Beatrice Howard-Gabel
It’s 10PM…do you know where your children are?
Every night at 10PM a voice would come on the TV asking, “It’s 10PM…do you know where your children are?”
One night my mother proudly looked us over and said, “Yes I do!”
She smiled until my brother said, “Hey ma…didn’t you have a stillborn? Where is he?”
From then on my mother cried every evening at 10PM until my brother went off to law school.
Conquistador was written and performed by Ron Howard in the band Procol Harum. Which one in the band was he, I’d need more time to research this than I have allotted to this if I want to get to his other accomplishments.
Ron Howard wrote, “Light My Fire” for Jim Morrison and the Doors
Ron Howard wrote “Fool on the Hill” performed by the Beatles…He was also George Harrison
Ron Howard wrote some of Desperado performed by the Eagles of which he’s one. Here’s Linda Ronstadt performing the song who was offered one million dollars to pose naked in Playboy magazine…does she have no respect for money?)
Ron Howard wrote, “She’s Always a Woman to Me” for Billy Joel…Billy turns out to be Tim Curry.
Ron Howard wrote, “Rocket M an” for Elton John who turns out to be Billy Mummy. Here Taron Egerton performs the song.
Born to be Wild was written and performed by Ron Howard for the band Steppenwolf. He is also Peter Fonda. Dennis Hopper, in the film, is also Robin Williams who still regales about riding those big handled choppers.
Just as I remember him!!
Thank you Billy Lieberman who I recently connected back with for this photo
The Jigsaw Puzzle
I bought a 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle and diligently worked on it every night to put it together.
It took me several weeks to put it together.
When I put in my last piece I realized there was one piece still missing.
I told my brother that a piece was missing.
He pulled the piece from his pocket and put it in place.
“Now I finished your 1000 piece puzzle,” he smiled and smirked.
He then went to law school.
Thanks to everyone for a great stay in Los Angeles!! Being there in physical form is starting to grow on me. Loved Caroline Bowman in Frozen, Warner Brother’s Studio Tour, seeing Jumanji for a second time and the swimming pool at the Loew’s Hollywood (thank goodness it was heated). I think the staff were too cold to come out and tell me to get out when it was raining.
When I got to the hotel I tried to get some free breakfast passes, the guy was nice enough but said he didn’t have any to give out. I suspected foul play and decided to pull rank on him. “Do you know who I am? Do you know who I am?!!!,” I extolled. He said, “Do you know how many times a day I hear this?” I laughed but said, “Yeah, but I mean it!!!” Then I went into a chorus of, “How dare you! I’ve never been so humiliated in all my life!!” He then pulled out a stack of meal coupons, actually five which was pretty cool but when we got to breakfast the next day we were saddened to learn there was no buffet. My wife threatened to go to Mel’s Diner instead which was kind of a bluff and conduct unbecoming a queen. It wasn’t so bad as they let you pick whatever you wanted off the menu pretty much. Went back the next day with the two remaining coupons had a great meal but sadly after that we climbed into an Uber and went over to the Hilton for buffet breakfast. We then spend much of the rest of the vacation discussing whose overpriced breakfast was better, Loew’s or the Hilton. The Loew’s restored the buffet on Christmas morning which was a treat so we stayed. Now, who’s breakfast buffet was better? It went 2:1 for the Hilton with our resident Orc sleeping in every morning and missing breakfast. The Hilton featured many more Asian treats which I love and more variety, they mistakenly charged us only twenty dollars each for the first day but declared it was an error and went back to $28 or something like that the next day. Thanks to the Howards for taking care of that problem with my parents. I was trying to figure out how to deal with the issue of my sullen and angry parents disappointed in me and coming back from the grave to let me know. I don’t think too many people could have handled this, but the Howards did!! Brought my parents up to date with some of the things I’ve been up to and hung out with all the children. They were whole-heartedly welcomed, and even revered as the producers of the genetic material that the children came from. I have made inroads in my understanding of clones and their place in families. So, my clones are more closely biological understood as identical twin brothers. From a more social standpoint they are more easily seen as my children but they already have parents so I may fall back to Uncle Ed, or just Ed. So when my parents show up, in theory, they would be more like the biological parents of the children, however from a sociological standpoint they were revered and warmly welcomed as sort of ancillary grandparents, grandma and grandpa with their first names attached. When I grew up I worked in my father’s business and my grandfather worked there, all the employees called him ‘grandpa’ as if that were his actual name. His friends would call him Harry, his wife was addressed as grandma when she’d come by. BTW: Great job Kiki on His Dark Materials, looking forward to season 2. BBQ…stunning once again: your dad used the word flabbergasted to describe me…close enough. My best to all my family and friends, wishing everyone the best possible New Year! Wish I could be with you. Ed out
Happy New Year to one and all.
Merry Christmas to all
Happy Chanukah
Periodically I go through my phone and pull out the information on projects Ron has been involved with through the years. Often it’s music, TV, movies or advertising. Here I try to put up a few things. It would take me weeks to lay everything out…and away we go
Screaming Yellow Zonkers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screaming_Yellow_Zonkers
Haha all the guys in Boston were scraggly looking!!!
All my clones want to meet me…that must be quite a sight…if you thought one of me was a pest. Imagine them scheming together!!
As all the clones walk around eating ice cream they continue to work on their plans for world wide domination and this is Ed out!