Megacolon

[Car conversation between me and Chris, discussing a publisher who asked for more rights than I was willing to sell:]

PZB: I had to tell them it wasn't my first day at the rodeo.

CdB: It wasn't even your second day at the rodeo.

PZB: Actually, I was on my way out the door of the arena where the rodeo was being held.

CdB: Elvis has left the building.

[pause:]

PZB: I don't have a megacolon.

And that seems like a good note upon which to mention that it is now My Official Birthday Month, and that on May 25 I