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Steve Keene

Lowell,

You said not to comment, but I could not help myself.  Are you sure the Marx brothers weren't performing at the first Wreck Center?

Janalu Jeanes (Parchman)

Steve!

What a tale of your first true love!  Your going to her wedding is an incredible story and a gutsy one!  It reminds me of the scene in the movie, THE GRADUATE, with Dustin Hoffman's character banging on the upstairs glass window of the church, during the wedding scene, screaming "Elaine!  Elaine!"  And then her mother's expression toward "Dustin" of 'cursing fire and damnation'.  Pretty darn hilarious!

How weird and funny to hear you say that the bride's brother came to sit next to you in the pew, just to muzzle you if you began to utter a word during the ceremony!  HA!

How you had the nerve to attend the wedding is beyond me!  What torture for your anguished soul!

Didn't you say in a previous post that the poor lady went crazy in the end?

So you had a stepson and then also another son with her?

Hope your second marriage was an easier time for you, full of bliss with her and your two twin daughters.  They surely are lovely and very accomplished ladies to have in your life, as you continue down life's road.

I'll have to google a photo of an old 1950's style Mercedes convertible, to get the whole true picture in my mind, of the entire scene of your departure from the infamous wedding from Hell, from your perspective.  GEEZ MAN!  

What an experience!

David Cordell

Great story, Steve. Were you hoping for a Graduate moment when you went to the wedding uninvited?? (EDIT: I wrote this before Janalu's comment appeared above. I'm a slow writer.) By the way, Martha was very appreciative of the flowers. Thanks from me, too.)

Watching a football game and seeing a Goodyear commercial that features Steppenwolf's Magic Carpet Ride. Love that song!  I have mentioned before that I received speeding tickets on two occasions while listening to the flip side of Magic Carpet Ride - Born to Be Wild. Then there is a commercial for the Pac-12 that brags about the "progressive spirit" of Pac 12 schools. Good to know. Then a commercial for Dior perfume that features Janis Joplin's voice singing Cry, Baby. Not sure what to make of all of that.

Good news in the Cordell household. Martha's potassium level stabilized in the "normal" level, and they released her. So, we are at home, but she is whipped.

I have only been to Nacogdoches once, looking for genealogical information for my Martha's family. I posted this photo once before. Martha's two-great and three-great grandfathers lived in Nacogdoches for a few years and were involved in the Battle of Nacodoches -- William Young Lacy and Martin Lacy (misspelled as Lacey on the monument)

Kurt Fischer

Steve and Lowell:

You both had excellent stories involving Nacogdoches.  Although the story of our daughter being born there may carry greater importance, both of your stories were much more entertaining than mine!

Steve Keene

Janalu

https://images.app.goo.gl/AwnMeUC9JFDzB87D9

She did go crazy cause she thought I traveled too much.  She needed constant attention.

David Cordell

Steve, are you talking about a woman or a car or both??

In what shape was your Mercedes's sheet metal when you sold it?

Steve Keene

David,

My comment was about the car.

I bought that car for $1800 when I was 20 and sold it when I was 32 for $17,000.  You saw it at the pike house.  It was quite a bit more than sheet metal, It was a 1961 that they made for three months before they switched over to the boxy square model.  I bought a second 1958 220 s model for $4000 and spent another $4000 restoring it in when I was 35.  The North Park Bank cross collateralized it with a poorly performing oil loan I had and refused to let me pay it off again.  They sold it at private auction to one of their insiders for $8500 when it was probably worth $30,000.  It was candy apple red with a white and red leather interior and a white top.   I got the girl for nothing and it probably cost me $500,000. to completely get rid of her.

In retrospect, I should have given Northpark the deed to my house and kept the car.

David Cordell

Like they say, you can sleep in your car, but you can't drive your house.

David Cordell

Watched part 1 of Peter Jackson's The Beatles: Get Back on Disney Plus. It's a bit slow, but it gives an inside look at the creative process as they try to come up with lyrics. Also, friction in the group.

Saw this quiz on NextDoor. Find the names of 20 Beatles songs in this visual. I admit to performing poorly! Answers in the next post.

David Cordell

David Cordell

Remember my post (that Bob Cederberg corrected!) about Dodger pitcher Clayton Kershaw's philanthropic activity? There was a big article in The Dallas Morning News today about Kershaw's activity that included a photo of the event we attended. Not sure if this link will work for nonsubscribers.

https://edition.pagesuite.com/infinity/article_popover_share.aspx?guid=afa78fc8-473a-4484-9543-a2beeb595563

David Cordell

HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL

Richardson swamps nation’s top team

FORT WORTH — Teams like Richardson — teams with state championship aspirations, and the talent to realistically support them — don’t often celebrate wins in November with a water bottle ambush on their head coach in the locker room. Not before district play, not before the season’s most meaningful games have begun.

But there were Richardson’s boys basketball players, camped out inside of their locker room bathroom inside Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, spraying head coach Kevin Lawson with water, jumping and screaming like a team that had just won in San Antonio.

That’s what happens when you beat the No. 1 team in the country.

Richardson, a 6A state semifinalist in 2021, beat Compass Prep (Ariz.) 61-38 at the Thanksgiving Hoopfest on Saturday. Alabama pledge Rylan Griffen (25 points) and Kentucky pledge Cason Wallace (22 points) handled the bulk of the scoring for Richardson (7-0).

