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Red lives/ A call for more weird Waco tales
I know some of you out there were or still are loyal readers of the Baylor-centric Bearmeat blog. A great blog indeed, though my addiction to it died when venerable blogger “Red Andrews” stepped down from his blog throne and passed on the Bearmeat torch.
Well my friends, I tell you today, with no little excitement, Red lives. I met him and his lovely other half last weekend. Always the master of his anonymity, Red was kind enough to reveal his identity to me and I bowed down and basked in his genius appropriately.
I still entertain daydreams of Red and I one day uniting our forces of snark and ruling benevolently over the Waco blogosphere. But until then, it will be nice to throw back a beverage with the man himself now and then.
To Red, who I know is reading, thanks for ending this Waco mystery for me. Maybe next I can try to figure out the reason for this town’s proliferation of car fires.
To celebrate my new alliance, I’d like to call for another round-up of Waco weirdness. Please send in your tales of Wacofabulousness. Amuse us all.
Comments
By What would Moses do?
September 2, 2008 10:12 PM | Link to this
You want Waco weirdness? Not long ago, I actually witnessed a smoking mop near the Franklin Street bridge over the Brazos (near the old Buzzard Billy’s). When I say smoking mop, I mean just that. It looked like a rag mop with a long red handle with smoke coming out of the mop head.
Moses had a burning bush - I got a smoking mop. It was neither a place for a mop, nor a fire, but certain as the sun shines, it was a smoking mop. I called it into the authorities but never read anything about it in the paper. I did go back around the block to make sure that’s really what I saw and it was still smoking with about half the mop head burned away. It was on the same day as the Nobody’s Fool event and I first wondered if it was related to the protests, but it was after lunch and not very close to the Convention Center.
Most Waco weirdness I’ve experienced so far. And for the record, it (nor any deity) did not talk to me.
By mark
September 3, 2008 12:15 AM | Link to this
Well, I once saw 40 foot long glowing sea snakes, only that wasn’t in Waco, but I’m FROM Waco, so this might count.
I was on bow lookout on a ship traversing the Straits of Messina and there were two of them swimming in front of the ship. The sea and anchor detail had already gone below so I had nobody to ask what the hell I was seeing and I sure as hell wasn’t going to go running up to the bridge hollering “Captain! Captain! Sea monsters! Sea monsters!”. And truth be told, I had been smoking a lot of serious wicked hashish while on watch, the egg shaped stuff you get in Rota, Spain, so I wasn’t real sure of anything. A couple days later I overheard one of the other lookouts talking to someone about having seen a couple of porpoises on the bow the night before and how they were tearing up the phosphorescent stuff in the water leaving long glowing trails in the water behind.
That night I went out on the fantail and burned a mop in their (the porpoises, not the lookouts) honor. Then I saw God, he told me to stop smoking hash and burning mops and go back on watch.
I’m guessing somebody had a similar religious experience downtown, it just wasn’t Moses. There’s no telling what a person might see in the Brazos river! Just ask J.D. oops, I mean J.B.. Mighta been some of uck reds burning 40 ouncers or still glowing crack pipes.
Oh, real Waco weirdness, I met El Diablo once but he told me not to give out his email address, but he didn’t say anything about his PHONE NUMBER!…..
I didn’t mean to hijack the blog Wen, so I’ll finish with a big ol’ KEEP WACO WEIRD!! And might I add an Uck red? What would Moses do? That cracks me up. Oops, another crack reference. Nite all.
By Fred
September 3, 2008 6:13 AM | Link to this
Waco weirdness? How about the City of Waco resently spending 1.8 million dollars on a study which determined that Waco water is polluted and tastes bad?
By Craig
September 3, 2008 9:43 AM | Link to this
At the end of a long work day several months back I had to kick a younger guy out of our store for panhandling. We had a long conversation about how the next time it happens I’ll have to call the cops. He said he wasn’t asking anyone for money, even though I walked right by him asking someone for money AND three customers came to tell me he asked them for money. The guy, obviously on some sort of happy pills, left the story angry at me.
When I got off of work that day I had to go to H-E-B. As I walked into the store, the same guy walked up to me and asked for money so he could have food. He didn’t even remember what happened just thirty minutes before.
By poopsandwich
September 3, 2008 6:31 PM | Link to this
OMG. I would love to meet that guy. I miss the Bearmeat blog more than words can say.
It was the inspiration for my own blog. Unfortunately, its not very good. But blog I do. At least once a month…
http://frompoopsandwichwithlove.blogspot.com/
By Mark Osler
September 3, 2008 10:46 PM | Link to this
Miss… Bearmeat… {single tear falls slowly down cheek}
By kate
September 6, 2008 9:48 AM | Link to this
Bearmeat died with the loss of Red. So sad. Not sure how I’ll get through another football season with out it. Bitter Bear Face.
By Carol Anne
September 16, 2008 7:52 AM | Link to this
I, too, miss BearMeat. I’m a Full Mulkeyite and need that website on which to worship Coach Kim. Come back to the Internet, Red, before college women’s basketball season starts!