I Am Right Over-Proud Of It–True Story. I Never Fails to Amuse Me: Pearls Cast at Swine. Yeah, Biblical.
I Cannot B’Leave I Wrote this Shit! But I did Invest Some Thought-Ful Time & Work Into It. No Shit! …. Brings Some Tears & and to Mine Eyes—Happy & Sad—I Am Just A Sentimental Old Fool!”A Raccoon’s Tale”
Jerry Clower – A Coon Huntin’ Story
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Rocky Racoon Animation
Not Certain,
But This May Be A Metaphor
For
My So-Called Life
Cred For Vid: A Headsup
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I raised a raccoon once. His name was Leroy, Leroy Rastus. Raised him from a cub I did.
His eyes were recently newly opened and I fed him from a baby bottle. A local rancher in Honey Grove had killed his mama while Coon-Hunting one night and he brought all her cubs home.
The next day he adopted them out to several local high school kids. Peanut adopted Leroy’s sister. Another kid adopted his brother.
There may have been one or two more siblings, but I don’t recall. Leroy’s adoption experiences were somewhat more transitory. First he was taken by Kim. Kim got bored with him and gave him to my step-sister Madelyn. She thought he was just the coolest thing ever!
For about three days…
His coolness factor, having for her it seems, a very short half-life. I made her an offer she couldn’t refuse for her coon: Cash Money. Money’s coolness factor has no half-life. She was only too happy to surrender Leroy to my care for the tidy sum of thirty-five bucks. Quite tidy indeed to an unemployed High School girl in 1974.
I Cannot B’Leave I Wrote this Shite, But obviously I did. And I DID Invest Some Time & Earnest Efforts Into It for Sincerity and Veracity.
No Shit! Brings Some Tear to My Eye–Happy & Sad–I Am Just A Sentimental Old Fool!
And I Love Animals.
Gonna Get Me A Rescue Doggie Or Kitty Real Soon
“A Raccoon’s Tale”
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*** Jerry Clower – ‘A Coon Huntin’ Story’, Just to Get Y’all Warmed Up. And, Actually it hits very close to accurately depicting how I ended up with my pet coon
“Knock Him Out John!”
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Rocky Raccoon Animation
Not Certain,
But This May Be A Metaphor
For
My So-Called Life
(Volume Is Kinda Fukked On this one–Sorry Kids)
Cred For Vid: A Headsup
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“A Raccoon’s Tale”
I raised a raccoon once. His name was Leroy, Leroy Rastus. Raised him from a cub I did.
His eyes were recently newly opened and I fed him from a baby bottle. A local rancher in Honey Grove had killed his mama while Coon-Hunting one night and he brought all her cubs home.
The next day he adopted them out to several local high school kids. Peanut adopted Leroy’s sister. Another kid adopted his brother.
There may have been one or two more siblings, but I don’t recall. Leroy’s adoption experiences were somewhat more transitory. First he was taken by Kim. Kim got bored with him and gave him to my step-sister Madelyn. She thought he was just the coolest thing ever!
For about three days…
His coolness factor, having for her it seems, a very short half-life. I made her an offer she couldn’t refuse for her coon: Cash Money. Money’s coolness factor has no half-life. She was only too happy to surrender Leroy to my care for the tidy sum of thirty-five bucks. Quite tidy indeed to an unemployed High School girl in 1974.
You will undoubtedly notice the absence of one “Lance A. Marcom” in the list of family members surviving Ralph A. Marcom. I was, after all, the “Black Sheep.” I have, since the publishing of this obit,
spoken to Bill Palmer, (Its author and actually a very good friend of mine now.) regarding this and he told me that it—ME—must have slipped his mind, as I was always thousands of miles away in some desert or similar out of touch “shit hole.”
Thanks Bill.
When my father met my mother he was studying French and Drama. That really couldn’t pay the bills, so he later (forced by his father) became a physician, but not before working as a Disc Jockey in almost every small-town hick radio station in Texas, Oklahoma, and Missouri. He also had a late night TV show in Kansas City in the early Sixties, dressing up as Dracula or Satan, running horror movies and doing all the commercials (Think Elvira in reverse drag). I lived with him and my first step-mother there in Kansas City for a brief spell (before my mother hired a private detective, tracked me down, and kidnapped me back—another story how/why all that had to happen) and don’t remember much of it, except hating my ‘evil’ stepmother (she forced liver down me, which I found disgusting then, but love now.). Years later I discovered she wasn’t all that ‘evil’ and that the only reason she forced me to eat liver was that it was ‘good for me.’ Okay, maybe she was evil.
Anyway…
Many years later, after doing that nickel (prison ‘vernacular’) in Fremont and a short stint with my maternal grandparents in east Texas, I moved in with my father in Honey Grove and second stepmother (most decidedly more ‘evil’ than the first, and in more subtle and damaging ways, especially for a boy who was ‘coming of age’ and with all the teenage angst that that manifests.)
My father had purchased a three and a half story Victorian house (circa ‘Texas Victorian’ 1880) in HG and remodeled it beautifully.
The place resembled the mansion inhabited by The Addams Family. Literally. Daddy (Texans always call their fathers “Daddy” even when they are in their fifties–don’t ask me why because I don’t know) was by then a proper doctor, but his passion was magic (anything to keep performing, it would seem) and he was very good at it. His specialty was ‘close up’ and he did become a semi-famous person, at least in the Magic Community. He also performed at Scarborough Faire, a semi-famous annual Renaissance Festival held in Waxahachie (Texas of course).
