Monkey Business

My long-time friend Chris Dunn is a long-time friend of Jane Goodall.

Two steps to the wonderful lady - and three to all those great chimps!

Four Legs, Two Steps?

Al Pelletier, who runs Sekiu Chimney Sweeps up here (and we wouldn't use anybody else's services!) once petted Richard Boone's horse. Al was nine years old, and it was at the Rose Parade in Oregon.

So, is it two steps to Boone - or three, including the horse?

Five - or Two - Steps To Rommel

Okay, Dan just figured this out:

1.  Our dental hygienist in Bremerton, Micky Strong.

2.  His dad, the actor, Alexander Strong, who appeared in Destination Gobi.

3.  Director Henry Hatheway, who directed him in it. And who directed The Desert Fox.

4.  Desmond Young, the author of Rommel, The Desert Fox, appears as himself.

5.  Young met Rommel as a prisoner.

Five steps.  Who da Boss?

(Oh, and Richard Boone is in there, too, as one of Rommel's officers.  Have Schmeißer - Will Travel?).

Then again, I was in correspondence with a retired Australian army officer who knew Rommel as a Captain. I da Boss.

The Body In The Bath

Dan is ONE step from the (possible) Seattle Sheraton Hotel ghost.

It's in room 2413.  No ghost was ever seen, but the TV won't stay off.

As a security supervisor, Dan guarded the body of a naked, strangled female found in the bathtub, until the police arrived.  The body was found by one of the female room attendants.  The chiropractor boyfriend had taken off for California, where he later turned himself in, in Sacramento.  The body was found Valentine's Day, 1988 (?).  His name was Christopher Edward Prebosky (he confessed and did some time).

Dan says room attendants would find the TV on, turn it off, leave, come back, and find it on again. This happened repeatedly.

Nothing else ever happened, but that's the room number, and a record of the incident, for the ghost-hunters out there,  if anybody's curious.

Play dem "Bones"

"Clark Edison" on Bones is played by Eugene Byrd, the angry young gun-slinger who ends up shot by Lance Henriksen in Dead Man.

That's four steps for us to Bones: Makah tribe, Eugene Byrd ("Clark Edison"), Bones.

And four steps to Al Pacino:  Makah tribe, Eugene Byrd, Lance Henriksen, Al Pacino (in Dog Day Afternoon) and Charles Durnning.

Five steps to the Coen brothers.

(But Dan's got that one at two steps because he used to help the teenaged "Clooney boy" load tomatoes into his aunt Rosemary's "big ol' pink Cadillac Coupe de Ville.  And it was pink.)

Back To The West

Bill Griffith, author of Zippy The Pinhead, is a very respected colleague.

His great-grandfather was William Henry Jackson, one of the historical Western Photographers.

Three steps into history.  Score!

Huh.  Bill kind of looks like him. 

Can we quit now?

We may now be connected to everybody:

Chris wrote:

"Cue late night infomercial voice over guy voice... but wait there's MORE!

Went down and talked with Mom about this.. here is the partial list she whipped up while watching the Apple keynote...

Fred Astaire

Bob Hope

Carol Burnett

Ray Bradbury.. but you prolly already have him

Terry Erdmann.. obscure but important ask me later

McDonald Carey

Joey Bishop.. and that opens all kinds of avenues...

Clark Gable and Carol Lombard

Bing Crosby.. Mom still has the Christmas song he did for her as a kid.. that is a record that is nicely preserved.

Robert Kennedy..

Robert Culp

Bill Cosby

Ike and Tina Turner

Bobby Vee.. also obscure see Terry above

The whole band Tower of Power

Most of Toto the band

Frank Zappa and the whole of the Mothers

Eric Clapton

Raquel Welch

Barbara Streisand.. at her house.. singing.. need I say more.

Robert Altmann

Oh and must not forget John Wayne...

And for super duper geek cred?  Remember the "Earth rise" photo from the Apollo mission?  My mom handled the negative of that and we have an original... "