A Conversation With Sandra Crenshaw
Was a hit put out on Lynn Flint Shaw and Rufus Shaw? That’s what those “in the know” believe, according to Sandra Crenshaw. I had a 15-minute conversation with her yesterday, and I invite you to listen to it.
First, do you need to catch up? Go here. Gird yourself for a post with 131 comments. They are all worth reading. But to sum up: Crenshaw, a former Dallas City Council member, was the chairperson for precinct 3549 on caucus night. Things did not go smoothly, to say the least. And there was much blogging.
Lynn Flint Shaw and her husband Rufus Shaw are dead. It looks to be a murder-suicide pact. But serious questions remain about their involvement with the DART board and City Hall.
Against that backdrop, Sandra Crenshaw called our office yesterday. As is my wont, I recorded the conversation. With two points, I offer a (poor quality) audio file of that phone call. 1) She at no point asked to talk off the record. 2) The call originated and was received within Texas, so I was free to record it without telling her.
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Two things are clear (1) This continues to be gold (”gold, Jerry, gold!”); (2) Tim has no fear of death.
I can’t understand an effin’ thing she’s saying. I bailed after spending 30 seconds trying to fight through it. WTF?
My first cease and desist. Well, for this blog anyway.
I know. I’m sorry, Sam. I got a new recorder today. I promise it won’t happen again.
While this is comedy gold, what I can hear of it, I’m still not entirely sure Tim didn’t actually have a conversation with Len Easton.
Before I posted the audio, I called Crenshaw to tell her I was going to do it. She was already on her way to our attorneys’ office, at Haynes and Boone.
I’m told that Crenshaw is right now sitting at the offices of Haynes and Boone, but Don Templin, David Harper, et al. have gone to lunch. So she is waiting. And while she waits, she is compiling a list of our advertisers. She plans to ask that they demand that we subscribe to Ethics for Blogs, and she is going to call for a selective buying (but not a boycott because that’s illegal) of these businesses until we follow some ethics.
Also, every time she calls our front desk (which is often), she asks for “Wilkerson.”
I wonder if she pays the retainer fee with Cactus Juice and Earl Campbell Links. If her celebrity status continues to rise, she’ll someday wind up on Dancing with Stars showing everybody how to do the Texas Two Step (it’s a Western Dance).
That’s it Missing Dots, now you’ve gone and done it. Your words are tortous and the height of libelity and slanderfication, you can expect a call from Booney Haynes Attorney At Law!!
And did she say somebody was deep throating Jim Schutze?
Brilliant.
Abso*******lutely Brilliant.
So far I’m 3-3 on my Fox Sports NCAAB bracket and now this!
What a great afternoon!
yes, she did say someone was deep-throating jim schutze.
this is awesome.
Man! Can I get some transcript action? That’s some crazy bad audio.
Justin, I think she actually said somebody was deep-throating “Jim Shultze.”
We’re looking for an intern at D who has time to transcribe the conversation, for those who can’t tolerate the poor audio quality.
Just ask Adam, he’s probably not doing anything important…
Please find that intern quickly…….because this is giving me a tired head listening it to it.
I can’t understand a word, but it is driving my dog crazy…
Thanks for the clarification, that makes more sense, I wouldn’t think Schutze would impugn his journalistic integrity for a hummer.
I think this whole thing is a reference to my work with Tuban throat singers. Remember:
Terwujudnya masyarakat Kabupaten Tuban yang mandiri dan sejahtera lahir batin!!!!
Since transcribing that mess will likely take days no matter how good the intern, can you give us a quick wrap-up, Tim?
Breaker one nine..
Get an over the road trucker to come transcribe that mess.
Psychedelic!
I can, Sam. Basically, I offered to edit her blog posts. She e-mailed me. I e-mailed back. She e-mailed back. I posted the contents of that e-mail on my blog. She’s now saying I violated some kind of thing.
