45 years ago Mrs. Brat’s father died at home alone in his bed in Dallas, and his body wasn’t discovered for a week.
By the time we arrived on the scene the next day, some relatives had cleaned up most of the bloody mess after his body had been removed. However, I and my son carried the fouled mattress to the back yard. I’ll never forget that awful smell.
Necrobump…..
Booby Reed, a friend of my brother at the U. of Texas in 1957-58, played guitar for a local band that opened for Elvis when he appeared at the old Skyline Ballroom in Austin in 1955 (before he was a national hit).
When my family settled in Austin in 1959, Bobby’s dad showed me a photo of his son standing next to Elvis.
While Elvis went on to national fame, Bobby became a petroleum engineer and worked in Saudi Arabia for decades.
Here’s a history article about Elvis playing in several Austin joints early in his career
https://www.austinchronicle.com/music/2015-12-25/folk-music-fireball/
Read in more detail here about Sherrill’s blatant cheating in this Barking Carnival article. And reference it the next time one of those ignorant goobers runs his mouth about the “evil” tu wrecking the SWC.
https://www.barkingcarnival.com/2008/07/24/the-history-of-college-football-recruiting-cheating-part-9
Excellent tacos & enchiladas for midafternoon dinner at Mamma Betty’s this afternoon.
The margaritas were great and pretty strong, but apparently too much for the drowned fly I fished out of mine…
I once accidentally stepped on Walter Cronkite’s foot at the old Mueller Airport, and another time literally bumped into Ted Kennedy at my school in Mexico.
Both incidents were in the early 1960s.
Saw Ed McMahon walking out of the MGM Grand Las Vegas to his limo 25 years ago. I wasn’t quick enough to rush over and bump into him though.
A Florida man was bitten by an alligator and fatally shot by deputies after authorities say he tried to steal a rifle from a patrol car, charged at deputies with garden shears and acted erratically near a lake in Lakeland.
https://www.10news.com/us-news/gator-bites-man-who-tried-to-steal-rifle-from-patrol-car-before-deputy-involved-shooting