Cresthill Days
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedAnyone who worked LA’s Comedy Store in the late 80’s was witness to the continual rising and falling of the career and genius that was Sam Kinison. The fact that today (though it’s now April 11 in London) marks the 22nd anniversary of his death in a car crash on Highway 395 in Nevada reminds […]
Ode to Those Flat Black Circular Things with Grooves
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedMarch 31, 1949 was the day that the first 45 RPM single was released by the RCA Victor record company, Eddy Arnold’s “Texarkana Baby b/w Bouquet of Roses,” and in conjunction marketed a special turntable to play it on. I don’t have that 45 (though I DO have it on 78), but I’ve accumulated enough […]
That Day
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedFrom the day Eileen went into hospice, 13 March, 2013, I knew, and she probably did too, that she wasn’t going home again. And once she was in, her energy was so sapped she really couldn’t have more than one visitor a day for more than an hour. It took me a couple of days […]
I Feel Like Un-Friending Facebook
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedI finally had to do a bit of a purge yesterday, and un-friend every Facebook friend whose political views clashed too much with mine. With one, it was no big deal, he’s a comic I used to know and work with, he posts right wing blather, but he gets enough of a dressing down from […]
Let’s Get Quizzical
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedQuestion Number One: “Three songs released within a 12-month period in the middle 80’s were all called ‘The Power of Love.’ Two hit #1 in UK, the other hit #1 in the US. Who sang those three songs?” I asked that question this last Wednesday at my local pub quiz, and was surprised that of […]
I Saw Them Standing There
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedSince everyone else is titling their reminiscences of February 9, 1964 with the sub-heading “It was 50 years ago today,” I went to great lengths to avoid that one. Besides, the song that this blog alludes to was actually performed by The Beatles on that first of their three historic appearances on “The Ed Sullivan […]
Old Enough To Remember
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedIt was 55 years ago today that the private plane carrying Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. Richardson, aka The Big Bopper, crashed on a midwestern farm, killing everybody aboard. It was also 47 years ago today that eccentric British songwriter/producer Joe Meek (“Telstar”) killed his landlady before killing himself. Meek, like so many other […]
Could Be Traumatic, But It’s Only Once A Week
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedI’ve now been volunteering at the Marie Curie Hospice for 6 weeks, and while I looked with worry at first of dealing with people that are dying, I’ve been pleasantly surprised at how honestly many of the patients face their declining health. On my first day, I went in to this one lady’s room just […]
Strictly Come Laughing
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedIn the last few years I lived in LA, I had a freelance job as stage manager for a number of small productions, usually for a limited run, and mostly at the Zephyr Theatre on Melrose Avenue in Hollywood. I frequently got in conversations with cast members, and in one particular conversation with a play’s […]
Bottom 10 of 2013
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedUsually when I compile a bottom 10 of the year, I try to avoid the boy bands or the reality-show-created stars, because they’re too obvious a target. We know their stuff is largely calculated crap, but this year there were “stand-outs” among those performers that I felt deserved recognition. There were absences among my perennials, […]
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