a shock to the head

I didn’t care when my dentist said he needed to relax the muscles in my jaw with a TENS (transcutaneous electro-nerve stimulator) machine. A mild electric current. Heck, I once stood face to face with the searing fury of Doctor Megavolt’s mighty Tesla coil and lived to tell about it. And Maggie used TENS [...]

damned disease

Ballard Gal hasn’t posted for a while (like three months) but that’s OK. It’s hard having just about every system and organ in your body functioning in some wacky and subnormal fashion: daily headaches and sore throats, feeling like you’ve got the flu (always), muscle pain, poor digestion, mystery infections that last for months, brain [...]

when all else fails

No movies to report on from the weekend. No hairballs that look just like Abraham Lincoln. No buildings burned down at reader’s circle this time. So it’s time to go straight to bad taste. The SubGenius group on Tribe posted some of their most wished for, or favorite bumper stickers. The last two require some [...]

keep your cattle brains off my lips

WASHINGTON – The government told cosmetics makers Friday they can no longer use brain and spinal cord tissue from older cattle in lipstick, hair sprays, and other products.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20040710/news_1n10madcow.html
A close reading of this statement by the FDA would seem to allow the spraying of younger cow brains onto your hair, which I’m sure will [...]

not that there’s anything wrong with it

Several newspapers carried the AP story below. I didn’t see it till Maggie alerted me. This type of behavior would be perfectly OK in the privacy of one’s own home, or in a club that caters to those of the nacho persuasion. But when you break into a place and steal the chips and [...]

burning down the deli

I was sitting in a coffee shop this weekend with my reader’s circle group, and I noticed some smoke over the building across the street. I asked people around me if that looked a bit suspicious. Then there was a huge plume of smoke. Then smoke started seeping out of the crack between the roof [...]

of course we trust you

The administration of President Awful wants the authority to “delay the November presidential election if there is an attack by al Qaeda.” Can you think of any reason why we shouldn’t give the Republican administration the power to disrupt our presidential election? Not me.

What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, [...]

puck in the woods

Some friends and I saw “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” at Snoqualmie Falls Forest Theater last night. The stage is an open circle of ground in the forest, the seats are long benches on a hillside. Except for some rain at the beginning (and a slimy slug on the bench next to me) it was fun. [...]