🚀 go-pugleaf

In austin.general William H. Taft <goonther@bga.com> wrote:
: In article <33CEAC86.2704A2D7@hotmail.com>, adamjackson@hotmail.com says...

: >A few weeks ago, two people, a man and a woman, were kidnapped from a
: >parking lot not three blocks away from the central police station.  The
: >woman was brutally raped, but escaped with her life.  The man, a bright
: >and promising future civic leader known personally by our Mayor, drowned
: >to death in the trunk of a car, along with another promising,
: >intelligent and objectively WORTHWHILE human being.  Taken together,
: >these two people had the potential to contribute more to this community
: >than the sum total of the entire music "scene" for the past fifty (or
: >the NEXT fifty) years.  But no - they were horribly killed, and this
: >poor woman, who's become almost forgotten in the aftermath, is scarred
: >for life. I place the blame for this horrific atrocity squarely on the
: >shoulders of irresponsible city leaders who, for some insane reason,
: >consider providing the means for beer-swilling, dope-smoking,
: >guitar-grubbing LOSERS to attain some paltry degree of local celebrity,
: >more important than putting ENOUGH POLICE on our STREETS to create an
: >INTIMIDATING PRESENCE for scumfuck CRIMINALS.  How many police officers
: >could have been funded with the money that the city flushed down this
: >toilet they like to call the "Austin Music Network"?  END OF DISCUSSION.

: Well then. This should be a nice spring-board into a thoughtful,
: intelligent discussion here on the information super-highway.

Presidentially said.
But "guitar-grubbing"? I thought one grubbed with a hoe?

And local celebrity in Austin? Ain't been the same since Willie
Kocurek, The Big "O" and Miz Hattie's passed on. And what about the
James C. Fidler Fairweather Fan Club?

-- 
Ted Samsel....tejas@infi.net
   "do the boogie woogie in the South American way"
                           Rhumba Boogie- Hank Snow (1955)