A Long-Forgotten Memory Blip

View of the ''Sharks'' exhibition at the Yancuic Museum in M ...

Here’s a memory I’ve had buried for many years.

When I was a little boy, my parents took me to the American Museum of Natural History to see the dinosaurs.

We also saw the sharks in the Hall of Fishes; and I’m afraid I took those exhibits a bit too literally. I mean, what would happen if the glass broke and all the sharks got loose? I was afraid to take my bath that night. Had some rather too dramatic dreams that night, too. The mako shark followed me home.

I don’t remember how long it took me to get over that.

Special Note to Kristi Ann: Welcome back, Kristi Ann! I’m so pleased to see you here again.

‘A Cryptic Message From Beyond’

Vintage 1962 Noilly Prat Vermouth Advertisement Photograph by Robert Kinser  - Pixels

This ad used to freak me out. 

Whatever happened to Noilly Prat? I haven’t seen it in donkey’s years. Which is just as well–it used to scare me.

A Cryptic Message from Beyond

Happily, I can now look upon it with unspoiled equanimity. Maybe Heidi was right: maybe the guy in the cloak is a French cop. (Doesn’t he look like Frankenstein? Square head, etc.)

All the same, better cross the street if you see him coming.

‘How to Keep a Toddler from Going Up the Stairs’ (2018)

The angry dog breed sheltie | Angry dog, Dogs, Sheltie

My grandma had an ingenious turn of mine. How do you keep a toddler from climbing up your steep flight of stairs… without freaking him out?

How to Keep a Toddler from Going Up the Stairs

I run this post now and then as a public service. By the time I was 28 I was convinced that there was no more Mick-Mock.

But this was all long before we entered upon the Golden Age of Fear Porn, brought to you by our Free & Independent Democrat Nooze Media.

Remember–only an authoritarian government can protect you!