Hobson's Choice
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Yoko Part Two
My mom and dad came up for the afternoon today, and Eleanor was able to provide a little clarification on the Yoko Ono situation.
Grandma: Well, how did she break up the Beatles?
E: She used a magic wand, I think.
Grandma: And where is she now?
E: She is somewhere where nobody can see her. Some people... I think... some people think she is in ... some people think she should be in jail.
I really didn't set out to begin embittering a whole new generation against Yoko Ono when this conversation started off yesterday. I was just riffing on an old Hobson family joke wherein if someone mentions Yoko Ono, someone else is required by family law to say "She broke up the Beatles." I mean, I think we all (we Hobsons) grasp that the break-up the Beatles was a complex process, not incited by Yoko Ono's magic wand. But now, I dare not even show Eleanor a picture of Yoko. She wears those huge, scary glasses, and she does kind of look like she might have a magic wand. Or a broomstick.
8:23 p.m. - 2006-09-20
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Yoko Oh No
You have to imagine the following conversation taking place in the car as we drove from Aldi back home. There were lots of long pauses and on the radio John Lennon's "Oh Yoko"
E: Is that Yoko the "Yoko" on "Timothy Goes to School?"
J: No, it's Yoko Ono.
(a block or so passes)
J: She broke up the Beatles.
E: She broked up the Beatles. How did she do that?
J: I don't really know the whole story. You'll have to ask Uncle Craig.
E: Uncle Craig knows the story?
J: Yep.
E: Why is she called Yoko Oh No?
J: Hmmm... it's not Oh No. It's just Ono. It's her last name.
E: Oh. Yoko. Yoko. Yo-ko. Y-y-y-o-o-o-k-k-k-o-o-
J: Are you working on spelling her name?
E: Yep. I'm saying that "k".
(a block later)
E: I think that Yoko who broked up the Beatles probably went to jail.
J: Oh, not really. She didn't do anything... the Beatles were just friends, and she kind of.... But she didn't have to go to jail.
E: She broked up the Beatles.
J: Probably some people think she should go to jail for breaking up the Beatles.
E: Yeah, me.
J: You think Yoko Ono should go to jail?
E: Yeah.
J: Because the Beatles were the best band ever?
E: Yeah. The Beatles sing "Happy Birthday To You."
J: Yes, they do.
E: Now, no more Beatles tunes. No more Beatles fashion tunes.
I didn't have the heart to tell her that there was a lot more standing in the way of a Beatles reunion than just Yoko Ono.
3:26 p.m. - 2006-09-19
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FF
Regular readers of this blog may be hungering for news of the Hobson/Green reaction to the loss of Richard Karn to _Family Feud_:
Some griefs go too deep for words.
6:53 p.m. - 2006-09-18
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