Medicating a Pig, Executing a McGee, and Looking Like a Lesbian

I know exactly what you're asking yourself.

"Can Angela at Fluid Pudding install a bidet?!"

The answer to that question is: Yes! Since last we spoke, I installed a bidet (with modifications!), fixed a garage door opener, replaced a showerhead and a halogen bulb, purchased bannister brackets, and medicated a guinea pig.

October had an ear infection, so twice each day for fourteen days we had to wrangle her out of the cage, wrap her in a blanket, and force a syringe full of antibiotics down her throat.

Also, a few weeks ago I fell in love with a baby sticker that was affixed to the changing station in a taco dump that was serving up fried bologna tacos.

We really have so much to talk about, but let's hold off for a bit and just spend some time looking at Claude McGee, who was executed at the Missouri State Penitentiary back in 1951 at the age of 39. He was 39.

(Claude robbed a house and killed a guy back in 1935, and then in 1948 he killed the guy who helped him kill the original guy by beating him in the head with a hammer.)

I know times have changed (Cole Porter even wrote a song about it!) since 1951. With that said, this was me at 39.

I had decided to grow out my hair (we make our beds and we lie in them...), so I was holding paper behind my head to show how I was floppy on the top and shaved on the sides. I hadn't yet made any kills. I didn't own a hammer, but I knew the lyrics to Divine Hammer.

Fact: The last execution at the Missouri State Penitentiary took place in January of 1989, when I was starting the second semester of my freshman year at a university 30 miles away from the gas chamber. I had just gotten my right ear double pierced, and my grandma told me it made me look like a lesbian (and not in a good way). I had forfeited my piano scholarship and was learning how to smoke clove cigarettes. I was a big fan of The Sugarcubes.

Honorable Mentions in the category of Hammer Songs I Know:

For the record, I'm against the death penalty and for looking like a lesbian.