The Crawling Eye

Nervous (about) ticks

If there’s one thing that really ticks me off, it’s ticks.

These are pretty much my mortal enemy. I’ve seldom gone on a camping trip the past few years without having to battle these blood-sucking arachnids. One trip included saturating myself in a DEET-based repellant. It had the maximum amount of DEET permitted by law. I also doused the dog in FrontLine, a flea/tick collar and a spray-on flea and tick repellant for animals. This outing was tick free.

I had to do this because a previous camping trip involved me literally running out of the woods like I was in some horror movie as the ticks covered my dog and me faster than I could brush them off. They were crawling into the seams of my jeans and embedding themselves in my poor Rhodesian ridgeback mix Chester before I could pick them off.

But we cannot constantly cover ourselves in chemicals — especially when we’re just enjoying our own backyard. Recently, I found a tick in the dog’s ear at home. Could it be from the backyard? Then I found one on my knee.

So the question shifted to “Did I bring these in or did the dog?” I thought about it for a moment and decided I probably brought them in. Earlier that day I had gone for a run at Kearney Fitness Center, winding my way through Innovations business park, Cedar Wood subdivision and up by Dogwood Elementary, where the grass grows tall.

Either way, it was a grim reminder that while they are not prevalent in town, ticks do have a presence. When you come in from mowing the lawn, your dog has been bounding around outside or your children have been playing in brush, it’s good to remember to do a quick check.

They wouldn’t be such a nuisance if they weren’t so difficult to remove. I found a “tick key” at a hardware store that you slide over the tick, catch it at the head and pull it out with relative ease. It’s much easier than using tweezers and much safer than many other methods.

There’s a lot misnomers about ticks and tick removal. Let me share some of my knowledge. I’ve done extensive research online, asked veterinarians and talked to doctors about tick removal and threats because of my frequent encounters with them. After all, to defeat your enemy you must know it well.

Always use tweezers or a “tick key” to remove ticks.

10 YEARS OF REMO D! Interview by The Bone Jangler «

The Bone Jangler: What made you decide to become a Horror Host?

Remo D : I grew up with the genre, and I have my father to thank for that. My earliest “movie” memory involves watching THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN with him on television–while I’m told that the “giant” spider scene drove many a child to hide behind the couch, I was simply fascinated. Watching the Saturday night “Creature Features” on WGN became a tradition (at least while Mary Tyler Moore and Bob Newhart were in reruns).

Vacation time took us to San Francisco, where I got my first look at Bob Wilkins (not that I was ever allowed to stay up to watch his entire show)–I was very pleased to learn more about the movies I was watching in the process. Back in Chicagoland (I grew up in Valparaiso, Indiana, which showed Chicago television, of course), I occasionally got to see fuzzy UHF airings of the original Svengoolie and The Ghoul–I still remember a sketch from the latter show involving Froggy and something he had swallowed. There it was–my first combination of a creature-feature (THE CRAWLING EYE, in fact) and a host who provided wacky comedy to go with it.

As I stayed up for late-night weekend horror movies over my grade-school years, I improvised host segments and the occasional sketch–my unnamed host played to an audience in my own head (if I fell asleep on the movie, the audience would even see me napping between segments, so I decreed).

But of course, it took Rich Koz to surface as the Son of Svengoolie to really spark me off–here was a guy who was DOING everything I was imagining and more. If I wasn’t the first fan to write to him, I was definitely the first fan whose name he read on the air (and the proof is on YouTube!)–so I continue to declare myself Sven’s “original fan.” I never missed an episode–I cheered when he won local Emmys–he was the complete and total validation of my imagination (and yes, I continued to “host” every NON-Sven horror movie I watched with vigor).

The process of actually becoming a host took much, much longer, of course–but Rich “Svengoolie” Koz remains my most potent inspiration and the main reason I chose to pursue the reality.

TBJ:  Who is Remo D.?

Remo D:   In the parlance of professional wrestling, he’s “me with the volume turned up.

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