Entertainment writer Danielle Belton at Mama Rhoombaville - By N.L. Belardes
I had just done a podcast with Jenny Angel of the Dusk Devils down in the N.L. Belardes studios. It was a great time, hearing about Boogie Woogie, Honky Tonk music, the origins of the Blackboard Free Press and some great musical tunes: Jenny Angel on the keyboards with the stand about to snap, and then her and Fatt Katt singing not one, but two duets! Oh yes, and both on the fly! Great stuff! But alas, that wasn't all that happened last Saturday night.
Dusting off the underground dust and cobwebs from the very dark studio I then headed out to Danielle Belton's birthday party over at Mama Rhoomba's. Yes, this was the very same party that Enrique Fuentes got all bent about and then declared his mad love for his Hoochie Honey of the News. You'll have to go check that out.
Anyway, I headed downtown to Mama Rhoombaville for some Caribbean delights. Of course I was late, but the timing was perfect. The food was just starting to arrive. And so we ate and ate and ate, and I met some fascinating folks who all talked movies and art, while I wondered if UCLA was getting a drubbing from the big papa bears, Cal. I wasn't being rude, but I was thinking back to old Cal graduate and mentor, Don Ackland, a fierce Bear fan. We had written a lot the previous year about the Bears/Bruins rivalry, about which he offered many great letters. He wrote this last October around the same time as last weekend's Belton Birthday Bash:
...................are coming out of hibernation....yes, thank you for the reminder, its the Two Bears, Golden & Baby Blue at the Andy Smith Memorial Stadium (aka Memorial Stadium), and I will be very attentive via Television. You are right; UCLA is on the cusp and improving, I'm a Karl Dorrell fan and wish him well, but the Bears top running backs will have a good day, and Rodgers too will do his thing! The Bears are one of the top 5 teams in the country; Texas is a mediocre bag of Longhorn meadow patties, and the frigging idiot, NASCAR Sooners aren't that great either, 12-0 against the Texas blowhards! Hell Texas has lost in the last few years to UCLA twice, to Washington State, Oregon & Stanford. They are 2 wins & 5 losses
versus Pac 10 in last 6 years, means if they played in our conference they
would finish about 8th!!!!!!!!!!!!! (hey that's more !'s than my previous
email).
Back to the Andy Smith Memorial Stadium; Andy Smith was Cal's first great coach, early 20's and the Bears were undefeated from 1920-24 with Andy, about 40 games with a couple of ties. The winter after Cal lost it's first game in 4 plus years, in 1924, Andy Smith passed from the sidelines to the Choir Invisible. Before the following season a small plane flew over the Stadium and spread Andy's ashes over the playing field, and this wonderful, old style college football venue has since been The Andy Smith Memorial Stadium. On the Cal sidelines there is an bench in the style of ancient Greece, slightly curved with back and arms, chisled from marble with modest Hellenic carved decoration, long enough for a dozen players. On this
bench is inscribed the dedication to Andy Smith.
With all due respect to the Baby Bear, I do believe Cal will be victorious; however the Bruins have great days ahead as they develop under Dorrell, and they will. For now, though, the deep, royal Blue of Cal, and the Spirit of Andy Smith will dominate. And even if this dominance should recede from time to time, the Old Blues will keep singing and drinking over the tree laden hills of Berkeley & Strawberry Canyon which embrace Andy and his Stadium!
And the Bruins did lose last year, but boy wouldn't old Ackland turn in his grave to know my baby bears came from behind to upend the Bears and surpass them in the rankings? ha!
Of course I didn't realize the Bruins had been victorious during the party.
My time at the dinner ended early, just after a series of photos was taken. Danielle posted some of them on her site... I bought Danielle a Sangria which someone else topped by getting her a pitcher. We talked a bit, and I had a great time listening to Jenny Angel, Yogi and Bam Bam all laugh and talk. Jenny Angel then boogied out the door and I got stuck with her huge tab of $1.50 for a soda. Man was I riled. OK, I wasn't, but I went home and built skeletons until 3:30 am for this weekend's up and coming Day of the Dead group art show at the Empty Space Theatre...
Dusting off the underground dust and cobwebs from the very dark studio I then headed out to Danielle Belton's birthday party over at Mama Rhoomba's. Yes, this was the very same party that Enrique Fuentes got all bent about and then declared his mad love for his Hoochie Honey of the News. You'll have to go check that out.
Anyway, I headed downtown to Mama Rhoombaville for some Caribbean delights. Of course I was late, but the timing was perfect. The food was just starting to arrive. And so we ate and ate and ate, and I met some fascinating folks who all talked movies and art, while I wondered if UCLA was getting a drubbing from the big papa bears, Cal. I wasn't being rude, but I was thinking back to old Cal graduate and mentor, Don Ackland, a fierce Bear fan. We had written a lot the previous year about the Bears/Bruins rivalry, about which he offered many great letters. He wrote this last October around the same time as last weekend's Belton Birthday Bash:
...................are coming out of hibernation....yes, thank you for the reminder, its the Two Bears, Golden & Baby Blue at the Andy Smith Memorial Stadium (aka Memorial Stadium), and I will be very attentive via Television. You are right; UCLA is on the cusp and improving, I'm a Karl Dorrell fan and wish him well, but the Bears top running backs will have a good day, and Rodgers too will do his thing! The Bears are one of the top 5 teams in the country; Texas is a mediocre bag of Longhorn meadow patties, and the frigging idiot, NASCAR Sooners aren't that great either, 12-0 against the Texas blowhards! Hell Texas has lost in the last few years to UCLA twice, to Washington State, Oregon & Stanford. They are 2 wins & 5 losses
versus Pac 10 in last 6 years, means if they played in our conference they
would finish about 8th!!!!!!!!!!!!! (hey that's more !'s than my previous
email).
Back to the Andy Smith Memorial Stadium; Andy Smith was Cal's first great coach, early 20's and the Bears were undefeated from 1920-24 with Andy, about 40 games with a couple of ties. The winter after Cal lost it's first game in 4 plus years, in 1924, Andy Smith passed from the sidelines to the Choir Invisible. Before the following season a small plane flew over the Stadium and spread Andy's ashes over the playing field, and this wonderful, old style college football venue has since been The Andy Smith Memorial Stadium. On the Cal sidelines there is an bench in the style of ancient Greece, slightly curved with back and arms, chisled from marble with modest Hellenic carved decoration, long enough for a dozen players. On this
bench is inscribed the dedication to Andy Smith.
With all due respect to the Baby Bear, I do believe Cal will be victorious; however the Bruins have great days ahead as they develop under Dorrell, and they will. For now, though, the deep, royal Blue of Cal, and the Spirit of Andy Smith will dominate. And even if this dominance should recede from time to time, the Old Blues will keep singing and drinking over the tree laden hills of Berkeley & Strawberry Canyon which embrace Andy and his Stadium!
And the Bruins did lose last year, but boy wouldn't old Ackland turn in his grave to know my baby bears came from behind to upend the Bears and surpass them in the rankings? ha!
Of course I didn't realize the Bruins had been victorious during the party.
My time at the dinner ended early, just after a series of photos was taken. Danielle posted some of them on her site... I bought Danielle a Sangria which someone else topped by getting her a pitcher. We talked a bit, and I had a great time listening to Jenny Angel, Yogi and Bam Bam all laugh and talk. Jenny Angel then boogied out the door and I got stuck with her huge tab of $1.50 for a soda. Man was I riled. OK, I wasn't, but I went home and built skeletons until 3:30 am for this weekend's up and coming Day of the Dead group art show at the Empty Space Theatre...
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