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The Return of the Governor’s Words Starring Oat Willie
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Posted by Random Evocateur | Filed under 1 - The Raw Deal #1, 6 - Photos / Visuals
28 Wednesday May 2014
Posted 2 - Another Raw Deal, 6 - Photos / Visuals, 9 - Print
inMarch 15 – BYE
March 22 – Sweet Olive Bunnies – Govalle (9:30)March 29 – Muffin Men – W. Bartholomew (6:30)
April 5 – Too Smooth – Brentwood (8:30)
April 12 – Superior Dairies – Kreig IV (7:30)
April 19 – BYE
April 26 – Sweet Olive Bunnies – Govalle (9:30)
May 3 – Muffin Men – W. Bartholomew (6:30)
May 10 – Too Smooth – Brentwood (8:30)
May 17 – Superior Dairies – Kreig IV (7:30)
This is the year of the Lastros (strike that) big Deal according to the Chinese calendar. We are a veteran team and are long overdue for a trophy. Our three fans are disgruntled because of our continual failure to bring the bacon home to the Raw Deal. The owners, Fletcher and Lopez, are threatening to sell the franchise to new ownership unless we produce something more than used softballs and beer tabs. As the schedule indicates, it will be a long drawn-out season with only a couple of BYEs available for rest and recuperation. If all goes well this season, our stopper – that old pro Dave Richards – might get elevated to a new team on the Fifth Circuit. With that in mind, we should try to win one for the Dipper.
26 Monday May 2014
Posted 2 - Another Raw Deal, 6 - Photos / Visuals, 9 - Print
inThe Raw Deal 5th Anniversary and “Give Me a Break” Party
Come as you are, were or would like to be.
Sunday, October3, 4 until 8, 1110 West 6th Street.
Booze – Reminiscence and / or Deja Vu – Fine People – Booze – Strolling Artists – Bonfire Rally – Guest Lecturers – Booze – Stamina Contests – Hacks and Frauds – Dance Lessons – Elegant Ladies – Harangues – Tedious Comedians – Human Sacrifices – Free – Style Back-Stabbing – Mortgage Payments – Flower Arranging – Faux Pas Play-Offs – (Choice of 2 with Mushroom Gravy)
No Cover but Heed Must be Paid at the Door!
Affectionately, The Management
25 Sunday May 2014
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inWhen Austin’s threatened Inter-American Amtrak train blows its whistle Friday afternoon, the Great Austin Train Renaissance will begin its first Ride On.
The 49 demonstrators / junketeers will assemble at Another Raw Deal, 1112 6th Street, to prepare for their train ride to Laredo.
The demonstrators are habitues and sons of habitues of the Raw Deal, a haunt for writers, politicians, lawyers, oral manure historians and others of marginal social utility.
They hope to call attention to the fact that Amtrak service connecting the state capital with Chicago on the north and Laredo on the south, with connections to interior Mexico, is in danger of abandonment.
“Transportation Secretary Brock Adams has already announced that this passenger service would be canceled,” said spokesman Guy Herman, one of the three organizers of the junket.
But we’ve been granted a faint hope of a reprieve. The government is going to put $65 million into saving 12,000 miles of the 27,000 they had planned to cut. Ridership on the Inter-American through Austin has shown a 200 percent jump over last year, according to the people at the station, but the latest Amtrak figures show ridership declined 3.5 percent. They’re going to make their decision on which routes to save based on ridership during the year ending in July, so we have only this month to ride the train to show we mean to keep it,
Herman continued.
The riders will leave at 1:20 PM Friday, July 6, ride to Laredo, with a stop in San Antonio, and return Sunday.
Federal, state and local officeholders have been invited to see them off and, if they show up, it can be interpreted as a good sign for continuation of Austin rail passenger service.
“If none of these officials show up, what the hell,” said another of the event’s organizers, Brady Coleman, “we’re going to vote with our tails.”
Austin lawyers Herman, Coleman and Jim Simons organized the train trip for the Raw Dealers.