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The Supermarket’s Scourge Against Tall People
This Is How Hoarders Get Their Start
Yes, that’s a kids’ shampoo bottle.
Read MoreRoad Tripped
After 850 miles on the road I can still feel the car moving. And hear all the bad radio.
Read MoreMovie Truism
If your character coughs even one time in a movie, you will die before the credits roll.
Read MoreMore Lactose Please
Man was not made to consume this much cheese in this little time.
Read MoreFinger Jerky, Perhaps?
You know after you remove a Band-Aid that’s gotten soaking wet: That white, wrinkly, squishy look that your skin gets where it’s been covered up? They need a really good name for that.
Read MoreWash Your Hands
It’s gonna get dirty out there. We have a bleak window of maybe 10 years, where we are going to have to use the antibiotics we have very wisely, but also grapple with the reality that we have nothing to treat these infections with.
Read MoreIll
Taking my first sick day in months… can’t remember the last time, actually. It’s amazing how being ill can totally derail all your plans, make everything suddenly take a back seat to your recovery, and delay everything you have going on. And at the same it can be liberating: No one expects you to get…
Read MorePerhaps This Is Why My Drain Is Slow
Plumber: “How did the water drain before?” Me: “…”
Read MorePlanes, Trains, and Vaporettos
Just back from 8 glorious days in Italy… jet lagged like nobody’s business, but replete… Thinking about all the forms of travel required to get from here to Florence, around Tuscany, to Venice, back to Florence, and back to San Francisco. Looks a bit like this (not including copious amounts of time spent on foot):…
Read MoreSometimes Sleeping Is Hard
Had insane dreams last night. People (even some dead ones) from the distant past playing major roles. Espionage and hitmen after me, holed up in a hotel room. My kids were overgrown to 5’6″ tall (but still 4-7 years old). Things got so weird I was woken up and told that I was having a…
Read MoreIt Was Only a Matter of Time…
I’m surprised it took so long…
Read MoreLike Getting Hit in the Face
“I can’t stand to see a woman bleed from the mouth. It reminds me of that country and western music, which I cannot abide.” – one genius line of many from In the Loop
Read MoreBaby, It’s Cold Outside
If this isn’t Snuggie weather I don’t know what is.
Read MoreDarkness Imprisoning Me
Hey, I’ve seen this movie. A man thought by doctors to be in a vegetative state for 23 years was actually conscious the whole time, it was revealed last night.
Read MoreIm Hurt
It’s funny because it’s true.
Read MoreBe Mad
It’s healthy! An Australian psychology expert who has been studying emotions has found being grumpy makes us think more clearly. In contrast to those annoying happy types, miserable people are better at decision-making and less gullible, his experiments showed. While cheerfulness fosters creativity, gloominess breeds attentiveness and careful thinking, Professor Joe Forgas told Australian Science…
Read MoreBPA: We’re All Screwed
Society laughs at your fears about the BPA-laden plastic water bottle. “When people talk about polycarbonate bottles, they talk about nanogram quantities of BPA [leaching out],” Warner observes. “The average cash register receipt that’s out there and uses the BPA technology will have 60 to 100 milligrams of free BPA.” By free, he explains, it’s…
Read MoreIn Other News, Ukranian Cash is Known as the Hryvnia
Note to self/world: If you drop money into a toilet, let it go. The emergency workers removed tiles, drilled the toilet out of concrete floor and cut the outlet pipe, but the man’s arm remained trapped in the chute. Hydraulic shears and a plumber’s torch were finally used to cut the man free.
Read MoreGet Ready to Suck, San Francisco!
Oh boy…
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