The Case of the Broke Dick Brother

The upside of this blog will be that I can just show it in court and instantly get out of jury duty.

The downside is I’ll never find a decent defense attorney.

But I gotta be me and I gotta make it rain truth for my readers.

Here you go:

If you are arrested, indicted and brought to trial then you are fucking guilty as hell.

I covered some of the most heinous crimes ever back in my newspaper reporting days.

The worst was probably having to cover the murder case of a local TV reporter, and friend, who was brutally stabbed to death with a Phillips head screw driver by a stalker.

I remember drinking with her at the bar one night and she was laughing about “her friend” who kept stealing her underwear.

I was suppose to go out with her the night she was murdered. We were going to celebrate her bump up the TV food chain to the Dallas market. It was a big move. We were both really excited about it.

Then some psycho fuck of a Shoney’s chef had a particularly bad day and slipped into the open door of her apartment while she showered and stabbed her to death.

It was incredibly sad. The worst part was that the rest of the news staff were a bunch of idiots so I HAD to cover the murder, the funeral and the trial. Nothing like reading the autopsy report of a friend or having the neighbor tell you that, yes, he heard her screaming but thought she was having sex (she was pretty loud).

Then there is the whole thing where the suspect’s mother calls you non-stop to say that while her son was found covered in blood and hiding in the victim’s closet there is no way he did it. Oh, a mother’s love knows no bounds.

Sorry, I’m totally rambling again and the last blog promised this blog would be funny…

The Illegitimate Rape: The Only Innocent Guy I Saw

Every suspect is guilty.

Well, every suspect except this one black guy from Texas who was accused of raping a chunky army bride.

The trial started pretty normally.

The nice army officer had kissed his wife good bye that morning and headed off to the base.

As soon as he was gone, a black man slipped into his house and proceeded to rape his lily white wife.

She was so scared, she said, that she didn’t make a sound. She was sure this large black guy would kill her. That’s what black guys do, I guess, when they are done raping white women.

In fact, she was so scared of enraging this obvious psycho path that she made herself as compliant as possible which is the reason why there was none of the usual vaginal tearing when a large black man forces his peener into a precious white girl.

So brave. So very, very brave.

The cops testified this guy was not only guilty of being black but he was also a known crack dealer.

HOLY SHIT ON A SHINGLE!!!

That’s the guilty trifecta in Central Texas: black male, crack dealing and raping white married women.

I swear to God one of the jurors volunteered to personally hang the defendant right there in the court room.

“Hey man, your boy is fucked,” I told the defense attorney after the prosecution had finished.

“Just wait,” he told me. “We actually have a surprise coming.”

So he pulls the defendant up on the stand. The defendant is a terrible witness. His reliance on Ebonics alone should have meant death by lethal injection for his brutal assault of the English language.

The defendant said he didn’t rape her. He explained it was an arrangement.

Every day, once the nice army officer left for work, our friendly crack dealer would slip in the back door of the house. He wanted sex. She wanted crack. This had been going on for a month. It was perfect, in his eyes. It was perfect in her eyes too — except for that last time.

That last time they didn’t have any condoms. That last time he thought he could pull out. He couldn’t. He filled that white girl up with his crack dealing seed.

She said it was cool.

But then she started worrying… Black crack dealing sperm mixing with her honky eggs? Segregation might be over in the south but there’s no way to explain a brown baby as it is pulled from between a white girl’s thighs and presented for muster to her dutiful, loving army officer husband.

So the defendant thought she cooked up the rape plot as a cover in case she was pregnant. Mind you, she never actually got pregnant.

So typical.

The prosecution was all over the defendant. Seriously, what a dick this guy was to even suggest such a thing. What sick fuck crack dealing rapist who doesn’t know his place in the world would bruise the reputation of this lovely, yet biggie sized, Caucasian woman?

Bring in the medical professional…

This is what slayed me.

The doctor got on the stand and began to explain that there was no way the defendant raped the alleged victim.

You see, the defendant had suffered some serious trauma in his early teens involving the cross bar on a bicycle. The lasting result was his penis was broken (Yes, this shit actually happens). The scar tissue caused his wang, when erect, to have a permanent 60-degree bend to the right, just a third of the way down from the head on his shaft.

It was a source of great embarrassment for the defendant. He actually sat there hiding his head on the table while the doctor testified that sex was extremely difficult for him and that “forcing” his mangled junk into anyone was physically impossible.

And, so…

The jury found him innocent and our chubby white wife had a lot of explaining to do to her very loyal and loving army officer husband.

So what did I learn from that trial?

Some people are innocent?

Sometimes having a busted up dick sounds like a horrible curse but it can keep you out of jail when you are falsely accused of rape so maybe everything happens for a reason?

If I had a little spare crack I could get all the chubby druggie poon I wanted?

Nah…

I learned that most guys would rather go to prison than admit their dicks don’t work.

The Greatest Person You Never Met

My grandmother died last night at 11:30 pm.

I got the call that she had passed away “peacefully” this morning as I walked into the office (and you thought your Monday sucked).

She was 95, which sounds old unless you met her. She was one of the those rare people who at 60 was hipper than most 30-year-olds and at 85 was in better shape mentally and physically than most 60-year-olds.

An example?

At the age of 83 she traveled to London by herself to ring in the new millenium in complete style. At 90-years-old she was quoted in the Chicago Tribune as she left the opera and she would not be returning unless it was with a young man who picked her up in a limosuine.

She was the youngest of 12 children born on a farm outside Holland, Michigan. Her father sent all 12 of his kids to college and he delivered 4 of them himself. Her husband (who truly was the love of her life) died of leukemia when she was still young, leaving her with my 15-year-old father and 12-year-old aunt to raise on her own.

She went and got a job. She retired. She cashed her teacher’s pension and re-invested it, making a fortune. She lived in a condo on Michigan Avenue across from Oak Street Beach, just down from Oprah. In her later years she bought a home in Glen Ellyn, Illinois and lived with my Aunt, Uncle and their two children.

She was more of a friend  and advisor than a grandmother. She was always politefully honest and full of grace and style.

When she would come visit for the holidays, her typical garb was black leather pants and a low cut cashmere sweater.

I said to her a few years ago:

“Gram, I sweat like crazy. If I put on leather pants like that they would be destroyed in an hour. How do you clean them?”

“I just throw them away and buy new ones.”

I’ll never forget when she heard women were inserting “dimmers” into their bras to keep their nipples from showing.

“What’s wrong with nipples? I happen to like nipples.”

See? A lot of traits are passed down genetically.

Favorite memories?

Her schooling my friends at HORSE in the driveway when I was in junior high…

Her walking me to the record store in 3rd grade to buy Van Halen’s “Diver Down”…

Her love advice to me in college was “Cute girls are nice and they are fun but you do not marry cute. You marry beautiful minds. That will always keep you interested.”

She was many things but above all she was the grandmother everyone else wished they had.

I found this note recently from my Grandmother and I’ll share with you because I know, you too would have loved her like I did.

She wrote it to me when I graduated from college and gave it to me along with a collection of Mike Ryko articles and a Dylan Thomas anthology.

“As I said at lunch yesterday, student days are over, but scholarship just begins.

So, my dear young man, whether or not reading “hurts your brain” (and I assume it does not) this reading will soothe the soul.

If you absolutely CAN’T read and your brain hurts TOO much, just carry these with you to the bar. Perhaps you’ll attract an intelligent girl who will read them to you.”

I love you Grandma Dottie. Thank you for everything.