Ed Asner

Ed Asner and Jeanne Butler

This is not running related but it is too cool not to write in my blog. 

I met Ed Asner yesterday and got my picture taken with him. He was at the Edmonds Center for the Arts in Edmonds Washington to do a monologue called Ed Asner as FDR. I found the following write-up about it… Known for his Emmy-winning role as Lou Grant on the The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Ed Asner is magnificent as FDR and delivers a fearless performance of this dynamic and powerful world leader. FDR was known as “that man in the White House,“ scorned by many and admired by most. This one-man show takes you on a journey through FDR’s White House years including the Depression, the steps leading up to WWII and the war years. We met Mr. Asner quite by mistake. My brother Joe was meeting us in the parking lot of the event center two hours prior to the starting time of the show. Needless to say, the parking lot was almost empty. While waiting we saw someone a man and a woman get out of the car and the man looked like Ed Asner. A couple ran up to them and I asked my husband to roll the window down so we could hear. I heard the words Mr. Asner and autograph. In a second I was out of the car. As soon as I got close to him he turns to me and says, “What the hell do you want?” in a gruff but friendly voice. If it had been anyone else I would have been in tears, but it was so what I expected from him. I asked for a picture and he said sure. He was very gracious. I can’t believe how incredibly lucky I was to be able to get to meet him. I was in the right place at the right time.