LOAD 'EM UP, NOAH......FOR THAT INCESTUOUS OCEAN VACATION, FOLLOWED BY A ROMP ALL OVER THE NEW WORLD...

 YOUR  VACATION, WITH  FREE  FOOD  AND  LODGINGS,  IS  OVER....   NOW,  'GET  OUT  THERE... AND  MULTIPLY'   ....AFTER  THAT,  YOU  MAY  BEGIN  YOUR  'DIVISION'    

          

CENTURIES LATER, THE HOMO SAPIENS THAT  EVOLVE FROM THE TWO RELATIVELY HUMAN SURVIVORS OF THIS TRIP WILL, EVENTUALLY...THROUGH ELABORATE CROSS-BREEDING....CREATE ART, DEPICTING THIS HOMERIAN SAGA...

                   BON VOYAGE, YE SOLE SURVIVORS....NEXT STOP....PLYMOUTH ROCK, WHERE A LAVA FLOW IS PREDICTED TO EMERGE, SOON!  ....CALL A LOCAL TRAVEL AGENT FOR DETAILS AND SPECIAL DISCOUNTS...JUST FOR YOU...[AND COMPLIMENTARY PASSAGE FOR EXPERIENCED 'FIRE WALKERS']!  [ADDITIONAL CHARGES MAY APPLY]   TRAVEL VIA WOODEN HORSE IS NOT SUGGESTED, DUE TO A THREAT OF  'FIRE HAZARD'

I've complained about American's preoccupation with guns and rights to "personal defense".......yet....i just recalled my having collecting art deco/Flash Gordonish ray-guns as a child......however, the old 'make believe' toys didn't seem as formidably life-threatening.....

 

              No, Ted!......That's not what I'm talking about, you dolt!

 I'm 'talking about' this!   A KID NEEDS A 'SHAKESPEARE WONDERCAST STUNRAY GUN'                                                TO WARD OFF EVEN THE MOST IMPOTENTIAL ATTACKERS, DOESN'T HE?   

The "MYSTERY OBJECT"

                    A gift to me, from my old friend, John Ross West, 4 decades ago......I am, still, not certain of it's original purpose.......It is, I think, a very ancient iron 'Viking' gate(?) lock, perhaps.....the 'key' to which is stuck within the lock.....

AS TRIBUTE TO THE YEARS THAT WE'VE ENDURED ALL OF DONALD TRUMP'S SHIT.......

I think I'll have this 3 kilo Jurassic Era coprolite specimen (petrified dinosaur dung) mounted on a base with a label: 'souvenir of Donald Trump's most significant contribution to American Culture'......the 'odor' may be gone....yet....we will never forget this piece of sh&t.......like some childhood nightmares....the Ogre, hiding beneath the bed or Count Alucard, lurking in the closet.. All the 'graininess' will represent the many jars of chunky peanut butter that Donny has consumed........

AS GOLLUM LOOKS BACK INTO IT'S CAVE BUT TRIPS FORWARD INTO THE VOLCANO, ERUPTING WITHIN THE CHASM BETWEEN CAIN AND ABEL...

 

cleaning the "Gollum' sculpture, today, I moved some old picture frames....to discover a big poster for the French Film, Fantastic Planet, and a pair of fake fish to complement Sméagol's 'catch'..as it falls into the Crack Of Doom, with the golden ring, a metaphorical gift to its monstrous cousin, Grendal......

Keeping the 'bidding card' in my lap for these fanciful goblets

I was....just a 'little'......tempted, to purchase this Set of 3 Antique Fritz Heckert Art Nouveau/Jugenstil Glass Goblets.....But reconsidered, because I'm trying to 'wind down' this Collecting........ and...I already have a set of Frederick Carder goblets, once owned by my one-time landlady, Alma B. Wells, that can service my dining appurtenances requirement, now......and have more sentimental value....A good friend attended Alma B. Wells' Estate Sale, in the early 1970's, bid on and won the auction of the glasses, then gifted them to me for X'mas...Alma's husband Bert, a chemist with the Chemical Control Dept. of COCA COLA, presented a 'paper' ....in the summer of 1942....about the establishment of 'water quality control' for the popular soft drink....He was, subsequently,  one of the few men that 'knew the secret formula'....His wife, Alma, delighted with all their new-found-wealth....served 'coke' from these lovely goblets at one of her 'society parties'....I prefer Dr. Pepper and Pepsi, alas....sorry about that, Alma! sparkling ginger ale is far more beautiful, when served in the goblets, of course....with a a coupe of splashs of Angostura Aromatic Bitters....and a cherry on a toothpick.....Although I did not support "COKE", Alma left a Proviso in her Last Will and Testament......that included me within her list of 'Inheritors", after having replaced late 30's year-old Bill Ellis, with whom she had been infatuated, earlier.  He left Atlanta, to avoid Alma's fixated romantic advances toward him,  and moved to Hilton Head, leaving me to dwell..with Bill Mello and John W. Lowe, in her Garden Hills rental home, to wrangle Alma, who had replaced Bill Ellis with Me!.   With some fond amusement and nostalgia, I still...sometimes, salute  Bert and Alma, when imbibing from the old goblets.....