April 02, 2016
By: Juanita Jean Herownself
Category: Uncategorized
Texas got the semi-exciting news that Clint Eastwood is moving to New Braunfels, Texas.
New Braunfels is in the Texas Hill County and is best known for its German heritage. The city is 85% white and 1.5% African American.
“I’m just tired of the California lifestyle and the fake people, honestly, and I feel like, at this point in my life, I’d rather just live in a place full of real, genuine people. I’ve been to New Braunfels a few times over the years and the people there are real… they’re genuine people, and yeah every community has its problems but the people here are good, decent people and they care about their community. Those are the things I find most important in deciding where to live,” Eastwood told the magazine.
Dog whistle: “Good, decent people.”
And I imagine they have lots of empty chairs for him to talk to.
Thanks to Steve for the heads up.
good riddance to bad rubbish.
yeah, i’m sick of the california life style where it is legal to be a person of color, a woman who uses birth control or a LGBT person who wants to use a public bathroom. i am also tired of being able to vote.
1They will let him vote – he’s white, old and rich.
I bet I know who their next mayor will be.
2In my experience if you are a “good, decent person” you will find the same wherever you choose to live.
3Also, it helps his decision making process on where to live that Eastwood doesn’t have to pay personal taxes to help care for his new community.
4Since he was the mayor of affluent Carmel, Ca, once upon a time, he might qualify as one of those California lifestyle types. I am wondering if maybe he’s just not such a big shot there anymore, and that is why…a big frog in a little pond in Texas.
5This P.O.S. has completely,and forever,ruined my home area. He moved here in the 60’s,because it was a great community to live and raise a family. He and his partners have bought up most of the property,and it has become a haven only the rich can afford to live in. That bast@@d helped to ruin the sense of community,the very deep sense of soul,we used to have here. HE turned it into the “California lifestyle”-he and his mega rich jerkoff partners. I wish he would go away. I’ve been to N.B. as well. Much as I detest what the Republicans have done to the State of Texas,I wouldn’t wish Clint on them as punishment. That man spoils everything beautiful there is. I despise him.
6I guess Clint wants to move back to a place populated by the folks described in this scene from Blazing Saddles:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZvT2r828QY
7Save your pity for New Braunfels. In the 70s we owned a weekend house on Mather St near Schlitterbahn Water Park. We loved it and NB was wonderful then. So time passes and we had so many irons in the fire the NB house became a PITA to own. We sold it to acquaintances. Didn’t go to NB for years and years. Then number 1 grandboy was in San Antone so NB looked good again. Over 20+ years it changed. NB takes themselves VERY VERY seriously. We can’t, for example, us a table at the park cause such are reserved for townfolk. NB likes the tourista money but the tourista, not so much. BTW the park has a picnic table patrol that went around checking ID for a NB address for folks using the picnic tables. Pure unadulterated chicken$hit. Wont be spending any money in NB again. Clinty can have the place. Anything he does is unlikely to make it any more anal and exclusive than it has become.
8Oy. First we got Karl Rove in Ingram and now Clint in New Braunfels. At least he’s not coming to Fredericksburg. If he does, I can tell him that Beyonce went to St. Mary’s school here for a while when she was a child. Maybe that would be enough to deter him. Then again, he might feel right at home with “Gay Hitler” Kyle Biedermann.
9Clint’s move makes sense if you think of him as being a political refugee, as C.R. suggests. Poor, poor Clint.
Looking on the bright side, his move to NB will probably raise the average IQ level of NB and of Carmel.
10I LUV New Braunfels, one of my former hometowns.
German is still spoken there, heheh. It has changed tremendously in the last couple decades though, almost unrecognizable from the small town it used to be.
I’ll bet ol’ Clint is craving Naegelin’s Bakery and Granzin’s BBQ, mmmyum, or microbrew at the hotel.
http://naegelinsbakery-hub.com/
https://www.bing.com/search?q=Naegelins+Bakery
http://granzinsbbq.com/
https://www.bing.com/search?q=Granzins+BBQ&qs=n&form=QBRE&pq=granzins+bbq
That said, poor old Clint must be losing his mind to leave his beachfront Carmel-By-The-Sea paradise for rocky, now congested New Braunfels, TX (it does have some fake beaches at Schitterbahn though).
I wonder if he has any experience with mountain cedar pollen, he may go right back next year (mtn cdr does it’s thing in winter, after a frost).
