Tag: the life and times of ricky fico
member name: Ricky Fico
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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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November 21, 2008 09:06 AM EST --
I walked into a bar the other day and say, "Excuse me, I'd like a pint of beer, well, make it a root beer... I forgot, I just had a root canal. "
The bartender serves the . . .
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June 15, 2007 10:22 AM EDT --
I've been tagged by Jeff and prompted to write 5 statements about myself, 4 true and 1 false:
(1) I had been to Florence, Italy and had a deja vu experience which provided me a better understanding . . .
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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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May 25, 2007 08:46 AM EDT --
Oh, how I know what it's like to be on the threshold of a dream, standing on the very edge of it, hoping that I'd have enough strength to cross the boundary, cross over to the other side, where . . .
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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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January 15, 2008 12:00 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 go around, . . .
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November 29, 2006 06:20 AM EST --
Many people truly believe that the world revolves around them. They think they're the center of the universe and I'd hate to tell them this but I will anyway. "You are not the center . . .
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December 04, 2006 07:43 PM EST --
Typhoon-like winds swirling and whirling all around, the roars of thunder pounding inside my twelve year-old head. The piercing spears of blue - jagged and frightening - striking near the periphery . . .
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February 13, 2007 08:06 AM EST --
In my life I had witnessed so much, and at times, perhaps not enough. Sometimes what I witnessed compelled me to stand taller than I would otherwise; other times, unfortunately, I had but no choice than . . .
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June 13, 2007 05:46 AM EDT --
I am sure you'd heard the news about the D.C. lawyer/judge who is suing a local cleaner for 54 million dollars because they had lost his pants. I am still haunted by an incident that happened . . .
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September 26, 2008 07:05 AM EDT --
OK, here's the deal . . . I'm not racist by any means. My grandmother, though, she was prejudiced against others who were of a different color. She was brought up in the south-- where a lot of . . .
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December 04, 2008 04:09 AM EST --
( In the true spirit of Christmas I give to you my true-life story, as published in the book, "Doing Good For Goodness Sake." It was from when I was living in Las Vegas and working as . . .
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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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December 17, 2006 07:13 AM EST --
Excerpt: THE BOOKCASE
"Time creeps into a new hour, the sun higher in its trajectory. I want to sleep but I can’t. I want this day to end but it won’t. So, it’s a . . .
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January 13, 2007 11:15 AM EST --
The Brown House
Mother dealt a good deal that day at the Dew Drop. One of the regulars there, a tall cop with a penchant for walking his irregular beat with a regular quaff had brokered . . .
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January 14, 2007 07:53 AM EST --
It amazes me, really does. I'm smitten. I sit here day after day reading various posts from other Gatherites and I'm like in the twilight zone or something. I have to pull at myself just . . .
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April 02, 2007 04:22 AM EDT --
Sun, 04-01-07
This morning I awoke to the news on the television about a micro-burst descending upon my community (Carol Stream - a Chicago western suburb) last night . Roofs were completely ripped . . .
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May 03, 2007 06:50 PM EDT --
I had planned a trip to Kauai,
my heaven on earth
...preparing to die
But a hurricane came by
and provided me rebirth
I was better off alive
I had planned to leave for Kauai
on the twelfth . . .
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