THE NATIONAL ATHLETE`S FOOT DAY MASSACRE PARADE

by delray

THE
NATIONAL
ATHLETE`S
FOOT DAY
MASSACRE
PARADE
AND OTHER STORIES
BY DELRAY

NOTEBOOK ONE

CEREBRAL COPULATION

…IS THE STORY ABOUT HOW EVERYBODY WOUND UP GOING TO VENESUELA.
I KNOW THAT YOU READ ABOUT IT IN THE PAPERS, I MEAN, IT WAS REALLY BIG NEWS AT THE TIME.

WHEN EVERYBODY LEFT FOR VENSUELA, THEY TOOK CHRISTIAN JEFFERIES; ALTHOUGH THEY SHOULD HAVE LEFT HIM FOR GIL BABCOCK.
IT WOULD HAVE SAVED ME ALOT OF HASSLE, AS ME AND MY BROTHER WOUND BEING WITNESSES FOR THE BIG INVESTIGATION THAT GIL BABCOCK HELD.

NOBODY GOT A RAISE AFTER THE INVESTIGATION.
NOT GLORIA JENSEN.
NOT CHESTER LAROUCH.
NOT THE HEAD OF THE MANURE ENFORCMENT AGENCY, OH, NO.
GIL BABCOCK RAN FOR COUNTY EXECUTIVE ON THE POLITICAL HAY THAT HE TRIED TO HARVEST ON THAT CAPER, BUT THAT IS ANOTHER STORY.
GIL BABCOCK WAS THE SHERRIFF OF FAKE RIVER COUNTY.

AND EVEN THOUGH WE DIDNT HAVE ANYTHING REALLY AT ALL TO DO WITH EVERYBODY GOING TO VENESUELA, ME AND MY BROTHER, IKE, WERE HELD AS MATERIAL WITNESSES, AND GRILLED RELENTLESLY BY GIL BABCOCK AND CHESTER LAROUCH.

BUT I DIGRESS.

OAKDALE IS AT THE SOUTH END OF FAKE RIVER LAKE, WHICH RUNS NORTH AND SOUTH DOWN THE CENTER OF FAKE RIVER COUNTY.

OAKDALE IS AT THE SOUTH END OF FAKE RIVER LAKE, WHICH RUNS NORTH AND SOUTH DOWN THE CENTER OF FAKE RIVER COUNTY.
STATE HIGHWAY NUMBER S-O RUNS EAST AND WEST THROUGH THE CENTER OF OAKDALE, AND FOR THE ONE MILE FROM ONE CITY LIMIT TO ANOTHER IS KNOWN AS OAK STREET.
AT THE VERY EAST END OF TOWN IS COUNTY ROAD NUMBER C-1 WHICH RUNS NORTH, UP THE EAST SIDE OF THE LAKE, AS FAR AS THE CHURCH ROAD, WHICH IS ONLY ABOUT HALFWAY UP THE LAKE.
IT IS WILDERNESS PAST THAT.
AT THE VERY WEST EDGE OF TOWN IS COUNTY ROAD NUMBER C-1A, WHICH RUNS NORTH UP THE WEST SIDE OF THE LAKE, ALL THE WAY TO HARRELSON, FIFTEEN MILES UP THE LAKE.
HARRELSON IS THE COUNTY SEAT, AND THE HARRELSON ROAD RUNS EAST FROM HARRELSON, CROSSING THE LAKE ON A SPECTACULAR BRIDGE AND HEADING OFF EAST TOWARD VAN METER.
HARRELSON IS THE COUNTY SEAT, AND THE HARRELSON ROAD RUNS EAST FROM HARRELSON, CROSSING THE LAKE ON A SPECTACULAR BRIDGE AND HEADING OFF EAST TOWARD VAN METER.
THERE USED TO BE A BRIDGE AT THE CHURCH ROAD, BUT IT`S GONE NOW.

THIRD STREET IS THE OTHER STREET IN OAKDALE.
IT RUNS NORTH AND SOUTH, FROM UP BY THE LAKE (WHERE ALL OF THE RICH PEOPLE LIVED), DOWN ACROSS OAK STREET, DOWN PAST ALL OF THE REGULAR PEOPLES` HOUSES, PAST THE GRAIN ELEVATOR AND THE RESCUE MISSION, AND ENDING UP ACROSS THE TRACKS IN TOON-TOWN WHICH IS WHERE ALL OF THE HOBOS LIVED.
MOST OF THE HOBOS WERE BROKE, BUT THAT WAS O.K. AS THE OAKDALE POLICE LEFT THE RESIDENTS OF TOON-TOWN ALONE, MOSTLY.
LET THERE BE PEACE.
THOU SHALT NOT PANHANDLE IN FRONT OF THE SUNNY GROCERY AT THIRD AND OAK.
AMEN.

