Facing Silliness in Springfield
by David Bloomberg
10:00 P.M., September 1, 1999: I'm sitting down to watch the news on
WICS Channel 20. One of their top stories is that some people have seen
what appears to be a baby's face in a tree that is about to be cut down.
They even send out a reporter, who comes back with words like
"mystery" (used several times) to describe it. I don't see
much of a mystery -- it is a knothole that, yeah, looks a bit like a
baby's face when viewed the proper way. Even the reporter acknowledged
that you can't really see it during the day -- you have to wait until
night and look from a certain angle. But it was still a big
"mystery" to him.More |