Dream Gets by Helen

Chappell

In the scribbling trades, snagging an interview with a famous or timely person is called a “get,” as in “I’ve got a session with Bob Dylan lined up! What a get!”

Gets have not loomed large in my career, even when I was working for a music magazine in the ’70s. I might have been feet away from David Bowie or one of the Stones, but that doesn’t mean I even got to speak to them, let alone probe them for profiles. Mostly, I prefer people whose work or lifestyle interests me, and they’re mostly all local since I came home to the Shore in 1980.

From time to time, however, I do wonder about certain…well, creatures and how they feel about things and what their origins are. Two individuals whose backstory I’d really like to know are Count Dracula and Godzilla. Frankenstein is not so much of a get, as he explained himself in Mary Shel -