LET GOD SORT THEM OUT

It is 59 degrees out and chilly and at 6:13 a.m. Junior and Patrick are asleep downstairs and Boarder is in Room #4.

Did you know Chesea Handler was only 5'6" tall? Makes her even more sexy. She claims to be a Jew, but in the bigoted culture I grew up in, you were only a Jew if your MOTHER was a Jew. She was raised Jewish by a Mormon Mother...I do know that Judaism used to be a matriarchy for family tree reasons, genealogical, thank you that's what I was going for, altho Jesus' lineage is traced from David in the Bible. or maybe all that's just misinformation on my part. Any way, Chelsea sure is a bright star on the horizon in our book.

More Later.

FROM THE BLOG, THREE YEARS AGO TODAY:

Thursday, August 25, 2005

THE BIG HAIRY SCARY GUY

Day 17, 807 on this planet. It's 5:48, partly cloudy, 58 degrees out and Patrick is sleeping peadefully with Junior.


Randall "Tex" Cobb was a heavyweight boxer who retired with a 43-7-1 record. He fought some of the best in his time, and is most noted for going 15 rounds in a title bout with Larry Holmes, around 1981 or so, losing every round, but never backing up, and never going down. At one point in the fight, he turned to the Ref and said, "You're white, help me." The Ref didn't, and Howard Cosell, ringside, was so horrified by the brutality of the fight, retired and never covered boxing again, a thing of which Cobb is very proud to this day.

Cobb was and is a colorful character, and had a career in Hollywood, appearing in about two dozen feature films as the lovable comic BIG HAIRY SCARY GUY kicking people's ass's.

I met Cobb in L.A. around 1983, give or take a year. I saw him in a night Club on PCH. He was leaning up against a bar, with his back to it looking like a huge ugly cave man, with his massive knuckles almost scrapping the floor, very recognizable. I took a very diminutive girl in our group with me, for protection, to go meet him. I said, "You're Tex Cobb, right? I just wanted to shake your hand." We shook and he looked at my slight companion and commented, "I bet she likes to be on top." I mumbled something like, "Uh, yeah, thanks." and we beat a hasty retreat. He definitely was an intimidating figure, and an authentic Western American Hero. So it goes.
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