be the guy with the whiskey in one hand and beer in the other". Pretty much over the whole halloween thing. I'm 30 and single i don't need an excuse to drink wrecklessly and act a fool.

Officially the branch manager for our office now. First time i have really put my name on the line. Fingerprinted probably like 15 times, background checks, had to recount all of my history the last 10 years, but it finally paid off. See the first check next week. Have to decide after the year is over whether i wanna go out on my own or stick with the company.

Just booked a flight to NOLA for a weekend in November and am excited to see some friends down there.

Anyone cop the new Delton 3030. I dug it. A bit on the repetitive side, but can't wait to see him in Philly on Sunday with and orchestra. Besides that listening to the newest Tanya Morga, Foreign Exchange and Oddissee.

Was Gravity really worth seeing? i just don't get how it could be enjoyable.

Just ordered two bottles of Jameson's rarest vintage, never special order from VA ABC they straight jerked me around forever until they told me they could not get a bottle. Traveling back up to Philly later this month to surprise my brother with a bottle, 10 12 packs of fat tire and 3,000 chuck-e-cheese ball pit balls so he can fil the pit in his apartment. This is gonna be a good month. Things are looking up Murf.

How y'all doing OKSports, anything new and exciting popping in your lives.

3 22 oz bottle max...it's somewhat legendary around here, and the brewery is around the corner from my house, so i figured i'd give it a shot.

pickup is in a week and a half or so. i'll let ya'll know how it is.

http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/bristol-venetucci-pumpkin-ale/69356/

i still blame hip-hop.

Back to work tomorrow.

At least they let us go home early.

-The Knicks’ coaching search still includes a lone frontrunner, Kurt Rambis, whose qualifications for the position include a strong relationship with Jackson and a willingness to take the job.

even if your reasoning was wanting a break from work.

a jury of our peers is one of our most important rights, and it always makes me happy when people embrace being called.

i still blame hip-hop.

I've always been into legal shows and wanted to be a lawyer as a child but the schooling scared me off. I used to spend a lot of time in court for work so sometimes when I had time, I'd check the case docket and sit in a courtroom for a couple of hours. I also used to use my lunchbreak sitting through the Isiah Thomas sexual harassment trial lol.

I was the only one disappointed when we got dismissed smh.

Even if i didn't have that particular interest though, if I was ever before a jury, I'd want them to 'want to be there tho' so I'd still have a positive attitude about it.

-The Knicks’ coaching search still includes a lone frontrunner, Kurt Rambis, whose qualifications for the position include a strong relationship with Jackson and a willingness to take the job.

as a matter of fact, it's the only responsibility we have as citizens (well, men have to registr for selective service). I get mad as shit when people go out of their way to dodge jury duty.

and i agree with the rest.

i still blame hip-hop.

i don't have sympathy for people either. its once every 8 years here in ny and you have an option to postpone it and pick the date you want to come back within 6 months.

>I get mad as shit when people go out of their way to dodge jury duty.

-The Knicks’ coaching search still includes a lone frontrunner, Kurt Rambis, whose qualifications for the position include a strong relationship with Jackson and a willingness to take the job.

2nd one this year we've been accepted to which is pretty good being in an area that isn't known as a spot for improv comedy.

Got to perform at the UCB mainstage theater in June which is pretty much one of the 2 meccas for improv. This one is in Rochester but still nice to get to travel and do the show.

1 Year anniversary show coming up first week of November too which is pretty rare for an independent troupe to perform regularly (usually monthly, but had a weekly run for a few months until we burned out) for a year.

Exciting stuff

http://i.imgur.com/vPqCzVU.jpg

>Was Gravity really worth seeing? i just don't get how it
>could be enjoyable.

If you like spectacle, there's no reason not to see Gravity in 3D on the biggest screen imaginable. It's a lot of fun.

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We came into the season with a strong 1-2, but not so strong that those two would be enough to win us much. There've been a collection of small steps forward with our 3 and 4 runners, who've closed the gap nicely at different times. But we haven't really had them all do it together in one meet. Still some time, but if we can get all four of them to show up and run well at the same meet then our mishmash from 5-7 doesn't really matter that much.

Relatedly, I've been slightly annoyed by the amount of additional races in HS cross country meets lately. When I was in HS, there'd be a JV race and a Varsity race. In college, except for the really big invitationals, we'd just kind of throw everybody on the same line and score the top five (well, seven sort of) at the end. I'd much rather do that. But lately, we've seen a JV race, a varsity race, a freshman race, and a sophomore race, etc. Cross country is supposed to be chaotic. This new trend is, therefore, dumb.

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--Walleye's Dad

Boys started and two minutes later, girls started. I got passed by a girl once and it was rather humiliating. She was a state champ, though.

And if it's so important to all these other coaches to have freshman and sophomore and varsity and JV results available, then we can tease those out in the results. No need for separate races.

