archives for September 2006
emsam!
Saturday 30 September 2006 | I like a cookie
With new prescription in hand, or rather adhering to lower back, we’ve been crawling around crazymeds.org and the rest of Dear Internet questing for information on our Drug of the Month: EMSAM, which is a patch! and it really does come in all-caps, which we find impossible to pronounce without intoning roundly, grandly: EM-SAM!—see? (Or [...]
wiki entry just begging for “the philosophers’ drinking song” treatment
Saturday 30 September 2006 | I like a cookie
Antidepressants Monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOI) Harmaline, Iproclozide, Iproniazid, Isocarboxazid, Nialamide, Phenelzine, Selegiline, Toloxatone, Tranylcypromine Reversible inhibitor of monoamine oxidase A (RIMA) Brofaromine, Moclobemide Dopamine reuptake inhibitor (DARI) Amineptine, Phenmetrazine, Vanoxerine Norepinephrine-dopamine reuptake inhibitors Bupropion, Adrafinil, Modafinil, Nuvigil Norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor (NRI) or (NARI) Atomoxetine, Maprotiline, Reboxetine, Viloxazine Serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor (SNRI) Duloxetine, Milnacipran, Venlafaxine Selective [...]
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friday refrain (from a former professor)
Friday 29 September 2006 | I like a cookie
SUMMER 1983 — Mary Jo Salter None of us remembers these, the days when passing strangers adored us at first sight, just for living, or for rolling down the street; praised all our given names; begged us to smile… You, too, in a little while, my darling, will have lost all this, asked for a [...]
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pink boot right up the…ahem.
Thursday 28 September 2006 | I like a cookie
Where you be 15 October 2006? Whatchoo mean you don’t know? You be at Club Alegría and you be grooving and jiving to the funky beats of many outraged local musicians, that where you be, you! Cough. Matt and Nina, who’ve oft played with the Brujo and vice versa under different auspices and in different [...]
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a thing of beauty and a joy for..about five years, more or less
Wednesday 27 September 2006 | I like a cookie
That’s almost exactly how old our G4 Powerbook is, once a desperately thrilling Christmas present from our mom in 2001 (see ancient blogpost) when Titaniums (Titania?) were hot off the assembly lines—although the CD drive, not yet being Combo, could only read not write. And now it can do neither, but as this grieving owner [...]
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and people think crack climbing is easy
Wednesday 27 September 2006 | I like a cookie
People think that because people like Dan Osman make it look easy. People are stupid. (Inadvertently courtesy of Jason Kottke.) Check out his casual chalk-dust flinging dynos. Check out the way he flips off the wall many hundreds of feet off the ground. Watch how he steps off tiny knobs and flows through laybacks that [...]
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macarthur fellows
Wednesday 27 September 2006 | I like a cookie
I’m usually too busy being vitiated by envy to feel anything but tepid dislike for the MacArthur Fellows, but in this year’s crop for some reason instead I see every reason to be grateful, and to hope that H. sapiens might even at some point be spared ourselves, thanks to the labors of their kind. [...]
reader input solicited
Tuesday 26 September 2006 | someone left a cookie
A trip back to East TX scheduled for October; the paranoids want to bestow a cat upon me; this one, whom we would promptly rename Pyewacket (current barn-cat name doesn’t bear repeating). Is it nutty even to think about a feline, this feline, this soon? At least she’d match all our winter clothes.
“I feel happy, I feel happy!”
Tuesday 26 September 2006 | 2 cookies in the jar
It seems that, among the slender yet stubbornly persistent throngs, a florist in Britain (?!) who makes lovely arrangements, and a drug rehab counselor in Colorado (?!?), at least, have enjoyed reading our insanity drama-mongering self-indulgent our prose. Either that or those spam bots are getting really clever. Their comments leave me speechless with gratitude, [...]
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the volcano lover • spin magazine, march 1996 • francesca lia block
Monday 25 September 2006 | I like a cookie
If you think Tori Amos is just another New Age flower poet, wait till you meet the furious girl inside. Francesca Lia Block talks faeries, boys, and pudding with pop music’s reigning goddess. • I had a dream about Tori Amos before I met her. She was wearing a stiff peach damask Italian Renaissance gown; [...]
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