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Major Jewish Groups 'Appalled' That Abbas Continues Payments to Terrorists
The umbrella group that represents leading Jewish organizations in the US issued on Thursday a stinging rebuke to Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas for his defiant confirmation that the policy of so-called "martyr payments" — monthly donations to approximately 35,000 families of imprisoned Palestinian terrorists that are higher than the average wage in the PA — will not be halted.
Breitbart Jerusalem
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Jack Tonhaben
9 Apr 2017, 10:58 AM PDT
Abbas's Fatah Party Calls For Terrorism On 'Prisoner's Day'
The Palestinian Fatah movement's student body issued a call for violence on April 17, when the Palestinian Authority marks its annual "Prisoner's Day."
3 Apr 2017, 12:51 PM PDT
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5 Jan 2017, 8:37 AM PDT
Latest Palestinian Libel: Israeli Dentists Murdered Incarcerated Terrorist By Injecting Him with Muscular Dystrophy
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Deborah Danan
28 Aug 2016, 4:57 AM PDT
'Peace Partner' Fatah Boasts: We Killed 11,000 Israelis
JERUSALEM — In an effort to appeal to Palestinians ahead of hotly contested elections, the party of President Mahmoud Abbas listed one of its main achievements as having "killed 11,000 Israelis."
5 Aug 2016, 4:41 AM PDT
Palestinian Authority Names Basketball Game After Terrorist
JERUSALEM – A Palestinian Authority school hosted a basketball game this month named after the terrorist Dalal Mughrabi, who perpetrated the worst terror attack in Israel's history, killing 37, including 12 children. The Palestinian daily Al Quds, in an article translated
31 Mar 2016, 6:34 AM PDT
Fatah: Israel Forces Palestinians to Commit Murder
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Ramallah Governor: Murderer of Israeli Teen Is a Heroic Prisoner
JERUSALEM – The Governor of Ramallah met with the family of the Palestinian murderer of an Israeli teenager, telling them that she is "counting the days until …Abd Al-Fattah [is] a free man," Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) reported.
WATCH: Fatah Praises Terror Attack That Killed American Veteran
TEL AVIV – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party praised the murder of an American tourist in Jaffa on Tuesday, calling the terrorist a "heroic martyr," Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) reported. On its official Facebook page, Fatah posted a sketch
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Palestinian Girl On Official PA TV: War Will Smash The Oppressor And Destroy The Zionist's Soul
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5 Mar 2016, 4:09 PM PDT
WATCH: Palestinians Blame Their Own Media for Inciting Children to Terrorism
JERUSALEM – Palestinians purportedly randomly interviewed on the street overwhelmingly condemn the participation of children in terror attacks against Israelis, a new report by Fatah-run TV indicates. Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) reported that Awdah TV conducted on-street interviews with Palestinian passersby, asking them
Fatah Publishes Image of Terrorist Marking Map of 'Palestine' with Blood
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21 Feb 2016, 9:07 AM PDT
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15 Feb 2016, 11:03 AM PDT
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Palestinian University Honors Terrorist Murderer Of Three With Human Reading Chain
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PA Depicts Israel as Snake Targeting Muslim and Christian Holy Sites
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7 Feb 2016, 5:00 AM PDT
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31 Jan 2016, 5:19 AM PDT
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WATCH: PA, Fatah, and Head of UN Delegation – Israel Harvests Organs of Dead Terrorists
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The value of ultrasonography in the diagnosis of a rare congenital dermoid cyst of the anterior fontanelle in an infant
Peter T Adenigba1, Taiwo A Lawal2, Peter O Elemile3, Francis Onakpoma4, Ademola J Adekanmi5
1 Department of Radiology, Ibadan, Nigeria
2 Department of Surgery, University College Hospital, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria; Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
3 Department of Surgery, University College Hospital, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
4 Department of Pathology, University College Hospital, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
5 Department of Radiology, Ibadan, Nigeria; Department of Radiology, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
Date of Submission 14-Aug-2021
Date of Acceptance 25-Oct-2021
Date of Web Publication 05-Feb-2022
Dr. Ademola J Adekanmi
Department of Radiology, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan.
DOI: 10.4103/jwas.JWAS_34_21
A dermoid cyst is a benign lesion that may occur in different parts of the body. A dermoid cyst of the subgaleal space over the anterior fontanelle is rather uncommon. We present a case of congenital dermoid cyst of the anterior fontanelle in a 3-month-old male infant, underscoring the value of ultrasonography in the diagnosis and highlighting the classical clinical, sonographic, surgical, and pathological findings.
Keywords: Anterior fontanelle, dermoid cyst, sonography
Adenigba PT, Lawal TA, Elemile PO, Onakpoma F, Adekanmi AJ. The value of ultrasonography in the diagnosis of a rare congenital dermoid cyst of the anterior fontanelle in an infant. J West Afr Coll Surg 2019;9:21-5
Adenigba PT, Lawal TA, Elemile PO, Onakpoma F, Adekanmi AJ. The value of ultrasonography in the diagnosis of a rare congenital dermoid cyst of the anterior fontanelle in an infant. J West Afr Coll Surg [serial online] 2019 [cited 2023 Jan 29];9:21-5. Available from: https://jwacs-jcoac.com/text.asp?2019/9/4/21/337345
A dermoid cyst of the anterior fontanelle is a progressively enlarging benign soft-tissue swelling covered by intact overlying skin.[1] A dermoid cyst of the subgaleal space over the anterior fontanelle was first described among Africans in 1971 by Adeloye and Odeku and was referred to as "Adeloye-Odeku disease." Similar cases, however, have been reported among other races.[2],[3],[4],[5]
The lesion accounts for 0.1%–0.5% of all cranial tumours.[1] Although computed tomography (CT) scan and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are the modalities of choice for evaluation and pre-surgical planning,[1] ultrasonography is a reliable tool in the evaluation and pre-surgical planning, particularly in a low-income setting such as Nigeria where patients find it difficult paying out of pocket for CT and MRI.
We report a case of a subgaleal dermoid cyst of the anterior fontanelle in a 3-month-old male infant to highlight the usefulness of ultrasonography in surgical management.
A 3-month-old male infant was referred to the paediatric surgical outpatient clinic from the hospital's general outpatient department in April 2019 because of scalp swelling over the anterior fontanelle noticed from birth. The swelling, which was painless, had progressively increased in size. He was the product of an uncomplicated pregnancy and spontaneous vaginal delivery at a government primary health care centre. There was no known birth injury. The neonatal period was uneventful, and he achieved normal developmental milestones for his age.
There had not been any history of seizure or alteration in level of consciousness.
General examination revealed a healthy-looking, 6.4-kg, male infant who was not pale and was anicteric and afebrile. He had an approximately 4 × 4 cm dome-shaped swelling in the anterior fontanelle region [Figure 1]. The swelling was soft, non-tender, fluctuant, not pulsatile, and not attached to the overlying skin or underlying structures, and it trans-illuminated brilliantly.
Figure 1: Photograph of the male patient demonstrating mass over the anterior fontanelle
Systemic examination, including that of the central nervous system, was essentially normal. Laboratory investigation revealed a normal haematocrit of 41%.
Lateral-view plain skull radiograph showed a well-defined, dome-shaped, homogeneous, soft-tissue dense opacity overlying the anterior fontanelle with intact skin and a normal underlying skull bone [Figure 2].
