Has it Really Been Ten Years?
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedTomorrow at 11:00 the movers arrive, and the final steps toward my departure from Dagenham, Essex, are taken. It’s only now, after spending a few hours earlier tonight with the people from the St. Francis Hospice charity shop where I’ve worked for the last 2 1/2 years, that I’ve realized the scope of the nearly […]
Whirlwind Tour ends on a Tornado
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedWell, hooray, my website has finally been restored, though there’s still some elements that are missing. At least the things that were most important have indeed been recovered, and what’s not there will be back shortly. All this just a few days after my time in California which I had desperately needed. I don’t recall […]
The Sun Came Out For Her
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedIt’s only now, Tuesday night, that I have enough moments of calm to reflect on the Sunday morning scattering of Eileen’s ashes. Also not helping is my website being down, and the internet providers taking their grand and glorious time reactivating it, and the fear of losing almost everything I’ve written in the past four […]
How To Emcee a Funeral Without Losing It
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedTuesday, it was cold and dreary in London for about the 153rd day in a row, basically a perfect day to have a funeral. As I’d mentioned on FB the day before Eileen’s funeral, it was a challenge to determine where and to what extent you’d want to put funny into what is intended to […]
Eileen Cadman (Oct. 16, 1950 – March 17, 2013)
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedProof that online dating DOES work. Eileen and I both asserted many times that there’s no way the two of us could have met otherwise. The circles we travelled in, the pe…
The Osmonds Wouldn’t Have Done That!
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedFor starters, Justin Bieber, What a DICK!! You’ve been the designated pre-pubescent fantasy pop star for four years now, and even though you’re creeping beyond the age whe…
It Must Be The Shirt’s Fault!
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When your average number of gigs per month has gone from 15 five years ago to 3 or 4, you hope to at least enjoy the ones you do get, and it’s mostly b…
A (Possible) History of Gay Marriage
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Hey, maybe it WAS Adam and Steve in the Garden of Eden! We weren’t there, and what do we have to go on, other than multi-thousand-year-old accountings that have been transl…
Top and Bottom Five’s of 2012
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In looking down the list of the UK’s top 100 singles of 2012, the most prominent word, at least among the artists’ names, is “featuring,” and appearing only slightly le…
Christmas Number One Politics
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedJust finished watching a BBC special on Christmas Number One’s, and the great importance this country has traditionally consigned to it. In the exactly 60 years that Britain has published a pop chart, an …
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