By Rich Terfry
Star radio-host wealthy Terfry offers the fantastic stories of his adjust ego, musician greenback sixty five, during this rollicking account of transforming into up negative, gifted, baseball-obsessed, music-mad and girl-smitten.
With wit, type and a born writer's knack for telling aspect, wealthy Terfry offers us the wildly enjoyable tale of his strange lifestyles in the course of the eyes of his shy yet impressive and preternaturally observant alter-ego, dollar. Born in a small city in Nova Scotia to a mom who starts off yelling at him the instant he's born and a father who retains his personal suggestions, dollar imbibes worry and lack of confidence like different teenagers guzzle milk. Hobbled by way of his fears and demons, greenback virtually disappears into the "evil within the woods" that lurks simply past the town's border . . . till he's stored through 3 presents: baseball, romantic love and song. His epic journey--full of diversions, coincidences, and larger-than-life characters--out of the darkness of his suicide-plagued youth and into the brilliant large international starts with a killer pitching arm (Buck virtually makes it to the professionals) and keeps together with his transformation into hip hop artist dollar sixty five. alongside the way in which, greenback develops right into a hopeless romantic and an obsessively inventive, shape-shifting guy who either fears existence and dives into it with abandon. Wicked and Weird is a full of life, occasionally surprising portrait of a existence lived at the side, by means of turns humorous and heartbreaking.
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I raced home, a refugee from the botanical carnage, to sanctuary; only the pathologically mischievous know the relief of closing the door behind them, locking out the world and its tight angry fist clutching dockets and penalties for parental perusal. I was excited by what had happened, but also sort of sad. I never spoke to that old man again. I closed down that account which could have been quite rewarding. Time has bleached away my memories of the period immediately prior to the beginning of this narrative, but it feels as if the old man’s kindly overture was not an isolated incident.
I liked women. My dad had been a brilliant footballer in his youth. When he was sixteen or seventeen, he was invited to go for a trial at West Ham. He didn’t actually end up going, because he was too nervous and afraid of rejection. But my nan kept clippings from the local paper of games he’d played for Dagenham Boys, which was a team people like Terry Venables had turned out for. He played against “Chopper” Harris once. My dad was an angry man, yet he had an amazing energy about him too. I always wanted to emulate his enthusiasm and effervescence.
Just the statistics alone turn me on a bit. 34G. Cor. 36F. Blimey. It’s only a number and a letter but it thrills me. That’s why I could never play the game Battleship. ” You may have sunk my battleship but you’ve also decorated my pants. As a result of this matriarchal upbringing, I have been bequeathed a kind of hotline to capable, working-class women of a certain age. I am truly comfortable in their company. That’s probably why all the women I have surrounded myself with in recent years—Lynne, my housekeeper, Sharon who buys my clothes, and Nicola who does my makeup—all have the same accent.