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I was going to post this exact thing. Don't start complaining yet! Save your hatred for the last two episodes. :lol:

I’m sure you will be occupied with the hunt, but if you’re into UTVs or 4x4s, Windrock is right there, and it’s an incredible off road park where you’ll also see some incredible off road rigs. We have done a lot of mountain bike races there (they have a downhill mtb park as well), and the area is insane.

Reading Bomb Light by Neal Stephenson, the sequel to Polostan. As always, Stephenson delivers. I'm a sucker for that era of history (the great battle between capitalism and communism when communism seemed an equally valid and exciting idea). The lines are all so blurry and interesting. Stephenson can just flat write some insane sentences and scenarios as well.

I’d look into the NRS pfds. They make fishing specific ones. A “cool” thing he might like that my son (fly fishing, so might be a little different) likes on his iSUP is a Yeti Gobox. Most of the fly fishing boat guides I know also use these. They’re waterproof, bombproof, and let you load out for the specific trip you’re on. Of course, you can also get other boxes that take rod holders and such… but they’re not Yeti.

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Nick Johnson doing a good job of carrying the old Mikey sound while rocking Jimmy's rig. Bon Temps in Nola over the weekend.

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I've seen Panic a ton back in the Mikey days, but I was always a bigger fan of Phish, which has always been a sort of dividing line in my "jamband" friend/touring group. I've always like Panic's songwriting better than Phish, but their live sound just doesn't have as much variety and hasn't ever been as intersting to me. That being said, I was in Angelfire for a mountain bike trip during Mempho and was traveling with some dudes who are big into Panic. So we watched the Mempho shows at night. I was pretty impressed with Nick's guitar playing. I agree that he has a lot of Mikey's sound... but it seems like he has way more variety in his guitar tone than what Mikey always did. Anyway, those Mempho shows were some of the most enjoyable Panic shows I've watched or heard.

We finished S4 last night. So danged good. The new British PM is fantastic. While they definitely are showing President Penn to be unbalanced and having something wrong with her, they've ALSO done a good job of realistically depicting how even "good" leaders can go astray. They also do a good job of showing how charming/sane she can seem before doing something completely unhinged and tyrannical.

Anyway... they sure know how to end a season with a bang and making you want more. Half expected the first gentleman to walk out chasing them as well "Wait for me... she's fricking nuts!"
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Ehh. Sure. While she talked to him like a punk as he walked away. Im sure they’ll clarify at some point why, but he’s entirely too gangster for ANYBODY to be talking to him sideways. Including Conrad. Harry is routinely doing Jason Bourne type shite for that family

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One of the things I’ve noticed with Maeve, and I don’t think it’s intentional on the writers part, is that she talks a lot of shite but, ultimately, doesn’t do a damned thing. She’s always saying some out of pocket, over the top nonsense, but the family, and Harry, just seem to ignore her for the most part.

She’s constantly telling and screaming and threatening and cursing; lots of bark but no real bite. And I don’t think it’s because she is kind or well meaning, I just don’t think she has any real power other than her ability to influence Conrad.

1) The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing by Thomas McGuane

2) Good question... I remember my librarian giving me the Hobbit in 3rd grade, which I know is kind of a kid's book. But I was a voracious reader, and she gave it to me as a "special" book. Other than that, probably some Tom Clancy novel, as my dad and I both read all of his books as they were released starting when I was in middle school.

3) That's a hard one, because I've read a ton of them (I used to teach English at the high school level and read a couple a week for years). Maybe Little Brother by Corey Doctorow. Or King Dork by Frank Portman.

4) Might have a little recency bias, but DCC is pretty up there at the moment.

5) I'm a fantasy/scifi nerd at heart, but then I got a Masters in English Literature, so I read a ton of "literary fiction." Steinbeck was the topic of my thesis, and I really like that era of American literature. I was also hugely into drug/counterculture writing (Denis Jonson, William Burroughs, Hunter S. Thompson, etc..). Currently, I mainly read either scifi/fantasy or outdoor/nature writing.

Also, while they're normally considered a metal band, Deafheaven's album Infinite Granite is very shoegaze.

Just a head's up that their Gudrun mountain bike festival will be next weekend. Probably won't affect too much, as most of the events are a little out of town, but there will be a "slow roll" on Friday evening at 5pm. If you are interested in bikes and such, then the spectating is fairly good for the XC on Saturday and the enduro on Sunday.

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My son is in school at Durango, and his roommate (huge into skiing and went to a ski boarding school for high school) already hit the slopes yesterday at Silverton.