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Elegy for the Tone Deaf
Can’t sing? Here’s why. (Hint: Blame your brain architecture.)
Read MoreThe Kool-Aid Is Served
Final recording from Jonestown, November 18, 1978. 44 minutes of preaching and death. Yeesh.
Read MoreSeriously, Safeway?
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Read MoreOn Fava Beans, Chianti
I’m getting so tired of this ridiculous Steve Jobs liver transplant story. The increasingly tiresome Jim Goldman “confirms” what was widely suspected: Jobs went to Tennessee so he could get a liver transplant. Yeah, we got it. But now comes the backlash: Did Jobs jump the transplant line so he could get a liver before…
Read MoreDon’t Trust Nobody
The Rosenhan experiment: For the purposes of the study, eight “pseudopatients” (associates of Rosenhan selected to be a group of varied and healthy individuals) attempted to gain admission to psychiatric hospitals. During psychiatric assessment they claimed to be hearing voices that were often unclear, but which seemed to pronounce the words “hollow”, “empty”, and “thud.”…
Read MoreHell of a Way to Go
I thought they were supposed to be buried in a VW Beetle…
Read MoreWhen Cameron Was in Egypt’s Land…
Let my Cameron goooooooooooooooooooooo. FOR SALE: 370 Beech Street Highland Park, IL 60035 $2.3 million and worth every penny. Is that really a Ferrari in the garage? Hard to tell from the pic…
Read MoreI Guess There Is P in Our OOL
Part of me just died inside. 1 in 6 admit to peeing in the pool
Read MoreA Fry Cook on Venus, Indeed!
Just watched Ferris Bueller’s Day Off on Blu-ray… with this theory (via MetaTalk) in mind. Doesn’t totally work, but it was a fun way to experience the movie nonetheless: My favorite thought-piece about Ferris Bueller is the “Fight Club” theory, in which Ferris Bueller, the person, is just a figment of Cameron’s imagination, like Tyler…
Read MoreThese Kids Today
Let’s say you’re eating a quesadilla in the kitchen. Why then would you decide to get up and run through the house — mouth full of food — only to trip and fall in the hallway, split your head open on the corner of a baseboard, and have to be taken to the ER for…
Read MoreAre You At Risk?
Danger lurks around every corner!
Read MoreYeah, We’re Totally Gonna Die
The death toll is already scary, but this could also impact my burrito consumption in coming months.
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