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--Walleye's Dad

you were either fast enough to compete with the big boys and girls or you didn't score.

All the dual meets were "scoring heat" or "non-scoring heat"

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"This (and every, actually) conversation needs more Chesterton and less Mike Francesa." - Walleye

There's no need to make it complicated. Runners who aren't fast enough to score still get to race. And unlike other sports, where varsity is a hard and fast line, if you run fast enough to score than that's that.

Whatever. It's aggravating because these two hour meets are becoming four hour meets for no particularly good reason. I'm pretty sure it's not really helping runners either. For me, making the leap from "awful" to "useful" was largely a cognitive one. I literally didn't know that I wasn't fast until Sharif Karie (a 4:01 HS miler in Virginia in the 90s) blew me (and everybody else, in fairness) off the track in a DMR 1200m leg. It was eye opening.

Getting your ass kicked is valuable.

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"Walleye, a lot of things are going to go wrong in your life that technically aren't your fault. Always remember that this doesn't make you any less of an idiot"

--Walleye's Dad

Most importantly, wifey and I have decided to get back together. Like I said when I gave the last update, we've been talking a bunch. There have been major changes in both of our personalities, and we're communicating so much more openly than we were about a year and a half ago.

So the bad news, NYC OKPs, is I'm heading back down to DC in a couple of weeks. But I'll be back to visit.

What else is going on?

Might have a solo show at culturefix in February. I'm in good with the partners there and they dig my photography, so we'll see how it goes over. Should find out for sure later this week.

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"This (and every, actually) conversation needs more Chesterton and less Mike Francesa." - Walleye

what kind of stuff do you shoot?

But I'm also comfortable with streetscapes and landscapes.

As part of what I'm talking about wrt changes in our personalities, wifey used to be the real jealous type (ironic, as it turns out), but now she's okay with me having these shoots. This last year has been quite a trip, and it's really weird to think that at this time last year I was starting to look for places in NYC.

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"This (and every, actually) conversation needs more Chesterton and less Mike Francesa." - Walleye

does a bunch of nudes, abandonned buildings, street stuff. I'll check out your stuff when i am not at work.

Cam, Tanya Dakin, Hattie Watson and Alysha Nett are originally Philly chicks, and it goes on. . .

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about it.

-The Knicks’ coaching search still includes a lone frontrunner, Kurt Rambis, whose qualifications for the position include a strong relationship with Jackson and a willingness to take the job.

Congrats

And good looks on that wardrobe spot!

I didn't expect you to seek out his spot, but that blog was definitely helpful for me in understanding what to look for when I hit a thrift shop, and how more actually prestigious labels usually end up available for a bargain next to more popular ones.

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"This (and every, actually) conversation needs more Chesterton and less Mike Francesa." - Walleye

>Most importantly, wifey and I have decided to get back
>together. Like I said when I gave the last update, we've been
>talking a bunch. There have been major changes in both of our
>personalities, and we're communicating so much more openly
>than we were about a year and a half ago.

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Her brother's out in Huntington, so I may end up visiting sometime in the near future.

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"This (and every, actually) conversation needs more Chesterton and less Mike Francesa." - Walleye

>Most importantly, wifey and I have decided to get back
>together. Like I said when I gave the last update, we've been
>talking a bunch. There have been major changes in both of our
>personalities, and we're communicating so much more openly
>than we were about a year and a half ago.
>
>So the bad news, NYC OKPs, is I'm heading back down to DC in a
>couple of weeks. But I'll be back to visit.
>
>What else is going on?
>
>Might have a solo show at culturefix in February. I'm in good
>with the partners there and they dig my photography, so we'll
>see how it goes over. Should find out for sure later this
>week.

i need an 86% to pass the certification test and I consistently get between 80%-85% on the practice tests smh, although my instructors are idiots so at least 1 question on every test is a bad test question...for example...

If a True/False question is “Arm and leg compression sleeves shall be white, black, beige or a single solid color, is this correct?”

And the answer is Arm and leg compression sleeves have to be white, black, beige or a single solid school color..

Is that true or false?

-The Knicks’ coaching search still includes a lone frontrunner, Kurt Rambis, whose qualifications for the position include a strong relationship with Jackson and a willingness to take the job.

any time i see something that is "True/False: ____________?"

i become furious that i'm wasting my time taking some bullshit test for an idiot.

i still blame hip-hop.

at least...my instructors will take a sentence from the book and make it a t.f question. Meanwhile the next sentence(which isn't on the test) will list the exceptions lol.

-The Knicks’ coaching search still includes a lone frontrunner, Kurt Rambis, whose qualifications for the position include a strong relationship with Jackson and a willingness to take the job.

