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February 19, 2007
Weird Dreams
It's been a while since we talked about the odd crap that goes on while I sleep. So, here we go ...
The other night I dreamed I was talking to a couple of younger guys about Samson's godfather -- who happened to be Frank Gorshin. I was initially surprised that the guys didn't know who Frank Gorshin was. I was more surprised that when I said "He played the Riddler in the original Batman" they were still clueless. I woke up before I was able to describe the Star Trek episode he appeared in.
I've no idea where that dream came from. And, by the way, Frank Gorshin is not Samson's godfather; not now ... not when he was alive.
Saturday night I dreamed that a friend of mine had a scorpion and we needed to cut half its stinger off lengthwise -- and just the tip. The tip of the stinger, as a matter of fact, was sort of marked (by Mother Nature) by a line where it should be cut. Looking back on it the scorpion had longer legs than a real one -- sort of crab legs. At some point the scorpion rushed me and ran his stinger into my thumb. My buddy grabbed him and pulled him off and my thumb started oozing a white icing-like substance which turned more fluid as it came out. I woke up shortly thereafter.
I don't remember who the friend was. The scorpion, I'm sure, came from a book I just finished reading, "Storm Front" by Jim Butcher. It's about a Wizard name Harry Dresden that lives in Chicago; if you get the SciFi channel you may have noticed a series called "The Dresden Files" -- it's that guy. I think the scorpion had long crab legs because Haydn and I were watching "Cast Away" Saturday and Tom Hanks was spearing crabs.
Posted by delmer at February 19, 2007 11:44 AM