Hello, bloggers... Richard Speer here, your blog editor.
Matt recently received a blog comment from his grandson, Matt.
His response is below, but first a quick bit of background, by way of this paragraph from Matt’s biography, describing a 2002 party thrown by the Lamb children for Matt and Rose’s wedding anniversary:
“Lamb’s namesake grandson is here with his new bride. He’s an amiable lad with long hair hanging down over his eyes, and Lamb introduces him by his pet name, ‘The Fiend without a Face.’ [or, as the whimsical moniker is sometimes spelled, ‘Feen without a Face.’]
“In response, the young man calls his grandpa ‘Papa Beast.’ Lamb introduces another grandson, a slender 20-year-old named Justin, as ‘Fatty Arbuckle.’
“Lamb tells the boys to whinny three times a day for good health. Although they’ve heard this anecdote before, they listen patiently and laugh when their grandfather bellows out a whinny so loud, it drowns out the din of the crowd.
“The boys’ sister, Elizabeth, is running around the room, having a ball with the other Lamb grandkids, Matt, Joey, and Rose.”
—from Matt Lamb: The Art of Success (John Wiley & Sons) by Richard Speer, copyright 2005
Dear “Feen without a Face,”
(For anyone who doesn’t know, that’s one of my grandkids...)
I have pet names for everybody... There’s the Fiend without a Face, and then there’s the Face without a Fiend, there’s Fatty Arbuckle, and many others...
I always enjoy being with the family, and I’m very proud of the “Feen without a Face.” He is a very ingenious computer person sought after for huge jobs, and he has his head in the clouds but his feet firmly planted on this earth.
So in our gene pool of computer idiots, I don’t know where he came from. So few of us live in reality, so it’s good to have someone who, when the damn computer doesn’t work, we can call, and he’ll know exactly what’s going on.
So, Feen without a Face, onward and upward in ’09!
Signed,
Papa Beast
P.S., Our great-grandchildren call Rose “Gigi” and me “Pee-Pee..” Should I be insulted?