The hairdresser stopped in mid-snip & gasped,

The hairdresser stopped in mid-snip & gasped, staring at the back of my head. She gestured wildly to the stylist in the next booth. "Come here, QUICK! You gotta see this!" she said

"I'll tell you what." She said. "I'll remove the Yardbirds, if I can borrow your Parakeet for a month. I'm sure he'd cheer my mother whose living her last days." So Squawkers moved

to the Hamptons. I would never see her again. The Hamptons were the second target of the incoming missiles after Reno. After the war, I dragged a mannequin named Ted around on a

length of blue & green string. We had to make our own entertainment in those post-Apocalyptic times and Ted & I would sing duets together. Ted didn't know any of the words or tunes

because Ted Danson was a TV actor. Now, Rhea? She could belt out every tune from Annie Get Your Gun. So, basically the lawn party desembled into murky alcoholism when the sun set.

And I dared not hint I knew about Shark Lady and Shark Man watching the rerun three years later. My fangs were long gone by then, but they still had theirs. Dr. Wikid listened to a

hoot raven hooting outside his window three nights in a roll. He consulted with the Portents Bureau & they told him they didn't have anything on it yet. They sent for Prof. Loomis.

But by then Professor Loomis had undergone "the operation" and was now a waitress at Hooters going by the name of Lulu. No-one made the connection between this and the hoot raven.

Hooters' patrons who ended up dating Lulu were invariably tickled by her disclosure: "You used to be a SCIENTIST? Shut up!" "Go figure," she'd reply, snickering inwardly.