archives for July 2006
the new drug (calls all in doubt?)
Monday 24 July 2006 | someone left a cookie
Rather an uncanny similarity, you must admit….
Since Thursday morning we’ve been dutifully ingesting every morning the starting dose (25 mg) of Lamictal, an anti-seizure med which allegedly also works on atypical/cyclical depression. The side effects so far appear to be minimal: a bit of the anti-cholergenic stuff going on (dry mouth, yada yada) and a […]
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beasts cost extra
Sunday 23 July 2006 | I like a cookie
incoming! incoming!
Friday 21 July 2006 | I like a cookie
I’m sure I’m at least a decade behind the dull butterknife’s cutting edge when I announce artlessly that, goddamn it, Site Meter is seriously cool. Through its mysterious omniscience we can determine that the Un has, in the last 48 hours, seen traffic actually coming from the outside world and not just from our scant […]
and in other news
Wednesday 19 July 2006 | I like a cookie
It’s Armageddon time! Forget about your avian flu pandemics or your climate-change induced tropical storms or your escalating mass extinctions—Israel’s apparently more than happy to sponsor all the apocalypse we’ll ever need.
And for those among you who’ve always been a little dubious about Wikipedia, wondering if a user-created encyclopedia might not be fully as unreliable […]
hysterical paroxysms
Tuesday 18 July 2006 | someone left a cookie
“I don’t want to be mentally interesting any more,” I informed Mandarin, pausing to catch my emotional breath during the 40-some-odd minutes it took me to hack up and cough out a three-line email notifying my nearest and dearest of the advent of the screaming weevils and thus why I don’t answer the phone/return calls/do […]
your guess is as good as ours
Monday 17 July 2006 | I like a cookie
But here’s a guess anyway. First, drugs, because we’re nothing if not deterministic. Our previous cocktail:
80 mg propranalol (Inderal)
37.5 mg venlafaxine (Effexor)
150 mg bupropion (Wellbutrin)
7.5-15 mg mirtazapine (Remeron)
plus microscopic PRN sub-doses of buspar (Xanax), though what “PRN” actually translated into was “in the event that Voldemort shows up at my place of work/home and harangues […]
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“tiny times goofed”—a true story
Saturday 15 July 2006 | I like a cookie
To the Editor:
U mad a mistake in the Tiny Tims (last Saturday). U didit poot the 28 in. Insted u poot the 29.
The Brujo
1st Grader
Bethlehem, PA
(Ed. Note: B., you are right. Many others also called our attention to the December calendar puzzle. The 28 did belong where 29 had been printed.)
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megaphasma dentricus, aka giant blog entry
Saturday 15 July 2006 | I like a cookie
Darlings, Maman would have said musingly, there are some things out here that are awfully strange.
And one such outlander I did encounter while in South Texas about two years ago. Calpurnia the scrawny kitten was pawing at the sliding glass door with her mouth full of a wriggling lizard or toad or some poor reptile, […]
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can fred’s obituary be for real?
Saturday 15 July 2006 | I like a cookie
I believe Frederic Arthur (Fred) Clark, while not perhaps anyone I would have particularly enjoyed in life, just may be my new favorite dead person.
Frederic Arthur (Fred) Clark, who had tired of reading obituaries noting other’s courageous battles with this or that disease, wanted it known that he lost his battle as a result of […]
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daniel tosh ≠ allen konigsberg; and yet
Saturday 15 July 2006 | I like a cookie
“Life is what you make it; make it good. I have a good life. My friends think it’s so much better than it really is. Why? Because I make it better. Wanna know where I’m working next week? Hmm? Hawaii. How’s that feel, Irvine? Enjoy your mall.
“I’m not in Hawaii next week; I’m in Milwaukee. […]
