Ars Gratia Artis

Over to teh doctor this morning. Long bout of sequential viral illnesses topped by what felt like a strep throat go round. I woke first around 12 AM with nausea and a sore throat–it was the pain in my throat that drove me to wakefulness. Same thing again about 5:30 this morning. I got up [...]

… a story about me and the monkey that I want to share with you. It’s supposed to be part of the broadcast tomorrow morning, but the streaming audio segment is available now. If you are not aware of vocalo.org (and why would you be, if you are not near Chicago?), it’s a sort of [...]

Sock Monkey holding a message from K, inscribed in a wax tablet.
Another Boar’s Head gone by, with an in-persona write up here: http://merouda.blogspot.com/2009/12/on-ye-eue-of-ye-day-of-saint-nicholas-i.html
That would be all there really is to say about it; I went, I enjoyed visiting with people, I left. I had st00p1d amounts of trouble putting a winter outfit together, and eventually [...]

WHO is the light bulb that decide a tin wind-up doll was the best way to represent the message?
I am referring to the commercial for Pristiq, the most recent antidepressant to be shoved down our collective gullet.
“Take this pill, and instead of a being a sad automaton, you can be a happy automaton: hollow [...]