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John Goodwin
January 12, 2025
Verne was very patriotic in his love of the United States and the people who defend this country.
edgar arce
January 12, 2025
Dear Baby Gorilla. Miss you lots, but we talk about you all the time. You are in our thoughts, storytelling, and everyday living. You'd be amazed at everything that's happening in the world. Oh the phone calls we'd be having right about now. What's going on over there?? Give me an update sometime, will ya? More later!
Sophia Luca
December 28, 2023
"Mama, the stars are so tiny from down here. The North Star is teeny, tiny....
The stars and the moon are big up there and the galaxies..... I was thinking we could all go up there for a visit. It takes just five minutes to get there." - Sophia Luca´s for my Uncle Verne
Edgar Arce
January 12, 2023
2023. Another year without you. Not a day goes by without talking about you. You are missed. You are loved. You continue to live in our stories and hearts!
Edgar Arce
January 18, 2022
SO much has happened! We're in a pandemic! You missed being part of history. I really miss you, my friend. I was in your old stomping grounds this past weekend (Montecito) and could not help but think of you the entire time. We shared so many laughs and great memories. Walking State Street, shrimp tacos on the pier, and Litos! Who could forget Litos?
Love you pal.
January 25, 2019
Verne Langdon, a talent and good friend.Always missed. Eliot
Michael Kriegsman
January 24, 2019
Missing you, still, my friend.
Edgar Arce
January 24, 2019
Hey Buddy. So much has happened since I last looked you in the eyes. I still think about you and tell others about you. You are still alive in my home because not a day goes by without me talking about you to my little girl, Ava, or someone else in my world. I can still make a room roar with laughter after hearing about something funny you and I did, experienced, or witnessed! You were, and still are my best friend. Here's to you, kid. Cheers..
Edgar
Flo and Tom Guth
January 23, 2015
Verne, Tom and I miss you dearly,we think of you everyday!!! I don't think this lost feeling will ever go away. You are so loved my friend. Tom and Flo
January 22, 2015
Hey Pal,
Your ears must be warm because there's been lots of "thinking about you" in the last 24 hours. Your music has been lighting up people's lives again, most recently on television. I am so proud of the music you left here for everyone to enjoy. The team is down here doing a spectacular job with your legacy. Let them know your watching, k?
-'tanks!
Damian Jefferson
January 22, 2015
I will never forget my good friend. Damian
Brianna Karrasch
January 20, 2015
In the beginning of time there were only elephants. The giant and gentle creatures of the universe. I can still hear them whispering the secrets of our future. The music of their ivory tusks billows and wilts in the shadows of my mind.
And the menagerie goes round and round. The memories crawl up and down... this carousel of dreams.
In the end, the ashes dance like dandelion dust falling from the skies. You and the melody are gone, but the music still lingers on.
-Forever your Miss B
Dawn Langdon-Karrasch
September 16, 2014
Happy Birthday. So many of "your people" were at Monsterpalooza this weekend and had such wonderful things to say about you. They have been very good to all of us. They are your true legacy to us. They make it easier as time goes by.
Brianna Karrasch
October 1, 2013
We know you would be here today if heaven wasn't so far away.
From this place I can only dream of your time and space. I'm just trying to find a little bit of home. I came to visit, all be it a little too late, so that I wouldn't feel so alone. And I want to trade this land of stars for yours. And I want just a little faith. I've been looking for you in the shadows and hoping you can hear me.
I know you need to be with the gentle creatures. So I am working on this go-cart made of cardboard. Cause you've been gone for just a little too long.
Dawn Langdon-Karrasch
January 28, 2013
Well, there is so much to tell you although I suspect that you already know everything. January 25th, 2013, last Friday, would have been our Golden Anniversary. Although we were no longer married, you always sent me a card, which eventually came to acknowledge the great friendship and bond that we were able to forge not only between you and me but also between you and Brent and Brianna. Truly amazing. What fun times we had.
