CELEBRITY COUPLES: LINCOLN AND TODD

Can you imagine watching the two of them walking down the street? A six foot five 120 pound consumptive looking Abe with a 5 ft 3 5 by 5 chubby Hovell (sic ) with a pug face who was slowly poisoning old Abe with strychnine? I mean, who is the scarier visage: he or she ( or him or her, or she and he... whatever! ) Such a physical contrast.

When I was a little boy, I was fascinated by the Lincoln Assassination. Never mind what he did for the country. I wanted to see all the artist's rendition of the shooting. One of them shows his left hand as being backwards, the thumb pointed outward. Was this a mistake or a true physical deformity he had?

Anyway, we had ( still have actually ) a child's book of the presidents - pre Nixon - and the rendering of Abe for the book shows a small crack in his head, which I accentuated and made longer.

What a fucking weirdo I am, Sam I Am. I have to find the "deformed hand" pic. Back in a moment.