I’m a bad ex-stepdad
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I’m one of the most honest people on earth, and if you don’t believe me, just read my Facebook posts. My over-honesty there has put me in two awkward situations within a…
We can take the flags down now
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedIt has not been a happy sports weekend for me, as not only did my native country and my adopted country bow out of the World Cup Football Tournament in inglorious fashion, but The San Francisc…
1966, the year in review
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!966 — A year of cultural upheaval, of political awareness, of war, destruction, and an emerging generation gap. A house in America cost $14,000, a car about $2600, a gallon of gas 32¢…
Saddest Record Ever Made
Published by Rick on Tagged Uncategorized “Little Rosa” by RED SOVINE & WEBB PIERCE Decca 29876
Written by Red Sovine & Webb Pierce Produced by Owen Bradley
Released July, 1956  …
“Football’s coming home”
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So sings the UK hit song, “Three Lions,” which receives either a remake or reissue every four years, and usually charts until England loses the World Cup Football (or soccer to…
Does a bank holiday signify anything?
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A few years ago, when Madonna was first living in the UK, she made some half-assed statement about the abundance of Bank Holidays in Britain, and how lazy the Brits seem to be. Now certainl…
Dealing With Death
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedI’m going to try to not go maudlin here, but it’s hard not to when all points seem to be leading to my father not being around much longer. I managed to see him almost every day of the…
It’s pronounced “Ay-yah-FYAH-la-yer-kel”
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedIt looked good on Friday, the night
before I was to catch a flight from Heathrow for San Francisco via Denver. Though I’d heard the Iceland volcano that caused such disruption to travel in April had erupted a…
The year in music so far
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedSo it’s the year of Justin Bieber, Katy Perry singing with everybody, the Glee Cast having every member’s fart downloaded and charting, the usual X Factor chart glut, and …
The saga continued for another shit week
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedI hate using body functions as the source for humour, but they’re something we take for granted, and in the past week my body has mistaken it for granite, the first of many light-heart…