When I was a lad (late 60’s), there were no AAU or club basketball teams. There were summer pickup games and, if you wanted to get better, you went out and sought out the good games. So the best games were at the courts over by what is now Fairmont High School but was Fairmont West at the time.
Typical open court games, shirts and skins, 5 man teams, you win you keep playing, you lose you go sit. Guys there were from the 2 Fairmonts, Belmont, Meadowdale, Alter, Chaminade, Centerville, and a smattering of other teams. Plus occasional players from UD and Wright State. If UD players showed up, it was a big deal and they dominated. But, it was a good way to find out how good you were. One thing was that it was about 98% white guys but I didn’t think much of it at the time. I held my own there, played good D, passed well, hit the open shot when it was there, but by no means was I outstanding. But I got better.
So one time, I was asked by a group of guys to go over to the west side of Dayton, i.e. the black side of town to play. Guys there were from Dayton Dunbar and Dayton Roth and some Dayton city leagues. Boy did that open my eyes. I was intimidated as hell at first. But as the day went on, I got used to the style of play and played better. But one thing I learned was to stay away from the barking and woofing and just keep my head down, shut up, and play hard. I didn’t want my ass kicked but I figured my play would speak for itself. We went back a couple more times to play, I managed to be decent, and learned the the Fairmont courts didn’t quite cover the spectrum of play that was evolving.
She used to wake me up with coffee ever morning
No, I just never cared much about conforming to the mainstream. For me, traveling was always very important, music is extremely important, and I love my family and I love having meals together at home, having friends over, things like that. I really don’t need anything else. I just sold my house a month ago, and everything I cared about taking fit in the back of the pickup truck with plenty of room to spare. I told the buyers just to keep the rest. I just like a very simple life.
Funny you say that. My wife was constantly writing in journals, because that’s what she was, a writer. Not a professional one, because her main thing was studying classical literature, but she just wrote and wrote. After we met, she actually went out on her own all over Europe and met people that I knew in the past and talked to them about me and wrote down everything they said, and there are literally tens of thousands of pages in her journals.
I had this tiny little apartment, and she would come over and lay on the rug in the middle of the floor, and she’d be writing, and I’d be sitting on the sofa playing the guitar, and once she looked up at me and said, “What do you love more, me or your guitar?”
I didn’t even look up, and just said “Some things you just shouldn’t ask a man”, and she started scribbling quickly in the journal, so that little exchange made it for posterity.
Bob Sheed (10-04-2021),OldRightHander (10-11-2021)
I’m starting to think that Laundrie’s sister is the only sane person in the whole despicable family. She’s maintaining her composure, but she’s made it clear that they and their lawyer have thrown her under the bus and their story isn’t believable.
I can’t blame him for running away, because that’s what criminals and cowards do. But honestly, as much as I love my kids, I would not help them get away. I’d turn them in without hesitation.
If you had him for dead looks like you're right.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/brian-lau...165700990.html
That's a shame.
Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. -- Carl Sagan (Pale Blue Dot)
I sure wouldn't jump to the opinion that he drowned himself yet.
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