Tag: writings
member name: Rick Bettencourt
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April 17, 2006 06:43 AM EDT --
In case you haven't noticed, today is Monday. How did it get here so fast? It seems like just the other day it was Friday. Wait a minute...that was just the other day.
Why do weekends seem so . . .
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October 17, 2006 01:45 PM EDT --
The 300 millionth American enters into existence today. Perhaps reaching this milestone already occurred with an illegal immigrant crossing over the border months ago. Either way a large number of us bipeds . . .
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February 15, 2007 12:51 AM EST --
After spending Valentine's day alone, I guess this piece is apropos. In a rather melancholy mood, I scratched this out other day. Let me know what you think.
Didn't know I could love like this; . . .
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April 30, 2006 09:25 AM EDT --
The first time I realized being gay was socially unacceptable was in the 4th grade. Jimmy K. moved into town and mid-year wound up in Miss Boyle's class with me. At 9 years old, I was mesmerized by . . .
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April 19, 2006 06:53 PM EDT --
Alright, you're probably not going to like this article. I know most of you that read Bandit Talks are screaming liberals and while I smack of a conservative (more moderate) I too tend to have liberal . . .
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March 28, 2006 01:03 PM EST --
(Photo Courtesy of Dotty Parker)
Just a side note before we get started:
Best Gay Blogs featured me yesterday. I saw my hit counter go through the roof. Interesting how one little TrackBack increases . . .
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April 17, 2006 07:44 PM EDT --
An excerpt from my Blog Bandit Talks. Thought you'd find this interesting. My dog took over my Blog for the day. Read and weep...
Hi...Bandit here!
My Dad had a little too . . .
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May 24, 2006 12:31 PM EDT --
This list reads more like a New Year's resolution. Seeing that I never really made any resolutions this year (at least I don't remember and if I did, I didn't follow them anyhow), I figured . . .
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June 25, 2006 09:56 AM EDT --
Baby I try to love again but I know...
The first cut is the deepest,
Baby I know.
The first cut is the deepest.
Try to love again.
I woke up singing this Sheryl Crow song in my head this morning. . . .
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September 03, 2006 03:45 PM EDT --
I recently had this published in Boston's gay paper, Bay Windows.
Gay Marriage Goes Gay Divorce
Rick Bettencourt © 2006
I recently learned that in terms of length, my marriage ranked somewhere . . .
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November 27, 2006 07:10 AM EST --
Thanksgiving weekend is over...back to work. Back to four full weeks of working before I get another vacation day: I have the week of Christmas off and then the following week I work two days then am going . . .
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May 12, 2006 09:09 PM EDT --
From the Bandit Talks Blog....
My Humble Abode
Guess who's back? It's me! Bandit! Daddy got drunk again last night so I'm taking over his Blog. Damn, he drinks a lot. He went out . . .
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June 16, 2006 07:04 AM EDT --
The end of this chapter is soon approaching. In a couple of weeks I'll be moving out of this house, the one I've been living in for nearly six years. I see change as a good thing. It's exciting. . . .
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September 08, 2006 09:29 PM EDT --
Don't you just love back to school time? "Get those rug rats off the streets and behind books!" That's my motto. It's good for them...better than playing computer games all day. . . .
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February 11, 2006 08:31 PM EST --
I'm all alone on a Saturday night
and was alone last night too.
I'll probably be by myself tomorrow but
the thought of you will keep me company.
You hardly even know how much I think of . . .
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February 23, 2006 01:09 PM EST --
My prediction is that this bad boy, Ace Young is going to go all the way! You'll see him in the Top 3 of American Idol 5 (2006).
We can only hopethat he is gay. I mean, a man that sings George . . .
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March 13, 2006 12:30 PM EST --
The following is a true account, please read with caution:
I was accosted yesterday at Wal-Mart. I was out of razor blades and low on deodorant and some other things and since I was driving past a . . .
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February 22, 2006 12:57 PM EST --
Monday night, after having refocused with a long weekend plus an added vacation day, I felt like I was ready to take on the world. Come Tuesday, I was all set to get back into the "swing" of . . .
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February 24, 2006 07:21 AM EST --
My biggest prediction for American Idol 2006, is that my new gay love interest, Ace Young, will be in the Top 3 -- if not THE 2006 season 5 American Idol.
But I don't think that's too hard to . . .
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April 16, 2006 11:19 AM EDT --
Today is Easter. So Happy Easter to all you Christians and for those of you into the secularization of it, don't get too many cavities gnawing on your solid chocolate bunnies.
I was never big . . .
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