Figure 2: Lateral skull radiograph shows hemispherical soft-tissue opacity over the anterior fontanelle
Transfontanelle ultrasound scan of the scalp swelling and the brain was performed in sagittal and coronal planes with LOGIQ S8 XDCLEAR GE Ultrasound scanner (SN: 503160SU2, Gyeonggi-do, Korea) using both the high-frequency (12.0 MHz) linear array transducer and a small curvilinear sector probe. B-mode scan of the mass revealed a well-defined, thin-walled, oval-shaped, complex mass with an anechoic cystic component and echogenic strands within, which did not show internal vascularity on colour Doppler interrogation. It measured 3.41 × 1.49 × 3.16 cm in the anteroposterior, craniocaudal, and transverse dimensions, respectively, and overlying the meninges but not communicating with the brain [Figure 3]. An ultrasound diagnosis of the anterior fontanelle dermoid cyst was made.
Figure 3: (a) Coronal B-mode ultrasound (US) in the anterior fontanelle shows an oval-shaped, anechoic cystic mass overlying the dural meninges but did not communicate with the brain. (a, b) The mass showed multiple irregular echogenic structures, which was proved to be sebum on the pathological specimen, and hyperechoic lines and dot in different orientations (white arrows in a and b; dot-dash sign) represent hair. (c) Colour Doppler interrogation showed absent flow within the mass. (d) Midline sagittal transfontanelle US demonstrated a sonographically normal brain
Surgical Management and Pathological Evaluation
Total excision of the cystic mass was performed under general anaesthesia. A well-defined cystic mass was seen in the subgaleal location following an elliptical incision over the swelling [Figure 4].
Figure 4: The picture shows intraoperative removal of the cyst (C). The dural meninges (D) is demonstrated clearly
The resected lesion was a 3.5 × 3.0 × 3.0 cm nodular cystic mass, which weighed 17 g with a shiny external surface and congested vascular channels. It had a smooth inner wall and contained sebum and hair strands.
Microscopic sections of the cyst showed a keratinous cyst lined by stratified squamous epithelium, which contained keratin flakes [Figure 5]a. The cyst wall was fibrocollagenous and contained skin adnexal appendages such as hair follicles, sweat glands, and sebaceous glands [Figure 5]b. There was moderate focal infiltration of the stroma by chronic inflammatory cells, mainly lymphocytes.
Figure 5: (a) Histological section of the cyst shows a benign cyst filled with keratin flakes (arrows) and lined by stratified squamous epithelium (arrowheads) with associated underlying mature skin adnexal structures, H&E ×40. (b) Histological section of the cyst shows associated adnexal skin structures, hair follicle (arrow), and sebaceous glands (arrowheads), H&E ×100
The post-operative period was uneventful, and he was discharged home on the same day. He had his wound reviewed on day 3 post-op and was followed up in the outpatient clinic over 3 months with no observation of the swelling's recurrence.
Dermoid cysts occur in various parts of the body and may be subcutaneous, subgaleal, intracranial, ovarian, testicular, or intraspinal in locations.[6],[7],[8],[9] This is a case of a dermoid cyst in the subgaleal space over the anterior fontanelle.
There are three pathological types of dermoid cysts viz: the congenital dermoid cyst—teratoma type, occurring in the ovaries and testes; acquired dermoid cyst—from traumatic implantation of cells into deeper tissues (implantation dermoid cyst could follow surgery or lumbar puncture procedure); and the congenital inclusion dermoid cyst (CIDC)—from the inclusion of ectodermal cells as the neural groove closes between the third and fifth weeks of embryogenesis.[7],[9-12]
Dermoid cysts of the anterior fontanelle are categorised under congenital inclusion cysts, although such superficially located inclusions, unlike their deeply situated counterparts, develop later in embryogenesis.[7]
The subgaleal swelling in the index case was noticed at birth in keeping with a CIDC. Reports in the literature describe these lesions as solitary, soft, fluctuant, non-tender cystic swelling over the anterior fontanelle usually present at birth or soon after,[6],[7] which were the characteristics found in this reported case. Additionally, in this case, there was brilliant trans-illumination indicating a fluid-containing cystic mass. The masses are of variable sizes, but the index case was less than 4 × 4 cm in orthogonal planes. The size is said to be dependent in most cases based on the patient's age at the time of diagnosis.[13]
Radiological imaging plays an important role in the diagnosis, differentiation from other conditions, and pre- and post-surgical excision management of cases. A plain skull radiograph was obtained in the index case, and it showed a soft-tissue mass over an open anterior fontanelle. Another finding that could be seen in older patients is smooth indentation over the outer skull table due to the pressure effect.[6]
Advancement in technology has made cross-sectional imaging modalities such as CT, MRI, and ultrasonography critical imaging tools to evaluate anterior fontanelle dermoid cyst.[1],[10]
CT and MRI are considered the best imaging modalities for confirming the extracranial site of the lesion.[13] Contrast-enhanced cranial CT shows the cyst as a well-demarcated, non-enhancing hypodense lesion located on the dural meninges with no communication with the superior sagittal sinus. Bone window cranial CT images may reveal smooth scalloping of the skull bone's outer table with the occasional finding of a focal breach in the inner table beneath the lesion.[1],[3],[5],[10] After spontaneous closure of the anterior fontanelle, a 3D volume-rendered CT image of the cranium shows remodelling and depression of the skull bone at the bregma.[1],[3],[10] Cranial MRI also shows T1W hypointense and T2W hyperintense lesion without restricted diffusion on diffusion weighted imaging.[3],[10] The dura is continuous beneath the lesion,[3],[5] whereas MR venogram also demonstrates the cyst's proximity to the superior sagittal sinus.
However, CT exposes infants and children to the risk of ionising radiation, whereas MRI is not readily available in low resource countries, and even where available, high cost is a deterrent as most people pay out of pocket. CT and MRI were not done in this case due to the reasons mentioned above.
Ultrasonography has emerged as a very reliable, reproducible, accurate, readily available, cheap, and ionising radiation-free imaging modality for the evaluation of extracranial soft-tissue masses as well as intracranial evaluation in neonates and infants.[14],[15] The primary imaging modality, in this case, was ultrasound. This included the B-mode and Doppler imaging of the superficial mass and transfontanelle imaging to assess intracranial extension. On B-mode ultrasound, the lesion was a less than 4 × 4 cm, superficial, well-defined anechoic cystic mass located between the scalp and the echogenic dura over the anterior fontanelle region in agreement with the description of the previous authors.[2] The index case also showed hyperechoic lines and dots in different orientations within the imaging plane, giving the "dot and dash" sign or "dermoid mesh" sign, representing hair within the cyst. This sign has been mentioned in other dermoid cysts.[16] The "dots" depict echoes from hairs perpendicular to the scan plane, and the "dashes" echoes from hairs parallel to the scan plane.[16] Colour Doppler ultrasound of the mass showed neither colour nor sign of vascularity, whereas the transfontanelle ultrasound did not demonstrate the intracranial extension of this mass.
The following differential diagnoses: epidermoid cyst, encephalocele, meningocele, cephalohaematoma, sebaceous cyst, pilonidal cyst, and sinus pericrania should be excluded in patients with similar clinical features as in the index patient.[1],[6],[10] An epidermoid cyst may closely resemble a dermoid cyst on imaging. However, on histological examination, both cysts have walls of connective tissue stroma lined with stratified keratinised squamous epithelium, but only dermoid cysts have dermal appendages.[6],[7]
The sonographic imaging of swellings over the anterior fontanelle will help the surgeon know the nature of the mass and its relationship to intracranial structures, thereby facilitating treatment. In our index case, complete surgical excision of the cyst was done successfully without CT or MRI.
