by cart_machine » Sun Nov 20, 2022 9:57 am
It's nice reading another remembrance of Ed.
We aired Question Period on CKO. If anything on radio could have a minus audience, this would have been it. Whenever the House Speaker shouted "Order, please," this was the cue for Ed to turn on the mike and for us to shout food orders and complaints on the air (egs. "Eggs sunny-side up, no mustard" and "Waitress, where are my mixed vegetables?").
Ed did drag on J.B.'s Night Vision show on SuperChannel. The premise was a lost silent film had been found and was being seen for the first time in decades. The film's main character was Babushka, a poor Eastern European woman in the years after World War One. Ed, with a trusty head scarf, played Babushka (I played her son). There's a snippet of it from a poor quality VHS tape on-line somewhere. It's funny in its strangeness, as only J.B. could invent.
At his service, there were some wonderful pictures of Ed as a teenager rigging up a transmitter. He loved doing that sort of thing. There was a party of CKO vets at my place and Ed broadcast it over a 10-watt transmitter he had sitting around. Considering all the concrete around here, it could be picked up for half a block.
cArtie.