05/30/2026
I don’t like conflict.
I’m not much of a fan of pretend-conflict, either.
Who’s a better daddy? Norman or me?
Norman is.
To be fair, he’s had a lot more practice at it.
Things can get strange when your platonic friend of 25 years “looks the part”. Norman absolutely does for me.
I took these shots when I had an eight-megapixel camera. The camera was a Sony F-828 and I loved it (still love it) and I used to begrudge its propensity to have purple fringing. But I don’t need to minimize the purple fringing for Norman, because his occasional purple halo reminds me of Olivia Newton-John’s purple halo in “Xanadu”.
Fitting.
Without Norman, RMRL would never have happened.
He preceded Phill.
So Norman wins the daddy contest between two friends... that never was.
But even though Norman says he came up with it, I think I was the one who thought “The Heebie BeeGees” would be an amazing name for a band. (Maybe?)
Better than “Kathleen Turner Overdrive”? Possibly not.
But there are still times where I am certain he can read my mind. Full-on clairvoyant-like.
Man, that guy matters to me.
