Lay Lines by Carol Lay for March 13, 2023

Talking to your skulls ight have been very interesting.

Skull Story, the latest Pixar movie?

Yup. Karma caught him dead to rights.

“You know what they say:Big head, big skull.”

Words to live by!

“But what will become of us?”

Dark…

i did a stint of night duty as a museum guard. One of the rooms on my beat was where the anthropology department stored & displayed various bones, skulls, deathmasks, busts, & complete skeletons. One of those skeletons had an perfectly round hole in the temple from a bullet or icepick perhaps? Another had severe scoliosis. One casting/deathmask was of a microcephalic head. A coworker pointed it out to me, saying, “look at that guy! People probably stared at him his entire life and they’re still staring at him!” i often wondered who those people may have been and how they wound up in a display case. In the silent darkness of that room, my 23 year-old self pondered mortality.

They’ll end up in the custody of the department head.

Two students walking past the anthropology building saw the professor’s decapitated corpse lying under an air conditioner with some sort of bloody jigsaw puzzle nearby. They wondered, “What’s that on the path – a head?”

How sad. I’m sure the Prof would have been happy to be exhibited to allow young people to learn by studying his skull.

Heaven for Deadheads.

Love this one ROFL

This would make an excellent 24-minute teleplay. Only one actor on screen and the various voices of the skulls. This idea that when we die, we are still somehow concious and here even after all but the skull remains inhabited by their souls or spirits.

Wow! The Talking Heads!

Whenever I’m at the Museum of Natural History looking at hominid and human skeletons I think to myself, “If that was me I’d be p***ed as hell!”