Compass Prep is 247’s top prep team in the nation. ESPN ranks it as the No. 1 overall high school program. The game was never particularly close.

“I try not to look at rankings for school teams,” Griffen said. “But I looked at that one, and I saw they were No. 1. So we just wanted to come out and punch then in the mouth first.”

Richardson led 17-5 after one quarter. Griffen scored seven points before Compass Prep scored its first. He finished the first half with 20 points, and Richardson led 30-12 through two quarters.

“He was very locked in today at practice,” Lawson said. “He honestly might have missed one shot. ... He’s the type of kid, when he gets rolling like that, he can just flood points in.”

Wallace, the No. 7 recruit nationally in the class of 2022 per 247, scored 18 points in the second half alone.

Richardson held Compass Prep, which features five-star juniors Kylan Boswell (13 points) and Mookie Cook (seven points), to 32.5% shooting on the game. It forced 21 turnovers, largely thanks to its 11 steals — five of which came from Griffin. Richardson out-rebounded Compass Prep 26-19.

“Every time down the floor, we locked in,” Lawson said. “We took it personal that we didn’t want them to score.”

Steve Keene

David,

I just watched a Western on Tubi.  It was THE FASTEST GUITAR IN THE WEST starring Roy Orbison.  It was soooo bad!  The exwives of the Sons of the Pioneers wouldn't even go see it.  I think that must have been the in-flight movie on the music tour in the Midwest and what made Buddy Holly crash the plane.

Steve Keene

Sorry Ron K.,

As if you needed any more bad news, I hear that Lincoln Riley quit as Sooners head coach and took the job at USC.  Seems he is fonder of a Parade of Roses than the Parade of Tornados.  At least 5 incoming 4 and 5 star recruits decommitted following the anouncement.  Keep you chin up.  I hear they are talking about hiring Kliff Kingsbury away from the Arizona Cardinals!  

Lowell Tuttle

Sounds like more defense for OU   just what they need.

Lowell Tuttle

Bobby Cedarberg's mom and Sally Sheets' mom both gave piano lessons.  They werenext door and across the street on Newberry.

Did I get some lessons?  Nope...

Oh,  when boogie ing, RHS'ers should also be aware of Spencer Brewer, class of 72, gard'd with my brother and musical phenom.  Used toplay at our house allthe time because he loved the tone of my mom's upright, now in Joan's hands..  He's the one on the right.  Grew up in the ymca...all the way to being a counselor...

Jim Bedwell

Jim Bedwell

Thanks, Chief Steve No Stache, for the touching story of your true love, your first wife. I could have warned you though that you had no chance competing against a pot smoker. Also I was a little surprised to hear of his suicide. I must be really losing it mentally (meds again), but I had thought that was your first wife's cause of death when she was married to you.

David Cordell

Jim, dude, that comment was harsh!

Jim Bedwell

Steve Keene

David,

Had to go to the Panhandle yesterday to pull some documents to get a new lease on some wells I have east of Stinnett, Texas. My lease is adjacent to the Turkey Track Ranch which the Whittenburg Family has put up for sale for 300 million.  It contains the Fort of Adobe Walls. The Four Sixes ranch was recently purchased by Taylor Sheridan who wrote and directs the TV show Yellowstone.  It consists of 207,000 acres in King County at Guthrie and 107,000 acres at the Dixon Creek Division in Carson and Hutchinson Counties just south of Borger.  They have sent a film crew and a few of the actors to be trained as real cowboy wranglers by Dave Lane the Foreman of the Dixon Creek Division.  They are also starting filming there of a new feature film called "1883."

Here is a picture of me with Brian Kay and Dave Guibeau who handle all the transportation duties for the shows and film.  Dave is a Cajun from Carencro, Louisiana and his son is a gourmet chef.  His son Gator has been cooking for film crews since Yellowstone began and just this last year was written into the series as an actor cooking for the cowboys in the bunkhouse.  They have invited me to their weekly barbecues and steak nights in a grub tent out at the ranch and I have agreed to show them where to pick up Alibates flint arrowheads behind my Weatherly lease on Dixon Creek just north of the Four Sixes.

             Brian Kay                      Unidentified Panhandle Oilman     Dave Guilbeau

The original owner of the Four Sixes was S.B. "Burk Burnett.  He and Tom Waggoner of the Waggoner ranch at Electra that recently sold were good friends of Teddy Roosevelt.  Roosevelt went hunting on the Dixon Creek ranch and killed one of the last Lobo wolves there around 1913 or so.  Lobo wolves were a Plains speicies that followed the Buffalo on the Southern plains.  They were larger than the Timber wolves and are extinct today.  Actually, the original owner of the ranch was Frank Crowley out of Denton County.

Steve Keene

Lowell,

The word for a post that you are looking for is factual.

Wayne Gary

Steve,

That Unidentified Panhandle Oilman in the picture looks slim next to Dave Guilbeau

Steve Keene

Wayne

That's why I wanted my picture with him.  I think he needs to be big to balance the Yellowstone loads.  Tommy asked who drops more names, David or me?  A little research makes me believe Lance wins that category.  Tommy, though I am not sure who drops more names, I can tell you that you are the favorite name I ever got to drop.  And it happened like a "hot rock."

Lowell Tuttle

Steve, I like the pants.   I am in Chattanooga today supporting wife on her visiting her brother in the hospital here.   I packed those Adida sweats for the trip.   I am not anticipating a photo, however.