I know you would be so very pleased that Brent and Brianna and Kelly are reactivating you record companies and web sites, and Michael is working diligently on his and your script. And I can see you just beam at your "niece's" great soul as evidenced by her writing and her encounters with the "soul mates" of Uncle Verne, such as her meeting in Paris with Lapinu - a trip you were always going to make. Well, you did make it through her and I know you were there as you were with us Friday night as we toasted you on the anniversary dinner.
Luff,
January 26, 2013
V,
I was thinking of you today and had to say something. YOu always thought me many things along the way. Our friendship seemed to always have a daily lesson attached to it. You and I seemed to learn new things from one another, and because of that we always seemed like the only wise men in the room when we were together. You taught me to laugh at everything, and take things with a grain of salt...but only after I've sifted through the salt to get all crap out of it. YOu taught me to love life in a big way. The way you always did, and for me that was not a problem. You confirmed something I always knew, which was to watch my back, because there's always someone out in the world waiting for you to fall and take your spot. The biggest thing I learned from you was to always tell someone you love, that you love them, because that might just be the last time you say it. We always ended our meetings, and conversations with love, which always makes me smile when I think about you. I'm still here on earth, doing the things we taught each other, and living life for you, through my eyes and actions. I am appreciating every second.
Thanks for the lessons, pal.
I love ya, Shuga!
Brianna Karrasch
January 24, 2013
I am riding the highest wave, holding the reigns of an elephant with a diving force. Wearing a crown made of tear drops. I am pulling the reigns back into me and aiming for the skies. Because you haven't been back in some time to visit me. Because I don't have a tall enough ladder to climb to you. Because my arms aren't long enough to reach you. Because I turned around and you vanished in the sea. The wind tempts me to let go but my heart will not allow my fingers to release this hold. And I am wishing I never closed my eyes cause you wondered off somewhere I can't yet be.
Brianna Karrasch
January 1, 2013
When the world settles, for a brief moment there is a faint sepia scent in the air. The light disperses from the fog. There is a knocking on my chest and then a stillness in my heart. A sudden flash from a twinkle of light rests on a dewdrop. Makes me remember that we are part of something bigger here. Still I am reminded my wings are too small.
Once again I am petrified, as I try to swallow the echo of the mountains rolling into the skies. I feel the pull of the world tugging at my feet. Telling me to move on. Telling me to whisper our prayers in that giant seashell at the bottom of the ocean.
The world rotates again. The phone rings and its not you on the other end...again. My tears melt in the sand. Reminding me of this borrowed time and this momentary light.
You fly without the weight of the world as I stand on my hands on this edgecliff lane. Because my feet are tired from traveling this earth trying to find you again. Because its a long and far road from here up to there.
I am hoping and wishing my feet will walk up there if my head is down here. If not, I will continue to support my body with my hands and wait for the world to revolve again.
The wind floats through my toes. Streaming through you and then streaming through me. My finger tips clench the fragments of the soil. My body starts to fade backward as I combat the zephyr with my jedi limbs. Maintaining my position, I wonder if its easier to say good-bye if my heart is closer to the sky...
Tommy Holbrook
September 18, 2012
Happy Birthday from one Art LaRue fan To another,... Uncle Verne, I miss you everyday!
edgar arce
September 16, 2012
everyonce in awhile I still catch myself hearing some crazy story on the radio, or in the news and reaching for my phone to call you. I miss that connection we had; to be able to laugh at the absurd, and make fun of the world around us.
September 16, 2012
So happy I got to know Verne Langdon in my life.
I wish we could have shared more fun times.
Eliot
Brianna Karrasch
September 15, 2012
Happy Birthday!
I love and miss you more than words can express.
Angus Edyburn
June 26, 2012
My dear friend, I will miss you. I still have the record of Vampyre at the Harpsichord you gave me. I still listen to it these 40 years later.
Shelly Lichoff
February 20, 2012
3 years ago today on this date, I stood by you and others as we paid our respects to a little forgotten side show performer named Schlitze. Due to the beautiful bio you wrote about this man, I was inspired to help get his grave marked. I never thought I would actually get to meet you, much less become friends with you.
Meeting you has influenced me greatly by your wit, humor, gentle and sometimes not so gentle advice. :)
You are missed by everyone who knew you. I'm just missing you a little more today.
