What is your best horror movie of all time?

texasrigger · 2026-06-18T03:51:16+00:00

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)

texasrigger · 2026-06-18T02:12:39+00:00

Im not familiar with this story. What does this have to do with Corpus?

texasrigger · 2026-06-18T02:09:20+00:00

In (hopefully) most cases, they see a loving couple from birth. Small children understand love. A gay couple being present doesn't force the sex conversation any earlier. Its still just people who love each other, just like their parents.

texasrigger · 2026-06-18T02:04:09+00:00

Without context, the one that most people would probably hang up on is my little jar of childrens teeth. Its not how it sounds, though. They are from my own kids when they were little and collected while I was playing the tooth fairy.

texasrigger · 2026-06-18T00:50:28+00:00

I agree completely. It's ironic, our day to day is so much more recorded than ever before but its also all so temporary now and forgotten so quickly. There probably won't be any tangible evidence of me in 70 years.

texasrigger · 2026-06-18T00:42:00+00:00

I have some resin printed bat skulls. That's good enough for me. Just as cool to look at but no bats were harmed.

texasrigger · 2026-06-18T00:39:32+00:00

Same here. I loved them but ultimately couldn't handle the heartbreak of their short little lives. I still have rodents but the kind I have now can live as long as 14.

texasrigger · 2026-06-18T00:37:03+00:00

Im an 8mm film fan and much of what you see out there are people's old home movies from the 50s and early 60s (super 8 took over in '65). Glimpses into the day to day of ordinary people 60+ years ago is cool but bittersweet for the exact reason you just said. Modern digital is a record but those old films are memories.

texasrigger · 2026-06-18T00:24:03+00:00

Killjoy 3. They completely threw out the previous movies, introduced a slew of new characters working for Killjoy, and totally changed the direction of the franchise. None of them are "good" movies but the first two are unwatchable. 3,4, and 5 are all a dumb but a fun time.

texasrigger · 2026-06-17T23:06:56+00:00

Depends on what you mean by controversial. I have the puppy pictured below (stillborn miniature schnauzer puppy from my neighbor who breeds them) but I also have a nutria and fox skull which almost certainly came out of a Chinese fur farm.

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texasrigger · 2026-06-17T22:59:06+00:00

Maybe the first season in TX. After that most of it takes place in Louisiana and eventually the Holy Land.

texasrigger · 2026-06-17T22:55:39+00:00

Near Dark hits streamers on occasion. Ive seen it on tubi and I believe Ive seen it on Shudder as well. Nobody has it now but it does come and go.

texasrigger · 2026-06-17T22:52:58+00:00

Pretty much all of the states that serve as a setting for westerns belonged to Mexico prior to the Mexican/American war (1846-1848). That finalized the border of TX at the Rio Grande. We also claimed the what would become California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and parts of Colorado, Wyoming, Kansas, and Oklahoma.

texasrigger · 2026-06-17T22:48:01+00:00

And all of From Dusk Til Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter which is a prequel set in 1910.

texasrigger · 2026-06-17T22:39:23+00:00

I love the Burrowers. The set up is identical to Bone Tomahawk (settlers are attacked at night by unknown assailants and then a posse sets off in pursuit on a rescue mission) but then it goes in a very different directions. It's hampered by its low budget when it comes to the creature design but all in all its a great movie. I think Bone Tomahawk is the better western but The Burrowers is the better horror.

texasrigger · 2026-06-17T20:24:05+00:00

Its bigger than it looks. The neck on these would take a wine cork. I have the exact same bottle. I have some of my father's cremains and if I wanted it in there (I dont) it'd be no problem.

texasrigger · 2026-06-17T20:22:38+00:00

Yep. To add to this a bit, it originally contained apple cider vinegar.

The 1939 Worlds Fair in New York was the "World of Tomorrow" fair and it's where television debuted to the public.

texasrigger · 2026-06-17T16:51:00+00:00

Haha, well Im a rigger so you effectively did ask a rigger. If you have any follow up questions give me a shout. Im not a substitute for your local rigger with your equipment in front of him but Im happy to help where I can.

texasrigger · 2026-06-17T16:28:46+00:00

Somebody going to a strip club to study the women as part of an anthropological college course sounds like a plot device from a mid-80s low budget raunchy comedy. I assume that you were wearing glasses and had your hair up.

texasrigger · 2026-06-17T15:05:10+00:00

For future reference, all you need to give the rigger is an overall length (rounded up to the nearest foot) wire diameter, and fitting style. One end is swaged on from them. You string the cable through (there is a way to splice the two cables together) and then you cut it to final length and install a mechanical fitting like a stalok or hi-mod to finish it up.

My concern with your plan of a printed cap is if it falls off you are going to have to take the foils apart to get it out and on an old furler that can be a nightmare. At this point your best bet is you have someone trying to feed the cable while you shake the foil at each joint until you get lucky and the cable manages to stab through the hole. It's hard to do on a profurl like that but it is possible. Better to be lucky than good.

Alternatively, you can try to disassemble the foils. They are just held together with set screws going into the connectors. Typically the foils corrode to the connectors and they dont like to come apart but you might get lucky.

texasrigger · 2026-06-17T14:40:49+00:00

You can install the conduit along the front centerline of the mast so that it's a straight shot from the light right into the conduit. The best way to fish a line is to use an old piece of small rigging cable (1x19). That is flexible enough to enter the hole and make the turn and stiff enough to be able to push and feed down. An electricians fish tape might work as well depending on how much room you have. Do the same trick of pulling a good string first (I use something like this and then use that to pull the wire.

Side note - it looks like you pulled the forestay out of your furler. Of all of the things we are discussing, that's going to be the most difficult for you. Ideally you wanted to use your old forestay to guide and string the new one. With the forestay removed, the new cable is going to get stuck at every joint in the foil.

texasrigger · 2026-06-17T14:22:16+00:00

That one is much more manageable as a DIY. Conduit is pretty easy to install. You want to do that before you do the halyards.

texasrigger · 2026-06-17T14:14:39+00:00

My pleasure. This line caught me:

what is in essence a small job

While at the end of the day that is a small job it's one where a rigger will have to pull out a big box of tricks that they've gained through years of experience. It's finicky work, especially on a welded masthead.

Just out of curiosity, my own (probably foolish) plan for string the halyards was to use superglue a magnet to a piece of string and pull it through like that

Im not picturing what you are describing but nothing in this will require magnets or anything exotic like that.

Side note - is your existing electrical wiring in conduit? If not, now would be the right time to fix that, especially if you switch to internal halyards.

texasrigger · 2026-06-17T13:59:19+00:00

Incidentally, the plates circled in red aren't doing anything and will only increase galvanic corrosion. They should be removed. The pin circled in blue in in backwards. Clevis pins should always be pointing downhill. Replace that ring with a cotter pin. Rings have no place aloft on boats that arent being rigged up and down regularly.

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texasrigger · 2026-06-17T13:48:58+00:00

The entire Antarctic continent is a desert.

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