Beefknifehead
This
burly handsome guy became the talisman for the appliance toss when a friend and
then student at the Cleveland Institute of Art, Derek
Hess,
attended the first appliance toss and used the party as an idea for a theme for
a pamphlet project for one of his classes.
Derek
showed the drawings in the pamphlet to me - I thought they were so cool that I asked him if I could use the
drawings for the next party. He agreed. I scanned it and have been using it ever since for toss
invitations, flyers, etc..
Although Derek recently told me that the original has been lost, I thank
him for kindly allowing us the use the BKH drawings all these years for the appliance
toss. At about the same time
he drew another iconic character
of the appliance toss, the vacuum batter.
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Where
the name beefknifehead came from I'm not sure, I think it may have originated from the inebriated bantering
(back when we did those things) of Uncle Dan, Spodie,
Derek, me and others at the
Euclid Tavern late night.
