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THE
MIKE
DURRETT

SHOW
devil and angel
Today's Episode:
A Dark and Stormy Mike

Dateline: 10/27/98

Maybe it's the change in the seasons -- the beautiful rainbows of leafdom rapidly withering to death, or the weather's vivid, fiery cold growing bleaker.

Maybe it's the dank, sinister air of Halloween permeating my paranoid brainwave throbs.

Maybe it's the big bags of bite-size Zagnuts and sugary, orange marshmallow circus peanuts lurking at the bottom of my stomach -- a selfless act of preventive dental hygienic heroism, protecting innocent trick-or-treaters from those heinous snacks, forever.

I don't know what's going on, really; except I do need someone to talk to, a confidant. Don't tell me to seek professional guidance. I'm skeptical of the local psychologists. None of them stammer like Bob Newhart.

For quite some time, I've battled tumultuous impulses as my thoughts, secrets, and desires fester and multiply. I desperately fear these rampaging demons are going to take control of Mikey unless I speak of them to a caring, trustworthy human.

You'll do.

My wife, family and nearby cronies are supportive, but too close for comfort. Your absolute discretion is imperative in this matter! I'd be humiliated if my mistakes and aberrations became public knowledge.

Please allow me this personal exorcism, dear friend; and help me cope with these confidential derangements, from...


My Dark Side

Long ago, I was in prison. I did nothing illegal. It was an elective. I like to be frisked.

Satan comes to me in my Dream Whip. He commands me to Hell, and then insists I try the shortcake.

My life is at its most satisfying when I'm chucking ice cubes at Kate Winslet.

For the past 24 years, I've purposely neglected to turn my clocks back at the conclusion of Daylight Saving Time; so that when I die, I can hang around another day and attend my own funeral.

Screw the polls! I declare Saving Private Ryan is the worst musical since CATS.

In 1969, I was told I was not fully qualified to become "The Man from GLAD." Suffering grave mortification, I traveled overseas, where I served a short stint as "The Boy from SLIGHTLY PLEASED."

I deeply love my Donna; yet I fantasize about another woman's parakeets.

I once yelled "Huh?" after an Al Jarreau concert.

I'm the guy who stole those mittens, long believed lost by The Three Little Kittens. Every winter I look at the minuscule gloves and laugh and laugh! And sometimes, as a reward, I model them on my six favorite toes.

Exiting drugstores, it amuses me to leave the suppositories in there, behind.

While I remain in my 40s, I must continue compulsive nocturnal farmyard excursions where I flit mystically atwitter, sprinkling Nestle's Quik on moo cows.

After 50, that would be silly.

I like to age fine pudding pops until they are grandfathers.

I'm plagued by nightmares in which the Mob fits me with a cement overcoat and leaves me to meet a hideous, lingering death as co-host of CNN's Style with Elsa Klensch.

I'm apprehensive I might float to the top of a cannibal pandowdy.

Whenever my doctor tells me to say "Ah-hhhhh," I'm pretending to be a PEZ dispenser.


About Your Guide: Mike Durrett is feeling much better now, thank you.


So, what about your Dark Side? Our Humor Bulletin Board is exactly the place to express yourself, you nut.

The animation, courtesy MediaBuilder, illustrates the Guide's terror of crew cuts and the quadruple-sized nose. Not pictured, fear of flan.

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