From Los Angeles to London Via The Magic Castle
Sunday, April 18th, 2010
Even after an exhausting day at Disneyland, it is hard to sleep in very late when your body’s time is three hours ahead of the real time. So despite the exhaustion, on the morning of Sunday, March 28, 2010, my eyes still open at about 6:30am in my friend Jimmy’s guest room in San Pedro, California. I tinkered around with my email and Facebook (having brought my laptop along with me on this trip), then slowly got ready for the day. It would be a long one…and it would be about 33 hours before my head would hit another pillow – in a country far, far away. Read the rest of this entry »
Like all Sons of the Desert conventions that came before it, the 1996 Caribbean cruise had its fair share of celebrity guests on board to share their memories of their work at the Hal Roach Studios and the associations with Laurel and Hardy. In addition to the actors of this era, famous Laurel and Hardy impersonators Chuck McCann and Jim MacGeorge were also on hand to do an appropriate skit and mingle with the swabs on board. Chuck and Jim had not jointly been seen at a Sons convention since 1980, so it was cool to have them back. 
The Winter blahs had taken their toll on me so much that I decided that despite the rather weak line-up of celebrities at the Hollywood Celebrities and Memorabilia Show in Rosemont, Illinois on the weekend of Saturday, March 13, 2010, it would be worth it just to get away for a road trip. My sister Denise had mentioned that she might like to go along sometime on one of these excursions, and agreed that this one might be fun. Aaron agreed to babysit the kids – for the first time overnight alone. He did swell.