She’s 100 and still singing. (Sort of.)
She, who for us young laddies was only a strange allusion in a strange song on a strange album….
And in a strange film…
“Gin! The Driver’s Choice!”
August 15, 2016 by at 7:38 pm
Potter Sighting
February 21, 2015 by at 9:24 am
I haven’t seen much of Potter lately, but a mutual friend sent me this clip from his 50th birthday party:
Looks like he may be finally getting around to that midlife crisis.
Existential Dissonance II
November 4, 2014 by at 6:51 am
Here’s What Happens When You Stop Being a Vegan
http://www.takepart.com/article/2014/08/05/exvegans
Sanitized Rowing Machines
October 21, 2014 by at 7:55 am
God bless the staff of the Y
For doing what makes mothers cry:
Sanitizing the sweat,
Forgiving the debt,
And making things clean ‘fore we die.
‘The Poems You Write Up at Night’: Compulsive Versifying
September 6, 2014 by at 4:00 pm
A few excerpts from that article ‘Compulsive Versifying after Treatment of Transient Epileptic Amnesia’ in Neurocase that everybody’s talking about:
Abstract
Compulsive production of verse is an unusual form of hypergraphia that has been reported mainly in patients with right temporal lobe seizures. We present a patient with transient epileptic amnesia and a left temporal seizure focus, who developed isolated compulsive versifying, producing multiple rhyming poems, following seizure cessation induced by lamotrigine. Functional neuroimaging studies in the healthy brain implicate left frontotemporal areas in generating novel verbal output and rhyme, while dysregulation of neocortical and limbic regions occurs in temporal lobe epilepsy. […]
Hot Prayer Tips
June 11, 2014 by at 9:46 am
In the waiting room while my dad gets his ticker worked on.
Blogging while working out
February 28, 2014 by at 6:40 am
… on the fancy new Korrektiv-equipped treadmills at the Y.
San Diego in the news.
Not my town, but the original San Diego – San Diego de Alcala. Or rather, his corpse. And a praying robot made in his image. A little something for anyone who has ever felt the least bit automatic during recitation of the rosary.