Thanks to Bomb, MadDago, jerseytornado, and temps who all gave great suggestions for my trip there. There was no way I could hit everything suggested (I really tried to reserve a table at Jacques-Imo's for instance but it was already filled up) but definitely hit up Frenchman St., Yo Momma's Grill, and Johnny's from the suggestions, all fucking great. Had a really nice dinner on Frenchman St. at a spot called Three Muses, which had sort of a Silverlake/DTLA sorta vibe (and a similar sort of crowd) before we hit DBA. I drank my face off the whole time, my gambler friends enjoyed blowing their afternoon at the Harrah's, and my married friends enjoyed the copious amount of strip clubs far away from their wives.

I'd definitely do NOLA again, great town, though I don't think I'd list it at the top of "relaxing vacation spots" (I'd probably need a reason to go there, but there always seems to be enough events going on there that I'd find a reason to go), and I think next time I'll rent a car so I can explore more spots further out.

Also, my coworker quitting my job (cause the system we worked on will eventually be phased out... 6 years from now) got me a raise that puts me right close to 6 figures. Things have been pretty good here, though I'd like to take the rest of the year to take it relatively easy after really blowing it out in September.

Flying in Thursday morning, coming back monday....ACL weekend 2.

I mentioned this in the previous OKSGD post and a couple cats chimed in (nutshell: go to franklins lol), and was hoping to get some more suggestions .

If there's anything else you think I should know, please feel free to inform me lol.

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<--The drought is over

"have fun reveling in your pettiness tho" (C) Dula summing up 98% of OKS

"I didnt finish a damn thing...matter of fact I jerked off after she left."
-Kobe speaking to investigators

L D E A

Barley Swine -- modernist small plates with interesting ingredient twists. amazing service. a very tight space that used to be walk-in only, but they've started taking reservations. the six bar seats overlooking the kitchen are the best.

Uchi or Uchiko -- same owner and lots of overlapping menu choices, so take your pick. contemporary Japanese. plated dishes are much better than the sushi. all the desserts are worth ordering (and I rarely get dessert). super popular.

Franklin Barbecue -- I'd really shoot for Friday if you can, because Saturday is probably the longest wait. and don't waste that beautiful meat by ordering a sandwich.

la Barbecue, John Mueller Meat Co. and Micklethwait Craft Meats - you kinda have to go to Franklin if you've never been, but these should all be worth trying on Saturday or Sunday. definitely get a beef rib at la or Mueller's; I love fatty brisket but think a perfectly cooked beef rib is even better. Micklethwait for sausages.

Houndstooth - not sure if you like coffee but Austin has a lot of it. this was my favorite (and right next door to Uchiko).

being from California, the tacos and Tex-Mex in Austin can be skipped over.

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Any suggestions on what to get and how much weight per person?

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<--The drought is over

"have fun reveling in your pettiness tho" (C) Dula summing up 98% of OKS

"I didnt finish a damn thing...matter of fact I jerked off after she left."
-Kobe speaking to investigators

L D E A

3/4 fatty, 1/4 lean.

Anything else you want, go for it - I personally liked the ribs and the turkey was fine, but the brisket is king there.

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17x NBA Champions

their sides are kind of bullshit, too. i mean, they aren't terrible or anything, but that's space in your gullet that could be used for meat, so don't bother.

i still blame hip-hop.

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<--The drought is over

"have fun reveling in your pettiness tho" (C) Dula summing up 98% of OKS

"I didnt finish a damn thing...matter of fact I jerked off after she left."
-Kobe speaking to investigators

L D E A

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<--The drought is over

"have fun reveling in your pettiness tho" (C) Dula summing up 98% of OKS

"I didnt finish a damn thing...matter of fact I jerked off after she left."
-Kobe speaking to investigators

L D E A

County Line BBQ

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Also I got their chili there that was FUCKING UNREAL.

Texas Prairie Fire Chili
Texas bison, beef and venison, bacon, roasted seasonal peppers, queso fresco and fried onions *Make it a Frito Pie at no additional cost.*

Best fried chicken I had there. People will say Lucy's - which is good, but is around Popeye's quality-wise, but Max's is THE SHIT.

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17x NBA Champions

if you're into twee Asian fusion stuff Elizabeth Street Cafe is good (dope Singapore noodles)

End Of An Ear on S 1st St for vinyl

Late night cocktails: Peche

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For the record, my teams:
MLB: Mets / Soccer: PSG
NCAA BB: Arizona / NCAA FB: Michigan
NBA: Spurs / NFL: Jets

Almost didn't make it out after a long Thursday night of drinking on 6th street (which was a lot quieter than usual I'm told due to a lot of folk going up to Dallas for the red river shootout)but a friend of a friend got himself into line at 9:30 and then we joined up a little later

It was a helluva wait because they were training new people + the computer's went down for awhile. Got there at 9:30 and ate at 1:30....but MY GOD WAS THAT SOME RIDICULOUS BRISKET. Oh my lord, that first bite is unlike anything I've ever had. Just indescribable. Had a half pound of brisket each and got some turkey but the latter just didn't have much taste to it. To finish it all off, had their bourbon banana cream pie and that too was simply delicious.