Landa Park is a jewel, try a hike up Panther Canyon sometime.
Holy Cougar, it now has a ‘real’ trail (last time I took the kids it was just wild rugged going through the brush):
http://www.nbtexas.org/index.aspx?NID=1429
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Braunfels,_Texas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comal_Springs_%28Texas%29
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11One positive thing could come from his celebrity in moving there – to pronounce the town name correctly. A lot of folks put an extra “s” in the middle when saying “Braunsfels.” It only has BS in it, you know…starts with B and ends with S.
12Well, the California lifestyle is tired of Clint Eastwood and with far better reason.
BTW, just which California lifestyle would that be? Big coastal cities? Rural farm communities? Hippie enclaves? Small towns? It’s a big, diverse state. Heck, there’s even room for people like Eastwood.
And if Eastwood finds the lifestyle here in California so inimical, why did it take him so long to vamoose? Slow thinker? Or maybe he’s just not in demand as an actor these days?
13Tony @11,
New BraunSfels is sort of the defacto regional dialect way of pronouncing New Braunfels. Don’t know why, but that usage even extends down to the Valley.
Micr @8,
Hey, don’t be so down on NB, I know exactly whereof you speak, I was there (some) while it was happening. Lots of uppity, snooty types have moved in over the years (nearly all R’s) and changed the town’s character greatly; it’s sad, but change is inevitable.
The town (and many others in Central/South Texas have some interesting histories).
Same thing has happened to one of my other hometowns/fav places, Rockport-Fulton-AP-PA. And don’t even get me started on Port Isabel/South Padre, lived there when there was almost nothing there, just very small towns. Now SPI is like Miami or Daytona Beach, or Dana Point, CA today $$$$.
14It’s auto-generated click bait.
15@Sandridge
16I guess I lament the change. One of our neighbors there was American of German ancestry. He married a German woman visiting family in NB. He and her were our eyes and ears in NB and watched our home during the week when we were not there. They were just a few years older, say 8 to 10, but were awesome. When his wife longed for Bavaria again, they moved. My little bride, also second gen German, accompanied they back to help them set up their new home. Great couple. In fact the whole ‘hood was full of great folk. I spose have to I agree wit you “it’s sad, but change is inevitable”.
@Sandridge
17Speaking of Rickport, do you know of Redfish Lodge or Joel Pruitt or Brian Holden?
of course I really meant ROCKPORT. (>.<)
18There goes the neighborhood.
19T@Micr,
Haha, pRickport… I thought I used to see W and KKKarl around town once in a while long ago.
Sure has grown.
Charlotte Plummers rstrt doesn’t seem as good anymore, I guess we’re all getting old, persnickety, and crotchety, eh?
Redfish Lodge is over on Copano Bay behind Rockport, MOSQUITO CENTRAL, yeoww. Not into guided fishing, corp expense acct type recreations. I learned salt on-in the Laguna Madre, Brazos Santiago jetties, and offshore GOM, don’t need no stinkin’ guides (know slightly a real nice one from the boat ramp at RBchPk though).
20There is a neat historical site at the entrance to Mission Bay off Copano, old Spanish port (forgot name), and ghost-town St. Mary’s nearby.
I never much got back in Copano there, my CC outboard is offshore draft, used to go back in from the Hwy35 causeway a bit, but there are chingos of shoals in Copano (and Port Bay is very shallow). My liveaboard (dare I say it) sail yacht draws 6 feet-1 fathom in the marina.
I’ve just been testing a small icemaker for it, what a neat little device; fascinating, spits out ice bullets in 8-9 minutes a batch, using 106-8watts@120VAC (measured). Got it from Newegg on sale, no shipping chgs, no tax, it just got here early this morning (ordered it Thursday aftn! that’s service!).
So Clint is just bring the Bad and the Ugly part to NB
21@Sandridge
For illogical reasons a GoM trip – Galveston or Corpus – is a yuuuuge BFD in our family, only attempted following a successful pig flight. That said because I was distantly related to Joel Pruitt I thought Copano would be a nice coupla days for my son and first son-in-law a few years ago. It was a nice trip and the fishing was interesting yet different to us, due to no salt water experience. I have also taken a similar guided trip with some of the office knuckleheads from Port Aransas.
22@Micr,
Sure, a coastal trip is ‘involved’ to get everything together.
Hope y’all caught some tasty reds or trout.
