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Ricardo Retardo

weekfullofbees

About Me

There are only three things that you really need to know about me. Unfortunately, none of them are listed here.
    I'm a member of 8 different people groups, including 3 I've never heard of. I have a cotton T-shirt folded neatly and wedged into the southwest corner of my appendix. It doesn't hurt, but I can always tell when it's foggy out. It also means that I'm never ever truly naked. I wrote the outline for the first draft of the Dayton Peace Accord. Weird thing is, I was actually in Hoboken at the time. Due to the way that I comb my hair, people who walk past me at just the right velocity are able to hear what sounds like an oboe playing the Pina Colada Song. But to them it sounds like it's coming from across the street, and most people enjoy it. My sweat glands are bionic. A couple of weeks ago I ran up 3 flights of stairs, and upon opening the door I incapacitated a young adult who got in the path of my perspiration. He couldn't eat solid food for over an hour. English is my second language; my mother tongue is Esperanto. Several years ago, I was intentionally walked by Nolan Ryan, Gaylord Perry, Dennis Martinez, Joaquin Andujar, and Dwight Gooden in the same game. To this day, they all still refuse to speak to me. I accidentally invented the Thigh Master one day while I was changing the oil in my sister's car. That is why all of the joints on an authentic Thigh Master are red with "STP" stamped on them. I have the world's largest collection of toilet seat covers, which is currently touring Eastern Europe. I was a key witness in the first case ever presided over by Judge Wapner. I was the first person to ever solve the Rubik's Cube. I still have the scars to prove it. I am erroneously credited as the Aerobics Coordinator at the end of the movie "The Breakfast Club". I was actually an Assistant to the Head Caterer. In every photograph ever taken of me, it looks like I'm wearing an earring. I am no longer welcome to the city of Bismarck, North Dakota, due to a misunderstanding about my middle name. All letters addressed to "Mister Bojangles" are delivered to my home address by the US Postal Service. I am able to erase magnetic tapes by simply sitting on them for 15 minutes. Every year, I am responsible for turning on the lights in the locker rooms for the first game of the NBA season. For doing so, an honorary donation is made to local public radio in my name. I am a licensed court reporter. Warning labels were recently placed on all cappuccino machines because of me, though most of them are hidden on the machine's underside.

About My Web Sites:
    The Thirteenth Dimension - so yeah there's that CD Snobs - CD reviews that cause one to wonder Cowku For Better Living - Haiku about cows The League Of Vowels - A superhero serial

About Abraham Lincoln:
Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States of America, 1861-1865.
About Bees:
Bees convert nectar into honey in their digestive tracts. Solitary bees do not secrete wax.

My Interests

Music:

The Innocence Mission, A Girl Called Eddy, Richard Hawley, Mates Of State, They Might Be Giants, Loretta Lynn, Patty Griffin, Matt Pond PA, Archer Prewitt, Badly Drawn Boy, Gillian Welch, Matthew Sweet, Over The Rhine, Mandy Barnett, Jens Lekman, U2, The Weakerthans, Denison Witmer, Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, Man or Astro-man, The Beastie Boys, The Bad Plus, The Album Leaf, Sun Kil Moon, My Morning Jacket, The White Stripes, Trespassers William, Venus Hum, Camera Obscura, The Candy Butchers, Lisa Cerbone, Fleming and John, Ben Folds, The Donnas, Seekonk, Viva Voce, Adam Again, Steve Taylor, Poor Old Lu, Morella's Forest, Aleixa, Alison Krauss, Crystal Lewis, Vince Guaraldi, Elvis Costello, Talking Heads, Cowboy Junkies, The Sundays, Weird Al, Devo, Otis Redding, Buddy Holly, Patsy Cline

Movies:

Wes Anderson (Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic, The Darjeeling Limited); Sofia Coppola (Marie Antoinette, Lost In Translation, The Virgin Suicides); Charlie Kaufman (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Adaptation, Being John Malkovich); Wong Kar-Wai (2046, In The Mood For Love, Fallen Angels, Chungking Express); Christopher Guest (A Mighty Wind, Best In Show, Waiting For Guffman); Craig Brewer (Black Snake Moan, Hustle and Flow, The Poor and Hungry); Tim Burton (Ed Wood, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, Pee Wee's Big Adventure); Simon Pegg / Edgar Wright (Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead); Billy Bob Thornton (Sling Blade, Daddy and Them, Chrystal); Wim Wenders (Wings of Desire, Paris Texas, The Wrong Move, The American Friend); M Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable); John Hughes (Uncle Buck, Ferris Bueller, The Breakfast Club, Planes Trains and Automobiles, Weird Science, Vacation); Foreign (Volver, The Lives of Others, Elling, Hop, Cinema Paradiso, Rosetta, My Life As A Dog, Mostly Martha, Edukators, Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles); Eagle vs. Shark; The Baxter; Me and You and Everyone We Know; Mystery Men; High Fidelity; The Station Agent; Ghost World; Jump Tomorrow; Punch Drunk Love; Contact; O Brother, Where Art Thou?; Joe Dirt; Braveheart; Back To The Future; Caddyshack; The Conversation; One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest; Dr. Strangelove; Rear Window

