Roomate Profile: Chico

Ricky Thomas Rodriguez is my real name whereas Chico is the nickname bestowed upon me by the roommates. It's a little ironic considering chico means boy because I am the oldest one of the group... almost 11 years, to be exact, and I dig the men. I have a gutter mind and it does not take much for me to make something "gay". Sometimes, I worry if my dirty mind and mouth could be trouble but the truth is that I am just a crazy bitch and the perverted banter is just part of that equation: take it or leave it, it really has little effect over me.

Zatch and I have a thing in common and that is our love for horror movies, although I am admittedly more of a movie snob than he is. I prefer originals to remakes and found the "Nightmare on Elm Street" reboot to be a huge pile of doo-doo. Still, it is rare for me to turn away the chance to see a horror flick, remake or not. I enjoy the thrill attached to them.

I love all kinds of music but I lean mostly towards electronica. Techno is only a facet of that style of music and in all honestly, it is not my favorite branch of the electronica tree. I like it rough with pulsating beats and powerful lyrics, if need be. I love pop music as well and I tend to avoid country, though I do have some Cd's, mainly because the country music scene is known to be quite homophobic. See, it does have something in common with the hip Hop scene. Not that the music industry in itself isn't 'bad', it is known to be quite on the side of keeping acts in the closet to prevent dampening of record sales. The whole entertainment arena is actually like this, to varying degrees.

I am an aspiring novelist though my primary focus now is short stories and the occasional foray into poetry. As you may imagine, horror is my focus, and some of it will have an admitted queer twist. Write what you know, right?

Ah. As I write this, Ricky Martin is serenading me in the background. What a silky voice he has. Anyway, this is just a brief introduction to who I am. CHICO!!! That's me!

ICED

We're supposed to get hit by a whopper of a winter storm. The advisory indicated that ice would over-take the roads, that the rain would quickly become snow, and that there would most certainly be wind that has the strength to topple trees and pose a great threat to electrical wires. Yet, it has not hit us that hard yet. Indianapolis has been slammed, yet we have mild icy conditions. It can't be that bad because Ivy Tech and IU have yet to cancel the school day. Of course, IU doesn't do snow days anyway and Ivy Tech gives them for 1 inch of snow... so, yea... do with that what you will. Zatch and I went to Kroger last night to get some things and the store appeared to have been ransacked! The water aisle was nearly naked and the canned goods aisle looked to have taken quite a beating. When the storm comes, it is best to be prepared for the whole month, it seems. Not that there is anything wrong with being prepared, I just find it a little amusing how frantic people get over a winter storm here, especially when Bloomington rarely gets hit by hard shit. Sometimes, yes. Yet, when the weather people are like "OMG! The world is going to end with tonight's blizzard!" they usually mean everywhere else in Indiana except for Bloomington! Northern Indian get 15 inches and we get... rain. That said, yes, we did get 'iced' overnight. No, not "iced" in the way that nearly caused Nighthawk! a heart attack... actual ice. Of course, it appears to be melting as I type this, which could be bad when the temperature decides to drop, which it is supposed to do. No snow yet, though. I'm sure there are many who are sick of the snow but I'm of the school of thought that if it's going to be this cold, there may as well be snow with it to make it all worth it.
-Chico