Tag: chicago
member name: Ricky Fico
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December 21, 2006 06:12 AM EST --
Chicago, my home - proud and eternally grateful.
The people of Chicago - hard-working, proud and representative of America's heritage. Chicago is the heartland of America and it's not so much . . .
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December 30, 2006 05:59 PM EST --
Home, home again, like to be here when I can. He’s listening to Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon. Lenny’s eyes are red, bloodshot. I think he’s been doing the pot again. Listening to . . .
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January 04, 2007 10:34 AM EST --
Chicago- the Second City, the City of Big Shoulders, the Windy City - ample monikers indeed, but beyond these nicknames, Chicago is much, much more. It is home. Not only my home but home to world-renowned . . .
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March 04, 2007 05:35 PM EST --
Could you believe it? It rained here last night. Ah, how beautiful it was. A fine light show followed by thunderous applause, I slept like a baby the whole time. Damn, I'd been waiting for a night . . .
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December 14, 2006 03:45 AM EST --
Mom is tossing about the salad, blending together a few leaves of lettuce and a couple of slices of leftover tomato. Thrown in for color a few shavings of carrot. Since there isn’t enough to . . .
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June 05, 2007 06:18 PM EDT --
Today is my tenth birthday. Dad told me a little while ago that he has a surprise for me, told me to get dressed, that we're going out. "Just you and me," he said. I begged him to tell me . . .
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November 22, 2006 08:12 PM EST --
I remember the first time I walked into Tony's, a few weeks after I moved into my little studio apartment, not far from Wrigley Field. I was just searching out my new neighborhood, trying to familiarize . . .
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September 18, 2007 07:16 AM EDT --
Something funny happened on the way to the forums and I had forgotten what it was. . . I knew I should have written it down or at least, made a short film about it. If only I had a camera. Of course, I . . .
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December 03, 2006 06:58 AM EST --
It's the second day after Christmas now and the crowd had shuffled in. Tony, he's not in the best of spirits, though the last two nights his till took in more money than the previous two weeks . . .
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November 19, 2006 07:39 PM EST --
As a young boy with youthful yearnings and miniscule earnings derived from my lop-sided paper route, I decided it was time I do something really nice for Momma and maybe, just maybe, she'd forget her . . .
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February 11, 2007 04:08 AM EST --
A community is comprised of many components of diversity that form together a common bond of cohesion. Deviation from this cohesion, by an act of immorality or lawlessness is an act of conspiracy against . . .
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December 08, 2006 11:38 AM EST --
*If you don't want to read my story, that is fine but please read the footnote:
The First Christmas After The Fall
It's Christmas Eve, and it's unlike those of years . . .
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November 19, 2008 09:10 AM EST --
CHICAGO'S PEOPLE
The people of Chicago - hard-working, proud and representative of America's heritage. Chicago is the heartland of America and it's not so much because of geography but . . .
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August 02, 2007 08:37 AM EDT --
As a young boy with youthful yearnings and miniscule earnings derived from my lop-sided paper route, I decided it was time I do something really nice for Momma and maybe, just maybe, she'd forget her . . .
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April 19, 2008 06:18 AM EDT --
I took the train yesterday into the suburbs and I don't know if things had drastically changed since the last time or I was just too high then on some foreign substance not to notice . . .
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January 07, 2008 08:40 AM EST --
Larry: Before we get started, are you comfortable in front of the camera?
Me: I think so. Really haven't been in front of too many cameras before. Well, except for the security ones at . . .
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January 10, 2007 08:34 AM EST --
The third week of October, 2001 I'm at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport waiting for my departure to Las Vegas. I had just concluded a five day visit home. I arrived at the airport two . . .
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May 23, 2007 08:05 AM EDT --
Prologue: (reprint from October, 2006)
This morning, unlike most mornings, I'm at a loss for words. I'm staring at the blank screen, hypnotized by the blinking cursor. It is wearying heavy . . .
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July 29, 2007 08:08 AM EDT --
Home, home again, like to be here when I can. He's listening to Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon. Lenny's eyes are red, bloodshot. I think he's been doing the pot again. Listening to his new . . .
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September 22, 2007 06:16 AM EDT --
reprinted by request
I'm just standing outside the periphery of another mountain range, thinking about what lies on the other side. I'm an explorer, a man bent on curiosity and wonderment. I'm . . .
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