Fiesta Red
Poster Extraordinaire
I went to school with:
-Summer Chick (f)
-Bobby Panaswat (m)
-Richard Hare (m)…nobody ever called him Dick Hare to his face.
-A girl whose first name was Corky…I assumed it was actually Courtney and maybe a sibling couldn’t say the name right, but no—her legal name was Corky…her mom looked like Natalie Wood and most of the third grade boys were in love with her (the mom, not Corky).
-Derek Dexheimer—and yes, he was outrageously intelligent and into computers.
-Tim Allen. Not the “Home Improvement” comedian, but he did work at Home Depot later.
-The high school principal in the small town just south of us was named Richard Head—and yes, he went by Dick.
—In my early 20’s I worked with a guy from Nigeria named Simeon Egwofobe (pronounced Egg-woff-oh-bee)…that’s ok, he mispronounced my name for the first six months, too.
—I worked with an Omar Sharif at the same company.
—I worked at a dialysis clinic with young African American man named Vincent Price…when I raised an eyebrow upon our introduction, he just said, “I don’t know why my mama did that, so please don’t ask.” I never did.
—At the same clinic, there was another guy whose given name was Sony—his family was from India. His hobby? Car stereos and related competitions…but that was his given, legal name.
—I have an uncle and a cousin both named Rick Savage (no, not the guy from Def Leppard)
—I have a friend/former jam buddy named Dink. I knew him for over 25 years when I found out that was a nickname, because nobody ever called him by his given name.
—I have a friend/former in-law named Eddie Durham (not the jazz guitarist, but a good guitarist, nonetheless). I wish we’d been able to keep him in the divorce.
-Summer Chick (f)
-Bobby Panaswat (m)
-Richard Hare (m)…nobody ever called him Dick Hare to his face.
-A girl whose first name was Corky…I assumed it was actually Courtney and maybe a sibling couldn’t say the name right, but no—her legal name was Corky…her mom looked like Natalie Wood and most of the third grade boys were in love with her (the mom, not Corky).
-Derek Dexheimer—and yes, he was outrageously intelligent and into computers.
-Tim Allen. Not the “Home Improvement” comedian, but he did work at Home Depot later.
-The high school principal in the small town just south of us was named Richard Head—and yes, he went by Dick.
—In my early 20’s I worked with a guy from Nigeria named Simeon Egwofobe (pronounced Egg-woff-oh-bee)…that’s ok, he mispronounced my name for the first six months, too.
—I worked with an Omar Sharif at the same company.
—I worked at a dialysis clinic with young African American man named Vincent Price…when I raised an eyebrow upon our introduction, he just said, “I don’t know why my mama did that, so please don’t ask.” I never did.
—At the same clinic, there was another guy whose given name was Sony—his family was from India. His hobby? Car stereos and related competitions…but that was his given, legal name.
—I have an uncle and a cousin both named Rick Savage (no, not the guy from Def Leppard)
—I have a friend/former jam buddy named Dink. I knew him for over 25 years when I found out that was a nickname, because nobody ever called him by his given name.
—I have a friend/former in-law named Eddie Durham (not the jazz guitarist, but a good guitarist, nonetheless). I wish we’d been able to keep him in the divorce.
Two years ago, I met a guy from Colorado on an online jam with that last name. Very talented guitarist and very funny guy.
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