After Lash Larue went on to the last roundup, I kinda lost interest in movies and hero worship of nay magnitude.  Howsomever, back in July of 2004 I was assigned an awesome opportunity to view the antics of the avant-garde, and I failed miserably.

A duo of divine and dazzling damsels hit the road on the west coast in an Airstream and a pickup truck.  Their mission was one of discovery.  They were the stars of a docu-drama, dead set and dedicated to rediscover America and reveal unto television junkies how the other 99% of our population vie for a place in the sun and a helping of the American Pie.  Fox Network’s Simple Life 2 was the title of that opus, and those two young lasses motored into Manor Texas on a rainy day in July and dropped anchor at the Lutz–Carillo family farm.  It was a reversal of the Lewis–Clark expedition since they were on an west–east track unlike that one of long ago — and there were other differences.

For instance, they were accompanied by a film crew plus makeup applicators and various other geek and grip support groups.  Upon arrival, they promptly buried their pickup truck in the Lutz–Carillo front yard.  That’s the way things go when you’re roughing it.

The pickup of course was abandoned in the mud and the two gals alit and toted their toy dogs to the porch of the Lutz–Carrilo spread, and received a warm welcome.  One of the doglets was a apple head Chihuahua and he was as treasured as the Hope Diamond.  He was dolled up in rain boots and duded up in a pink sweater and a rhinestone collar.  The other pampered pet was similarly clad.  It was an awesome sight to behold, according to witnesses of the onset of life on the farm.

Sky and Zephyr, sons of the Lutz–Carrillo clan, accompanied the two visitors to the points of interest on the spread.  The two girls hinted that they were gifted and adept at grubbing fence rows, milking cows, crayfishing and making chow-chow, but their actual efforts were spent gathering eggs, feeding the chickens and cooing to the goat crop.  The two gals’ interest in the rural life may have been feigned a tad by the Lutz–Carrilo boys, Sky and Zephyr’s interest in the visitors was as genuine as a Dell Computer warranty.

All too soon the segment was on film and the duo of gallivanting gals were able to get their rolling stock back on dry ground and bid a fond adieu to the Lutz–Carrilo family, and they struck out for Dell Diamond for yet another glimpse of small-town America.

My in depth report of this incident was presented in two reports of this historical saga, and much of the data was provided by my cub reporters of the Austin area, but I was fortunate to visit those wayfaring young females via telephone, and many a “you know” proclamation of their high old times on the “Simple Life” cruise.

I never actually watched a segment of that Fox Network extravaganza, and had forgotten the matter until the Breaking news on all the networks just lately.  Wolf Blitzer, Brian Williams and Rush Limbaugh, et al, kept us abreast of the juggling of one of those gals for driving a motor vehicle without the proper valid authorization to do so.

I sat and watched the Larry King show on CNN for around five minutes and was struck by the beauty and poise of Paris Hilton as she bared her soul and re-dedicated her life following her incarceration and release from striped sunshine.

I teared up and regretted the fact that I didn’t drive down for a face to face interview with Paris and her running partner Nicole Ritchie back in July of 2004, but what’s done is done and I’ll have to live with the golden opportunities that have leaked through my fingers in days gone by.  I would have drove down if the Lutz–Carrilo family had hosted Lash Larue back in the glory days.

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