One of the neat things about fishing the coast are all the different types of fishing to do, many/most of which don’t require guides, a boat, or much expense either. Jetty fishing, piers, wadefishing bay and surf (PINS, San Luis Pass, SPI, etc.), just hundreds of ways and places. Kayaking bay and shore too.
And the fish roam around like crazy, you never know what you might hook, the usual trout, red, black drum, or the more exotic types (my fav are tarpon, tuna, dolphin (no, not those cute ones)), especially near the jetties or beaches.
Copano Bay is pretty much for flats boats, or if you live there w/a dock, but there are so many other places.
I thought of guiding after I retired, did a lot of “due diligence” and checking.
Decided I definitely didn’t have the chops to be in ‘service’/put up with the clients (as you can guess there’s a high % of g-o-b yayhoos in that area).
The overhead costs of the weighted bodybags in that special locker were just an expense dealbreaker 🙂 .
Check out the NOAA website (Oceanography areas), they have loads of “free to download” marine charts that cover every inch of water and shore (our tax dollars at work, and Santorum & the R’s try to ‘privatize’ it every chance they get).
23Some of the charts are available in booklet PDF format. The real things require a charting program to ‘present’ the chart onscreen (or an expensive, purpose built chartplotter): an excellent free one is “SeaClear”, created by a great Dane/German/Scand/Teutonic? guy.
Get a copy of the NOAA Coast Pilot 5 (almost 500 page PDF), it has tremendous detailed descriptions of “everything” GOM and coast (and PR, VI too).
Let me know if you want some advice-local knowledge, I’ve got plenty of gear/tackle too.
New Braunfels does have a good restaurant. Only one. That’s all I can say good about it, except it is on the way to the outlet mall.
24@Corinne Sabo,
25There used to be the “Treetop Restaurant” right at the Comal River Bridge a couple blocks from the Square (search it, there might be something on it floating around the Innartoobz).
It was a fantastic place, IMO, really really great food (a chicken fried steak out of this world, and the fancyfood too); and all the ‘atmosphere/views’ one could ask for. I used to walk over for lunch/dinner.
Then it closed, a bible college or something moved in; what a shame.
Damn, I still miss that place.
He talks to empty chairs. And the chair turns out to be the smart one in the conversation. Ol’ Clint just can’t keep up anymore.
26Looks like my comment went unnoticed so
https://www.google.com/search?q=I’m+just+tired+of+the+California+lifestyle+and+the+fake+people
You’ll find Clint moving all over tarnation.
27And draggin’a buttload of celebrity friends with him.
28I think you’ve been taken…this is almost exactly the same wording as the story about Johnny Depp moving to Texas (I think it was supposed to be Richardson…or somewhere in DFW). And on that post I saw someone said other celebrities had the same kind of stories circulating.
You’ve been had!
29Meredith is correct – we done been Onioned. From the “about” tab on the source site:
“WLEB 21 is a fantasy news site. All news articles on wleb21.com are satire or pure fantasy.”
30Every human on this planet is a real, genuine person (including people I don’t like, don’t agree with, and would cheerfully dance on the grave of.) Anytime someone starts talking about “fake” people and “real” people, my bullshit detector start blatting in my ears.
Clint Eastwood is another actor. He’s played fake people most of his working life. He speaks lines he’s given. If I’m going to think any living human being is a fake, it’s Clint Eastwood. What I think has happened is that he’s worn out his welcome in California, he’s no longer the big shark in the bay, so he’s looked for a small town where he can be a Celebrity and throw his weight around. I say it’s fake, and I say the heck with it, and him.
31S’not phunny! Yeah it is…
32I used to be an Eastwood fan. Then he talked to the chair and made himself look like an idiot. He also revealed his paleolithic politics and punitive nature.
I’m done with that pathetic macho man. Ugh.
33Can we make a deal that Ted Nugent has to leave?
34Um, it sounds like he feels the need to “repot” himself. Yes, I know what I just said. Carry on.
35Isn’t he somewhere around 90? Must be a slow learner.
36His picture looks like he’s pretty close to needing a lot of medical care. I don’t think he’ll have what it takes to be mayor. Maybe he’s got a suite reserved in a NB nursing home.
37I have been to Carmel, California and I have been to New Braunfels. New Braunfels ain’t no Carmel. I read above that the story about him moving to Texas is a hoax. Given that possibility I would still add that if he does move to Texas and gets out of his house in August, and soaks us some solar rays that are responsible for a ground temperature of 110 degrees, he will go back in the house to stay until late Fall.
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