After recently being notified by the Wrench that Billy Steve had a birthday, the Scarlot Harlot is bootlegging Billy Steve Hell Fire to make things right!!!! He’s not the devil, but his wife might be!!! :> Hope you had a very happy birthday and cheers to many more!!! Love, Scarlot Harlot
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This must be HOG HEAVEN!!!!
It’s been a while since a Groovee Pig Sighting! These little guys are ADORABLE!!! I have no idea why there are 2 photo galleries but be sure to look at both!!!!
Scarlot Harlot would have never been in the roller derby if Bettie Rage hadn’t loaned her skates, knee pads, etc. She was encouraging and supportive and didn’t even think twice when Scarlot joined the Holy Rollers, rather than her team the Rhinestone Cowgirls.
Today is Bettie Rage’s Birthday and here are some of Scarlot Harlot’s favorite photos. The main question being, why wasn’t Bettie Rage a Hell Mary! Look at all the red!
Bettie Rage, Scarlot Harlot and Holly Graphics at Cheapos
Do you even know about the Nashville Pussy Video Shoot?
These are the original Rhinestone Cowgirls!!! I forgot Electra was one of them!!! This is the first team photo ever submitted for the BGGW web page.
Bettie Rage is only person in this photo still skating. She was there when I got to roller derby and she was still there when I left.
A few more just to prove how Hell Mary Bettie Rage can be!!!!
I KNOW! I see all the devil horns too!!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BETTIE RAGE!!!!! THANKS FOR EVERYTHING! Including my addiction to SingStar and Pocky! WE LOVE YOU!!!! Scarlot, Beau, Lacy and Hot Potato
On this the day of her birth, Scarlot Harlot and Beau would like to wish Melicious a delicious HAPPY BIRTHDAY.
photo by celesta danger
Melicious has to pull Scarlot’s Hair for choosing a 2 photos with Scarlot Halot in them for Melicious’ birthday photo! Here let’s try again.
Oh Crap! Hey but this one is CUTE. Everyone in this photo besides Sparkle Plenty is retired. Even after the beating she apparently received here? Look at Melicious’ short, blonde hair. If you can get past Hissy Fit’s, well you know….
Ouch! It’s so SEXY! Holly Graphic, Melicious and Strawberry…. don’t forget the Godmothers of the reinvention of roller derby! You can tell they all have tricks up their sleeves! GRRRRR!
1st Annual BGGW Rollerball
Melicious, Lady Hawk, Werner, Bettie Rage and Trouble. Photo by Beau Been.
Melicious and Bettie Rage BOTH have a birthday today! Imagine the pink fur coat with the tiarra! Can the Scarlot Harlot borrow that? I still have my sashes in my Scarlot Harlot lunchbox!
1st Annual BGGW Rollerball
F: Strawberry, Patsy Crime, Melicious
B: Busckshot Betsy, Electra Blu, Sparkle Plenty
Hellcats at Austin Music Hall. We miss you Biscuit!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MELICIOUS.
love scarlot, beau, lacy and hot potato kitty cat
All you rollergirl, roller derby fans and kitty cat fanatics better buy her damn book! Rollergirl: Totally True Tales from the Track! You can see lot’s of great photos at the Texas Rollergirls Scrapebook. These were just some old ones i wanted to bring out of the dusty shoe box! I meant to put this photo of Lucille Brawl on her birthday. Lucille Brawl used to be HOTROD HONEY. You figure it out!
Dear Willie,
Your birthday kind of snuck up on me this year and it’s a big one!!! I didn’t have time to get you a decent present so I thought I would share my Shelby Lynne photos with you. I have some Willie Photos, too. My friend, Miss Missy, got me some SWEET tickets to see Miss Lynne in Austin at Antones. She was FANTASTIC and left me speechless!!! I was hoping you would be there but I am guessing you were in Amsterdam with Snoop Dog? Hell YEah!!!
I suggest you open up Shelby’s Web Page and listen to a few songs while looking at Shelby photos and then check out this Birthday Playlist I made with you, Shelby, Bob Wills, the Highway Men, etc.
Willie, I’ve seen you LIVE at the Backyard, Buffalo Billards, Stubb’s, Wimberly, Waterloo Records, the Parmount, Tower Records, the Bass Concert Hall, Luckenbach, 4th of July Picnic at some split creek, etc….with Neil Young, Dennis Quaid, Kris Kristofferson, Ray Price, Johnny Gimble, Los Lonely Boys, Titty Bingo…..and I just can’t ever get enough. You ROCK!!! and you RULE!!!! Much love to you.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!
Love, Beth, Beau, Lacy & Hot Potato Been
maybe i always wear animal print to see willie?
Before I can show you these ridiculous photos, could you please play this RATT video. Just start playing it now & hear what was insanity might be playing on a loop in my head while I was making these dress and hair decisions. These images will go from most decent to most ridiculous.
I got to go backstage at a RATT concert when I was a senior. It was pretty disappointing experience which has prevented me from caring about going backstage. Usually, I was to drink the beer. Meeting people backstage is often just weird or boring, but I’d be lying is I didn’t admit there is some fun to be had. You think you’re tough!
