But there's nothing new about Greyhounds

[austin_dern]

And in news close to home: I had my annual physical Wednesday. This was a bit awkwardly timed because it was in the early afternoon, and while I allotted two hours for it the doctor was running later than I expected and I didn't get through until 3 pm. And then had to take a little more time to get a blood sample taken --- I had skipped breakfast and lunch for just this contingency --- because I'd figured I could stop somewhere after the exam and get, like, a hot lunch from a fast food place. Given how late everything ran I decided to just get something from a Speedway gas station and while that had its good side --- the monterey jack rollers --- it had its bad, in that the place was weirdly slammed and slow-moving and everyone else was having a complicated time buying snacks for some reason. I got back to the office, as it was an in-office day, with about 45 minutes left and it would have saved everyone time if I'd just decided to go home after the appointment. But then I had to go to the store after work anyway, and that was easier to get to from the office.

In any event. Health-wise, I'm doing fine. My weight continues its slight but annoying increase, even though I've taken to doing step aerobics for an hour most every day of the week. (In a related note I've finally watched the first two seasons of Star Trek: Discovery, the first of Strange New Worlds, the first two of Lower Decks, the first of Prodigy, and the first season of Picard and am halfway through the second season.) But all else seems well.

Including my emotions; my depression, situationally prompted as it was, hasn't been even a hint for a long time now. So after two years on we're going to try stepping me down, with a view to getting off it and let someone who needs the medicine take it instead. From next week I figure to go to a half dose (I have reasons you will learn in time not to want to start that this weekend) and we'll see whether we do, in fact, have a pill cutter in the house like I was sure we did.

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With that good news shared, why not enjoy some hood ornaments?

Policeman monkey hood ornament. There were a lot that were riffs on the traffic cops, as you might expect from people who figure they'll never be on the receiving end of a loaded officer.

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Boy on Ostrich, which I'm going ahead and assuming was the hood ornament Python Anghelo grew up with.

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Here's a greyhound, ``stylized'' as the card says to the point it could probably also be sold as an anteater.

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Here's a more photorealistic fox.

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And here's an ``amusing'' chicken hatching. At this point I'm not sure these ornaments are being made with any kind of view toward what car owner they would be right for.

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As a ``Lincoln Greyhound'' I suppose this stylized dog was made for --- maybe was factory equipment? --- that model car.

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Trivia: In the California gubernatorial election of 1934 M-G-M filmed phony newsreels showing radical-looking individuals with foreign accents endorsing Democratic candidate Upton Sinclair. Source: With Amusement For All: A History of American Popular Culture since 1830, LeRoy Ashby.

Currently Reading: Lost Popeye Zine Volume 39: The Goat-Headed Frogmen, Tom Sims, Bela Zaboly. Editor Stephanie Noelle.