Mike Cecconi

Syracuse University, The Newhouse School, Little Falls High School, Benton Hall

foot in the door to the magic store

Screaming Viking, The Little Falls Mets, The Riders

writing about trying to not write about writing

Cat's Cradle, Valis, Have A Nice Day, Spike Mike Slackers and Dykes, Napalm and Silly Putty, The Stars My Destination, The Mysterious Stranger, Radio Free Albemuth, Player Piano, The Diaries of Adam and Eve

The Fisher King, Brazil, Dr. Strangelove, Crumb, Dogma, The Big Lebowski, The Adventures of Mark Twain, Major League, Eraserhead, Chasing Amy, Bowling for Columbine

King Crimson, The Beatles, Guns N Roses, Bowie, Ben Folds, Steely Dan, Flaming Lips, Moxy Fruvous, Weird Al, Elliot Smith, Cursive, Nine Inch Nails, Neil Young, Wilco

Futurama, Simpsons, The Critic, Night Court, Highlander, MASH, Home Movies, Quantum Leap, Great Hotels, Good Eats, 30-Minute Meals, My Name Is Earl

In 1961, in April a small boy and his mother and father waited on an Oakland, California pier for a boat. The boy, who was almost four years old, noticed a blind beggar, huge and old, with white hair and beard, standing with a tin cup.

The little boy asked his father for a nickel, which the boy took over to the beggar and gave him. The beggar thanked him and gave him back a piece of paper which the boy took to his father to see what it was.

"It tells about God," his father said.

The little boy did not know that the beggar was not actually a beggar, but a supernatural entity visiting Earth to check up on human beings.

Years later, when the man had long forgotten the great bearded blind beggar and the nickel he had given him once, the entity would return to save the man's life.

I speak to you, now, of these matters.

those who want to rock

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