Posts

Showing posts from January, 2011

The Bookshelf: Guilford Castle Tour Continued

Image
On the top shelf, reached only by tall ladder, I have a mixture of odds and ends. I've had the cabasa for years, since I sang in bands. It makes an unusual sound, kind of like small gravel on a washboard. You can shake it or twist it or hit dirty peasants in the head with it when performing in rough bars. (click pictures to enlarge) Behind the cabasa is my midget rhino, captured in the Guilford woods and stuffed by a Guilford company Things You Stuff . It punctured my leg with its tiny horn before I kicked it like a football down into the creek where it landed on a boulder and broke its back. In front of the rhino is my pyramid. Sitting under a pyramid is supposed to make you healthy. I didn't know they meant you were supposed to sit inside a pyramid. This one finally fell off a lamp on my head point first. I was wearing the black battle helmet next to it at the time so my head was spared another scar and the walnut brain inside my skull didn't move. On the top shelf on