steely dan character compendium

Josie
Rikki
Cousin Dupree

can see this is gonna be the funnest game of the month

the boys upstairs
the population of Barrytown

Buzz

people on the street who have all seen better times
all the white men on the street (a great many)
one charmer, owed by Brooklyn

Thelonious

Deacon Blues

Good King Richard, Good King John
the working girls in the county jail

Nineteen

Babs, Clean Willie, the Charlie with the lotion and the kinky hair

Buzz

(sorry, xpost, can't read, etc)

gaucho, often seen wearing elevator shoes and spangled leather poncho

Dr. Wu; Katy

Kid Charlemagne

Peg

man or woman who refuses to "do it" without his or her fez on

Doctor Warren Kruger

Queen Of Spain

Lonnie
Lady Bayside

The monkey in your soul

― My Louise
― Any man left on the Rio Grande
― Jack
― The man who stole Jack's water that Jack went gunnin' for
― Charlie Freak
― 'Retha Franklin

Cathy Berberian

dino and daddy g

― Daddy (the one that don't live in that New York City no more)
― Lucy (who still loves her coke and rum)

Klaus
"The Rooster"

The Cuban Generals

Ruthie

Squonk

The Eagles

a fool who would say that

show business kids
Steely Dan

The mayor and all his friends.

Mr. LaPage

Rose

Snake Mary

man on platform, incredulous about shoes

Gina, with whom lunch is forever

Miss Fugazy
Dave from Acquisitions
the bastards (who beat us)

the kangaroos (who will, evidently, be well-fed)

women in cages
the razor boy

Gaslighting Abbie

bookkeeper's son

pepe, who has a scar from ear to ear
hoops mccann, charismatic and brut-soaked b-baller

The dandy of Gamma Chi

They say that Babs and Clean Willie were so in love that the preacher's face turned red, but the Charlie with the lotion and the kinky hair impregnated Babs.

teddy
sheena

so fun to try and remember these and search the catalog for em.

franny (from nyu)
bobby dakine (winner of the bunsen prize)
Alan (owner of a chain of steamer heavens)
Barry (the software king)

bus also ;_; at me missing kyenkyen's post even though I thought I'd ctrl+f'd those. sorry kyenkyen.

I always guessed the bunsen prize is probably a real thing, but I never looked it up until now

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunsen%E2%80%93Kirchhoff_Award

the el supremo

someone has probably already said this on one of these threads (haven't read all of them in full), but I like reading this list as the dramatis personæ of an imaginary play

bookkeeper's son
said bookkeeper, the "old man", crossed back in Oregon

janie runaway
her friend, named melanie

The Cuban Generals

― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, March 2, 2014 7:58 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

From Dr. Wu? I heard it on the treadmill today, i think he says "Cuban gentleman"

luckless pedestrian

Any Major Dude

One more chimp who isn't here.

Assasins, cons and rapers
Any man left on the Rio Grande is the King of the world...

Bhodisattva

Mr. Parker

Wasn't quite sure which Dan thread to post this but I've driven by this dentist many times and have been thinking about taking a picture for a while to share it on here.

It seems like it needed to be documented...

http://37.media.tumblr.com/292c2e9e1b174d1d8c9356793a26636b/tumblr_n4e8svs0nK1rkya77o1_500.png

The real Dr. Wu was a really interesting guy...
http://www.jcimjournal.com/en/FullText2.aspx?articleID=jcim20120801

Hoops McCann

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Nzb2ap-v4sE/U1Qn2q9tr7I/AAAAAAAAD5w/yq9jqosg5_s/s1600/Becker+Fagen+grassy+knoll.jpg

Don and Walt at the Grassy Knoll

"I shouted out, 'Who killed the Kennedys?', when after all, it was you and me and Donald and Walter..."

lol

William Gibson frequently draws on this list in his novels.

gaucho, often seen wearing elevator shoes and spangled leather poncho

― col, Sunday, March 2, 2014 4:02 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

tbf, I thought that he had borrowed the poncho and shoes from the addressee of the song, aka "amigo." OTOH, perhaps the chorus involves a perspectival shift from the narrator to a third party addressing the narrator about the addressee of the verses.

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