Love you, Verne.
February 18, 2012
I miss you
damian jefferson
February 17, 2012
he will be sadly missed by Damian a friend who lived with him on apian way in the mid 1980 s he was a great friend.. luv Damian
Michael Kriegsman
January 4, 2012
Verne... It's been a year now and I still keep expecting a call from you. My God, how you're missed.
Love you, man,
Mk
Brianna Karrasch
January 4, 2012
Notre Père, qui es aux cieux,
Que ton nom soit sanctifié,
Que ton règne vienne,
Que ta volonté soit faite sur la terre comme au ciel.
Donne-nous aujourd'hui notre pain de ce jour.
Pardonne-nous nos offences
Comme nous pardonnons aussi à ceux qui nous ont offensés.
Et ne nous soumets pas à la tentation,
mais délivre-nous du mal,
car c'est à toi qu'appartiennent le règne,
la puissance et la gloire, aux siècles des siècles.
Amen.
January 4, 2012
New Years day will always be bittersweet.
My wedding anniversary and your passing.
You are missed.
Eliot
Micah Harris
January 4, 2012
I came across a print out of your email of encouragement concerning the book on Schlitzie, assuring me I will find a publisher. Your personality and enthusiasm radiate off the page still. Thank you Verne -- you are still sticking in there with me.
With love and respect,
Micah
Tom Holbrook
January 2, 2012
Happy New year.
Tom Holbrook
January 2, 2012
Uncle Verne,
Thought deeply of you yesterday,...miss you fondly everyday.
I lov ya!
Your fellow Art LaRue and Bozo fan,
Tommy
(Tom Holbrook)
Brianna Karrasch
May 3, 2011
To my Uncle Verne,
Remember when I was little on Appian Way you held up this giant sea shell to my ear and told me it was the ocean? We ate "roll ups." I sat on the counter kicking the cupboards to the beat of the ocean at my ear. Later you gave me Montecito and I would sit on the ocean floor and let the waves crash above me. I felt the water fill my ears as the symphony of the dolphins echoed throughout my body. When I came up for air, I looked back and you were on the balcony smiling.
One day I will see you smiling at me once again and it will fill my heart with the same eternal peace I grew to know sitting on that ocean floor. No one will ever know how much you mean to me.
Love,
Miss B
PS- Today you can be the Shy Shy and I'll be the Fa Fa.
Tom Holbrook
March 11, 2011
I hope that ALL of Verne's friends will visit and post any photos they may have.
Tom Holbrook
March 11, 2011
For ALL of Verne's friends,...How we loved him so very much.
http://video.aol.com/video-detail/verne-langdon-just-a-memory/4281276085
Tom Holbrook
March 11, 2011
Uncle Verne,...
The last time we talked was the day you left for the big show. 1-1-11. I can not express how much you meant to me. I love you oh so very much!
The Bozo Chronicles will forever be a part of us both as you helped me in so many ways with the project, working out the kinks, proofing, getting the press out, driving me to complete the research and most of all the title!
You introduced me to so many, taught me so much!!!! You were helpful, loving, caring to me and most of all my friend.
You and I were the only two members of the Art Larue fan club! Now you are in the BIG show. Your playing the grand stage with all of the GREATS like you.
Please save me a ticket and some popcorn.
and as you would always say to me,...
"More Later"
Your friend,
Tommy
Jeremy Swan
March 3, 2011
Here's to all the great fun and mischief we called 'work' in Harry Maret's CBS make-up dept. in the 70's. Verne was an essential element of those wonderful times!
Ruth Brooks
February 11, 2011
I still have Peale's "Power of Positive Thinking" a birthday present from you when we were in the 8th grade. My prayers are with you and your family. I have many fond memories, your halloween party when my hair caught on fire and not so fond when you were called out of Mr. Farrell's English class. Peace
Shelly Lichoff
February 9, 2011
Verne, I only knew you for a short 2.5 years but what a great 2.5 years they were! I feel like we had a lifetime together. I'll miss the e-mails and phone calls, it's amazing how much contact we had even though we were so far apart from each other. You were a teacher, mentor, and an incredible friend. You are very much missed. Rest in peace.
