Doing Nothing is OK
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedOur community choir (where Maggie and I met five years ago) has a communication line on WhatsApp where people are sharing photos and thoughts, or just saying hello. Since we all suddenly have lots of time to fill, there seems to be this need in some to keep busy. Maggie commented on that notion a […]
View From The Bunker
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedIt was a nice day today…..so I sat inside and watched it! That’s a line from a comic named Ollie Joe Prater, who was known for his excesses of all vices, adding obesity to his mix. When he died aged 43 in 1991, he weighed over 500 pounds (about 35 stone for the Brit readers). […]
I’m Still Healthy, I Think
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedI haven’t written anything of substance for a while, and maybe some of that has to do with feeling that my only forum has been the rapidly-becoming-antiquated Facebook, where my ideas please a small following. My ego gets deflated when someone can post, “I’ve gotten a well paying gig,” and get about 100 times the […]
A Tale of Two Countries
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedLast week, I was at the local Tesco supermarket picking up a few odds and ends, but noticed both the produce and the meat sections were near empty. My first thought was this had something to do with Brexit, and our future ex-trade partners were giving us a dose of what to expect for the […]
Musical Thoughts From The Day Before
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedI’m currently listening to BBC Radio 2, which on December 24 at 3:30 in the afternoon is playing that Christmas Classic “Sweet Child Of Mine” by Guns N Roses, and the pangs of nostalgia for wrapping presents and placing them under the tree are exemplified by hearing that tune. Well, no, though it’s actually a […]
And Another One Gone
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedOn Friday I was looking through the San Francisco Chronicle website, looking to see if maybe the Warriors had won a game, or maybe Trump said or did something irrational or dumb. On looking for those stories, I stumbled across the story about the death of Cas Banaszek, who played the position of tackle for […]
Birthday Memories
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedAs I spend my last day of being 68, I thought about all the birthdays I could remember that were special in either a good or bad way. Surprising that the few I’m about to talk about are the only ones that still jar the memory bank in the least, and the bad ones are […]
Eighteen Years and a Few Wars Later…
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedI can’t even remember if I’ve talked before about where I was or what I was doing on that infamous date in history, though I can be certain that when it actually happened, I was still asleep. I didn’t wake up until about 7:30 LA time that day, by which time it was already 10:30 […]
Racism On The Comeback Trail
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedWhen I was 7, I lived in Lafayette, Louisiana, heart of Cajun country, and very segregated. In that whole year our family lived there, I don’t believe I ever encountered a single black person. Certainly not at my school! I was aware they existed, but only from seeing them on television. What I didn’t know […]
My First and Last Rock Festival
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedWith all the hype centered around this weekend’s almost-annual Glastonbury Festival, the self-proclaimed Greatest Festival in The World, I couldn’t begin to list the many things I’d rather do, or places I’d rather be. And that’s not to condemn the Festival itself as to just say I had my experience with that 50 years ago […]
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