AT THE NORTH END OF THIRD STREET IS THE HOUSE IN WHICH GLORIA JENSEN LIVED, RIGHT UP BESIDE THE LAKE WITH TWO BIG OAK TREES AT THE END OF THE DRIVEWAY.
FELIX RAY LIVES RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET, AND HAS HIS OWN PRIVATE DOCK AND BOATHOUSE.
FELIX RAY IS A SELF MADE MAN AND HAS DONE EVERYTHING FROM FLYING FIGHTER PLANES IN W.W.II TO OWNING AND OPERATING HIS OWN RAILROAD COMPANY, THE FAKE RIVER ROAD.
FELIX RAY IS A VERY IMPORTANT MAN IN FAKE RIVER COUNTY, BUT THAT IS ANOTHER STORY.
FELIX RAY IS A VERY IMPORTANT MAN IN FAKE RIVER COUNTY, BUT THAT IS ANOTHER STORY.

AT THE SOUTH END OF THIRD STREET, PAST THE GRAIN ELEVATOR BEFORE YOU GO OVER THE RAILROAD TRACKS INTO TOON-TOWN, IS THE RESCUE MISSION.
THE ONLY PERSON WHO EVER STAYED AT THE RESCUE MISSION WAS OLD SMOKEY THE DRUNK.
EVERYBODY ELSE STAYED DOWN IN TOON-TOWN, AND HAD EVERYTHING STEW FOR DINNER.

SOME OF THE HOBOS WORKED IN THE FISH CANNERY WHICH PROCCESSED THE TINY LITTLE STURGEON NATIVE TO FAKE RIVER LAKE.
CHEESEBURGERS AT THE NEW CAFE WERE THE BEST IN FAKE RIVER COUNTY, AND THE WHISKEY SERVED IN COYOTE`S BAR AND GRILL WOULD NEVER GET YOU DRUNK (AS LONG AS YOUR HEART WAS PURE AND YOU BELIVED IN JOHN WAYNE WITH ALL OF YOUR MIGHT).
BOTH COYOTE`S BAR AND GRILL AND THE NEW CAFE WERE LOCATED AT THIRD AND OAK.

OUT AT THE WEST EDGE OF TOWN IS THE SHADY OAKS MOTEL, AND JUST ACROSS COUNTY ROAD C-1A (JUST OUTSIDE OF THE CITY LIMITS) WAS THE BIG OAK STRIP JOINT.

JUST DOWN STATE ROUTE S-0, IS THE OAKDALE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, WHICH HAS THE ONLY FIFTY THOUSAND FOOT RUNWAY IN THE REGION.

BIG CORPORATE JETS AND CARGO PLANES WOULD FLY IN AND OUT ALL DAY LONG, ALL INVOLVED WITH THE SHIPPING OF OAKDALE`S ONLY EXPORT; THE LITTLE SILVER DICK STURGEON (OR THE PEE-WEE AS THEY`RE KNOWN LOCALY).
FAKE RIVER LAKE IS HOME TO THE SMALLEST STURGEON IN THE WORLD, THE LITTLE SILVER DICK, WHICH IS SERVED IN ALL OF THE FINER RESTAURANTS IN NEW YORK AND PARIS.
AS THE PEE-WEE IS ONLY AN INCH LONG, IT TAKES QUITE A FEW TO MAKE A MEAL.

OAKDALE; PEACEFUL YET CORRUPT; SLEEPING IN THE HOT IOWA SUN.
OAKDALE, WHICH HAD EVERY SINGLE THING THAT ALL OF THE BIG CITIES HAD, PLUS THAT CERTAIN REDNECK PERSONALITY TYPICAL OF SUCH TINY PLACES.

WHEN PEOPLE STARTED NOTICING SLIME TRAILS AROUND TOWN, THEY NATURALY ASSUMED THAT THEY HAD BEEN LEFT BY THE FIFTY-TWO YEAR SLUG.
BUT IT WAS POINTED OUT THAT IT HAPPENED TO BE ONLY YEAR THIRTY-SEVEN AND SO IT SIMPLY COULD NOT BE THE FIFTY-TWO YEAR SLUG AT ALL, BUT SOME NEW UNKNOWN SLIME-SLINGER.
AND THE FIFTY-TWO YEAR SLUG DIDNT LEAVE SLIME TRAILS ANYWHERE AS BIG AS THESE WERE.
IT LED TO ALOT OF GOSSIP.