Skip Edwards
February 8, 2011
Sometimes I still can't believe Verne's no longer with us. I find myself thinking about giving him a call, or expecting one...usually at odd hours.
I was fortunate to work with Verne on numerous musical adventures, and with Verne, they truly were adventures. I will forever miss our time together, but I'll always remember the good times, the good music, and all the laughs.
Much has been said about Verne...his wrestling, make-up and mask days, and so on.
I'd like to mention that he was a consummate musician. An excellent piano player, he made every note count...a wonderful songwriter, and so much better of a singer than he, himself thought. It's not easy to imagine I won't have a chance to make music with him again...not for awhile, that is.
Here's to you, Verne....my hat's off to ya.
Always has been.
Vaya con Dios, mijo.
-Skip
February 7, 2011
Will always remember a special Halloween!
Fond memory. Inge
Tom Guth
February 6, 2011
My dear friend Verne, I miss you each and every day. I no longer have someone to talk with each morning or to run errands. Yes my friend I looked forward to our almost always daily outings. As I told you on more than one occasion you were the brother I never had.I'm sure that if you eat dinner there "its the best you ever had" I"ll see you someday and what a joyous day that will be!!For now LESTER I know God is with you. Your friend LESTER!
Verne and his Hamster!!
Flo Guth
February 5, 2011
Verne I want you to know I am going to miss our long talks ,our dinners together, our outings and laughing together, you singing to me and telling me your stories. I could listen to you for hours. You were my best friend and I will love you forever. When you said you were going to move to AZ I was thrilled and then you moved 2 doors from us and that was great. For the last year we were together almost everyday or we spoke on the phone. Most of all Verne I will miss your smile and I am am going to miss you terribly. I know you are up there looking down on us and taking care of us. You are my Guardian Angel now. RIP my dear dear friend and I will see you again some day. Love Flo
Best Buds
Flo Guth
February 5, 2011
Michael Kriegsman
February 5, 2011
Big man...
Your passing has left a hole in my heart and in my life I'll never be able to fill.
Seems you've been with me in some way, shape or form since the beginning.
From the pages of the Famous Monsters of Filmland magazines my brother and sister read to me when I was a toddler...
To the pages of the pro wrestling rags I read as a teen...
To the pages we wrote TOGETHER these last 18 months.
Verne, you were my childhood inspiration, my friend and confidant, and the best damned writing partner I'll ever have.
I'll love you always and forever.
Mk
Jonathan Barber
February 3, 2011
To some people, Verne Langdon was a professional wrestler/trainer/promoter, singer/songwriter, record producer, radio host, make-up artist, mask designer, and magician. To me, more importantly than those pursuits, he was a friend and a mentor.
By the time I first got in touch with Verne in 2003, he had already achieved decades’ worth of successes in several entertainment-related industries. I, of course, had no such achievements to my credit. Nonetheless, Verne not only gave me the time of day, but he saw potential in me, and he let me know this often.
As I look back on old e-mails (many of which contain Verne’s signature red and blue font that I will surely miss) and think back to our conversations, it hits me that despite how naïve I probably came off to Verne, he never gave up on me, nor did he ever give up on teaching me life lessons. Even when I ignored his advice, he still never gave up on me.
When thinking about how to best describe Verne, the word I keep coming back to is “wise.” It is this – the wisdom that he possessed and his willingness to impart that wisdom to others in the form of advice – that I want people to know about him most. When Verne gave you advice, it may or may not have been the advice you *wanted* to hear, but it was the advice that you *should* hear, and he was telling you it for a very good reason. I am grateful that Verne shared some of his wisdom and advice with me.
There are several lessons I will take away from Verne, but all of them can be considered as falling under one umbrella principle: always think about the big picture of things.