If you’ve run out of music, listen to this song. Unless you already know you hate Winger. Hee hee! You can listen to AC/DC instead. I was surrounded by cowboys and two stepping but there was always some Back in Black! God bless Rock! He provided the rock I so needed, despite the Bible Belt trying to sqeeze it out! Amen and Hallelujah! Thanks to these guys who took me to banquets and bought me corsages!
#6 - Scarlet O’Hara Dress, Rhett included
All images considered. This is full length red dress is SWEET. I will gladly take any donations of any dress vaguely resembling this. Seriously. This was my first banquet. I had a crush on my date for quite a while. We were great friends for many years.
#5 Banquet unknown - Denim Prairie Dress
I love this style of dress. Drop waist, shoulder pads. I had a turquoise and white lace version of this same dress. Sorry I don’t have a long view. Who would have thought to take a photo of the back of my head where I attached a GIANT lace bow. Fer sure fer sure, I musta found out about the valley girls! Dressed like an extra on Little House on the Prairie. Huck Finn always made me laugh.
#4 Best Beau 88 (Sadie Hawkins Banquets) - Denim Hoochie Dress
Here you see one of the more shocking of the ensembles. Apparently inspired by Shenna Easton and Chaka Khan (Ain’t Nobody), this date was doomed from the start. This dress makes me laugh out loud. It seems sculpted to my body. My sausage body! ha! Someone did my hair and I hated it. Went home in a rage and redid it into some crazy side job. This guy was one year younger than me and I’m sure I was a horrible date because I was so pissed about my hair. He was a sweet guy. I don’t miss being a teenage girl. Sorry fella.
#3 Junior Prom 88 - Pink Metallic Strapless
The hair is getting bigger, the pink metallic bow is smaller and I am actually wearing something strapless. Too bad I didn’t get a tan! Getting a little crazy with the metallic pink, but you can see from the girl photo that was all the rage. This guy made me laugh endlessly so I am sure it was a fun date.
#2 Best Beau 89 - Puffy Lacy White Dress
Didn’t I want to save this monstrosity for my wedding dress? No doubt, I had 80s hair fever. Maybe this was my hilarious homage to Madonna rolling around in a wedding dress. This was an awesome date. My friend and I got our dates to fill out questionnaires. That sounds like my hair brain idea. We planned the whole date. This guys was from Dallas or Ft. Worth and really interesting. I’m sure I felt very Sixteen Candles.
#1 Prom 89 - Pink Lace and Faux Leather Quinceañera Dress
By the time I was a senior, I had been to many interesting places. Austin, Tx, Oahu Hawaii, Washington DC. I thought I was thinking outside whatever the box was. In a place full of racial tension (White vs. Mexican) I show up to my senior prom with a Mexican date wearing a modified Quinceañera Dress. Just take a minute or 2 to laugh at the HAIR.
I had this dress made specifically choosing the pink lace and fake leather with no knowledge of who my date would be. And wouldn’t you know, in a town where the white folks didn’t like the whites dating the Mexicans, I strolled in as if returning from a dress fitting in Mexico and won prom queen. The prom king was the same guy with me wearing the Scarlet O’Hara dress from my first date. I didn’t think much about any of that when it happened, but I think know a lot of other people did!
I had the dress made and did my hair myself. The hair would make a great nest for a family of birds.
This post is dedicated to the folks at AmaChron Dances in Amarillo, Tx. Thanks for reading!
Mama! Thanks for buying me all these dresses!
Be sure to watch the Ace of Cakes on the Food Network. It is a lot of fun! Just saw an episode with giant roller skate cake created for a Charm City Roller Girls event in Baltimore. Wonder if they were playing the Texacutioners!??!! In true derby drama fashion the wheels fell off the cake. Very dramatic. Very Derby.
Neither photo is the cake I saw on the show but both are great! Another fabulous Charm City skate cake creation. Here’s the word about the cake from the Roller Derby Diva out of Cincinnati!
Scarlot Harlot loves everyone on the Ace of Cakes. Thanks for reading!!!! XXOO, Scarlot Harlot
I remember dancing on my granddad’s feet to Bob Wills & the Texas Playboys. My grandparents in Memphis, Texas (where I was born) used to run in Bob’s circles since he was just down the road in Turkey, Texas.
Once when I took my mom to the Broke Spoke in Austin, Asleep at the Wheel played. In case you don’t know, they are the current kings and queen of Western Swing with many Bob Wills’ songs up their sleeves. After the show ended, I grabbed my mother and hurried her towards Ray Benson. Acting as if I was being paid to snap this photo and I was his wrangler, I threw my mother at him, “Hi Ray! This is my mother, Liz. She is from Memphis, Texas.”
I met Ray when when I worked at the Austin Children’s Museum, but he had no idea who I was, but kindly posed a like a true southern gentleman and nearly made my mom faint when he replied something cool that include the worlds “Hall County“. Thanks Ray Benson! You made my mother’s night! See all the fun things we did that day, including France Nail’s play “I’m Not The Woman I Used To Be” featuring Karen Kuykendall!
I heard a lot of Bob Wills as a kid and with my husband playing in a band many Sundays at the Common Ground in Bastrop, Texas. I also watched a lot of the 3 Stooges! This is perfect!!!
I’ve been so lucky to see Johnny Gimble play many times in Texas, including with Willie Nelson. God Bless Texas!!! YYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE HAAWWWWWWWWW and a Hell YEah!
Thanks for reading!
XXOOO, Beth in Texas
