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i would look like i ate paul prudhomme in about 60 days if i lived out there. cajun/creole is my kryptonite. i am powerless against it.

bon temps cafe is a hidden gem. crawfish etoufee pot pie. i thought i'd died and gone to heaven.

i'll add: you need to do cafe du monde and eat the beignets on a bench in jackson square. but...if you really just need a beignet and cafe au lait fix, the location in city park is usually much less crowded and the park is nice.

jacques-imo's is a fun spot. my sister in law used to bartend there. long wait, but the owner will have a drink with you. pascal's manale - the brennans bought it, i believe. they've got a dude shucking oysters at the bar in the lobby while you wait. the barbecue shrimp are the deal. don't bother with anything else. camellia grill for breakfast. better than mother's. columns hotel for drinks after dinner. cochon is reliably good. brigsten's is excellent if you can get a table. brunch at oceana grill. they make a lot of the breakfast recipes from petunia's (which died shortly before or after katrina). crab cake eggs benedict and a mimosa. bananas foster french toast. all the crepes. i miss uglesich's (fried seafood dive that closed pre-katrina when they retired), eleven 79 (veal porterhouse was a game changer), and dick & jenny's (they relocated to buffalo ny for reasons i do not understand). if you are driving, central pizza, pop's po-boys (debris and oyster surf and turf poboy), and bon temps grill are all fantastic. afterward, buy a cheap cooler and load it up with frozen goodies and cracklin at best stop meat market in scott. their smoked boudin is absolutely killer. the stuffed pork chops are great too. i prefer their stuff over don's.

penalties and turnovers. that will be the ballgame. which crew will be reffing the game? please tell me it’s not slingblade…

the website trim (if that's what it is called) is dark blue for me, not orange.

we cannot look at any team’s offensive performance vs any defense as a predictor of our success. it’s shawn watson/tim beck bad this year.

i hated to see smothers go out again, but he was running like he was blindfolded. i don’t understand why sark didn’t just stay with the hot hand.

i think i’ll just stay here and drink - merle haggard

i bet poor joey high school had diarrhea after he read that

lead ref = slingblade the field judge was horrible

robertson and baker have been horrible. robertson was a known quantity but i think it was reasonable to expect baker to be better at guard than he has been. you can’t hide two pushovers in the middle of your line. it’s affecting everyone else on the line. …and when you run a pro-style play action offense (predominantly with 3rd-down back type RBs getting hit at or behind the line of scrimmage)…and you are unwilling to adjust your scheme to suit your personnel that YOU brought in…and you have a QB with tunnel vision and no pocket awareness… [sigh]

vasher

this OL is complete trash. it is inexcusable.

ramonce taylor's reception in 05 (before pittman's). i believe it was the first receiving TD by a Texas receiver since 99. billy pittman's td: it felt like everyone in the stadium knew it was coming and there was not a dang thing ou could do about it. hearing about VY taunting the ou defenders before the play made it even better. robison hammering bomar. shipley's return in 08 quan's de-cleater in 08 dicker's kick marcus johnson's long td and daje johnson's punt return in 2013 were awesome too. i walked into the cotton bowl expecting to watch a funeral for mack's career, but we punched them in the mouth. he saved the funeral for the baylor ice fog game, which i also attended, unfortunately.

good stuff. i don't think the hope girl has been in an episode this season, has she?

this is reaching back a bit, but simon reminds me of chris robertson. he came to Texas from denison in 98 and was behind hodges mitchell, victor ike (fast but no vision/shake), and kenny hayter (heralded but didn't pan out). he was buried on the depth chart, but he flashed when he went in. i never understood why he didn't get more playing time. he ended up transferring to cougar high, but unfortunately, the injury bug bit him hard and he medically retired from football.

i couldn’t have been more impressed with the people and the atmosphere at neyland. they were passionate about their team, but absolutely courteous throughout our visit and gracious after the game. it far exceeded my expectations. our video board/PA folks could learn some things from theirs as well. it was appropriately engaging…it didn’t drown out the band and they didn’t have the PA guy leading the cheers like a doofus. they also had the band positioned in the stadium where they could pipe the music through the loudspeakers and not have an echo effect.

i apologize if this has been addressed somewhere else. i looked around a bit but didn’t see anything. we toured utk with our daughter today (great campus/friendly students and faculty - 75% of the kids on the tour were from Texas). one of the students we visited with told us that utk administration sent the students an email saying that, due to the increased security at the stadium, if you aren’t inside by 10am, there is a very good chance that you will miss kickoff. i figured that i would pass this along so my brethren in knoxville can plan accordingly. there are a ton of Texas fans here…never a surprise, but always fun to see. hook’em!

and steve spurrier eats his boogers

if parker believes that, he’s dumber than that stupid 80s mustache he wears

i was at dkr last night, but i watched the replay this morning. cdc needs to hire an investigator to find the tard who kept whistling into the parabolic microphone when ohio state had the ball. holy crap that was annoying.

NIL dollars don’t catch passes, and connor robertson still can’t run block to save his life. i’ve been watching him on nearly every play and he’s a net negative. he makes the guards look worse.

it’s reasonable to have a little “show me” baked in to a game like this. we’ve struggled against the buckeyes and georgia the last few years. we may have the potential, but per DKR, that just means we haven’t done it yet. i am cautiously optimistic. i’m ready to get down there!