Our case report underscores the importance of ultrasonography in diagnosing a congenital dermoid cyst over the anterior fontanelle as the imaging findings correlated well with the intraoperative and histological findings. Additionally, in particular, radiation burdening CT scans should be restricted in infants and children.
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Piotr Stefan Wandycz (September 20, 1923 – July 29, 2017) was a Polish-American historian. He was also the President of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America, and professor emeritus at Yale University, specializing in Eastern and Central European history.

Life
He was born in Kraków in 1923 during the Second Polish Republic to Damian and Stefania (Dunikowska) Wandycz and raised in Lwow. Wandycz left the country during World War II on September 17, 1939, when the Soviet army invaded eastern Poland. He and his family crossed into Romania, and in 1940 went to France. Graduating from the Polish Lycee in Villard de Lans, he studied at the University of Grenoble (1941–42). In late 1942 he reached the United Kingdom where he served in the Polish army until 1945 as a second lieutenant. After the war he studied at the University of Cambridge where he received B.A. and M.A. and the London School of Economics (Ph.D. 1951). Later he moved to the United States, where he taught at Indiana University before coming to Yale University in 1966 as an associate professor. He was promoted to a full professorship in 1968 and was named Bradford Durfee Professor in 1989. At Yale, he served as director of graduate studies in Russian and East European studies and in history, the chair of the Council on Russian and East European Studies, and the director of the Language and Area Center. He authored 18 books and over 400 articles and book reviews.

Piotr S. Wandycz was a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America, the Polish Academy of Learning, and an honorary member of the Polish Historical Association. His many other honors included the Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta and honorary degrees from the University of Wrocław, the Sorbonne, the Jagiellonian University, and the Catholic University of Lublin. He died on July 29, 2017.

Works
Piotr Wandycz was a noted authority on Eastern and Central European history. His many books include France and Her Eastern Allies, 1919-1925, which won the 1962 American Historical Association's George Louis Beer Prize; The Twilight of French Eastern Alliances, 1926-1936, which received the Wayne S. Vucinich Prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies; and The Price of Freedom: A History of East Central Europe from the Middle Ages to the Present, which was a 1992 History Book Club selection.

See also
List of Poles

References

Further reading
 M.B.B. Biskupski (Co-authored with Neal Pease and Anna Cienciala), "Piotr S. Wandycz - pionier badań w Ameryce nad dziejami Polski i Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej" ("Piotr S. Wandycz: A Pioneer in Research in America Concerning Poland and East Central Europe"), in Studia z Dziejow Rosji i Europy srodkowo-wschodniej, 30 (1995), pp. 5–13.

External links
 Piotr S. Wandycz homepage at Yale
 President of PIASA, Prof. Piotr S. Wandycz, Received High Honors in Poland

1923 births
2017 deaths
20th-century Polish historians
Polish male non-fiction writers
Polish emigrants to the United States
Alumni of the London School of Economics
Commanders of the Order of Polonia Restituta
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Grenoble Alpes University alumni
Historians of Polish Americans
Polish expatriates in France
Polish expatriates in the United Kingdom
People associated with the magazine "Kultura"
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Making Kids Drunk With the Power of Reading: B.J. Novak's The Book with No Pictures
Take that, Caldecott committee!
One of the many reasons why I love picture books is because they're one of the few forms of literature that actually anticipate that you won't be reading them alone. Sure, there are picture books that are made for kids to read on their own, but there are also those wonderful picture books that are designed specifically for parents to read aloud to their children. They're almost more like a play-script than a traditional book. It's this lovely little monologue, a screenplay with storyboards included, a script for your onstage debut, performing your lines for a bedtime audience of one. (Or two or however many kids you have.) And, if you're looking for a great script for your next storytime performance, I would definitely recommend B.J. Novak's The Book with No Pictures. Even if the book did made me scream "Blork!" and admit to my daughter that I'm really a "robot monkey."
You probably know Novak from NBC's The Office, so I know what you're thinking – celebrity author. It's a total vanity project, right? NOPE. This is a great, great book, which isn't that surprising because Novak released a collection of short stories earlier this year, One More Thing, which, I have to say, was excellent. So, we've established that the guy's a good writer, but what's remarkable about The Book with No Pictures is how well Novak understands the nuances of a great read-aloud book.
I'm a what-now?
Any really, really amazing kids' read-aloud book, first and foremost, has to turn the kids into engaged listeners. They can't be passive. They have to be part of the performance. How do you do that? You give them POWER, or, at the very least, the illusion of power. Look at Mo Willems' Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus. The book opens with the bus driver handing over his authority to the listening children, telling them "whatever you do, don't let the pigeon drive the bus." The parent then takes over the role of the curious pigeon and, while they get to ham it up as the pigeon, the kids participate by screaming "NO!"
Or look at perhaps the best read-aloud book EVER, Jon Stone's The Monster at the End of This Book. It's a genius bit of reverse psychology. Grover appears and essentially tells the listening kids, "If you turn the page, terrible, TERRIBLE things will happen!" (Which might be the best incentive for reading I've ever heard.) [read the rest of the post…]
Used Book Find of the Week: Alfred Hitchcock and The Three Investigators (1964)
In the old days, kidlit mysteries were solved by plucky tweens charging 25 cents plus expenses…
I love shopping for kids' books at used bookstores for two reasons – #1). you never know what you're going to find and #2). it's a fantastic reminder that the world of children's literature has always, ALWAYS been gloriously and deliriously WEIRD.
Because sometimes, when it comes to children's books, we romanticize the past. We look at the current world of children's publishing – with kids' books written by celebrities, kids' books based on toy lines, and kids' books all about what it would be like if your pets could text you jokes (not making that up) – and there's a tendency to think, "Sigh, it wasn't like this in the good old days. Back then, kids read LITERATURE." Well, I'm here to tell you that kids have been reading weird stuff for AGES, since long before dogs even knew what text-messaging was, and part of the fun of used bookstore shopping is seeing what kinds of literary oddities earlier generations inflicted on their youth.
In my most recent trip to the children's section at our local used bookstore, I found several books from the 1960s that had odd celebrity tie-ins. There was a dog-eared copy of A Red Skelton in Your Closet: Ghost Stories Gay and Grim Selected by the Master of Comedy, because, if I'm looking for something truly scary to read in 1965, I'm going to hit up a master of comedy… apparently. (Aside from selecting the stories, Skelton also wrote an introduction titled "Of Course I Believe in Ghosts.") Then there was the pristine copy of Shirley Temple's Storytime Favorites, with the picture on the cover that made Temple look more like Betty Crocker than the child star she'd been in the 1930s. But, hands-down, the best, the most wonderfully weird '60s celebrity kids' book I encountered – and that I just HAD to buy – was all about Alfred Hitchcock, possibly the most acclaimed movie director of all time, teaming up with three kid detectives to solve mysteries.
Hitchcock even does cameos on the covers of children's mysteries…
That's right. Alfred Hitchcock, director of Psycho and Vertigo, hanging out with three Encyclopedia Brown knock-offs. And did I mention that the kid detectives drive around in a chauffeured, gold-plated Rolls Royce? How could I NOT buy the book immediately? There's actually a whole series of books in the "Alfred Hitchcock and The Three Investigators" imprint. I picked up the first and seventh volumes of the series, The Secret of Terror Castle and The Mystery of the Fiery Eye, and they're the best things I've bought in a long time.
Here's a quick excerpt from Hitchcock's "Introduction" to The Secret of Terror Castle:
I seem to be constantly introducing something. For years I've been introducing my television programs. I've introduced motion pictures. And I've introduced books of mystery, ghost and suspense stories for my fans to shiver with. [read the rest of the post…]
Should There Be a "Good Parts Only" Version of The Princess Bride for Young Readers?
