Two months before I left Texas, a teen rear ended me on my way to work. A lot of their highways are built out above other roads. And, they shut down all of their fly-overs because they don’t want to endanger their first responders. They do not (or didn’t back then) have a fleet of trucks for clearing. In early 2003, there was an accumulation of sleet. Those folks don’t do well in rain, much less the cold stuff. It doesn’t rain enough to keep the roads clear of the build up. When it does rain, there is so much oil on the road, it can be as slick as ice. It doesn’t rain a lot and frozen precip is nearly unheard of.
Central Texas gets, roughly, 240 days a year of blue skies & sunshine. Where Houston drives like Indy, Austin drives much slower and freak the f*** out over weather. Saw another guy in the morning shaving with his electric razor at the stoplight. On my way home from work one day, I looked up in my rearview mirror and saw a guy rolling a joint in his car behind me. Once Hank moved to Spring, I could drive farther north and not mess with Houston so much.Īustin traffic is bad but, most of those folks are just stoned. Stevie was in the upper echelon of guitar players…right along with Hendrix and Clapton. Stevie Ray Vaughn started to play the song in concert and it was released on his live album Live Alive in 1986. Bill Carter released his version on his 1985 album Stompin’ Grounds. Stokes inside… you can go to here “Willie The Wimp and Cadillac Coffin.” I didn’t really want to post that.īill Carter and Ruth Ellsworth wrote the song after seeing a newspaper column about the story. Several $100 bills stuck out from between his fingers. The deceased wore a flaming red suit, a jaunty gray hat, and diamond rings.
The casket was equipped with blinking headlights and taillights, a windshield, whitewall tires, and a vanity license plate featuring Stokes` ”Wimp” nickname. At his funeral home visitation, he appeared propped up in the Cadillac coffin, his hands on the steering wheel. Willie the Wimp was buried in a casket that had been custom-designed to look like a Cadillac Seville automobile. He was in the same line of work as his son. Willie’s dad, Willie Morris “Flukey” Stokes gave his son an extravagant goodbye. Such a violent death was not unheard of in Willie the Wimp`s social circles-but the style of his funeral was. ”Wimp” Stokes Jr., described as a Chicago underworld figure who was gunned down on the steps of Roberts Motel at 79th Street and Vincennes Avenue. Tyler, the Creator ‘kisses white boys’.Īt around the same time, Tyler began to address his own sexuality.In 1984 Willie M. He has also maintained that race was a contributing factor in the ban. “So the argument is right there! This song is written from an alter ego – I’m not like this!” He insisted again that he wasn’t homophobic, telling The Guardian: “The thing that irks me about it is that the paper saying I am denied entry to the UK clearly states that these songs were written from an alter ego – which means they obviously did some research on these songs that they’re detaining me for. In August 2015 he was banned from entering the UK by then-home secretary Theresa May, who said that his lyrics “encouraged violence and intolerance of homosexuality”. I don’t want anyone to think I’m homophobic.” I don’t know, we don’t think about it, we’re just kids. I just think ‘faggot’ hits and hurts people.
He defended himself in a NME interview at the time, telling the magazine: “I’m not homophobic.