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About Me
- fred c
- Mr. C is: a reformed lawyer; a religious atheist; a useful "Handy Man;" an amateur social scientist; a beloved teacher; a well liked husband and father; Ambassador Emeritus from, and to, Planet X; a freelance professor; taxi driver to the stars (Joe DiMaggio and Ronald McDonald, both out of uniform); an excellent fire fighter; an enthusiastic but untalented musician; an experienced counselor; a top-notch disk jockey; an all around get-along-guy; a cunning linguist; a would-be lifestyle victim; a Masonic wannabe; a frequent reader; Professor Irwin Corey's Ph.D. adviser; an accomplished driver and motorcyclist; a famous rockologist; a reliable but indifferent bullshit detective; a poor speller; a proud United States Navy veteran (honorably discharged, barely); the Ayatollah of Ass-o-Hola; a drug legend; a Returned Peace Corps volunteer (Thailand); a generally charming man; nationally and internationally known from coast to coast; a legend in his own mind; a cultural-anthropological critic-at-large; an avenging angel who coolly bides his time; Soul Brother number 37; and a friend to the poor.
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- Pere Ubu - Street Waves - 1978 Rock
- Brian Eno "Sky Saw"
- California, Water, And Golf
- A Letter
- Savoy Brown:-'Train To Nowhere'
- Bangkok Skyline
- Yeah, We're Old. So What? What's New?
- Ricky Jay - Amazing Card Trick/Manipulation
- Nina Simone - *He Was Too Good To Me*
- Excuses, Continued
- Excuse Making
- Tropical Skies
- The Late Late Show With James Cordon
- Don't Put The Wrong People In Charge
- Blind Connie Williams - Tell Me Why You Like Roose...
- Otis Jackson: Tell me why you like Roosevelt
- Syrian Refugees Are In The News
- Spin Easy Time!: The Genie and the Clever Little F...
- Allen Toussaint, Everything I Do Gonna Be Funky
- Post 9-11 Dreaming
- ERNIE K-DOE - A CERTAIN GIRL
- I Love That Plane; I Hate This Plane
- Why I Don't Write More About Thailand
- Fantastic Plastic Machine ☆ There Must Be an Angel...
- What's God Got To Do With It?
- Allen Toussaint - A Certain Girl
- Todd Rundgren - You Cried Wolf
- Note From A Notebook
- Here Comes My Baby- The Tremeloes- 1967
- Adventures In Shopping: Shoes
- She Loves You: The Hook
- My Life As A Catholic
- Further Adventures In Thai Hotel Cable TV
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2 comments:
Ricky was at a design conference I attended, and his finish was embedding playing cards into a watermelon from across the stage. Afterward, New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff was telling me that that trick was actually easy and got up and tried it himself. And failed.
The joke was on Bob, who hadn't used Ricky's razor deck.
I read somewhere long ago about Ricky and throwing cards. The story went that he was laid up at the house with some ailment and to pass the time he was practicing throwing cards into a hat across the room. Before long he was throwing them accurately and with great force. It was reported that he could throw playing cards over his house, like landing in the back yard. There are lots of guys that can do amazing card tricks; Ricky seems to be one of the very good ones.
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