Wilt Chamberlain and H. Ross Perot: The Long and Short of My Journalism Career
I must have interviewed a thousand people during my years in the journalism trenches. The most famous would’ve been *Wilt Chamberlain and H. Ross Perot — the long and short of my journalism career....
View ArticleDeath and More Death in Waco
(Warning: Dark and not for the faint-hearted…) I can remember the exact moment I decided to get out of reporting. It wasn’t the night a McLennan County sheriff’s deputy asked me to help carry a dead...
View ArticlePool Hustling in Austin With Capt. Buttface
If you’ve never been in Waco, Texas for an extended period, you cannot grasp the urgent need to flee. To flee the heat and humidity and cockroaches and bad newspapers and suffocating blanket of...
View ArticleWaco Twinkies and Police Chief Porn
I really have no idea why the Waco police hated me. But it might have had something to do with a story I wrote. I found out that an idiot lieutenant was running a bank stakeout. And the more I found...
View ArticleCapt. Buttface and Waco’s Pink House
Capt. Buttface lived in a Pink House. It was owned by Mr. Finn, who was not really a slumlord per se, but close enough for Waco, Texas. The Finn House was an old, two-story wooden affair. It was near...
View ArticleMy Brushes With the Law … and a Rapter
It was pretty damn cool. I was a reporter on the University of Texas at Arlington student newspaper. And the Secret Service wanted me, sort of. I had to be credentialed if I wanted to be in the press...
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