And she’s saying someone put a hit out on Lynn and Rufus Shaw, and that’s why I shouldn’t have put the e-mail on my blog, because those same people would put a hit on her.
Did I miss anything?
Terwujudnya masyarakat Kabupaten Tuban yang mandiri dan sejahtera lahir batin
Pretty good synopsis, Bethany. But, you forgot to mention that she was calling from the library so she had to whisper when talking with Tim. That, and the bad people who are out to get her might have overheard her conversation and sped up their plans to silence her for good…
Thanks, Bethany & Josh. Can anyone elaborate on the Schutze comment?
Call me crazy but when you get really mad at someone you don’t go to their attorney, you go to yours- right? Unless Tim’s mom works at Haynes and Boone I’m not sure why Crenshaw is camping there.
Again, Terwujudnya masyarakat Kabupaten Tuban yang mandiri dan sejahtera lahir batin
Josh, I don’t think she was whispering because the people behind the grassy knoll were listening, she was whispering because she was in a library, just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean you can’t be courteous.
Tim,
Thanks for this peek behind the curtain.
Now we all know how truly glamorous your work is.
Strive to become independent and prosperous for Tuban’s society.
Wait until I post some of the audio files from our conversations.
(But wait: that would only get me in trouble….)
Scratch that.
this. is. awesome!
This could sooooo be an episode of The Wire.
I have a good friend who, in his day job as attorney, used to do a lot of work evicting people from the old Hilltop Inn back in the bad old days before it was swank. Back when the Mrs. Baird’s plant was still pumping out bread fumes all night long. He was the lawyer, I was the muscle.
The folks that were getting evicted from their week-to-week flop rooms by my buddy were mostly long on drug use and short on funds; few, if any, were still playing with a full deck, if they ever had a full deck to begin with. Some of them were still rational and understood that if you don’t pay, you can’t stay. Rhyming rules of law worked best, we found, when evicting these folks. But there were always those who, in between glass-pipe puffs, would shout incomprehensible things at us through their broken teeth and blistered lips. Things that make good 1849er gibberish look like the King’s English. And through our dealings with the down-and-out, we decided on an iron law of human nature: you can’t reason with crazy.
The more I hear about Sandra Crenshaw, the more I’m reminded of our iron law. And I’m so glad that I don’t work at Haynes & Boone today.
From the previous comments, I’ve pieced together the Crenshaw Conspiracy. Crenshaw called from a library but was concerned the people out to get her might hear her. Kennedy was shot from a book repository which is similar to a library. Earl Campbell played at Texas, and the Texas Two Step is a Western Dance. OJ Simpson murdered two people and his nickname is Juice. Crenshaw is famous for serving Cactus Juice. Kennedy was shot in Dealey Plaza, which is named after a former publisher of The News. The D.O. is investigating the Shaw’s involvement with groups, etc. associated with the current publishers of the The News.
I’m starting to believe Crenshaw should be worried.
Why would you go to the library to make a phone call?
Was she surfing porn?
JimS-
If a Terwujudnya masyarakat Kabupaten Tuban yang mandiri dan sejahtera lahir batin falls in the woods and no one understands it, does it still make it funny? IJS
She reminds me of the man who talks country gibberish in “Blazing Saddles.” I tried to find that scene on You Tube but was not successful. So, I decided to post this link instead since Sandra is full of hot air:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BK84Ipm1zlE
JimS-
If a Terwujudnya masyarakat Kabupaten Tuban yang mandiri dan sejahtera lahir batin falls in the woods and no one understands it, does it still make it funny? IJS
JimS-
If a Terwujudnya masyarakat Kabupaten Tuban yang mandiri dan sejahtera lahir batin falls in the woods and no one understands it, does it still make it funny? IJS
Ah, the comedy rule of threes executed to perfection.
BLM & Mantooth:
i think the language you both refer to is actually called Frontier Gibberish.
Dots:
That post made my day.
