This morning as we sat down in front of the computer to write a blog post and stared at the blank screen, waiting for inspiration to strike, it dawned on us that for the first time maybe ever, we were blocked. Try as we might, “we got nothing.”
Zero. Zip. Nada. Zilch. Head empty.
Or as we routinely and rotely tell the U.S. Customs Officer when we come back from a trip abroad, “Nothing to declare.”
Well…nothing to declare except this oh-so-tasty, scratch éclair. We made it from the finest ingredients in our kitchen: 1 hot dog bun, 1 bar of melted Hershey’s milk chocolate, some whipped cream, and sliced strawberries. Please don’t judge. The hot dog bun was leftover, and we didn’t want to throw it out. Waste not, want not, we always say. Wait…we’ve literally never said that before, but bread isn’t exactly cheap these days. Neither are strawberries.
Oscar Wilde, shown below, famously said, or is supposed to have said, to an American Customs agent when he arrived at the port of New York, “I have nothing to declare but my genius.”
Likewise, we have nothing to declare except our genius, which came to us courtesy of a 10,000-year-old lamp. 🪔🧞♀️ We think Barbara Eden, shown below, would appreciate our genius.🤣
Come to think of it, Jeannie Williams, Director of Clinical Operations at EpicentRx and ex-Army nurse, will also appreciate it since she was apparently named for Barbara Eden’s “I Dream of Jeannie” character.
So that’s it then. We have nothing left to declare except a superb sense of humor.
Oh, and three in-progress clinical trials, the Phase 3 REPLATINUM with RRx-001 (nibrozetone) for the treatment of small cell lung cancer (SCLC), the Phase 2b KEVLARx for the prevention/mitigation of severe oral mucositis in first line head and neck cancer, and a Phase 2a BETA PRIME with AdAPT-001 plus a checkpoint inhibitor.
Saving the best for last, here is one final declaration from a lovely, and talented 9-year-old child who wants us to stop blogging and to start playing right now.
“1,2,3,4…I declare a thumb war.”