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"TIME KEEPS ON SLIPPIN' SLIPPIN' SLIPPIN'
...INTO THE FUTURE....."
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A LITTLE SOMETHING FROM TINY TIM'S
"FOR ALL MY LITTLE FRIENDS" (1969 album):
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POUR YOURSELF AN APPLETINI,
LISTEN TO MY TUNES, KICK BACK, AND....
....ENJOY!!
GOD BLESS THE APPLETINI.
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BELOW YOU CAN READ ABOUT WHERE I WENT TO SCHOOL AND THE JOBS I'VE HAD UP TILL NOW. BUT HERE ARE STRANGE BUT TRUE THINGS ABOUT ME TOO BIZARRE TO BE IGNORED.
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*I used to watch MR. ROGERS' NEIGHBORHOOD as teenager and mocked him profusely, until one day a friend and I found his address and wrote to him. He wrote back and turned out to be the coolest guy!! And now, he's dead.
* When I was 13, I stumbled across this show on UHF TV, Channel 68 called THE UNCLE FLOYD SHOW. It was very low-budget and amazingly unprofessional. I wrote to him. He used to show pictures on the wall drawn mostly by kids, or teenagers. The kid who drew sharks was the "Shark King". The kid who drew cars was the "Car King". I drew a dot on a piece of paper and asked to be the "Dot King". Soon, a friend (the "Pipe King") and I got a letter from UNCLE FLOYD himself inviting us on the show--just like that! Our first appearance was on May 14, 1976. We caught on, ours was FAN CLUB 85 and I actually became a sort of NJ celebrity! I sent in loads of mail! Soon, two other guys wrote in claiming to be the "Dot King". This culminated in a special DOT ELECTION show which aired on election day in 1976. People from all over NJ voted, and I WON THE ELECTION retaining my title as DOT KING!!
* Since that time, I've written comedy pieces for friends and family, and have recently sent material to SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE and the HOWARD STERN SHOW ON SIRIUS RADIO. SNL lifted an idea from one of my skits, rewrote their own script around it (discarding mine), transforming it into something hideously unfunny.
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NOW HERE'S MY "RESUME":
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I grew up in the 1970s and was 16 in 1978, so I'm definitely stuck in the 70s. I graduated 8th grade in 1976; graduated high school in 1980; graduated from USC (Los Angeles, CA) in 1984 with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the College of Letters Arts and Sciences.
I worked at McDonalds while attending USC. (Free hamburgers!) Upon graduation, I got a proofreading job at the now defunct Deloitte Haskins and Sells in 1985.
In 1988, I got a job at Prentice Hall and worked there until 2001--editing and publishing textbooks of varying disciplines, including: law, engineering, computer science, math, linear geometry, algebra, calculus, economics, statistics, etc. In 2001, I left Prentice Hall to pursue teaching. I wanted to teach high school English.
At that time, I attended graduate classes at Wm. Paterson College in NJ and I got my teaching certificate. I was a student teacher at Demarest Middle School, I substituted for a while, and got a job for a short time at a charter school in Clifton which I eventually left.
In between teaching jobs, I got a cold call from a small publishing house close to home who wanted to hire me as a proofreader. "Back to the future," I thought.
Small companies, the way they are, like to lay off people when they don't make their numbers. Working for a little over a year at this place, they laid me off. Damn!
I sent out a resume to John Wiley and Sons, a publishing house in Hoboken, and to my utter shock, was hired very quickly to fill a Senior editor position there. Within 2 weeks of being laid off, I had a job offer.
I was married in 1993 and created my own little family when I adopted my wife's young son, who has now grown. So: I have a wife, a son, mother and father in-laws, 2 brothers, 1 sister, uncles, aunts, more cousins than I can count (yes, my family's Catholic), 3 nephews, 2 nieces, and 2 great-nieces. Although my family is Catholic, I'm pretty much agnostic. I have read up on Zen Buddhism and the Baha'i faiths, which I find intriguing, and have a wife who's Wiccan. Not my cup of tea, but it keeps her happy.
TAKE A LOOK AT MY "PICS" OF CLASSIC ROCK ALBUM COVERS (AND MORE)!
What Rick Means
R is for Relaxed
I is for Intelligent
C is for Cynical
K is for Keen
FROM "YELLOW SUBMARINE"...grooooovy movie...timeless message...