AND PEOPLE FROM ALL OVER THE COUNTY BEGAN REPORTING THE SIGHTING OF FLYING SAUCERS TO GIL BABCOCK
ONE OLD FARMER FROM UP BY CHURCH CORNER ACTUALLY CLAIMED TO HAVE READ THE ZETA-RECICULIAN REGISTRATION NUMBERS OFF OF THE HULL OF ONE OF THEM.

GIL BABCOCK DIDNT BELIVE IN FLYING SAUCERS.
GIL BABCOCK DIDNT WANT TO BELIVE IN FLYING SAUCERS BECAUSE WHEN HE WAS A SMALL BOY HE HAD BEEN KIDNAPPED BY A TEAM OF MONOTOADIANS, AND AMONG OTHER THINGS (CREEPY THINGS TO A SMALL BOY) WAS GIVEN AN ANAL PROBE.
THIS IS A REPRESSED MEMORY.
THE ZETA RETICULIANS ARE SLIMEY THINGS, ALL COVERED IN MUCCUS.

READ ON…

march 6 is ALAMO DAY

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IS THE ALAMO THE MOST HAUNTED PLACE IN THE WEST?We have all heard the tragic story of the early morning of march 6, 1836; how the brave defenders fought to the last man and inspired the world. 

And since the battle there have been many stories of ghostly encounters in and around the old mission, stories which are attributed to the heros; but possibly the Alamo was a haunted place before those men died there.

The Alamo was never intended to be a fort; that was not the purpose of the builders instead it was intended to shelter the priests who operated the mission and any local natives who accepted the civilizing influence of the church. The Mission San Antonio de Valero, named for St. Anthony of Padua, on the banks of the San Antonio River around 1718. because of the constant threat of attacks by Comanche and Apache war parties; They also established the nearby military garrison of San Antonio de Béxar, which soon became the center of a settlement known as San Fernando de Béxar (later renamed San Antonio). The Mission San Antonio de Valero housed missionaries and their Native American converts for some 70 years until 1793.

What remains today is very little of the actual fort; but looking at old diagrams one can see how the situation probably changed the structure and inhibited it`s intended  purpose. One would think that the stables or the blacksmith would be outbuildings but what one finds is one wall of the “fort” (long vanished) is a long row of adobe shacks with the spaces between filled with earth and rocks, and walls were placed to provide some protection at either end. This coupled with the fact that the chapel roof was never completed until fairly modern times, long after the battle would lead one to  surmise that the early residents of Bexar may have had a stressful exsistenc
.

That people were killed violently on the site before the Texas Revolution is certainly easy to assume. The actual fort was quite large and rumors have circulated that the courtyard was a graveyard; probably because it was safer to dig inside of the walls than out at times. And not only violent deaths but others as well; accidents, sickness childbirth, and if there was no time to bury outside the courtyard would hold them. Or the spaces between the shacks? Some estimate that possibly a thousand people all told have died on the grounds of the Alamo-before the famous battle.

It is often claimed that places where violence has occurred retain some element of the events, the ghosts if you will. I would think that if one wanted to learn to believe in ghosts, the Alamo would be the church to attend

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THEY DID WHAT TO POOR OLD DAVE???

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THERE WERE OUTLAWS AND THEN THERE WERE OUTLAWS THAT ALMOST NOBODY REMEMBERS…

…and then there was

Dave Rudabaugh –

Born on July 14, 1854 Dave was an outlaw and gunfighter. Modern writers often refer to him as “Dirty Dave” on account of his alleged aversion to water, though no evidence has emerged to show that he was ever referred to as such in his own lifetime.

His career of began in Arkansas in the early 1870s. He was part of a band of outlaws who robbed and participated in cattle rustling along with Milton Yarberry and Mysterious Dave Mather. The three were suspected in the death of a rancher and fled the state. By some accounts all three went to Decatur, Texas, but other accounts have Rudabaugh heading to the Black Hills of South Dakota, where he became a stagecoach robber.

He also spent time as part of the Dodge City Gang and with the likes of Billy the Kid.

Rudabaugh later fled to Arizona where he joined the Clanton faction in their feud against the Earps. Dave may have even participated in the murder of Morgan Earp and the attempted murder of Virgil Earp, and may also have been present at the gunfight at Iron Springs in which Curly Bill Brocius was killed.

As the Clanton gang broke up, Rudabaugh headed down to Mexico where he worked as both a cowboy and a rustler. On February 18, 1886, Rudabaugh was involved in a gunfight with locals in Parral, Chihuahua. The fight began over a card game. He drew his pistol and killed two men and wounded another. He left the saloon unharmed, but unable to find his horse, he re-entered a few moments later, which turned out to be a fatal mistake. He was shot several times from the shadows, then was decapitated with a machete and his head placed on a pole.

A Wild West Warning, that all meet justice someday.

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