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Smatterings
The first two pages of Joe Nick Patoski’s Willie biography are excellent. Will keep you updated.
Haven’t kept up with the Roger Clemens thing because, man I just don’t care. But the new accusation that he began an affair with Mindy McCready when she was 15 years old puts the Clemens mess on a whole new level.
Most people probably don’t know who McCready is — but they would had she been a little more famous before her fall. Don’t know about her legal/domestic/drug problems? Read about them right here. Her decline would be Mike Tyson-esque if she had made it another step or two up the fame ladder.
If I ran the universe, the following rules would be in order:
Every apple I picked up would be crisp.
I would decide what happens to people convicted of harming a child. Cruel and unusual would be a starting point.
A Comfort Inn on the outskirts of Fredericksburg would never, ever cost more than, say $70 a night. For other people. For me, it would be free.
Cab rides home from bars would be free. Cab drivers would be paid by the government based on how friendly they were.
I would get an extra hour a day to use at my leisure. Let’s make it two.
Spent Saturday in Fredericksburg with Shannon while the boy had some quality time in San Antonio. Yes, it was our fifth anniversary (seems like just yesterday I was wearing that black tuxedo and sporting a $70 haircut).
We spent hours at Hondo’s on Main talking to our old friend VelAnne. We spent just as long at the Fredericksburg Brewing Co. talking to each other. But the day, of course, included a side trip to Luckenbach.
I haven’t been out there in awhile. What’s changed?
Here in Austin, all the old regulars are still at the Showdown, but the bar is going away.
Out in Luckenbach, the bar is still the same as it ever was. But the people I knew are gone.
I told Shannon it would’ve been nice to see someone we knew who wasn’t memorialized on the wall.
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