When I was a kid I wanted to be a Scientist

just like Dr Phibes.

Phibes had a great lab, he was a musician and his ‘experiments’ seemed to astound and amaze everyone in the most dramatic fashion.

As a weedy little kid whose best friends were a crippled kid with braces on her legs a hearing aid in each ear and massively thick eye glasses and who I was  absolutely convinced was a Science Experiment project gone PERFECT  and another kid who uses to sit in my cherry tree with me and plan ” death defining tricks ” that involved our radio flyer wagons, yellow Tonka dump trucks big enough for us to ride in and Highway 99 at the bottom of street- you know, Phibes just appealed to me in a very big way.

Of course, at the end of the day my interest in Phibes and Science and those Vincent Price mad scientist kits fully prepared me for the job I had in a Funeral Home.

I should also mention that one of my favorite tv shows is

” Say Yes To The Dress.”

That’s a show about women looking for the perfect wedding dress.

Yes.

I am serious.

All I can add to this post is this thought-

it might  be a really good idea to monitor what your kids watch on tv.

You wouldn’t want them to turn out non traditional or weird or scary or strange.

Would you?