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\"Glass<\/a><\/p>\n

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The first time I remember hearing about a glass eye was when my family was sitting around the old rotbox watching Columbo one post-dinner, 70’s eve.<\/p>\n

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My mother, not one to let a physical anomaly slip by unannounced, said something along the lines of: “I don’t know how he ever made it as an actor with that glass eye,” as if having one somehow hindered Peter Falk from, well, mumbling through his lines.<\/p>\n

In any case, at the mention of his glass eye, I sat right up: Glass whaaaa….?<\/p>\n

My mom pointed out how one eye always remained static and dead looking in the man’s face. In my mind’s own non-glass eye, I imagined that said prosthetic peeper was like a big, milky marble with a faux pupil and iris in it and I immediately wanted one, wanted a whole bag of them, to be sure.<\/p>\n

\"Glass<\/a>Some unrelated time later, my dad told the story of the rubber shrunken head he’d had hanging from the rear-view mirror of one of his early cars and how he’d carved out slots in the noggin to permit him to insert a pair of eerie glass eyes into it, perfecting the thing’s effect to such a degree that, shortly thereafter, it was stolen.<\/p>\n

Where had he gotten the glass eyes, I asked? There was a factory in the town he grew up in (Spokane?) that made them. A certain amount of the glass eyes were defects and these they discarded. According to him, you could go out behind the place and find said rejects pretty easily.<\/p>\n

Oh. My. God. Here was my dad, growing up in a town where they threw free glass eyeballs out the back of a factory to children, and all I had was huge waterfall. I felt totally neglected.<\/p>\n

So, pretty much, I grew up subconsciously dying to own a glass eye. \"Glass<\/a>Well, let me clarify: I wanted *someone else’s* glass eye; I was never too keen on needing one of my own. Even after I learned that a glass eye wasn’t a marble but, rather, shaped more like half an oyster shell, I wanted to add (at least) one to my collection of found objects and odd crapola. Now, in my 43rd year, I finally managed to find one at a local antique and collectibles store.<\/p>\n

The tag said “prostetic (sic) eye” but they weren’t fooling me – I knew what it was, and that was all she wrote. I suppose I could’ve found one earlier on ebay or some such but, you know, stumbling across it unlooked for was a hell of a lot more fun and thus special.<\/p>\n

Here’s looking at you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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