Excerpt --> email from sister
...Did you hear what happened yesterday at the ol homestead? A rattlesnake was in the front yard and Dad saw it. Of course that is the only creature that man is deathly afraid of, so he goes to find Larry the Snake guy (as all good Cochitian's do when a rattler appears). Larry (or whatever his name is) isn't home. So Dad goes back home, snake is still there. He loses his mind. Goes in - grabs the Glock (as all good Cochitian's do), and shoots wildly at the snake. Misses - twice - all the neighbors FREAK out thinking somethings going down. And there is Dad, in the driveway, with his semiautomatic weapon, chipped concrete, and a rattlesnake slithering off into the brush...
My father is now Johnny Depp in "Fear and Loathing." Shooting wildly into the desert, scaring the shit out of everybody.
2005-05-18 | 2:38 p.m.
