This is the light switch cover in my office. My daughter (Twilight Ninja Girl) got it for her birthday but I have the only dual-throw light switch on our lot. (I say on our lot because my office is a separate building from the house — I’ll blog about it in the future.) So I ended up with the cover.

As you can see it’s got glitter and glue and this thing pasted on it with flying saucers and this motto. Looking at the bottom edge I saw this:

And I realized slowly that this was a paperback cover. (There are people out there who are going “You idiot, hadn’t you ever heard of Donald Keyhoe?”)

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I confess. I’m fascinated by odd stuff. I like reading about viruses and horrific bacterial diseases. Right now I’m reading a book called Pox: Genius, Madness, and the Mysteries of Syphilis by Deborah Hayden. (I figure they’ll make it into a Broadway show someday called, Pox! The Musical.)

And I’m dying to get to the Mutter Museum.

FYI, The Mutter Museum was a teaching museum established in 1858 and attached to the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. It has copious displays of the most amazing medical anomalies you’re ever going to see. I have a book about it. I’ve seen TV specials on it. I’ve bought the calendars they used to produce with fantastic pictures of some of the most extreme medical deformities you’re ever likely to see. It’s got to be the coolest place ever.

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