EasTERROR!
I wish my Easter basket for TDSH readers was filled with a ginormous assortment of colorful images for weird people like you and me. Except my computer has been behaving badly for weeks now, and the $225 I paid for a “computer professional” to fix my problems over two visits has resulted in my computer working only long enough for him to cash the checks, it seems. It has taken eight hours just to do what I should normally be able to do in half an hour. So this post is brief.
But why should I crab? I can use this moment to tell you about the lesser-known harbinger of hopping holiday horror known as the Easter Blowfish. (I feel like Linus evangelizing about the Great Pumpkin!)
Once again, I awoke this morning to find I’ve been visited by this ghastly, gilled Easter visitor, who brings colored caviar and fugu (blowfish flesh) to Monster Kids around the world!
He’s so much more interesting than a bunny rabbit. For example, according to Wikipedia, the pufferfish
“is… reported to be one of the main ingredients used in voodoo to turn people into zombies.
“According to ethnobotanist Wade Davis, the pufferfish is the key ingredient in the first step of creating a zombie, where the tetrodotoxin creates a ‘death-like’ state. In the second step, hallucinogens are used to hold the person in a will-less zombie state.”
I could sure use some will-less zombie slaves at Easter, when I need all the help I can get in finding hidden chocolate. Mmmmm. Goes good with the dyed roe.
At my house, we don’t sing about “Peter Cottontail”, we sing about this creepy cutie!
“Here comes the Blowfish from the sea
“Bringin’ roe for you ‘n’ me
“Look at him floppin’, Easter means fugu!
“Leaving ev’ry gal and guy
“Some of his flesh for them to try
“Might mean death but whadda ya gonna do?”
Happy Easter, everybody!
Way cool!
And a Happy Easter back at ya!
BTW, great new place you’ve got here.