"Before plastics,
only rich people
could afford
bad taste,"

-- Don Featherstone
(artist responsible for pink flamingo lawn ornaments)

I expect that I spent more time
working on this one article
than on any other single article
I've written in the past.
How depressing is that?

www.entheogenreview.com/halperngate.html

Rat depicted in photo

Here's to the 1951;
a respectable vintage to be sure.

With appreciation to the good doctor.

It is hard to accept such seemingly permanent losses.