# Well, I'll be: Warren Zevon is a grandpa!

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**Created:** [August 4, 2003, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-ill-be-warren-zevon-is-a-grandpa/192861 "2003-08-04T11:45:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2003, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-ill-be-warren-zevon-is-a-grandpa/192861/1 "2003-08-04T11:45:18Z")

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This isn’t news, but I only just found out about it a little while ago, and I haven’t seen a thread on it.

[http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/entertainment/6082375.htm](http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/entertainment/6082375.htm)

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> Posted on Fri, Jun. 13, 2003
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> Warren Zevon becomes a grandfather  
> Associated Press
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> LOS ANGELES - Singer-songwriter Warren Zevon, who announced last fall that he’s dying of lung cancer, became a grandfather twice over when his daughter, Ariel, gave birth to twin boys.
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> Augustus Warren Zevon-Powell and Maximus Patrick Zevon-Powell were born Thursday at a Los Angeles hospital, said Zevon’s publicist, Diana Baron. Their father is Ariel’s husband, Ben Powell.
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> “The best news was that Warren was able to be at the hospital for the babies’ birth,” Baron said.

Pretty heavy names! But I’m sure they’ll be Gus and Max. How fortunate that he was able to meet them. And that Ariel doesn’t have to deal with grief and with two infants all at the same time.

He’s really hanging on, isn’t he? Almost makes me hope…I mean, the doctors have already been proven wrong about how much time he had left…

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**Author:** ![MemoryGongs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/58f4c7/32.png) [@MemoryGongs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MemoryGongs)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2003, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-ill-be-warren-zevon-is-a-grandpa/192861/2 "2003-08-05T00:19:24Z")

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wow surprised he hasnt tripped off yet…i gave him a few months last year…oh well…good to hear anyway

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**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2003, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-ill-be-warren-zevon-is-a-grandpa/192861/3 "2003-08-05T00:38:02Z")

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How cool. And I’m glad to see that he’s hanging on and has managed to see the young Zevon-Powells.

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**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2003, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-ill-be-warren-zevon-is-a-grandpa/192861/4 "2003-08-05T01:09:46Z")

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> \*Originally posted by MemoryGongs \*  
> \*\*wow surprised he hasnt tripped off yet…i gave him a few months last year…oh well…good to hear anyway \*\*

Well, when Ariel was a wee 'un, it was looking like he wouldn’t live to see her start kindergarten. 'Course, that was due to his drinking. But he beat the bottle. Maybe he’ll beat cancer as well. One can only hope.

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**Author:** ![postcards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8e8cbc/32.png) [@postcards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/postcards)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2003, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-ill-be-warren-zevon-is-a-grandpa/192861/5 "2003-08-05T04:17:50Z")

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Don’t know if anyone’s heard or not, but the first track off his new album was on the radio a few days ago. It’s a cover tune.

“Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door”