No trace yet of Carlos or one of the kids, but the other little person showed up under the couch next to the big orange plastic ring (remember the old school stacking rings?) and some Cheerios of undetermined age/provenance.
Also, the final gate has been installed in our house [Sam likes to stand and hold on to the gate when it's closed, and I've been trying to teach him to shake it and chant "Att-i-ca, Att-i-ca" --- he just kind of looks at me.]
While Vicki was out buying said gate, she spotted an LP trio from some kind of circus set. Ostensibly, they are for young Samson, but I think she probably got them for me since what began as a good natured search for some missing toys has become an obsession.
Of course, now I'm picturing angry, pierced, hemp-wearing Little Vegan People protesting the conditions of the bear and the dog and conducting street theater demonstrations. Or worse yet, we could come home to find a kind of Herzogian scene has unfolded in our absence.
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Here is one reader committed to eradicating animal exploitation at any costs. Questions for Dada: Where will you keep these animals during the off-season winter months? Is physical punishment your standard method for training these animals? What if Samson dreams of, and one day decides to, run away to join the circus? What will you do with these animals once they have outlived their performing usefulness?
In the interest of absolute clarity, Attica, NY, albeit the site of an infamous State prison, is also a beautiful village with beautiful people and a beautiful Village Park Pool and beautiful fall foliage.
All apologies to Son Of Sam (not to be confused with Samson) for leaving out the finer points of Attica. But it would take forever to teach the little guy to chant "bucolic wonderland" while shaking the gate.
As for Mr. Edwards, your concern is appreciated, but I'll be happy if these animals make it to Labor Day. It appears we have an LP vortex in our house. Maybe when the number of missing reaches critical mass (4400?), they'll all pop up on a lakeshore outside Seattle.
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If only the Fisher Price brass would see the possible bonanza that would come from conceptualizing, designing, manufacturing and marketing a Fisher Price Maximum Security Prison. The benefits of this would be twofold for you, Dada: your LP's would stay secure (albeit securely incarcerated - tee hee) and it would provide an invaluable teaching tool to teach Samson about the Attica Prison Riots. (Nelson Rockefeller Doll sold separately.) And obviously a battery powered electric chair would be in poor taste.
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