"He don't want me. He wants the other monkey." - Stan Laurel, "The Music Box"
After our hearty lasagna meal back at the chalet, it was soon time to walk off our carb intake. Although our objective was to drive over to Heritage Lodge and then walk through the woods to Sugar Grove Lodge, this wasn’t exactly how it worked out. To put it simply: we got lost. After a […]
Here are some assorted shots with applicable comments of some various other activities in which our gang partook during our weeklong stay in Myrtle Beach from July 24-29, 2000. They illustrate the typical goings-on at any given weeklong stay at the Links condo in North Myrtle Beach (as you can clearly tell from other Myrtle […]
On Saturday morning June 16, I took a drive out to Springfield to see George Willeman one last time before he and his wife and cats and belongings permanently relocate to Culpeper, Virginia, where his job as vault leader with the Library of Congress Motion Picture Conservation Center will be taking him. I bought him lunch at the Gold Star […]
Okay, I’ll admit it - that title was uncalled-for. Especially considering that of all of the celebrities I met that Saturday, February 16, 2007, figure-skating champion Tonya Harding was one of the nicest. But of course, it should come as little surprise that she was also one of the most notorious. In fact, my meeting […]
Since today marks the 117th birthday of Stan Laurel, I thought it rather fitting that my posting for the day describes my recent visit with Stan’s daughter, the lovely Lois Laurel Hawes. After Bob had taken off for home to nurse his ailments, I took a short nap at the hotel and waited for Jimmy […]