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To: Rambi who wrote (60280)	7/29/2001 9:56:13 AM
From: epicure	Respond to of 71178

What a great day you had. I wish I could visit your book stores. I am alerting the PC authorities to your unfortunately named illusive mountain.

To: Rambi who wrote (60280)	7/29/2001 10:15:27 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

I took Megan and her friends to see Legally Blonde. And then I took them out to lunch at a nice Italian restaurant. Megan is turning 12 and she wanted to have a luncheon instead of a party. Legally Blonde was very funny. I did pour coke all over my loafers trying to serve Megan and her girlfriends their drinks. And I got popcorn down my dress (because I was carrying this huge tray of food and I had the popcorn leaning against my chest and my dress had a scoop neck...) Popcorn is uncomfortable to have in your clothing. Just FYI. Then Mr. X and I went to a double birthday dinner for some of our friends at a very exclusive and expensive restaurant which had some of the most expensive and most gaggy food I've ever eaten. 110 dollars for dinner and it SUCKED. I am rather pissed off. Nothing tasted like you thought it would. And what cretin thought blue cheese and apricots with potato pancakes would go together? (Shafts Blue Cheese Potato Cakes with Prosciutto and Apricot Vinaigrette 10.25) I mean it's not like they were even potato pancakes- more like molten lumps (2) of liquid bluecheese goo. And the calamari MR. X ordered was giant (not small crisp morsels), and greasy. And there he was breaking his vegetarian rules because he loves calamari and it SUCKED. Ok so then on to dinner. Which sucked as well. I don't even know what dinner was. There were scallops wrapped in bacon- and the scallops weren't done. And they had no taste. There was some sort of giant mess of "potatoe salad" which was little red potatoes, something that looked like peaches, "heirloom tomatoes"(right, with NO flavor, I bet they came from Costco), and a big bunch of champagne grapes- which were good, and were the only thing I ate. BLECH On to desert. Things had to get better. And I had lots of room. Apricot berry torte(Apricot Almond Torte with light Blackberry Anglaise 5.95). Doesn't that sound like there will be apricots and berries? No. I'm sorry. You are wrong. It was a piece of gingerbread cake with a few berries on the side, and a scoop of grape sorbet (cabernet sorbet- fancy schmancy- it's grape). Sigh Chez Pannisse was SO much better The restaurant's name is ...."Mudd's. Aptly named, imo.

To: Rambi who wrote (60280)	7/29/2001 10:53:50 AM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

I am thrilled that I finally got someone to visit Archer City! You've made my day. A long story about how I learned about it. Several years ago when I was a fairly proficient long distance cyclist, I trained for an event in Wichita Falls called the Hotter 'n Hell Hundred, a 100 mile bicycle event which takes place during the week before Labor Day. An interesting story by itself. People die on this thing. A real masochists' convention. A hundred mile bike ride in 105+ degree heat is not a Sunday traipse in the park. Any way, my hotel reservations in Wichita Falls got screwed up so I wandered around looking for a place to stay. I ended up in Archer City on the first day that the Spur Hotel opened. I'm sure you saw it, an old cattleman's hotel that has been renovated. After checking in, I wandered around a bit, and "discovered" the as of yet unrenovated cinema that served as inspiration for The Last Picture Show. McMurtry had not yet used Archer City as a book depository. Nevertheless, I was so enchanted by it that I made reservations at the Spur for the following year. Have been going there annually ever since. Have met McMurtry, and have thoroughly enjoyed browsing and buying. He's wonderful, though he has an unfortunate mumble voice that makes him very difficult to understand. I met him one evening while he was putting up bookshelves. He's a dyed-in-the-wool book addict. No Twelve Steps program could possibly cure him. We go there every year for the H 'n H though I no longer bicycle it. My wife does a 25 mile rollerblade event while I browse. Been doing this trip for about 10 years now. Will be there again in late August. If the market keeps going down, my threat to retire in AC might not be as much of a joke as I originally intended it to be. There's no chance that increased popularity and hordes of tourists will ruin AC. It is definitely an acquired taste for a small segment of the population. By the way, if you don't mind my inquiry, how did Ammo get his nickname?

To: Rambi who wrote (60280)	7/29/2001 10:57:42 AM
From: Ish	Respond to of 71178

Did you get that rancher's name? With 6,000 cows I bet he's got a little extra manure if you need some for your compost pile.

To: Rambi who wrote (60280)	7/29/2001 4:52:34 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

<I said, how many head do you have? (trying to sound like I know rancher talk) he said, What? How many cows I said, embarrassed. 6000. 6000!!!!!!! > Yukk. My 3 vegetarian daughters would not think that a pleasant day out. How about visiting Dachau? <... there was a Squaw Mt. Ranch- I just looked it up and it seems to be a ranch for hunting exotic animals. I think this man should be hunted and shot. I can't believe people go shooting beautiful animals for the thrill.> You like to hunt the hunter or get somebody to do it for you? I'm getting the idea on why Ammo likes those films Rambi. Why is it better to kill ugly cattle than beautiful exotic animals? Would it be okay to hunt ugly animals for the thrill? People [not me - I'm like you, I get others to do my dirty work] here go shooting beautiful deer and ugly pigs for fun and food. Hunting is a natural human [perhaps male only] behaviour, just as cats catching mice is a natural cat behaviour - they love 'hunting' and playing with a fake mouse if the real thing isn't available. But they get really wild, alive, eyes if they catch a real bird. Anyway, back to the relaxed DAR state. I just came to cause a little bit of trouble Rambi! And I suppose really just to say hello. Grin... that's a heartfelt grin, not the fake variety. Mqurice PS: X would grin at the ugly animals because statistically they are ignored. At the zoo, X will go to the ugly animals' cages, away from the crowds oohing and ahhing over the peacocks and grin at them to encourage them.

To: Rambi who wrote (60280)	7/29/2001 5:33:08 PM
From: Justin C	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

Nice day trip. West Texas (generally everything west of I-35) has always been my favorite part of the state, mostly because of the pleasant, real people and the landscape that has been relatively untarnished by the development and resulting visual pollution of the large urban areas in the rest of the state. In the past year I've made driving trips to Brownwood, Marble Falls and Lubbock, and each time it felt good to be in the western part of the state. Although I'm not an avid reader like you, I have Archer City and McMurtry's book empire on my list of places to visit -- I suspect there would be an interesting photo-op or two there.