Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for April 11, 2013

Well who doesn’t?

Fontanelle bears a striking resemblance to Mr. Otterloop; perhaps that’s how Alice visualizes him when she hears Daddy’s voice reading a tale from the Imperiled Infant series….

Ooo, rabid apes!

That baby seems to be in some dangerous situations. Edward Gorey would love this.

I wonder if they read Petey these books a lot when he was younger. It might explain some things.

Giant gorillas with rabies! What’s not to love?

Alice has such a great taste for books.

Sounds like a takeoff on the Lemony Snicket books.

I thought so too!

What a wonderful explanation for what happened to Petey, but Alice just loves it. Personality difference much.

Sounds a bit Lemony Snickettish.

You’re thinking of the Semey State Medical University (formerly the Semipalatinsk State Medical Institute) which is located near a former nuclear testing site. The University has a medical museum which has a small display of corpses of fetuses and newborn children supposedly deformed by radiation from the tests. (I make no claims of belief or disbelief as to whether their birth defects are natural or not.)

I fell from a highchair onto my head. Good thing I can’t remember it.

a bomb in a bathtub is child endangerment! I’ll sue the author for this madness.