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…
Just GOING To Las Vegas Is a Big Enough Gamble
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedIt’s been almost exactly four years since the last time I was in Las Vegas, Nevada, and what I saw then was distressing, but with a credit crunch having taken over, and the city…
Not this year (but a one in 30 chance I’m wrong)
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedI felt the chances of a
repeat championship for San Francisco in 2011 were slim several weeks ago, and their stumbling performance in their first two games against their bitter rival LA Dodgers p…
Beck Sees the Signs, Why Doesn’t Anyone Else?
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedAnd here I was all set to write about another polemic from the Daily Mail on the raunchiness of Rihanna’s latest hit, “S&M (Come On),” and the message it sends to the yo…
Girl Power My Ass (or arse, if you will)
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedWhen The Spice Girls hit in the mid-90’s, a Girl Power label was attached to their fame, as their prefabricated dross was to be considered the beginning of some movement. “I’ll tell you…
Twats on a Train (Movie Sequel?)
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedIt was just a simple two hour, 30 minute journey from Cardiff Central to London Paddington, but it wouldn’t be a train ride if there weren’t obnoxious assholes on it that made it…
The Senior Rail Card and other signs of age
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedWhen I turned 60 in November, I knew there were certain things I could avail myself of in UK that I’m not so sure I could have gotten in the US. I do hope that my reasons for staying h…
Will I Be Coming to a Bankrupt Country?
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedI
fly out to San Francisco on August 2, the same day as the deadline for the US to have its debt ceiling raised so the government can pay its bills without defaulting. How e…