Television:

Flight of the Conchords, Studio 60 (RIP), Saxondale, all varieties of Alan Partridge, Invader Zim (RIP), Venture Brothers, Harvey Birdman, The Simpsons, Arrested Development (RIP), The Office, My Name is Earl, SportsCenter, Cheap Seats, MST3K (RIP), Freaks and Geeks (RIP), Seinfeld, The Tick (RIP), Heat Vision and Jack (RIP)

Books:

CS Lewis, Douglas Adams, Nick Hornby, Ravi Zacharias, Mike Nelson, Wiiliam Faulkner, John Steinbeck, Donald Knuth
PeriodicalsMcSweeney's , Wholphin , The New Yorker , Film Comment , Entertainment Weekly
Web SitesHome Star Runner , Weebl and Bob , The Rushmore Academy , The AllMusic Guide , The IMDb , Pandora Internet Radio , Toothpaste For Dinner , Married To The Sea , The Balboa Observer-Picayune
SportsSt Louis Cardinals , Tennessee Vols football , Memphis Tigers basketball and football , Tennessee Titans , Nashville Sounds
AstronautsBuzz Aldrin , John Glenn , Alan Shepard , Donald K Slayton , Scott Carpenter , GI Joe , Hamburglar , Your mom

My Blog

Local pet food recall

An area manufacturer of pet foods and pet snack products has issued a recall of many of their products, according to a recent press release.  There have been reports this week of a numb...
Posted by Ricardo Retardo on Sun, 18 Mar 2007 10:10:00 PST

Life after the Wars in the Stars

Luke's life stunk after Star Wars. The events that were depicted in the Star Wars movies made Luke Skywalker's life exciting for several years, and they led Luke to believe that he had found his ...
Posted by Ricardo Retardo on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 07:19:00 PST

I'm considered a delicacy

Sturgeon Dorsett rose from his seat at the banquet's head table, curtsied, and handed his favorite pen to the Justice o' the Peace. To the chagrin of all of his friends and loved ones, Ken demanded th...
Posted by Ricardo Retardo on Sat, 24 Jun 2006 07:17:00 PST

The Uneasy Chair

With a nod of his head, Manuel began playing the third of his seven funeral dirges. Even so, the audience sat motionless. The group of now-familiar raisins fought the urge to rush toward Manuel and ...
Posted by Ricardo Retardo on Mon, 08 May 2006 08:39:00 PST

Remembering the Music of Wilson Pickett

In light of the death of Wilson Pickett last night, I've created a tribute to his music on my CD Snobs site. Feel free to peruse it at your leisure: Remembering the Music of Wilson Pickett...
Posted by Ricardo Retardo on Sat, 21 Jan 2006 06:04:00 PST

The new Babies Online Newsletter is here!

A dear friend recently signed me up for the Babies Online newsletter.  Bless her heart.  Bless her!  That works out really well for me, considering that babies and I have a mutual ...
Posted by Ricardo Retardo on Sat, 07 Jan 2006 09:18:00 PST

Teddy Bear Island

Hugsome: You know, Pluperfect, I'm beginning to wonder if we'll ever get off of this horrible island. Pluperfect: Well to be fair, it's not actually an island, is it? I mean, by all rights, it's...
Posted by Ricardo Retardo on Sat, 24 Sep 2005 12:32:00 PST

Respecting spiders

I think I would respect spiders more if they could make their webs venomous.  I mean, come on.  They're not really trying, are they? This entry won the Jury Prize for Most Inspired Blog Ent...
Posted by Ricardo Retardo on Wed, 07 Sep 2005 04:53:00 PST

Octopus Child

Octopus Child Won't you light up the night And then turn out the lights And then relight the night Octopus Child Won't you light up the night Aaaaaand free the slaves that corporate America brai...
Posted by Ricardo Retardo on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

A Song For Banjo

This is a song I wrote for banjo. I wrote it just now. The tune is in my head; sort of similar to "Number Three" by They Might Be Giants. It's a stumbling train wreck of a song. Enjoy! now that...
Posted by Ricardo Retardo on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST