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STOPPED AT THE GROCERY STORE. WOMAN IN FRONT OF ME 5/19 THU TeXXas Country JUST KEPT TALKING AND TAKING HER TIME. THEN SHE CAN’T FIND 5/20 FRI Dennis Barnes HER LONE STAR CARD,THEN CAN’T REMEMBER HER PIN#. AND THEN, SHE PULLS OUT A HAND FULL OF COUPONS. I PULLED MY 5/22 SUN Dale Watson CART BACK AND RAMMED IT INTO HER ANKLES. BLOOD EVERY - WHERE, AND, THAT FUCKING SCREAMING. I JUST LEFT. 5/26 THU Rex McNeil GOT HOME, GOT A BEER, SAT DOWN IN MY EASY CHAIR, AND THOUGHT, LIFE IS GOOD WHEN YOU’RE OLD & GRUMPY. 5/27 FRI Joel Huffman VISA, MASTER CHARGE, AMERICAN EXPREFSSr &a CnASkH 5/29 SUN Madelyn Victoria The Trap Blog - http://caughtinthetrap.blogspot.com/ 7.25 13247 BANDERA RD, HELOTES, TX 78237 210-695-4941 Live Music in May Daily Lunch Specials 1st Sunday afternoon * NOW FEATURING LIVE MUSIC! 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SUN 29 JONATHON MEDINA 11 a.m. - 1 a.m. Sat. - noon - Midnight Sun. • 2 • Action Magazine, May 2016 Big benefit for kids of stricken cop A benefit to help the Road, and police describe Vasquez, but records in you more personally.” crazy town a good place four children of injured po - the incident as a hit-and- the Bexar County clerk’s The benefit at Texas to live.” lice officer Ernesto run. office later revealed that Pride was arranged by Martin said 100 percent Vasquez will be held from The 8-year SAPD vet - Vasquez and Lopez were Wayne Martin. He heads a of all funds derived from 1 p.m. until 8 p.m. on May eran remains in a coma. granted a marriage li - 20-year old band know as the benefit will go to the 22 at Texas Pride Barbe - He has been moved from cense in June of 2015. The Lone Star Pickerz. Vasquez kids. cue on Loop 1604 near a hospital to a long-term Police said Lopez did A onetime employee of The benefit is sanc - Adkins. rehabilitation facility. He not attempt to visit both KITY and KONO tioned by the San Antonio Augie Meyers, Bobby was unresponsive at the Vasquez after the crash. radio stations, Martin re - Police Officers Associa - Flores, Patsy Torres, Two time of this writing. Chief of Police William calls when Action was tion. Augie Meyers Tons of Steel, and the In jail and charged with McManus said, “These born in 1975. Lone Star Pickerz will play failing to stop and render type of cases, family vio - “Thanks for your sup - the event. aid is 26-year-old Diana lence or whatever you port and the ink,” Martin Vasquez is the San An - Lopez. want to call it, are tragic said. “We are looking for tonio police officer who She was returned to regardless of who is in - folks to step up with some was run over on New San Antonio after being volved. When you know cool items for silent auc - Year’s Eve by a woman arrested in Laredo. the individual and work tion tables. These kids do identified as his wife. Police first identified with the individual on the need help and it is friends It happened on Blanco her as a “romantic lover” of street every day, it affects like you who make this Wayne Martin Patsy Torres Bobby Flores Kevin Geil Ernesto Vasquez & Family • DEPARTMENTS • Sam Kindrick...........................................6 Editor & Publisher ................Sam Kindrick Everybody’s Somebody ..........................9 Advertising Sales ..............Amy Heller Reif ....................Action Staff Scatter Shots ........................................11 Photography.............................Action Staff Distribution............................Ronnie Reed Composition..........................Elise Taquino Volume 41 • Number 5 • FEATURE • Cop Benefit .............................................3 Chicken Shit Bingo ..................................4 Action Magazine, May 2016 • 3 • Chicken Shit Bingo the rage of St. Hedwig By Sam Kindrick Hedwig, a Sunday after - droves upon St. Hedwig Hedwig, along with living populated the acreage Big T Roadhouse pool When the chicken noon past time hatched by from Austin, the Texas Hill quarters on two acres of with a happy herd of free- table. shits, the crowd roars, and country musician Dale Country, Corpus Christi, property on the southeast - roaming chicken hens Texas music icon Augie the ghost of John Demmer Watson. and neighboring San An - ern edge of Bexar who earn their keep sim - Meyers, Hal Ketchum, and will be the last soul in St. Fans of Dale Watson, tonio to join in the hoopla. County.. ply by laying breakfast other name performers Hedwig to holler “Bingo!” true Texas roots music he It all started three years Dale installed his eggs and splattering their have dropped in for Dale John was the Polish im - calls Ameripolitan, and ago when the Austin- brother Larry and their 91- credentials on a num - Watson performances at migrant who founded the chicken shit bingo in gen - based Watson bought The year-old mother in the liv - bered sheet of plywood Big T Roadhouse. And Bexar County hamlet of eral are descending in Big T Roadhouse in St. ing quarters. He also which fits neatly over The Black Sabbath legend St. Hedwig back in 1856, Continued on pg. 7 never dreaming that his lit - tle farming community would some day become the birth place of a wild honky-tonk game called chicken shit bingo. Hell, John just wanted to raise a crop, a family, and build a native stone Catholic Church which was named after the pa - tron saint of Silesia, that area of Poland from whence John Demmer sprang. He never would have imagined a mob howling over a gooey blob of chicken shit becoming the defining image for St. Hedwig. But it has happened. Chicken shit bingo has become the rage of St. Let us cater your holiday party or bring your party to Texas Pride. 210-649-3730 www.texaspridebbq.net Dale Watson plays his ‘Let’s Make a Dale’ game with chicken shit bingo winner Delia Cardenas. Watson’s upright bass player Chris Crepps looks on. 651-4541 4810 FM 1518 N. 1/4 MILE EAST OFF IH35 HOURS: 7 DAYS A WEEK • 4 • Action Magazine, May 2016 Action Magazine, May 2016 • 5 • It’s been a little over a year now since we had the mix. It came out just as I had hoped and expected.” says he likes John. Royce Showalter on the cover of Action Magazine. Long time waiting Portillo was represented by Jay Norton, law Royce is the last living founding member of the Showalter recalls that the feds grabbed his ini - partner of my friend Alan Brown, and it was through the San Antonio chapter of the Bandidos Motorcycle Club. tial patch after several drug busts and a prison sen - law firm that I obtained a copy of the indictment. Norton He turns 70 this month. tence, and that disgruntled club honchos didn’t issue no longer represents Portillo. Directly because of that column, the Bandidos him another patch until the funeral for Bandido Chuco It is a voluminous hodge-podge of allegations hierarchy stripped Showalter of his “patch,” the vest with in 2006. and assertions that include dope deals and acts of vio - Bandidos logo and other insignia which is commonly “They held back on giving me my patch be - lence, most of them by Bandidos beating Cossacks with known in biker speak as “the colors.” cause they said I was selling weed and bringing heat fists and feet, and on one occasion with a claw hammer, In the world of the outlaw biker, to have your down on the club,” Royce said. “But it was just bullshit. I and all of this obtained through telephone taps. patch pulled by the club’s elected powers is tantamount wasn’t doing anything any of the others weren’t doing.” It’s about territory to ex-communication from the Catholic Church.