You love the movie, right? The book is even better. Well, most of it is…
I'm currently having a minor internal dilemma, dear readers, that I wanted to run past you. The dilemma revolves around my desire to share William Goldman's tremendous fairy tale, The Princess Bride, with my six-year-old daughter, and how exactly I should do that. Like a lot of people from my generation, I discovered The Princess Bride thanks to Rob Reiner's 1987 film adaptation, an epic adaptation that has endured as one of the most rewatchable, quotable, and downright iconic movies of the past thirty years. While I'm still debating when my daughter will be old enough to see the movie, my primary concern is how and when I'm going to read Goldman's original book to her.
And the operative word in that sentence is "how." Because, at the moment, I don't think I want to read her the entire book. I think I only want to read her the "good parts" of The Princess Bride, a statement that anyone who's read the original book will find funny, ironic, or, at the very least, very, very "meta."
Now, as a professed "book person", the idea of selectively reading passages of a book to my daughter feels like a big cheat and a huge violation of the unspoken bond between author and reader – I hate playing backseat editor – but The Princess Bride is a special case. Let me give you some back story…
Even though I adored The Princess Bride movie the first time I saw it in 1987, it never really landed with me that I should seek out the original book that it was based on until I was in college. After a few weeks of hunting, I came across a tattered paperback copy of Goldman's The Princess Bride in a used bookstore and quickly devoured it. (It was originally published in 1973 with the eyebrow-raising tagline "A Hot Fairy Tale.")
This might be my favorite back cover copy of all time.
And the book didn't disappoint. It's wonderful. When reading the book, you really get an appreciation for how faithful and spot-on Rob Reiner's adaptation was. Princess Bride the book is INCREDIBLY similar to Princess Bride the movie, right down to the priest mispronouncing "Mawidge" to the now-legendary "Hello, My Name is Inigo Montoya" showdown (which reaches its climax on page 276 of my paperback). While there are little variations in the details here and there, I can only recall two MAJOR differences that stood out when I first read the book. [read the rest of the post…]
What We Took Out From the Library Last Week: Book #1 – Chloe and the Lion by Mac Barnett, pictures by Adam Rex
A triumphant recounting of a storybook disaster.
Welcome to the first installment of What We Took Out From the Library Last Week, a quick look at the FIVE books my five-year-old daughter checked out from the library during our last visit. I'm going to list these in the actual order that we picked them out, so we'll start with a title my daughter grabbed off the "New Releases" shelf in the kids' section – Chloe and the Lion by Mac Barnett and Adam Rex.
I'm a big fan of artist Adam Rex's Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich (an absolutely gorgeous picture book and dead funny too), so his name was what caught my eye with this title. I pointed it out to my daughter and, after quickly scanning some pages, she declared, "We're getting this one." Chloe and the Lion is ostensibly all about a girl named Chloe who encounters a lion in the woods, but it's really a flat-out comedy, all about storytelling, how books work, and the relationship between storytellers and their creations.
In the opening pages, we see claymation versions of Mac Barnett and Adam Rex introduce themselves – Rex is a multimedia master – and we even get to see the maquette version of Rex illustrate the lead character Chloe. Things quickly fall apart as Barnett and Rex get into a creative squabble, Barnett tries to replace Rex, his replacement doesn't work out, then the writer tries to draw Chloe himself (he's a terrible artist) until… as he finally admits, "This book is a disaster."
My daughter loved the chaos of the storytelling and the variety of art styles throughout the book – when Rex quits the story, he's replaced by a very different kind of artist and, when that artist leaves, he's replaced by the writer doing a very bad job of being an artist. So the story is all about the wonderful art of second guessing yourself to death. Once Rex tells Barnett that perhaps Chloe's story would be more exciting with a dragon (rather than a lion), everything falls apart. Barnett's attempts to shut down any criticism of his original idea leads to several different artistic versions of the lion (the best one is Barnett's childish sketch that is painfully ashamed of how it looks), a storyline that doesn't know where to go (Chloe meets a hilarious cross-section of characters that all seem like they belong in other stories), and a begrudging revelation that, OK, maybe the author DOES need to listen to others from time to time.
There's something about the whole meta-narrative thing – where characters in a book know that they are, in fact, characters in a book – that just cracks my daughter up. She kept comparing Chloe and the Lion to Melanie Watt's Chester series – in which a picture-book cat gets into a fight with his illustrator – which is one of her favorite books of all time. The Chester comparison ALONE might've sealed the deal on Chloe and the Lion for her and this was the ONE book this week that she actually asked me to read to her IN the library, which, like the Chester comment, is another high compliment. [read the rest of the post…]
The Monster at the End of This Book by Jon Stone, illustrated by Mike Smollin
One of the most essential kids' books of all time... seriously
I've mentioned several times (probably too many times) on this blog that the very first book I bought for my daughter was The Phantom Tollbooth. But, dear readers, do you know what the SECOND book I ever bought for her was? It was The Monster at the End of This Book by Jon Stone and Mike Smollin.
So, with the entirety of children's literature in front of me, why did I choose to purchase a Sesame Street book, a book based on a TV show, as the second foundational text of my unborn daughter's home library?
It's a simple answer – The Monster at the End of This Book is an AMAZING book. It's a groundbreaking book. In my humble opinion, it is one of THE greatest read-aloud books ever written, it is one of the best "books about books" in the history of literature, and, personally, I have a hard time of thinking of more than a few other titles that do such an effective job of showing kids how breathtakingly FUN reading a book can actually be. And, yes, it's a book about Grover, a small blue puppet from TV. It's freakin' great.
The Monster at the End of This Book was the first "meta" book I ever remember encountering as a child. I know hipsters throw around the word "meta" almost as frequently as they line up for overpriced brunches, but, for the rest of you, a good working definition of "meta" is: "a term, especially in art, used to characterize something that is characteristically self-referential." In other words, The Monster at the End of This Book is a book that is wonderfully aware that it is, in fact, a book. And that's a really, really fun and potentially mind-blowing concept to introduce to a young reader.
This book might have my favorite typography of all time
The lead character, Grover – lovable, furry old Grover – is one of Sesame Street's friendly monsters and, as the star of this "meta" picture book, he can talk to the readers, he knows that we'll be turning pages… unlike most characters in children's literature, he is fully aware that he is a character in a book and he understands the mechanics of reading books. He knows that, in the act of reading a book, we as readers turn pages until we get to the end of the book. And that's a problem for Grover because, in his post-modern "meta" world, he was able to read the title of his own book and he now knows that "there's a monster at the end of this book." And poor old Grover is afraid of that monster and, to prevent us from ever encountering the rumored beast, he wants us to stop reading RIGHT NOW.
That sounds like such a simple idea, but it's as complexly absurd as anything Lewis Carroll ever proposed in any of his Alice books. Who ever heard of a character asking you to stop reading their book? And he's not just asking you – he's BEGGING you. Grover realizes that, every time you finish reading a page and turn to the next one, you are bringing him that much closer to this so-called monster. So there is this tangible countdown, this almost inherent drama at the core of The Monster at the End of This Book, in which, more than in reading almost any other kids' book, you are in-your-face AWARE that you're moving towards SOMETHING. And, by asking us to stop reading, Grover has ensured that any curious kid worth their salt absolutely MUST reach the end of this book. [read the rest of the post…]
In Praise of Mélanie Watt – Part One: Chester
We have a lot of affection for Mélanie Watt in our house for several reasons. To start with, she's the first children's author-illustrator that my daughter really became a fan of all on her own. Now, on a whole, I think my daughter has not-bad taste when it comes to kids books – with a few notable exceptions – but I also realize that my wife and I do a fair bit of work to make sure that she has relatively higher-class material to choose from. I've essentially spent the first five years of her life whispering in her ear, like her own personal Screwtape, directing her towards the books I want her to read and making her feel like she has a choice in the matter.
