It is Friday, July 13, and
we are pretty much entering the period known as “the dog days of summer.”
According to Wikipedia, “the dog days of summer” are described as the following:
“ … the hot, sultry days of summer. They were historically the period following the heliacal rising of the star system Sirius, which Hellenistic astrology connected with heat, drought, sudden thunderstorms, lethargy, fever, mad dogs, and bad luck.”
The dog days, in layman’s terms, are the hottest days of the summer, the most uncomfortable time of the year for many people.
Tonight we will also see a
full moon, so I don’t know how that impacts these dog days, if it all, but I
know it effects the tides and things like that.
You have also heard the term “crazy from the heat,” well, it most probably refers to some people’s reactions to these dog days.
I wonder why they even connect these hot days with dogs.
Is it because dogs can’t sweat, so they pant so much during hot weather to keep themselves cool?
Can you imagine a human being doing the same?
I guess we would classify them as “crazy from the heat.”
And with the full moon comes the werewolves, whose entire demeanor and look change with the coming of this moon.
Remember Lawrence Talbot? He was the movies' werewolf character, and, as played by Lon Chaney Jr., he went from a mild mannered, yet pretty paranoid, man to an animalistic creature when the moon went full.
One of the funniest scenes in “Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein” is when Talbot meets up with Bud and Lou in his search for Dracula and the monster.
Talbot tries to convince the duo that he is, in fact, a werewolf, and he describes his metamorphosis from man to animal to them.
Bud and Lou look at each other like this guy is crazy, and then Talbot says something to the effect of, “When the full moon comes, I change into a wolf!”
Lou replies, “You and a thousand other guys!:”
Whenever I see that scene—I must have seen it a thousand times—I roll over with laughter. It is just so funny.
But the heat definitely affects people in mysterious ways, and I wonder how the heat is getting to people during the coronavirus era.
Violent acts are up across the board, and I am wondering if the virus—mixed with not only the heat, but alcohol and other drugs—is making people do things that they wouldn’t ordinarily do.
The stuff happening on airplanes is particularly bizarre.
People are attacking others on planes, which is probably a mix of some level of air-bound dementia brought on by alcohol, the pandemic, and the wearing of masks in a confined space.
Funny, my wife and I went to South Korea five years ago, were on a plane for 13 hours straight—right after being on one that flew from the East Coast to the West Coast—and we didn’t see a single person get crazy on any flight we took.
Nor did anyone get crazy on the return flights we had to take, which were equally as long.
Yes, that was in 2016, five years ago, and I don’t think anyone at the time knew what the coronavirus was at the time.
It seems so long ago, doesn’t it?
I would have thought that if we got through last summer—when we were at the height of the pandemic and we couldn’t really do much of anything—that we could get through anything, but I have been proven wrong by things that are happening around us now.
We are supposedly “open for business,” but people are still going nuts ... and still getting sick.
Just look what is happening in New York City, where people are seemingly getting shot--by bullets, that is-- every minute of the day while the city plans for its grand reopening, with the centerpiece being a major, free concert in Central Park which might draw a million spectators—all being done even though we have a variant out there that appears to me more virulent than the original virus that came here and impacted so many people.
If that isn’t crazy—basically willingly launching a possible super-spreader event right in the middle of a pandemic—then I don’t really know what is.
“The dog days of summer,” “crazy from the heat,” … you can call it what you want, but some people certainly have "a screw loose” as we move into the final week of July.
And the full moon approaches … .
Have a great weekend, and I will speak to you again on Monday.
You have also heard the term “crazy from the heat,” well, it most probably refers to some people’s reactions to these dog days.
I wonder why they even connect these hot days with dogs.
Is it because dogs can’t sweat, so they pant so much during hot weather to keep themselves cool?
Can you imagine a human being doing the same?
I guess we would classify them as “crazy from the heat.”
And with the full moon comes the werewolves, whose entire demeanor and look change with the coming of this moon.
Remember Lawrence Talbot? He was the movies' werewolf character, and, as played by Lon Chaney Jr., he went from a mild mannered, yet pretty paranoid, man to an animalistic creature when the moon went full.
One of the funniest scenes in “Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein” is when Talbot meets up with Bud and Lou in his search for Dracula and the monster.
Talbot tries to convince the duo that he is, in fact, a werewolf, and he describes his metamorphosis from man to animal to them.
Bud and Lou look at each other like this guy is crazy, and then Talbot says something to the effect of, “When the full moon comes, I change into a wolf!”
Lou replies, “You and a thousand other guys!:”
Whenever I see that scene—I must have seen it a thousand times—I roll over with laughter. It is just so funny.
But the heat definitely affects people in mysterious ways, and I wonder how the heat is getting to people during the coronavirus era.
Violent acts are up across the board, and I am wondering if the virus—mixed with not only the heat, but alcohol and other drugs—is making people do things that they wouldn’t ordinarily do.
The stuff happening on airplanes is particularly bizarre.
People are attacking others on planes, which is probably a mix of some level of air-bound dementia brought on by alcohol, the pandemic, and the wearing of masks in a confined space.
Funny, my wife and I went to South Korea five years ago, were on a plane for 13 hours straight—right after being on one that flew from the East Coast to the West Coast—and we didn’t see a single person get crazy on any flight we took.
Nor did anyone get crazy on the return flights we had to take, which were equally as long.
Yes, that was in 2016, five years ago, and I don’t think anyone at the time knew what the coronavirus was at the time.
It seems so long ago, doesn’t it?
I would have thought that if we got through last summer—when we were at the height of the pandemic and we couldn’t really do much of anything—that we could get through anything, but I have been proven wrong by things that are happening around us now.
We are supposedly “open for business,” but people are still going nuts ... and still getting sick.
Just look what is happening in New York City, where people are seemingly getting shot--by bullets, that is-- every minute of the day while the city plans for its grand reopening, with the centerpiece being a major, free concert in Central Park which might draw a million spectators—all being done even though we have a variant out there that appears to me more virulent than the original virus that came here and impacted so many people.
If that isn’t crazy—basically willingly launching a possible super-spreader event right in the middle of a pandemic—then I don’t really know what is.
“The dog days of summer,” “crazy from the heat,” … you can call it what you want, but some people certainly have "a screw loose” as we move into the final week of July.
And the full moon approaches … .
Have a great weekend, and I will speak to you again on Monday.
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