In 1983, when I worked at Godfathers Pizza in West Springfield,VA, It was an epithet given me by my then manager Larry O'Dea. We were preparing one of the sandwiches from our menu and these sandwiches came with an order of potato chips. These chips came in packages like those found in vending machines. Among the employees, these packages had developed the reputation for having five chips in one bag and 45 or 50 in the next. Emblazoned across the front and back of these bags was the letters BE-MO and nothing more. So Larry asks me "What the hell kind of name is "Bemo" for potato chips?", to which I replied "Maybe 'cause there be mo' in one bag than there be in another" Neither one of us thought more about it till the end of Larry's shift when, on his way out, he sticks his head back into the kitchen and says "I'll see you tomorrow, Captain Bemo". And the nickname just sort of stuck.
It's also a military acronym for Battalion Motor Officer.
The last time I wrote here I was working on getting my bachelors degree finished. Well, thanks to the twelve thumbed freaks at George Mason that will not be a reality until next May and here's why. On September 28 of this year (1998) I received a letter postmarked the 21st from George Mason University. For those of you that don't understand the significance of this fact, GMU is about 5 miles from my home. So in essence it took seven days to get a letter five miles. Anyway, this letter dated September 21 starts out "Dear Timothy Ellerbee, We were reviewing your application for August graduation....." Now I ask you, is there not something fundamentally wrong here? This monolith of post secondary education was reviewing August grad applications in the last week of September! So of course I received this letter the Monday after the last day register for this semester. So I have to wait until next semester to take one class to graduate.
"But Bemo!?" you may ask "how could not know that you were not going to graduate?" Well, of the 120 credits necessary to graduate, I had 137, BUT, I was short two upper level elective credits. Additionally, when I called the department head to set up an exit interview I was told that I didn't really need one and that it was only a formality. Now, here's the rub. Had I had that exit interview, I would have been informed (maybe) that the class that I dropped over the summer in order to take a full-time job in the field for which I had studied for five plus years, was, in fact, still necessary for me to graduate. It was a simple upper level elective but that's as may be. So in answer the above question, Bemo gets the dick. AGAIN.
But seriously, Geni and I have moved to State College Pa. home of Penn State and she has subsequently been accepted into the Graduate program in Art History. While I have taken a job as Continuity and Production Director at Citadel Broadcasting. Citadel runs a four station combo that includes WQWK 97.1,WCNL 107.9,and WRSC AM 1340/WBLF AM 760.The AM is I seldom take lunch :^I
Additionally I play and write music. For a sample of my song writing/poetry, try my poetry page. There's a lot of work left to do there but it's a start.
As for my playing, I play guitar and have since the fifth grade,which was '7?. Suffice it to say that I've been playing for 24 years. I play mostly on my early '90's Fender Stratocaster. I have a few other guitars as well. I have an early '90's BC Rich NJ Strat and a Platinum Strat as well as a Charvell Surfcaster. Just recently I added to my ever-growing family of six-stringed wonders a brand-new white on red Telecaster.
I play through a 60W Fender Blues DeVille and a Puke Green "Ibanez Tubescreamer". I use an ART 2000 preamp/processor and record everything with a Yamaha MT8X 8-track cassette recorder. I am hopefully moving to the digital domain with a Fostex FD4 HD recorder and a Sony Minidisc recorder for final mix-down. Presently, however, I mix it all down to a TEAC CX650R stereo cassette deck with DOD stereo equalization.
So now it's official. Mr.and Mrs. Bemo.
And it has been for a year now. One year together. In that year we have moved three times, I thought I had graduated but didn't and went ahead and walked while Geni didn't walk (she couldn't get off of work) and she actually graduated, then she went to Italy, I got a job in my career field, (how many people do you know of that actually do that?) I built a recording studio from scratch for WGMU Radio, damn near got arrested for asserting my rights as a student and a taxpayer, spent over $4500 on auto repairs instead of stupid shit like food and rent, I found out that I didn't graduate after all and we got a cat.
Last updated January 27, 1999