Herself has returned from an extended visit to the mysterious East (the DeeCee-Maryland clusterplex) and so things are back to what passes for normal around the DogHaus. Rise and shine way too early, prepare breakfast, commit a little journalism, send her off to work. Someone in this family has to earn an honest dollar, and the cats don’t have much in the way of résumés. (“Eat, shit, sleep. References upon request.”)
In other news, I see Ed McMahon has gone to join Johnny Carson at the Big Talk Show In the Sky. Before he spent some 30 years sitting on that couch, laughing at Carson’s gags, he was a Marine fighter pilot who flew 85 combat missions in Korea. Who knew?
According to The New York Times, Big Ed also shined shoes, sold newspapers and peanuts, dug ditches, worked as an usher and as a traveling bingo announcer in New England, sold stainless-steel cookware door to door, and pitched a gadget called the Morris Metric Slicer to tourists on the Atlantic City Boardwalk and in Times Square. His first gigs on TV were as a clown and the host of a cooking show.
Ah, Eddie, we hardly knew ye.
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Ed made colonel in the Marines. Not too shabby. Ten bucks says he should have gone to the VA and talked about benefits. Bio says he “resigned” from the Marines when he hit retirement age. Not sure what that means, but fighting in two wars and make O-6 should have earned him something.
Good bye Ed, and thanks for the laughs.
Speaking of funny, here’s the newest T-shirt in these parts.
http://www.madison.com/wsj/home/local/455966