The Doctor is Out: Ramblings of a Patient
Justin “Mr. M.” Maudslien is in Europe unearthing more arcane facts for his Alphabet… Allan “Doc” Dorison is studying the mystic and surgical arts with Stephen Strange on the astral plane… Luckily, Matt. Murray has emerged from a month’s long pharmaceutical coma to report from the front (of his television set).
As of my next birthday, I will be 33 years old. Being a hobbit, that places me somewhere in my early teens developmentally, but as I recently spent an inordinate amount of time stationed in front of my 25-inch GE tube, I’ve come to realize that in television years, I’m as ancient as my recently diagnosed sciatica makes me feel.
However, there is one certainty as far as age-appropriateness goes, and that is that I am still too young to be a fat man with a cane – so my immediate future definitely holds twice-a-week trips to the local Y until some weight drops or my back realigns itself… and then of course there will have to be some maintenance involved, at least until my hair falls out, then it will be time to bust out the walking stick, the white suit, the ascot and live out the rest of my days on the cosplay circuit as Wilson Fisk.
