Needs

History

Member for
3 years 41 weeks
Blog
View recent blog entries

Karma

Current value
2

Recent Comments

Date Title Body
24 min 50 sec ago Poor phrasing, IMO. I think

Poor phrasing, IMO. I think he was trying to say that you would have to respect anyone with Howard's longevity, whether or not they had attended Michigan.

 

 
28 min 52 sec ago I think it was more like a

I think that was more like a 1, given the gif above.

This has now become an experiment on if and when mods check every thread.
1 hour 26 min ago 40 and 10. Guess draining the

40 and 10. Guess draining the knee helped.
1 hour 31 min ago NBA league office very happy.

NBA league office very happy. Their ultimate nightmare finals scenario disappearing.
1 hour 51 min ago Indiana needs to stop taking

Indiana needs to stop taking so many 3s.
2 hours 2 min ago Quick too. I did about two

Quick too. I did about two minutes of work and it went from Miami +1 to Miami+10
2 hours 18 min ago Collison, ugly outside shot

Collison, ugly outside shot or the ugliest outside shot?

Goes down though.
11 hours 48 min ago Hear, hear.  Who would

Hear, hear.  Who would possibly want to read an interview with the author best at explaining the innovations that have remade offensive football in the last decade to understand better how they work?
13 hours 41 min ago Last time I was in Dallas (a

Last time I was in Dallas (a couple years ago) Deep Ellum had experienced kind of a comeback, at least it seemed (I left in 2007). Fewer 18+ clubs where there were always fights breaking out. If you're looking for a strip of bars, I think that's the place to go. It definitely attracts a more diverse crew of people than Uptown, which, as many people have said, is largely post-collegiate professional. If that's what you're looking for, there it is, it's just not much different than what you can find in every other neighborhood like it in the country (Buckhead in Atlanta, Murray Hill in NYC, Lakeview in Chicago), just with more expensive cars. There are some hidden spots in and around uptown that are very interesting (the Grapevine Bar is awesome, and its right across from my favorite Tex-Mex dive in Dallas) but it's just harder to stumble across them. 

Deep Ellum has a mix of bikers, hipsters, young professionals, older folks, artists or those who say they are, varying bar to bar (and it does vary a lot). Down there, I like Adair's for drinking and seeing live music, the Black Swan is tiny but a great bar to drink at, great bartenders, the AllGood Cafe has excellent chicken fried steak. Off the main strip a bit, the Sons of Hermann Hall has really great Austin-style honky tonk music regularly (but check the schedule becuase they're not open if there's no music) and, across the street, Double Wide, which is more of a compound than a bar, but has a main bar in a double wide trailer, can be weird, can be unpleasant, or can be incredibly fun, depending on the crowd. (If you're heading to those places, just know where you're going because they're getting close to Exhibition Park, which is the only "bad" part of Dallas that anyone visiting for the game might accidentally stumble in to).

Lower Greenville has a bunch of neighborhood bars that are great places to hang out at. At Nate said, though, it's tough to bar hop because stuff's pretty spread out.

I'd echo the thoughts above about either downtown Ft Worth or the Stockyards. You could certainly do worse on Friday night than fajitas at Joe T. Garcias,  the rodeo at the Stockyards, and then Billy Bob's or downtown if the rodeo provided your fill of boots and hats. 
14 hours 52 min ago It's a bad thing if it leads

It's a bad thing if it leads to a widespread sense of distrust among teammates. I've no idea if it did, obviously, but its much better if pressure not to violate team rules comes from within the team, rather than from the belief that a teammate sold someone out.
Theme provided by Roopletheme; sidebars adapted from Chris Murphy.