Harold Butler

Founder of Denny’s, which began as Danny’s Donuts in the 1950s.

Richard E. Meyer and Melvin Owens

Songwriters who are responsible for the Super Bowl Shuffle lyrics.

Amelia Earhart

I asked my wife to give me a name and she gave me Amelia Earhart even thought she claims that she meant to say Flannery O’Connor.  Whatevs.

Jebus

According to Urban Dictionary, Jebus is what Homer Simpson called Jesus once.  Dress your own Jebus here.

Mars Blackmon

Scrappy Knicks fan b-boy played by Spike Lee.  Best remembered for those wonderful Nike Air Jordan commercials.  “Do you know do you know do you know?”

Björn Borg

Swedish 1970s tennis great.  Borg rocked it with the special headbands.

Gerry Thomas

1950s Swanson salesman and inventor of the TV dinner.  Beautiful Swanson TV dinner ads here.

Chris Columbus

Prolific film industry jack of all trades, who we’re thinking about today because he wrote Gremlins and The Goonies.  This guy’s head gave us Mogwai AND Chunk.  God bless Chris Columbus.

Bruce Chatwin

Travel writer who, according to Modo & Modo, played an instrumental role in keeping the Moleskine notebook alive and in production.  I don’t much buy the extensive self-mythologizing of the Moleskine, but dammit if they’re not the best notebooks in town.

Gavroche

Young street urchin from Hugo’s Les Miserables.  He’s the heart of the novel.  At some point the narrator explains one of Gavroche’s statements by saying “Gavroche was a thinker, you see.”  It doesn’t sound like much here, but 800 pages into the novel you’re rooting for the kid and you love it when he shows back up.     

Chocolate Mousse

Gasoline-swilling member of the resistance in the 80s movie Top Secret!  I think he also ate something at some point – ate someone’s gun or a twig, something crunchy.  A guy named Eddie Tagoe played Chocolate Mousse; Tagoe apparently was also in Pink Floyd The Wall?!  I so wish he would have been Chocolate Mousse in The Wall. 

Franklin Hardesty

Franklin is the whiny wheelchair-bound kid from Texas Chainsaw Massacre.  He A) enjoys talking about slaughterhouses B) gets his arm hacked on by the hitchhiker guy C) overacts his way into a classic cinema moment when he loses it and sticks his tongue out at the ceiling, fake laughing and blowing raspberries up at his sister and friends.  I have No. Clue. why they took Franklin in the first place.