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So Damien Demento wasn’t a wrestler that set the world on fire, but since leaving wrestling and having space, something clicked. He pulled himself onto the internet after being mentioned on the WWE’s website and the results have been awesome.
There are plenty of people out there who do this kinda stuff, for some reason it clicks pretty good with Demento, or Phil, depending on which world you know him from.
I’m subscribed, so he wins I guess
Now I can do cool stuff liek embed episodes of Firefly within my blog. Cool.
It’s no secret I miss my grandfather, who died in 1999 a day before I left for college. Since it was 1999 and before the internet was as popular as it is today, he didn’t have much of a presence, despite his relative fame in harmonica circles. Every now and then I search online for pieces of my grandfather, as I never saw him perform and only heard him play once every other year or so when he would visit when I was a child.
I’m not entirely certain if he’s in this videos, as they are fromt he 40’s and now are posted on YouTube, but this was the man (Borrah Minevitch) and his school/vaudeville group that took my grandfather out of the Hebrew Orphans Asylum.
I’ll have to re-read his autobiography to double check if he was in the group at this point. More later.
UPDATE: I found this quote online about my grandfather: “Lou was a part of Borrah Minevitch’s first band as well as working in vaudeville as a one-legged, tap-dancing harmonica player.”
My grandfather was a ONE LEGGED TAP DANCING HARMONICA PLAYER?
Now, I know that he had two legs, but I really wish that I could see him perform as a one legged tap dancing harmonica player.
