- Biographical Stories
- Stories culled from my own true life adventures.
- Thank You (or Not) (2022)
A story of a lunch non-encounter with a woman whose emotional state was not in
keeping with the surroundings.
- Rick Hines - An Artist's Autobiography (2000, updated 2010)
My illustrated autobiography, skewed towards my artistic influences.
- Rick's Marvelous Moving Adventure (1993)
The story of how I moved from the sticks into inner Atlanta.
Originally written as a letter to some pen pals.
- The Acid Trip (1980)
One of the most bizarre nights I've ever had was documented in my painting
Critical Mass.
This is the story, as told in a letter to a friend, behind the painting.
This story contains graphic drug references and is not for the
easily offended.
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- Space Illustrator
- My first job out of college was working in a drafting room at ITT.
An illustrator named Kevin Knoch was opining one day about there not being
enough excitement in his work. One of the other drafters suggested he become
a "space illustrator." We all laughed at that, but I saw possibilities.
I drew the first strip, and it was so popular that I authored three sequels
before leaving the drafting room to work in another area. Although I don't personally
appear (serving more as narrator), most of the characters in
the strips are based on fellow workers and friends.
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- Music Reviews
- Over the years, I have written a few reviews for products I've purchased
from Amazon.com. Mostly, they
have been music related: albums mainly, books, and DVDs. I realized I'd
written quite a few, and they seem to constitute their own body of work. I've
collected all my music-themed reviews together for posterity, because you just
never know when stuff on the internet will disappear.
The writing has been lightly edited to correct grammatical errors and, occasionally, to
reword something to make it more clear in hindsight.
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- Xena: Warrior Princess
- As a fan of the television show Xena: Warrior Princess,
I've found myself writing a few things for fellow internet fans relating
to the show.
- 2001 Pasadena Convention (2001)
As part of my Multimedia project "2001: Rick's Space Odyssey," I have four
journal entries describing my adventures at the amazing Xena Convention in
Pasadena, California.
- "Did I Say That?": Xena Quotes (1999-2001)
Many of my on-line Xena friends conclude their messages with inspirational
quotes from the show. I liked the idea and began to sign off my own messages
with my own fictional quotes from the show, usually designed to comment
humorously on the preceeding message. Here, I've compiled some of my favorite
"quotes" and grouped them roughly by subject matter.
- Xena's Night Before Solstice (1999)
A spoof of "The Night Before Christmas" with characters from the show. This
piece was picked up for web publication in the December 2000 issue of
Whoosh! magazine. To see their layout, including a bit about me, click
here. For more about
Whoosh!, visit my Links
page.
- Atlanta Xena Con (or, How I Came To Have Xena In My Living Room) (1999)
Long before I trekked all the way to Pasadena, California for the big
2001 Xena
Convention, I attended a day at a convention held in Atlanta. Much smaller in
scope, it makes for an interesting contrast with the Pasadena Con.
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