ACL pretty much took all of the time on Friday afternoon and all of Saturday...and then the heavens opened up for a torrential downpour which lasted all night, resulting in the cancellation of ACL for sunday. Not the worst deal because we are getting that day refunded and those funds went toward covering a lot of the alcohol + food costs lol...and I was able to check out dt Austin on Sunday, without having to rush. Watched football and then dinner at Moonshine Patio and Grill on Red River and 2nd st based off yelp reviews....very very good food, had my first taste of moonshine as well.

The highlight of the trip was Sunday night though...a lot of the canceled bands from Sunday were already in town so they quickly setup shows at local spots. My friends know the Mowglis from high school so we were able to get in VIP(felt terrible for the people actually waiting...something like only 30/200 got in) and as is usually the case in an intimate setting like Lambert's, the show was so much fun. Small pool, Group Love did a small set, Walk the Moon lead singer came on to sing 'Enchilada', and then the Mowglis closed it out....ridiculous energy and vibe.

In general, I gotta say that I fell in love with Austin. The setting, the people, the energy....could definitely see myself there for a few years after school. Need some time to experience all of the food.

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<--The drought is over

"have fun reveling in your pettiness tho" (C) Dula summing up 98% of OKS

"I didnt finish a damn thing...matter of fact I jerked off after she left."
-Kobe speaking to investigators

L D E A

this whole thing is just sickening.

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I wanna go to where the martyrs went
the brown figures on the walls of my apart-a-ment...

this crisis is nothing..he's thinkin about that Thanksgiving dinner gathering more i'm sure

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2019 CABG Survivor

2016 OK Survivor Champion

be about it or be without it

RIP GOATs

have a couple of moles that might be cancer.

pretty stressed.

probably not melanoma tho, so that's good.

i still blame hip-hop.

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I wanna go to where the martyrs went
the brown figures on the walls of my apart-a-ment...

i'm not much for doctor's offices, generally, so almost any doc visit is kinda stressful for me.

i still blame hip-hop.

so it goes.

i still blame hip-hop.

supposedly they got it all, so other than the little chunk of my arm i'm missing i should be aight.

still pretty scary.

i still blame hip-hop.

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Good to hear.

http://i.imgur.com/vPqCzVU.jpg

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I wanna go to where the martyrs went
the brown figures on the walls of my apart-a-ment...

http://i.imgur.com/vPqCzVU.jpg

i still blame hip-hop.

http://www.rogue.com/beers/chatoe-pumpkin.php

Favorite beer this season next to Elysian's
Night Owl Pumpkin Ale

That new Deltron is slowly growing on me but I'm sure they're gonna kill it live. Picked up my ticket earlier this week.

Seattle has a ton of good shows this fall I'm seeing. Saw Dave Chappelle last Friday, Kandrick opens their tour next Saturday followed by Pete Rock & CL Smooth soon after. Still on the fence for Gift of Gab, Janelle Monae, & Earl Sweatshirt too.

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She drew that freehand. Each day of the month has a fall activity on it, from making pumpkin bread to going apple picking, etc.

She's been crafty as fuck lately, and I'm enjoying the benefits.

*Jews you*

"this is okp tho, reading is completely optional" (c) desus

Proceed with caution. I am overtly racist.

<-- In Pigpen we trust

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...I'm from the era when A.I. was the answer, now they think ai is the answer - Marlon Craft

*Jews you*

"this is okp tho, reading is completely optional" (c) desus

Proceed with caution. I am overtly racist.

<-- In Pigpen we trust

Astoria, what up!

http://i.imgur.com/UtT2cPm.jpg


NYC OKS'ers...a happy hour/football meetup must come to fruition now.

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I wanna go to where the martyrs went
the brown figures on the walls of my apart-a-ment...

I guess you didn't go for the place on Steinway?

*Jews you*

"this is okp tho, reading is completely optional" (c) desus

Proceed with caution. I am overtly racist.

<-- In Pigpen we trust

plus there's a good gym (according to yelp) just a couple blocks up fro me now. that kinda helped sway me...that falafel cart being there is totally counterproductive tho

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I wanna go to where the martyrs went
the brown figures on the walls of my apart-a-ment...

I would eat there every day if I could.

*Jews you*

"this is okp tho, reading is completely optional" (c) desus

Proceed with caution. I am overtly racist.

<-- In Pigpen we trust

lol

seemed like a character

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I wanna go to where the martyrs went
the brown figures on the walls of my apart-a-ment...

http://i.imgur.com/vPqCzVU.jpg

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I wanna go to where the martyrs went
the brown figures on the walls of my apart-a-ment...