from the Jill Schwartz Memorial Library here in the wilds of Connecticut.

This is obscure season 2, Frankenstein.

I am your host, your earlover, get around it. I prefer saying, Georgianologist to

Victorianologist because I can put on my Georgia accent when I say it, which is the

bomb. It is the bomb. Look, I don't know what the average age of the listeners for this is, but when I say

the bomb, I'm using current vernacular kind of street vernacular and it means something

uh something groovy or hep. So when I say da bomb that's just very current or I should say

ochorant lingo because look my business is on doing and these days they are saying the bomb and they're saying it with a Georgian accent.

So you'll routinely on YouTube or other MySpace, whatever it is, you'll hear people saying that's the bomb bigity and

that just means it's a cool thing anyway that was a linguistic diversion when

we have so much business to attend to today.

I start today in a quandary because I'm in the Jill Schwartz Memorial Library.

I do not have a cup of tea beside me because I have already

consumed three cups of morning tea and I know that at some point very soon, probably within the body of this recording, I will have to take a pee.

But the question is, the question was, should I do that before I sit down on the

Jack Jack Memorial reading couch or should I just endure?

And I was so anxious to start today's episode

that I thought, oh, I'll just endure.

I mean, if Walton can endure his passage to the North Pole and his crew can see through this dangerous voyage,

then surely I can make it through a half hour without needing to get up to pee.

And I was excited to get going because we left last time with a double reverse twist with a thing.

And you know that's just such a rare literary occurrence that when it happens you get

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