This is Mélanie Watt. But I didn't add the red marker edits. She did it to herself.
"Oh, OK, I guess you've got to pick between this Tomie dePaola or this Roald Dahl book… you know, these ones that you picked out. YOU did. All by yourself. No. No, I don't know what happened to that princess book. No, forget about that, I think someone else took it. No. And it was ripped, so we're not going to buy it. So, between these two, the two that YOU picked out, which one are we going to get? Great choices, by the way."
Don't get me wrong. I give in to her reading preferences A LOT and I try to listen, but I'm not going to stop fighting the good fight when I've spent this many years gently manipulating her for the greater good. (I wish that sounded less sinister, but, eh, what are you going to do? Welcome to parenthood.)
But I have to give my daughter credit. She found Mélanie Watt all on her own. On a trip to our local library around two years ago, she emerged from the stacks grasping onto a copy of a picture book called Chester by Mélanie Watt. She plopped it down in front of me and said, "I want this one. It's funny." And, with an impassioned plea like that, we just had to take it home.
And my daughter was right. It WAS funny. And she absolutely loved it. Chester has a very funny premise, which Mélanie Watt executes exceedingly well. The gist is that an author and illustrator named, coincidentally enough, Mélanie Watt is trying – operative word: trying – to draw a picture book about a mouse who lives in a house in the country, BUT a big, ego-driven cat named Chester has swiped a red marker and is editing the story to make himself the star. Chester is constantly arguing with Watt via his red marker – they bicker on the jacket flap copy, Chester edits her author bio, the cat even changes her dedication on the copyright page.
(Also, since my day-job is being an editor at a publishing company, the idea of someone wreaking that much havoc with a red pen is just inherently funny to me.)
This is Chester. Blame him for the red pen.
The set-up is deliciously meta, but not in an inaccessible way. Sometimes when a kids book plays around with the idea of actually being a book, it can either get a little too cutesy with the premise OR it can get obsessed with parent-skewing in-jokes that fly right over your kid's head. Some of the best examples of a meta kids book done right are The Three Pigs by David Wiesner, We Are in a Book by Mo Willems, and Duck! Rabbit! by Amy Krouse Rosenthal. I think Chester would make that list too.
Chester eventually ignites a war with his creator, which is an extremely fun sequence to read aloud. When he redraws a page, she fights back with her omniscient author powers and changes the scene or dresses him up in a pink tutu. It turns into this large-scale argument with a fictional character refusing to listen to its creator – which is a really hilarious concept – but, since the creator becomes such a big part of the story, she becomes a character as well. [read the rest of the post…]


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DENIS Wagner, one of four concrete empire brothers who earlier this month had a major court victory in relation to a tall story, soon could have tall storeys on his doorstep.
The Toowoomba businessman owns three of the four apartments in a four-level beachfront Surfers Paradise building, Sixty One.
The neighbour on the southern side of the Garfield Tce building is a company associated with listed Sino-Australian group ASF, failed aspirant for a Gold Coast integrated resort.
It has plans to bowl a three-level house on the 607sq m site, which cost $4.85 million, and replace it with a 31-level apartment tower.
That means Denis, when he's holidaying on the beachfront, could have the owners of 50 apartments as new neighbours.
So will the owner on the other side of the ASF property, the Northcliffe Surf Lifesaving Club.
The ASF-linked company apparently was keen to double the size of its holding to 1214sq m and wanted to buy the Sixty One building.
Denis might have sold his three apartments but the word on the beachfront is that the price expectations of the owner of the fourth apartment in Sixty One could not be met.
Denis apparently previously had sounded out the apartment's owner but he too found the 'ask' too high.
That apartment is owned by company Hanalai Bay, whose sole director is Elizabeth King, and was bought for $1.25 million 15 years ago.
By contrast, Denis paid between $530,000 and $920,000 for his three apartments between 2013 and 2015, spending $2.045 million.
Earlier this month the Wagner brothers won a defamation case against broadcaster Alan Jones and Macquarie Media over multiple reports that claimed a Wagner quarry collapse was responsible for deaths in the 2011 Queensland floods.
The diversified Wagner business has built its foundations in the concrete business and last December Wagner Holding became a listed company.
The family built the Brisbane West airport at Wellcamp, 12km from the heart of Toowoomba.
Meanwhile, the plan to build the slim tower is the latest illustration that the ASF camp remains gung ho about the Gold Coast despite its casino-resort knock-back.
While it is yet to build anything, subsidiary ASF Properties has been busy.
It's described as "an important strategic platform for Chinese investors to access the Australian real estate market".
The subsidiary has a development marketing role in luxury 17-level tower The Au Surfers Paradise planned on The Esplanade.
It seems on the cards that the ASF arm might also have a role when a company linked to ASF director David Fang decides what to do with a site further along The Esplanade.
The 12 units in The Dolphins building, which is on an 807sq m site, were amalgamated in an exercise that cost $8.58 million and settled 18 months ago.
ASF Properties also is wearing its management hat at a waterfront housing lot, townhouse and apartment project at the Hope Island resort.
The city council apparently has eyed off the former Masters warehouse overlooking the Pacific Highway at Nerang.
The high-spec building, reputed to have a build cost of $20 million, was bought earlier this year for $13.75 million by a Look family company - the same one that sold the then vacant site to Masters for $13.136 million in 2010.
It's not known whether the council made an offer to the Looks to lease or buy the airconditioned building, which comes with plenty of staff parking - 300 spots.
OLD School Brother, the company through which nightclub operator Joey Lamattina leased the home of the former Cocoon venue in Surfers Paradise, won't see another dawn.
It's in liquidation in the wake of a winding-up order being sought by Tiki Village International, landlord to the riverfront Cocoon property until it closed in July.
Tiki Village is suing Joey and alleged lease guarantor Carlo Percuoco, owner of Ristorante Fellini, for $275,000 over claimed outstanding rent, outgoings and electricity.


Shrewsbury Town's appeal against the decision to award Ben Godfrey a red card against Walsall has been unsuccessful.
Godfrey was sent off in the 75th minute of Tuesday night's Checkatrade Trophy group game, which Town lost 1-0.
From the footage it appeared that Godfrey had won the ball, but the FA have decided to uphold Trevor Kettle's original decision.
Chief Executive Brian Caldwell, who had help put Town's case forward, was disappointed with the decision.
"I think we are all really disappointed with that – we've taken a bit of a kicking from the FA this week", Brian told ShrewsWeb.
"When you look at the footage and slow it down to 25% you can see that Ben actually gets the ball first. The opposition player slides to ground very early, Ben gets a touch on the ball, the ball the ricochets back off the Walsall player's foot and goes out of play.
"I can actually understand from the referees view in live action that the Walsall player got to the ball first and Ben had caught the player, but that's actually not the case when you slow the footage down.
"We hoped common sense would prevail, but they've turned that down and said that they've upheld the referee's decision, but to me it would seem a pretty clear cut case because he got to the ball first and it was actually his other leg that made any contact with the Walsall player.


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The Lexus LFA is one of the most brilliant, evocative, weird and technically-proficient cars ever made — so why doesn't anyone ever talk about it?
Well, for starters, and this is a big one — it's a Lexus. Call it brand snobbery, ignorance or whatever you like, but few could justify forking out more than half a million dollars (when new) for the bragging rights of a limited production Lexus.