A lot of the time, things that we may think are important actually pale in comparison to those things that actually do matter, such as:
- excelling in your education
- excelling in showing respect--particularly to those who taught you what you know and to those who came before you (i.e. those who taught your teachers what they know)
- excelling in being honest and in staying true to your word
- excelling in behaving like a professional if you are going to claim to be a professional
- excelling in being original
- excelling in doing everything you do to the best of your ability
Verne, thank you for taking the time to share your wisdom with me, and thank you for seeing something special in me--and for letting me know that you see something special in me…I hope to make you proud.
February 3, 2011
Dear Verne,
I will always be grateful to God for giving me the opportunity to know you these past few years. It turned out that I came in near the bottom of a long list of friends but I'm so glad I made it in. You were truly larger than life my friend! Our last months of correspondance, culminating in the beautiful Christmas card you sent me just a few days before your death, will be precious to me for the rest of my life.
With love and respect,
Micah S. Harris
Porter Hansen
February 3, 2011
Dear Sweet Verne,
I can't think about you without smiling!!
Miss you, Love you,
Portie
David Mason
February 3, 2011
Never gone, always with us.
Cheri Minns
February 3, 2011
I miss you so much my dear friend~
Your huge laughter, heartfelt advice, and steadfast friendship you gave me throughout my life will be sorely missed.
There will never be another you...you are bigger than life.
You will always be in my heart.
edgar arce
February 3, 2011
Verne, You allowed me the live a childhood dream of being a wrestler. You provided myself and others the opportunity to entertain others, and be an artist. Your influence was huge, and although for some, too much to handle, I loved every minute of it. The best way to honor you is to do what you and seem to always do on the phone or in the company of one another...I will cut a promo about you: Whether you like or don't like, learn to love him! Verne Langdon is the greatest thing to happen to this world since sliced pie! You are often imitated but will never be duplicated, because you're the best thing going today! Diamonds are forever, and so is Verne Langdon! The greatest human, a person can ever know. Whoooooooo!! I love you, pal.
Mark Siegel
February 3, 2011
Verne,
As my makeup teacher at Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College you taught me to make my rubber clown nose -- my first prosthetic. And 3 years later, when you gave me my first monster-making job at Universal Studios Tour's "Land of 1000 Faces", you taught me virtually everything I know about sculpting, mold-making, masks and makeup effects, and launched me on a successful 35+ year career as a maker of movie monsters.
From the first Don Post masks in "Famous Monsters" I adored as a child, to my own photo in that magazine sculpting the Phantom of the Opera, to my current work as a creature modeler at ILM, you have been my inspiration and mentor. I will be eternally grateful.
John Goodwin
February 3, 2011
I will miss most of all that devastating smile, it immediately
made you want to laugh and enjoy life.
February 3, 2011
Verne Langdon inspired a generation of makeup artists.
One of the most imaginative,funny and multi talented people I have ever met.
I will think of you always.
Eliot Brodsky
Dawn Karrasch
January 30, 2011
To "Big Bear",
Your earthly presence in my life, Brent's life, and Miss B's life has always been difficult to explain to others, but we found that an explanation is no longer necessary, and maybe never was, because you were a significant presence in the lives of so many others whom you loved and loved you back. You were a giver, not a taker. Although we will deeply miss your physical presence, I know you will be with us each and every moment of every day. Thank you for being so brave as to move on first. I know you are singing all of our praises, as you always did, and helping to make a place for all of us.
Luff,
Baby Bear
Gary Rostad
January 19, 2011
To a good friend and adviser. I will miss our talks and the laughs. You were easy to work with because you were one of the few people that knew where he was going and enjoyed it. Thanks for the stories and thanks for caring. Gary
Brianna Karrasch
January 19, 2011
To my Uncle Verne,
I miss you with all of my heart. This is so painful to let you go. You were my uncle, my brother, my mother, my father...my family. I saw the sky when you passed. Thank you for letting me know you are ok. Thank you for always giving me everything I could have ever asked for and more. Thank you for the city lights (our jewel box), thank you for the ocean (our slice of heaven). Thank you for loving me, my mom and dad so much. Thank you for teaching me how to laugh, how to cry and how to dance. Thank you for giving me a childhood. Thank you for teaching me that family isn't a word or blood, it is love.
Love,
Miss B
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