Who Read the Dogs In? A One-Man Show Starring, Featuring and Reviewed by ...

 Latest "Mental Health Break" ("his", not yours) courtesy the Marquette Bureau Chief of the TLS, whose mailbox, speaking of letters of other sorts, so say Informed Delivery alerts from the usual aUSPiceS, is crammed to bursting with today's trifecta, Alan Bullock, Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives, Italo Calvino, Italian Folktales and Ferdinand Mount, Jem (and Sam).




Uncle Scott Says™,





When you bring together three of the ten best things in the world* - children, dogs and books** - the results speak bow-wownd volumes [2 min].

*The other seven, tied and in alphabetical order, are of course cake, cheese, ice cream, pepperoni, 


(Uncle Scott's) pizza,



(Uncle Scott's) root beer -


- and (His) root beer floats.

**Children, dogs and books ❤️: except for that time when, in the Minneapolis suburb of Burnsville, c. 1972-1973, your irascible Miniature Schnauzer Tiffany followed you on 


your bike ride to 



the library next to 



the Tom Thumb inconvenience store where you used to buy your Richie Rich comics and your Orange Crush - 'cos you could not get the front door of your green house with the wooden siding with your red swing set on the adjacent vacant lot to the right to close - barking like mad, of course, at passersby all and sundry: till she, apparently bored after blowing that day's pile of anger chips, walked the whole mile or more back home.***

***She must have seen this:



Your ever-avUncular influencer,

D.S. "Uncle Scott" Lahti (DSL.)
Author, The "Uncle Scott" Series:


Close enough ...

The Uncle Scott Tapes: Play Them Once and You're Cassette for Life



Will You Still Read Me, Will You Still Heed Me? Uncle Scott at Sixty-Four (after The Beatles 'cos how could it be before them?)


And again ...

Uncle Scott's Fake It to Make It: Pretending to Knowledge With AI (Artificial Intelligence) and Now, DSL. (Derivative Simulated Learning); One, Two, Three and Foreword by Barney Google




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