I mean really, imagine walking past a Lexus ES300 on your way to collecting your half-million-dollar supercar — doesn't really put you in the mood for laying a coupla' 11's on your way home.
Aside from the fact that it was (and still is) a Lexus, the LFA wasn't greeted with universal praise on its release either. Many touted it as too expensive, too slow, irrelevant and years behind more contemporary supercars that cost a fraction of the price.
The Lexus LFA was conceived out of curiosity and fathered by Toyota's ongoing commitment to research and momentum that would trickle down to future sports cars.
At first the Lexus LFA was supposed to be aluminium, but when they couldn't get the weight to where they wanted it, they turned to carbon fibre-reinforced plastic — a fact that goes someway to explaining how Toyota charged more than half-a-million dollars for the LFA while losing money on each car they made.
The centrepiece of the LFA is its engine. A bespoke, naturally aspirated 4.8-litre V10 co-developed with Yamaha. Built from aluminium, titanium alloy and magnesium, Toyota boasted that the 4805cc V10 was smaller than conventional V8 engines and the same weight as a V6.
Peak power is 412kW at a nauseating 8700rpm, while peak torque is rated at 480Nm which isn't available until 6800rpm. Coupled with a widely-criticised six-speed sequential gearbox the Lexus LFA will hit 100km/h in 3.7-seconds and 326km/h (202mph) flat out.
So then, the LFA is slower, more expensive and nowhere near as theatrical as it's Italian and German counterparts, so why should you buy one?
To put it simply, the Lexus LFA sounds like an F1 car.
In fact, according to Jeremy Clarkson, the Lexus LFA boasts the greatest automotive soundtrack ever.
Just 10 LFA's were delivered to Australia when it was launched in 2011. All of which were quickly snapped up by private customers — with few sightings to confirm their existence, this Lexus LFA is your chance to own one of the most exclusive supercars ever made.
With 26,426km on the clock, this Lexus LFA commands an asking price of $990,000AUD.
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A replay of last year's playoff match-up which ended in fights, injuries and suspensions, including one to a coach! These two teams have one of the most exciting rivalries. Antonio Brown v AJ Green has got to be one of the most exciting match-up between Wide Receivers we've seen in quite some time. Arguably Number 1 and 2 respectively, these two wizards have a knack for making the impossible look possible. This is a game that'll be tough to predict, if the Steelers defence can hold steady they should be the goods at home.
The Broncos have gotten lucky with this one. It's no surprise the Broncos have a below average offense, however if you watch this game you won't be wrong in thinking they're Super Bowl contenders. The Colts' key weakness is their defence and their offensive line. With Ware and Miller chomping at the bit to get at Luck behind a shaky offensive line at best, Andrew Luck will be lucky to escape getting sacked less than 4 times. I expect a 4th quarter rally from the Colts lead by some masterful passing from Luck but it'll be too late.
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Scottish Target Shooting is sad to announce the passing of John Glen, often known as 'Glyn' to friends, on Friday 29th June at about 11pm.
John was a famous target rifle shooter of yesteryear. He captained Scotland in the 1970's and toured Australia and New Zealand with the famous GB team at the end of the 1960's.
Colin McEachran expressed his sorrow at John's passing, reflecting fondly that John's caravan at Bisley was a famous watering hole for those who wanted to blank out their bad scores.
The Memorial Service took place on Saturday 6th July at Trossachs Kirk.
John will be sadly missed but fondly remembered.
John Glen, pictured here middle row, 3rd from left, when he was captain of the Scotland Team touring the Isle of Man in 1978.


Mass killer Charles Manson, who lost his bid for parole Wednesday, will probably die in prison, a Los Angeles prosecutor said.
The 77-year-old Manson will be eligible for another hearing in 15 years.
"When you think a person will be 92 years old, it's very likely that there will be no further parole hearings for Mr. Manson," Los Angeles County Deputy Dist. Atty. Patrick Sequeira said after the hearing, according to CNN.
A California parole board said Wednesday that it was swayed in part by comments he made to prison psychologists. John Peck, a member of the parole panel, quoted from the statements. "'I'm special. I'm not like the average inmate,'" Peck said, according to the Associated Press. "'I have spent my life in prison. I have put five people in the grave. I am a very dangerous man.'"


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Published on January 24, 2013 February 28, 2014 by Raud Kennedy
Echo was sitting in her studio apartment, polishing her brand new red Doc Martens in preparation for a night out with her friends, when she saw a dark shadowy form of an animal crossing the room on the other side of her coffee table. It looked like a black dog, except that it lacked detail and definition. If her hair weren't already glued into a Mohawk with half a can of super-hold hair spray, it would have been standing on end from the tingling sensation she felt working its way up her neck.
The shadowy form stopped and seemed to turn and stare at her, then shake its head like dogs do. Echo could actually see the moving shadow of dog ears flapping about the side of its head, but it was all done silently. Was it a ghost? She thought ghosts were supposed to be white puffs of smoke, and she'd heard of shadow people on late-night paranormal radio, but not shadow dogs. On the same show she'd heard about the multiverse theory of the universe. which is that of a bubble bath where each bubble is a universe and there are an uncountable number of universes, some so different from our own that they might have their own laws of physics, others so similar that all the planets might be identical and the sole difference is an alternate history on the third planet from our sun. Sometimes bubbles overlap and air and soap pass from one bubble to the next, and so it is with the multiverse. Either way it was freaking her out staring at her like that, so she took the freshly polished boot in her hand and tossed it at it, hitting it square on. But instead of the boot passing through it, making it disappear like she thought it would, it caught the boot in its mouth, turned and skedaddled.
"Hey! I need that boot!" Echo shouted, glancing down at the boot's mate on her foot. What good is one red boot, she thought and leaped over the coffee table after the other red boot, which was rapidly fading as it passed through the wall of the bubble into the next bubble over. The multiverse at work. With her apartment whirling and blurring around her, Echo tripped on the edge of the low table and hit the ground, sprawling across a bed of golden leaves smelling of fall. She winced with the impact, but when she opened her eyes she was no longer in her dingy studio apartment in the South End of Boston, but in a thickly wooded forest filled with the musk of a composting forest floor, and standing not far from her was a dog resembling a border collie with his black and white fur. He had a piercing gaze of one brown eye and one blue, and resting between his front paws was her red boot. Being single-minded, Echo ignored the bizarre change in her surroundings and made a grab for her boot, but the dog snatched it up and darted out of reach.
"Give me back my boot!" she shouted, exasperated, and rolled onto her back. It was then that the forest fully hit her. She stared at the canopy of branches swaying in the wind far above her and heard the rustle of their leaves as a steady hush. She wondered where her apartment had gone. Oh crap, she thought, where the guano was Boston? Had she already gone out on the town with her friends, drunk too much and blacked out only to find herself in these strange woods? She didn't feel like she'd done that, though it might be something stupid she would do. In fact she felt really good. It was then that the dog laughed, laughed just like a person.
She sat up and glared at him. "Please give me back my boot."
The dog laughed some more, but this time he dropped the boot near enough for her to make another grab at it, which she succeeded at. She put it on and laced it up, then stood up and brushed the leaves off the faded Levi cutoffs and torn fishnet stockings she wore over long john bottoms.
The dog looked at her with awe as he scampered backward and away from her, worried she would fall on him. "How do you do that?" he asked.
"Do what?" she said, then blinked hard and said to herself, "The dog can talk? Oh no, someone slipped something in my drink."
