The Shine

Yipee Ki-Yay Mother Falcon

I drove to Springfield. Not because I wanted to be in Springfield because I was a booked on a show there. Which I was, sort of, just not a wrestling show. It was a rodeo.

Since I was already there, I told the old mumble-mouth cowboy running the rodeo thing that for the hundred bucks I was promised I'd try to ride a bull. Money is money right, why not give it a shot? Getting thrown off a bull once can't be worse than some of the bumps I've taken in the ring.

He told me that women don't ride bulls. He also told me I wasn't being offered a c-note, one hundred dollars was the entry fee. I would have to pay him $100. If I was a man. Because women don't ride bulls.

How did I get this booking, was I the one who screwed up or was this someone else playing a funny fucking joke on me? I need to start keeping track of my bookings better. I'd really like to know if I have myself to blame for this fuck up or if someone should be on my shit list. Is there an app I can get that does something like that? There has to be for people who book gigs and suck are organization.

I looked it up, there is a female bull rider named Maggie Parker so fuck you old man.

I made the case that the least they could do is let me in to for free. Wrong again, the least they could do was nothing. Cost me eight bucks to watch a rodeo. I'm not sure why I bothered. I don't have any interest in rodeo.

After a show once I was hanging around with the ticket dude and he told me how much he hates when rodeos come through. As he told it rodeo promoters request fifty different kinds of tickets to be sold with special promo codes even though hardly anyone buys tickets. He said that he had worked rodeos where there were more kinds of tickets for sale than there were people that bought tickets.

It was okay, eight bucks was too much. It was more like three dollars' worth of entertainment. There's a lot of downtime in a rodeo, so I was on my phone a lot. A readers commented on how I might find out more information about Raymond Pine or the diner. I thought they were good suggestions but they didn't lead to much more. Whoever Raymond Pine is I think he's trying to keep a low profile.

I was able to get some more information about the diner. It's older than I thought. According to the city website, it was built in 1952. That's old as fuck. The original owner is listed as Raymond Pine so either he's also old as fuck, it's a fake name, a different guy with the same name, or he's an immortal magician. Or some other explanation. I really want to know who designed it, but I couldn't find a way to learn anything about that online. Maybe if I go back there I can find something at like a county records office?

I made some calls but I couldn't get booked on the show in Silver City. I've decided that I am going to go anyway since Eterno Corazon Inmortal is going to be there. I don't know what I'm going to do, but I have to do something. 

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