G.Vernon Carman aka Fred the Red
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Transportation |
| Occupation | retired o.t.r. trucker |
| Location | Deep in the Georgia Outback, United States |
| Introduction | I was raised in the deep south, the stepson of a Baptist preacher. I fled that scene in the dead of night,and seldom went back to Georgia. I made my first bet, as a 17 year old sailor, at Aqua Caliente, in Tijuana. I lived in the Haight, long before Look Magazine discovered the scene. I was in the street at the 1968 Democrat Convention. Regardless of what the revisionist historians say today, the Walker Commission determined that what happened in Chicago was a police riot. Just felt compelled to get that straight. I missed Woodstock. (too stoned to make the trip.) Went on a lot of trips in those days , though. I've been an owner, a breeder, a trainer, and a groom. I'm rumored to have dabbled in the square grouper trade. I've been a farmer, a florist, an antique dealer, a construction worker, and, most recently, an over the road trucker, until I had a stroke at a truck stop in Ohio, and was forced to come in off the road. Through all of this I'm best known as that racetrack degenerate. If I had it to do all over again, I'd do it all over again. Well, I'd skip the stroke, and I'd go ahead and put everything on Valponi. |
| Interests | horse racing, traveling, fishing, fooling around |
| Favorite Movies | Tender Mercies, Old Yeller |
| Favorite Music | Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Lucinda Williams, Crystal Bowersox, Levon Helm, Billy Joe Shaver, Janis Joplin, Lightnin' Hopkins |
| Favorite Books | Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey, Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron, A Given Day by Dennis Lehane, Taps for Private Tussie by Jessie Stuart, Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand, A Peoples Historyof the United States by Howard Zinn, Eliminate The Losers by Bob Mc Knight |