"Probably deer pee," the dog said. "They have no sense at all about where they pee. They'll pee in the stream as they drink. Personally, I don't mind it, but dog, do some complain about it."
Echo stared at the dog, her mouth hanging open like a dumbfounded cartoon character in the Sunday comics.
"But how do you do that?" the dog persisted.
"Balance on two legs like that."
"Practice." She put her hands on her hips, then reached up and pinched her left boob. She wasn't asleep and dreaming, though she didn't understand why pinching oneself would determine that; she could just as easily pinch herself in a dream as she could if she were awake, but it's what everyone did. In fact she was capable of doing more things in her dreams than she was when awake. She couldn't fly when awake or make out with James Bond any old afternoon like she could in her dreams, so maybe this was a dream. "Guano!" she said and rubbed her face with her palms. "I'm fucking Alice and I've fallen down the rabbit hole."
"Don't know Alice," was all the dog had to say.
"In the woods."
"I can see that. How come you can talk? What kind of dog are you?"
He inched closer. "Pardon me, but what kind of dog are you? You don't look like a dog but you speak like one and last I knew only dogs could speak. Are you some sort of hairless freak of nature? Maybe a fish or a reptile? And why do you cover yourself in rags?"
"Hey, don't knock my clothes. I love my clothes. They're much cooler than a mangy coat of fur."
"No doubt. Let me see your tongue."
"To see if you're a reptile. Is it long and forked? My policy with reptiles is live and let live but best to avoid them."
"I'm not a reptile."
"Stick out your tongue," the dog insisted.
Echo gave in and complied.
The dog leaned toward her to look closer. "Is that as far out as it will go?"
"Ahhhh …"
"Not much of a tongue. How do you drink with that?"
She pulled her tongue in. "I don't drink with my tongue. I use a glass."
"A glass, is that like a bowl? Not very practical. Do you carry this 'glass' with you wherever you go? Can I see it?"
"I don't have a glass, I mean, not with me. They're everywhere."
"They are? I've never seen one. What do you do without it? Do you wither up and die of thirst?"
"Argh…. Then I get bottled water."
"Bottled water? Why would anyone bottle water? What good does it do anyone inside of a bottle?" The dog pondered this for a moment.
Echo scrunched up her mouth and glared down at the dog. "Any more questions?"
"Well, since you asked. Why do you smell so funny? I've never smelled anything like you before and I've sniffed pretty much everything. Have you ever smelled something that stinks so bad that you have to step back and blow your nostrils clear of the scent, but then you're drawn back to sniff it again because it smells so bad you just can't help yourself?"
Echo said nothing, waiting for it.
"That's what you smell like."
"You're a mean little mutt. If you don't like my perfume, just say so. You don't need to go off about how I stink.'
"It's nothing personal."
"What's not personal about saying I stink? Little jerk." The last part she mumbled to herself as she glanced up at the darkening sky. "So where is Boston from here? I need to get home. I'm meeting friends at the Rat."
"Never heard of it."
"Have you heard of Boston?"
"Of course I've heard of Boston. I'm not some line-bred yokel." The dog cocked his head sideways at her. "I live in Boston. How come I've never smelled you before? Or even a trace of you? That scent is hard to miss. You must not scent mark much."
"If you mean, do I go around peeing on fire hydrants and lamp posts or pretty much anything upright, then no, I don't. I prefer to use the bathroom. It's me who should've heard of you. The great talking dog, telling everyone how much they stink. You should be all over television."
"Nothing unusual about a talking dog. It's you who's unusual, whatever it is you are." The dog's ears perked up at a distant sound Echo couldn't hear. "We should go. It'll be dark soon and the coyotes are rebelling."
The dog took off at a fast walk, following by scent a hidden path under the fallen leaves. He normally would've traveled at a fast trot but doubted his companion would be able to keep up while walking on only two legs. Glancing at her over his shoulder, he asked, casual like, as if they were stuck waiting in line together, "Lived in Boston long?"
"All my life."
"You must not get out much. What was that room you were in?"
"Where you stole my boot?"
"Where you threw it at me. Were you throwing it away because of its awful smell? Why put things that stink on your feet? Do you want people to avoid you? Maybe you're anti-social. You certainly don't get out much. Don't you like your butt sniffed?"
"No, I don't, and my boots are brand new. They can't stink." She threw up her hands. "Why am I arguing with a dog?"
"I'm not arguing. Arguing involves teeth and there's no doubt I'd win an argument with you. How do you eat with those tiny nibblers of yours? They don't look very functional. Are they just for show, like a cat puffing up its fur to look big? And we all know how much that helps the cat. Does someone have to tear your meat off the bone for you? Can you chew it once they do or are you still living off of regurgitation like a puppy? Dog, I'm so embarrassed for you."
"For your information, I can chew just fine." She glared at the dog's little fluffy tail as he trotted in front of her. It was the most perfect tail she had ever seen and it struck her as a very smug tail, if a tail could be smug. "Isn't there anything about me you like?"
The dog stopped and turned around. "Oh yes, there is. I really like your hair, what little there is of it. It's like your hackles are up permanently. It makes you look even taller than you are, if that's possible. What about me? I bet there's a lot about me you like." He wagged his tail high above his back and didn't wait for an answer. "You wish you had a tail like mine, I know, I see it in your eyes when you look at it. Everyone does. I have the best tail in Boston. I'm always getting compliments on it. Grooming is the key. It's important not to let the knots get started or else you have to chew out a whole section of fur, where if you'd gotten it early on when it was just a burr, a seed hitching a ride, your tail would've remained whole. I don't see any burrs in your hair. Doesn't look like any would even stick to your hair. I bet that's nice. I hate burrs."
Echo loved the perfectly round shape of her head and how cutting off all her hair except for the Mohawk accentuated its shape. She ran her fingertips along the sides of her Mohawk, front to back. "AquaNet. Need I say more?"
"AquaNet," the dog repeated. "Stinky boots, bottled water. The more you say the more you need to explain."
"Don't tell me. You haven't heard of it."
"Strange name for a mate. So this AquaNet grooms you like that? Maybe he could do my tail. If you wouldn't mind."
Echo let it go. "Sure, I'll call him."
"Oh, is he around here?"
The dog started walking again. "But back to that room where I found you. What was it?"
"That was my apartment, where I live."
"Then why do you say you live in Boston? You live in the woods, silly. Were you line bred? I hear many in the woods are."
"I don't live in the woods, and I don't know what line bred is but I doubt it's nice."
"Put politely, it's when your dame and sire are a little too closely related."
"The way you keep bringing that up I'm beginning to think you have a big problem with it where you're from."
The dog quieted down for a bit and they meandered through the woods, the dry leaves crunching under their feet. An inshore breeze picked up, bringing in the ocean air. It smelled much saltier than Echo remembered Boston Harbor ever being. When they came to the edge of the forest, a tidal flat at low tide opened before them, and beyond that was a large hill that would've been an island if it weren't for the narrow peninsula that formed a bridge to it.
The dog stopped and gazed across the mud. "There she is, the city on the hill, Boston. I never tire of the view from here, I call it the homecoming view."
The hill was covered with thousands of warren holes and small thatched-roof mud huts, all interconnected with dirt trails, and going about their business on these trails were dogs of all shapes, sizes and colors. In spite of the bizarre sight in front of her, Echo's stomach grumbled loudly as she looked across the mud and tidal ponds at the hill. She had skipped lunch and was starving. She had to get home, if only to eat. She knew she had cereal, and the milk was still good. She'd kill for a bowl of Fruit Loops. But she had no idea what was going on. There was the old fallback that this was all a dream and she'd wake up soon and be nice and cozy in her bed, but she knew she wasn't dreaming. She'd pinched her boob. Her dreams had people in them, not thousands of dogs looking like ants on a distant hill. She dreamed of sex and booze and drama, lots of drama. And if she'd lost her marbles there'd still be people around; why invent a world of smelly dogs? Nope, she didn't have a clue. Not one.
