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| This is Tony |
I'm Aramis Pacitto, the co-creator of Life is Hell,
every Saturday you should expect me to write a guest appearance on this blog featuring
my vision of what Life is Hell is- hopefully it matches up with Andrews...
Anyways, to the topic at hand--The Real Life Tony Risi- that's "Risi" spelt with one "s" not two like in our show. See he was a latter addition to the show, almost impromptu, unexpected, just shoe horned into his first episode by me, which I believe was titled "Run-on." The real Tony Risi is my father's cousin, a 300 pound man, standing 6'1" , bald, glasses and just about the funniest man on earth.
Anyways, to the topic at hand--The Real Life Tony Risi- that's "Risi" spelt with one "s" not two like in our show. See he was a latter addition to the show, almost impromptu, unexpected, just shoe horned into his first episode by me, which I believe was titled "Run-on." The real Tony Risi is my father's cousin, a 300 pound man, standing 6'1" , bald, glasses and just about the funniest man on earth.
Tony
Risi walks these roads without a care in the world, he lives down my street,
pops in anytime he wishes, takes snacks for the road and moves on. Even just
yesterday he came over and felt like having a chess tournament catered by my
dad with cheese cake (as per Tony's request) and his usual routine of coffee.
With a smile and joke, next thing we knew he was facing both me and my sister
at the same time in a chess match. Telling us he'd been studying chess for four
days straight for 4 hour sessions each day, a man with infinite time, no job, lives
with his sister and quite the crazy genius, Tony occupies his time between TV
& conning the local Coffee shop (Coffee Time on Young just North of Finch
Station) for free coffees and doughnuts for him and his like minded friends.
So
he beat us both within 5 minutes, checkmate with one of Fisher's so called "manoeuvres".
He took his coffee and hoped on his pink bike & road off down the
street. In our show he's very much the
same character always up to something new, some new scheme, new job or wacky
idea. But, that's just Tony-- a jolly fat-man with no shame, a smile, a ball
cap and his pink bike-- on an average day in the summer. As the winter comes
around he goes into hibernation, you won't be seeing him riding his bike into
the sunset for another 4 months -- thank God.
Aramis "Neal" Pacitto
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