Just A Little Song For 25,000 Or So
Published by Rick on Tagged Uncategorized11 days ago, at our choir rehearsal, the director announced that our SongWorks choir had managed a spot singing on the stage at Trafalgar Square in London, where the Women’s March Against Trump was to be rallying. Our director is very active in many feminist causes, and I gotta say she went the full mile […]
Top 5 and Bottom 5 of 2016
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedAdmittedly, with all the political distractions and the seemingly endless parade of people shuffling off this mortal coil, I listened to so much less pop radio this year, and found little bombarding me in either a good way or a bad way. There was no stupid love/hate novelty record, and the biggest record of the […]
Christmas Truce, Sort of…
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedWell, I’ve gotten all my shopping done, my cards have been sent, my presents wrapped and under the tree, and yesterday, my girlfriend and I did the shopping for the Christmas feast, which we’re preparing for her daughter, son-in-law, and two grandchildren. The total was £123 at Sainsbury’s market (haven’t checked how crap the exchange […]
And Another One’s Gone, RIP, Flo
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedIn autumn of 1985, my stage partner and I decided to go our separate ways, she went back to school to get her Ph.D while I began a solo career which lasted about 30 years longer than I expected it to. In spite of us quitting Rick & Ruby after nearly 15 years together, there […]
Coping and Unfriending
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedOn Wednesday morning of last week, I was woken up around 8:30 by my girlfriend calling me on my mobile, but I couldn’t get to it in time to answer. A few seconds later, she rang on my land line and told me she was at my front door with my birthday presents. I didn’t […]
My Musical Protest
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedOK, so this was my playlist for November 13, 2016, with a bit of sarcasm and an amazement that in the previous five days, I’ve only had to unfriend 7 people: Nowhere To Run – Martha & The Vandellas […]
My Favourite Film Suddenly Got More Relevant
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedMy favourite decade for films is the 1950’s, and I’m sure a lot of people would agree, because the film industry was under immense pressure, not only from the McCarthy investigations which so sadly mirror the paranoia of today, but because the developing TV industry was keeping a lot of folks at home. It seemed […]
Maybe He WILL Have To Shoot Someone
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedToday I received my absentee ballot from Elections Department in San Francisco, and it proves once and for all that Donald Trump really IS running for President. This wasn’t just some publicity stunt, though it wouldn’t surprise me that much if he were to win the election, and THEN say, “Ha, fooled ya, I don’t […]
That Piece of Cloth and That Song
Published by Rick on Tagged Uncategorized21 years ago, I was working a series of gigs at US military bases in South Korea and Japan. On one of my off-nights, the other comedian and I went to the cinema on the base we were staying. What I remember most, certainly above what film we actually saw, was before the film started, […]
What Is Happy?
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedNot to be confused with a song title, specifically the B-side of the Cowsills (singing family of late 60’s, real life prototype of the Partridge Family) 1969 US hit version of the title tune from the musical “Hair.” I can’t even tell you what the song sounds like, but it sure sounds like a 1960’s […]
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