Found Money

[Omar_Little]

@eschereal

Cecil, huh? You are the only person here who actually knows what he looks like?

Cecil and I go way back…just a sample of our interactions that you can find on the boards here:

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I made it to a taping back in the day ('73 or '74) with Cecil. I didn’t make it on the air, but Cecil tore it up with a fine foxy lady doing the Soul Train!!! Don C. had the best connections for ultra pure C.

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I think I still owe you for that suggestion for the after hours club at the '03 doper convention. Cecil still talks about it.

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Thanks to Cecil for all of the good times way back when. This was primarily off the board boondoggles, but he knows…he knows.

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I know someone that posted some links to some very disturbing photos of myself and Cecil, that were on a directory drive of a Commodore 64 still connected to usenet somehow. We had those links broken.

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Cecil telling me that he had scored spots for both of us on Van Halen’s 1982 Diver Down tour. We rode on the bus with DLR. I think we made it through 14 cities before we had to tell Eddie, we could no longer take David’s constant shit, and we left.

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When I ran into Cecil at a party thrown by Sam Wagstaff around 1977 and we both pondered that we were probably the only two straight guys there, he mentioned his column to me as a passing thing. He wasn’t sure if he was going to keep doing it. I encouraged him to keep at it, who knew that ignorance was so prevalent.

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Interesting story: Back in the mid 90’s, I was in a dark web chat room, and ran into none other than Cecil himself, which is quite a laugh, considering we had just been to a George Michaels party together the weekend before.

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Of course not, but I do personally know that Cecil doesn’t shy from saying the word, “God”, whether as an exclamation when we’ve been chased by authorities, or as a phrase of pleasure in the throws of swinging party from back in the day…but those were days a long time ago.

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I remember when Cecil mentioned to me that he was thinking about starting a message board. This was back in the mid 80’s. It was right after the 1986 Superbowl. We were cruising down Bourbon Street with several friends from Chicago trying to meet up with Ditka for the post game celebration, when Cecil looked at me and said “teeming millions!” I just grinned at him as he grabbed one of the Bears Cheerleader’s ass and kept on walking. Who know then it would end up like it has.

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Ha! This explains a lot. Got an email from Cecil a week ago about a month long trip to Croatia and some references to liquor and dirty whores. I have been trying to rework my schedule at work to make it happen. I keep asking when he’s going to write a book about all of those types of exploits.

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I joined here at the invitation of Cecil. I started out as a cynic, mainly to be a bit of a thorn in his hide. One night at dinner before a long tear of drinking, he accused me of being primarily a troll. I took mild offense to his accusation, but stuck that comment in the back of my psyche for the next few years, tried to be more constructive in my posts. Today, he and I only see each other once every few months at social gatherings and the occasional portfolio review. He’s never accused me of trolling since. Even though he can still be a dick every now and then.

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Back in the early 80’s, Cecil and I were in New York and had just left the KISS concert that was held at Studio 54. We were looking for this fantastic burrito place in Hell’s Kitchen at around 3:00 am, when all of the sudden Ace Frehley, sans make-up, runs up behind us puts his arms around both of us and starts singing, I was made for loving you, baby! It was pretty surreal.