So I leave London, and look what happens
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedSo London’s burning, or at least parts of Tottenham, Hackney, Brixton, Walthamstow, Ealing, Enfield, and Croydon are (sorry if I’ve left any communities out), with parts of Birmi…
Banks Are Assholes
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedI haven’t written an extended note for several weeks, and any number of excuses will fit here. This morning I decided I was going to write SOMETHING, but wasn’t sure what…
Survival of the Fittest
Published by Rick on Tagged Uncategorized“This is how we
do it,” sang Montell Jordan in 1995, and I took those words in stride as I had another Jongleurs gig that had all the earmarks of disaster, but the emcee, showcase act, and…
John Lennon a Right-Winger? Imagine That!!
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedA week ago, Fred Seaman, a former personal assistant to John Lennon, divulged that the late ex-Beatle had turned Conservative in his final years, professing an admiration of Rona…
Suddenly A Smoke-Free Year Has Passed
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedYesterday I was walking on Broad Street in Dagenham passing by a newsagent when three kids approached me. I didn’t have to guess what they wanted, but my god, if you’re going to smoke, …
Why Holidays Often Suck, and Why This One Didn’t
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedUntil my last marriage, I could only remember taking one, possibly two, holidays with a loved one. One of those was taking a train up from LA to Portland, Oregon at Christmastime, 1998, for a reunio…
An Easier £1.2 Million May Have Never Been Made
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedI love/hate readi
ng “Platell’s People,” a weekly Saturday Daily Mail column/bitchfest by the right-wing, unfunny, and sometimes totally rude Amanda Platell. Most of it is unfo…
Worst Show on TV … and I Watch it Every Week
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedIt was by accident that about a month ago, while killing time in a hotel room in Cardiff, that I turned on ITV just after 7PM and did not know there could be a show so utterly d…
Next week, I’m driving!
Published by Rick on Tagged Uncategorized“Trains and Boats and Planes” was a Burt Bacharach song recorded by Dionne Warwick and Billy J. Kramer, among others. “Planes, Trains, & Automobiles” was a Steve Martin/John Candy …
Jesus Came Back To Tell The Bunny Where To Hide The Eggs
Published by Rick on Tagged Uncategorized“On the third day he rose from the dead,” so it says in The Apostles’ Creed, and every year since that well-documented event which may or may not have happened, we have celebrate…
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