I must confess that "The Utterly Monsterous, Mind-Roasting Summer of O.C. and Stiggs" bears the lion's share of the blame for twisting my unformed Play-Do lump of a sense of humor into the muddied, mangled mess that stands before you now.

The remainder of the "credit" goes to late Sunday evening airings of "Monty Python's Flying Circus" on PBS.

Rick S.
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