"Hungry, huh?" the dog said. "Me too. I know a place that serves a mad rabbit."
She'd never had rabbit before and normally would like to keep it that way. It would be too much like eating Bugs Bunny and she really liked Bugs Bunny, but it was sinking in that she was going to have to adapt. "Is it cooked?"
"Cooked? Never heard of that. No, they're mad because they're not exactly happy about getting eaten."
"Oh my God. They're still alive?"
The dog cocked his head at her. "You are a strange one. What else would they be? We're not carrion-eating coyotes. That's disgusting. We eat our food fresh."
Echo sat on a nearby log and buried her face in her palms. "Ugh, so you kill it. That's disgusting. I suppose you eat it raw? No cooking," she said through her hands.
"Cooking? What is this cooking you keep saying?"
"You know, roast the rabbit over an open flame?"
"Flame as in fire? Dog no." He shook his head vigorously. "Why would anyone consider going anywhere near a fire, let alone close enough to put their food over it? At the first scent of smoke I'm out of there. That's one of the reasons Boston is the oldest city of all the cities. The forest fires never cross the tidal flats and there's nothing that'll burn on the peninsula; we make sure of that."
Echo's stomach grumbled some more. "Would you mind killing my rabbit for me? I don't think I could do that."
"Your teeth not up to it, eh? It would be my pleasure, literally. That's as fun as eating them. I'm very proficient at the neck snap."
"Ugh." Echo buried her face in her hands again.
In the distance, the coyotes could be heard beginning their nightly howls of protest before they went on their raids. The fur along the dog's spine went up.
"We'd better get going," he said and trotted toward the peninsula.
Echo got up from the log and followed. "So tell me about this coyote rebellion."
"Oh that," the dog said, exasperated at the topic. "It's what everyone is talking about and what no one can agree on. Lots of arguments there. Lots of teeth." He shook his head. "They want equal rights. Can you imagine that? Coyotes crossing the peninsula and living in Boston? Just like dogs? Next they'll be letting in the wolves. Just try having a wolf over for dinner."
Echo had seen plenty of coyotes but had always mistaken them for stray or loose dogs out on a tear.
At the mainland side of the peninsula they were met by two very large mastiffs blocking their way. They looked at the dog, then at Echo trailing behind him, then back at the dog. "What's this with you?" one of them asked, sniffing the air in her direction.
"Pew!" the other said and snorted his nostrils clear of scent. "Some sort of exotic critter for the feast?"
Echo threw her hands against her hips. "Hey! I'm right here, you know."
The mastiffs looked at each other. "It can talk?" one asked.
"It can talk," the other said.
"Of course I can talk."
Both mastiffs sniffed the air in her direction again and wrinkled their noses with discomfort. "It stinks," they both said.
"You don't like my perfume either, huh? Well you stink much worse than me. You should invest in some body spray, and lots of it."
One of the mastiffs moved in closer and poked her in the belly with his massive snout. "Hey, I just rolled in rotting fish," he said indignantly. "I know I smell good."
The other mastiff nodded his equally massive head. "Me too."
The dog squeezed between them, apologizing for her. "You'll have to excuse my friend. I found her lost in the woods and I'm afraid she might be a little line bred and deficient in her manners."
"Line bred, huh?" the more belligerent one said sympathetically.
"Poor thing. Explains the stink. No one ever taught it what to roll in," the other said and moved aside. "Let them by. I want to roll in that fish again." He looked at Echo. "It's right over there on the beach if you want to give it a go."
That night Echo cooked her first rabbit over a small fire she'd started with her Zippo on the beach. The dog kept his distance from the fire but was drawn by the scent of the roasting meat. When it was done, she tore off a piece and offered it to him.
"Careful, it's hot," she said.
The dog sniffed it and gingerly took it in his front teeth, carried it a few feet away and dropped it on a rock. He sniffed it again, then took it in his mouth and chewed, taking his time as he savored the new flavors, then swallowed.
"That was delicious. Give me more."
"Get me another rabbit."
"I'll get you two," he said and began to run off, but stopped, the drool from his mouth glistening with anticipation in the firelight. "We should open a restaurant. We'll make a killing."
"Sure," she said. "We'll call it the Rabbit Hole."
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7 thoughts on "The Rabbit Hole"
Given the combination of the name and the dog, I really couldn't resist stopping by 😉
Raud says:
I've always loved that name.
I've used it online for many years now.
juliepetroski says:
Wow! Loved this story. Thank you for sharing it.
handmadebyjo says:
I LOVED this! More, more more!


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The Atlas is the sort of vehicle mainly glimpsed in the backgrounds of 1960s British films rather than on the road. The Standard light commercial was a rather appealing machine in its heyday, but it never seemed to find a market niche despite its virtues. One problem was fierce competition from the Morris JB/Austin 101, the Austin 152/Morris J2, the Thames 400E, the Commer Express and the Bedford CA. The other was the sheer lack of speed from the early models.
Standard unveiled the Atlas in 1958.
The sales copy promised that it turned as easily as a 'London taxi' and could be serviced 'quicker and easier than any other forward control vehicle'. Power was provided by a 948cc engine used in the Ten saloon and buyers had a choice of van or pick-up bodies. The extras list included a heater, rear bumpers, passenger seat and a second windscreen wiper if you were feeling extravagant. Your new Atlas could also be specified in a Coffee, Cornflower Blue, Jamaica Yellow or Pearl Grey paint finish.
Commercial Motor magazine approved of the new Standard van, and their report must have been music to the ears of Canley's marketing department:
"Remarkable manoeuvrability and exceptional accessibility to the engine for servicing are the outstanding features of the Standard Atlas 10-12-cwt. van. It is the first goods vehicle to be produced by the Standard Motor Co., Ltd., for commercial purposes, previous _vans and pick-ups manufactured by the company having been direct derivations of existing private cars."
The chap from CM also wrote: "Any doubt which I may have entertained as to the ability of the 35 bhp power unit to provide adequate performance was dispelled by the results obtained on test".
The brochure further implied that Standard devised the Atlas as an urban delivery vehicle; it was certainly not ideal for A-roads, let alone the new Preston bypass.
In reality, many shop owners found 0-30 in 15 seconds and a 52 mph top speed too slow, even in late-1950s traffic. By September 1960, the "Atlas Major" boasted the Ensign's 1,670cc plant combined with a remote-control floor gear lever and a maximum speed of 62 mph. Unfortunately, that year also saw the introduction of two new products from BMC and Rootes – the J4 and the FC 'Spacevan'.
Two years later, the Atlas was re-badged as the 15/20, the latter with either 2,138cc petrol or 2,260cc diesel engines. In 1963, S-T commercial vehicles were now branded as Leylands, with advertisements promising the 20 had "a generous 181 cubic feet of load-space. Underneath, its double-strength body will bear the brunt of a full ton payload with complete assurance and go on doing it year after year". Alas, the advent of the Ford Transit in 1965 dealt a significant blow to sales.
UK manufacture of the 15/20 ended in 1968, and the newly formed BLMC sold the tooling to Standard Motors of Chennai, where production continued until 1980. More than 40 years later, the Altas is somewhat forgotten, though it deserves to be better remembered. As the Indian market advertisement put it – "Standard Twenty Can Do Plenty!".