George Harrison was my favorite Beatle. I’d like to say he was my favorite because he was the lead-guitarist, or because he was the “quietest,” but really, it was the eyebrows. (For the record, Bede has eyebrows similar to George Harrison’s.) To celebrate my fandom, I made a little “Beatle George” dolly. A friend of mine remarked dryly that he thought Beatle George looked more like an Amishman than a member of the Fab Four, but I was undeterred, and went on to make a quirky Ringo dolly for a friend of mine.Beatle George showed up in the box of stuff my mom sent me a month ago as part of her efforts to clean out her house of sacred objects.* When Lucia saw Beatle George, she grabbed him and wouldn’t let go. She cried when I borrowed the dolly long enough to take a photo. "Now, there’s a fan," I said.
Three weeks later, I found Beatle George under Lucia's bed.
*This is a household term which refers to the proliferation of meaningful material possessions that we don't want to store anymore but can't throw away, and find it hard to give them to the thrift stores, so we try to fob them off on our friends as "sacred objects."
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I think it definitely looks like George. My folks were huge Beatles fans. The first album I ever got was a Beatles album. I still have it. You've inspired me to dig out this "sacred object".
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Excellent! Which one was it? By the way, I just remembered that, as a teenager, one of my cousins took all of his mother's vintage Beatles records and traded them in for a couple of punk albums. This would have not been so shocking had he actually consulted his mother first.
She was not happy.
Great doll. Lone Star Pa is the biggest Beatles fan in the multiverse. He even looks like George Harrison. We have a Beatles poster in our bathroom (yes, in our bathroom) and the Lone Star Baby points to George and says "Daddy!" The Lone Star Girl used to get in trouble at daycare when she was little because of an incendiary game she had invented called The Sea of Monsters.
A friend of mine's three-year-old daughter may be the reincarnation of John Lennon. For many months, she would not answer to anything but John, wrote it all over the place although no one remembered teaching her how to write and spoke cryptically about her childhood in England. She's all about the yellow submarine, too.
Lone Star Ma-- That is very funny that the LSB thinks Beatle George is a picture of her daddy.
A friend of mine with pale skin and black hair was most flattered when his young son pointed to pictures of Neo from "The Matrix" as well as Superman, and said, "Daddy!"
Lady Hearteater-- Do you still own a turntable? If so, may I come over and play my one vinyl record on it?! Hurrah for the Beatles. With all due respect to Elvis, I'm a Beatle-girl.
Galetea-- Why am I not surprised? I imagine your canalboat is simply dripping with jewels out the windows.:)
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