Hey Tim,
Can you give us an update on how her meeting at the Haynes and Boone office went? That is, if anyone was able to decipher Crenshaw’s patois to the point where it could be relayed to you.
SC indeed is the gift that keeps on giving…
Speaking of speaking, Tim, did you ever verify whether Sandra Crenshaw was indeed a member of the TSU debate team under Thomas Freeman? That was one of her claims in her James Joyce-like blatherings in ealier posts, when she offered to debate anybody at a radio station.
I think we are all just typical white people
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives2/2008/03/020088.php
I almost feel like I should apologize or something, after listening to that again. As penance, I was going to try to provide a transcript, but I’m not smart enough. I’m not. I’m too dumb to provide a transcript of this.
Oh, and I whisper because the dirty talk sounds better that way.
Bethany,
Will you talk dirty to me then throw me in the trinity, hoffa style?
It all depends on how much cactus juice I’ve had.
Jay – As Alan Alda once said (in Woody Allen’s “Crimes and Misdemeanors”), comedy is tragedy plus time.
My sincere condolences to Haynes and Boone. Those guys really earned their fee today. I hope they’re drinking themselves blind right now.
Was she calling from the space shuttle?
You completely missed why Crenshaw was compiling a list of advertisers. Clearly she is contacting them about a marketing deal. Based on the amount of comments, nothing get FB rolling like a Crenshaw discussion. She’s gonna try and ride this juice train until the cactus runs dry. Clearly your advertisers are benefitting from the Crenshaw story, so why shouldn’t she? We gonna rite a book at get rich, yo.
She really should just start her own blog.
Oh golly, I wonder what it would be called?
I vote for:
1. The Texas Two Step is a Western Dance
2. Cactus Juiced
3. From the Desk of the Foundation for the Anti-Goonification of Trinity River-Based Democratic Hoffa Enthusiasts
4. Are You There God? It’s Me, Sandra
5. Mmmm…Denny’s!
The Texas Two Step Is a Western Dance: The Sandra Crenshaw Story
People N the NO…The Sandra Crenshaw Blog
Translate-”People in the know”
Sandra Crenshaw is a nutjob, plain and simple, but such a mine for comedy gold. Why shes been allowed to stay in sane society and hasnt been escorted to the crazy house yet is a question I think we all should be asking. Im guessing she also has the angle on who really killed kennedy and why the water powered car is being blocked by OPEC as well.
Wow, edited for content.
I’ll take that as a compliment and as an alternative I’ll let the video say it instead:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-xHPU6NulM&feature=related
You can find a transcription of our conversation here:
http://frontburner.dmagazine.com/2008/03/21/re-a-conversation-with-sandra-crenshaw/
Thank you Tim. This is just too awesome!!!
Damn!!
I spend a few days offline…and all Hell breaks loose.
You have to give her this….Sandra is a dedicated crazy person….in fact, one could even say she was a Professional whack-job at this point.
Chris brought up a valid question earlier: Why is it that the obviously mentally ill do not have services available to them? You pretty much have to be “Manson” crazy at this point in time to garner mental health care, and hospitalization.
Even Sandra admitted (in a political campaign disclosure form), that she was too mentally unstable to hold down employment…and yet she held office as a member of Dallas’s city council.
This proves two things: Dallas City Council has some pretty low standards for holding Public Office, and even the Voters don’t seem to care what, or who they vote into office.
Bethany…I think you are safe at this point.
And YES, Rob…you definitely owe that poor intern some flowers…and maybe a bottle of High Dollar Vodka…so her memories of that transcription can be washed away in an alcohol fueled haze,
Anne, I missed you, too!
Oops…I screwed up….
Tim owes the intern the flowers….and the beverage as well.
Oh, Bethany….did you ever think you would be dragged into a mess like this over your fondness for correct spelling, and effective useage of punctuation?
You’re not my daughetr…but you could be!
It’s not the first time my love of grammar and comma placement has gotten me into hot water. It’s just the first time it’s touched off a wave that culminates in a protest.