Parrothead Ramblings

The smile never changed. The income level did.

I've told pholks several times that The Fetching Mrs. Crime Dog and I attended public school back in Roswell a few decades back with Nancy Lopez, world-famous lady golfer extraordinaire. I always get pretty much the same response:

Sure, Crime Dog. Whatever you say.

While going through some of my late mother's keepsakes this weekend, I found my old Mesa Middle School(Roswell, N.M.)yearbook and took a few minutes to pick through it. There she was. Sixth grade. Probably about the time she picked up her first golf club. The Fetching Mrs. Crime Dog has been pissed at Nancy Lopez for about thirty years now, ever since Lopez made some stupid remarks about her suffering under racism in Roswell, which TFMCD knew to be a load of horseshit since the two of them hung out back in the day.

Oh, and that's me: Grade 8. Couldn't somebody have told me my hair was down in my eye like that? Assholes.

But Nancy and I weren't the only celebrities to attend Mesa Middle School in 1968. There's also this butt plug:
Back in 1985 or so, when I was still a cop, we looked for this piece of shit for a couple of weeks after he kidnapped and raped a six-year-old girl in Roswell. Some good police work finally caught his worthless ass, and he was convicted. Clark filed an appeal, and a judge with the brains God gave a donut....make that the hole in the donut.....let this pimple on Satan's ass out of jail on bond. He then went out and did the job more thoroughly, kidnapping, raping, and putting three rounds into the head of a nine-year-old girl. He got caught just before a liberal anti-death penalty Governor, Toney Anaya, was to leave office following the election of a Republican. Fearing the death penalty, Terry Clark chose to plead guilty to first degree murder, so Anaya could commute his sentence to life imprisonment before exiting the Governor's Mansion. This time, though, he didn't get a stupid judge. Hizzoner accepted the plea, then postponed sentencing for several months until Anaya was long gone.

Terry Clark became the first (and I think still the only) person executed in New Mexico in decades.

Now, I'm opposed to the death penalty. I think it's sick, twisted, and wrong, and that is has no place in a modern, enlightened society. But DAMN, guys like this scumbag sure make it hard to argue that the planet ain't a whole lot better of without their worthless asses using up good air.

Oh, well, on a lighter note, we also had these guys back in 1968:

Billy, as I recall, was the "middle brother" between Niles and Frazier Crane. He was pretty cool and helped us beat up the other two and take their lunch money on a regular basis. Jerry Garcia, of course, grew his hair a little longer, got some contacts, and the rest as they say, is history.
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