Good evening, everyone.

This week’s reading took me on a trip through time, back to when I was about 6 years old. In elementary school, I would always listen to The Show on Rock 105.3 – a talk show hosted by younger people talking about things I was far too young to be hearing about – on my way to school every morning. I remember one day, they talked about the Feejee Mermaid – they were trying to figure out whether it was real or not. I think it was a bit, often the cast of the show would poke fun at how gullible and silly Boston Rob (one of the hosts) was – so perhaps they were trying to gaslight him into believing the hoax. But to me, I was sold on the idea that the hideous half-man, half-monkey they would make jokes about existed. When I got home from school I hopped on the family Mac and looked up the hoax for myself. Seeing as I was 6, I expertly ignored all the big words that disproved the Feejee mermaids existence. I was amazed and proceeded to tell everyone I saw and met about it for about a week – and then I forgot about it and moved on with my life until this weeks reading. Even reading the words “Feejee Mermaid Hoax” didn’t connect those dots in my head until I looked it up on google images. It was fun reliving that really small but exciting time of my life.