(This is meant to be taken slightly satirically.) I was taking my dog Buster for a walk last frosty Sunday morning when we came across a strange object in front of my neighbor’s house. It looked like a “monolith” of sorts, though at closer inspection it was a tall cardboard box that was for storing a Christmas tree inside. It had just appeared out of nowhere. How did it get there and how put it there? Why was it placed so close to the road? My dog got freaked out by the sight of it along our usually walking path and stood his ground against its strange alien presence. He sensed something “off” about the structure. Coincidentally, I had just read in the news about the famous and mysterious Utah monolith “disappearing” in red rock country literally that Sunday morning. I now had our very own mysterious monolith just a few houses down from me in the Riverside Green neighborhood of Dublin, Ohio. Sure… it was probably “just” a Christmas tree cardboard box that the neighbor had probably left outside for someone to pick up that morning. But it still freaked out my dog, startled my imagination and my own love for mysterious monoliths in “2001: A Space Odyssey”, and partially qualified as Dublin, Ohio’s very own monolith. Would curio-seekers from around the world come to my neighborhood to take pictures of it? Yet within an hour or so, just like the monolith in Utah, it too disappeared. Where it went, I am not certain. But for a moment, it created a little bit of monolith mania for my dog and I. (I think I may be spending just a little too much time at home during this COVID-19 year and was looking for some excitement… and I finally got it.)
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