Author: /u/lot183

The West Alabama Ice House website

https://www.west-alabama-ice-house.com/

I really just need someone else to see this website so to confirm I didn’t imagine it in a fever dream. I have to imagine it’s all a very tongue in cheek joke and yet the website reads weirdly earnest, specially the to do lists? Was this even set-up by the bar or is it an elaborate joke? I did laugh at a few things on here, like the suggestion of staying at the Four Seasons to go to West Alabama, but the earnestness keeps throwing me off. Maybe this is just multiple layers deep. Someone confirm with me. Help.

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Gun ranges enforcing masks/distancing rules

I own a couple firearms and I haven’t gone to a range since before the pandemic, but I have had the itch lately. But, in my experience, gun ranges tend to be quite….right leaning, and right leaning places nowadays don’t seem to be taking this virus seriously because somehow it became a political issue. I very much don’t want to catch this thing in the home stretch, I haven’t so far, so if the answer is “none of them” I’ll probably stay in, but if there’s one doing a good job of it not only would I like to scratch this itch but they sound pretty worthy of my money.

So I ask, are there any Houston area ranges actually enforcing follow masking and distance rules? And customers generally doing it? Or am I basically SOL until this thing is over?

quick edit- I dont actually care if they wear it while actually shooting in a lane, more in the lobby and walking around

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Margin Walker (concert organizer) is shutting down operations

https://twitter.com/MarginWalkerTX/status/1338574125200248832?s=19

They were primarily based in Austin, but they booked a decent bit of shows in Houston too.

Very worried for the other booking companies around Texas. I’m hoping the other side of this thing isn’t just LiveNation and other corporate hellhole companies left by themselves.

Shout-out to congress for doing absolutely nothing to save the entertainment industry.

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The "King of Crawfish" Festival yesterday was terrible and basically a scam

For the record, I was very weary of it, but one of our friends bought a “VIP” ticket that got 8 people in so I went with him so he’d have people. Any crawfish festival that says “All You Can Eat”, specially in February, is likely a scam, so look out. This one had tons of ads on Facebook from one of the major newspapers (I think the Chronicle?)

We got there around 3 hoping to eat some crawfish and get out of there, as I think everyone in the group grew increasingly weary of it. There were HUGE lines to get in, this event was way oversold. And they didn’t start letting people in until roughly 30-40 minutes after it was supposed to open, and there was a consistent line the whole time I was there that moved slow…and doubly slow because the only exit was the entrance, which was a clusterfuck. Once you got in, you had to wait in a stupid long line to get a half pound, maybe a pound of unseasoned probably cold crawfish, and had to wait in the line again to get anymore. There were only two of these stations for this with stupid large lines.

Our “VIP” ticket promised a table and a server. We at least had a table (not reserved, but an extra area with tables) but no waiter. Long lines for water and beer too. And some mediocre cover bands playing and that was it. There were other food trucks there that people were going to instead because of the wait for the crawfish. Thing was a mess. And when we left around 530ish there was still a huge line wrapped around the park. I’m guessing they certainly expected people to be leaving after a short time because the lines were so long that there’s no way they had a safe amount of people in that tiny park if they let everyone in. Plus as mentioned, the exit was the entrance which created a mess. Very surprised if this thing wasn’t shut down by a fire marshal.

I honestly kind of assumed it would be like this and only went because I felt bad for my friend needing to fill his spots for his ticket, but man, that was a mess. It was put on by Green Light Events and this is a PSA to be weary of them or any all you can eat crawfish fest in the future.

The facebook page for the event is filled with similar reviews.

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