A new face on the Houston social scene is Dr. Tom-Tom Dooley who recently opened his practice in the Sharpstown area where he specializes in herbal gynecology and internal chiropractery. Dr. T.T., as his colleagues call him, is a native of the Papua district of New Guinea and a recent graduate of the University of Houston Medical School. Dr. T.T. always dreamed of becoming a doctor and finally realized his dream when a Palm Springs based missionary group convinced Jim Bakker and Tammy that this boy should study in the United States.
Tom-Tom met and married Wanda Too-Small Washington while they were both students at the University. This automatically made him a U.S. citizen and entitled him to list that he works for the IRS (as do the rest of us) on his resume. Dr. T.T. and Wanda are members of the River Oaks Country Club and they occasionally treat their close friends to intimate dinner parties featuring the doctor's favorite dishes; fruit bat steamed in banana leaves with yam pie.
His practice leaves him little time for hobbies, but the noted doctor still takes time on Sunday afternoons to zap sparrows in Houmont Park with his favorite 15-foot blowgun. He hopes that this fall he will have time to hunt grubs, which are especially delicious at this time of the year. He never serves snake, which he still considers taboo.
Dr. Dooley's favorite author is Margaret Mead, but the last book that he has read was the 2500 page classic, New Hebrides, by James Michner which portrays the lives of three pioneering Fiji Island families from the 1700's until the present. The sweep and romance of this epic has made it a best seller as well as popularizing the three Fiji family dynasties. A television series will soon follow, into which Dr. T.T. plans to invest.
Doctor Tom-Tom has already learned to invest his profits into businesses that lose heavily and thus provide good tax write-offs. His best investments so far have been art galleries featuring New Guinea outsider art, managed by Wanda. The galleries promise to lose in even greater volume than expected.
Congratulations, Dr. Tom-Tom and Wanda Too-Small
Dooley. You are our kind of people.