Cure Asthma and Hayfever Now!

Trade all that sneezing misery for a simple little ... worm.

This is my personal account of curing my asthma and hayfever by deliberately infesting myself with the intestinal parasite hookworm.

Ewww.

I bet it would be pretty embarrassing if you start dragging your ass across the carpet when you have company over.

Cure Asthma and Hayfever Now!

Trade all that sneezing misery for a simple little ... worm.

This is my personal account of curing my asthma and hayfever by deliberately infesting myself with the intestinal parasite hookworm.

Ewww.

I bet it would be pretty embarrassing if you start dragging your ass across the carpet when you have company over.

Somebody should have told me about this...

Somebody gave me this mix cd that had a bunch of crap on it but it also had this song called Steady As She Goes by some band I've never heard of called The Raconteurs which I'm really digging.

Turns out it's a band with Jack White of the White Stripes and some old buddies of his. You'd think I would have heard of this from someplace else before now (I put up with thedeepgreensea's lies about his sexual exploits just so I can hear about some new music, but no, I have to find this one myself).

I'll probably tire of it quickly, like the musical equivalent of ... something sweet and new but ultimately shallow, make up your own analogy. But for now I'm listening to it over and over again.

Hopefully I'll get the whole cd soon. Is it ok to say 'cd' or should we still call them 'albums'?

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Recently finished reading Red Thunder and it's sequel Red Lightning by John Varley. I liked em both. If you dig old school Robert Heinlein then you have got to check these two books out. Varley must have spent a fortune on mediums to channel Heinlein's spirit long enough to get these two novels out of him.

I'm in the middle of The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi which was recommended by the aforementioned thedeepgreensea as being similar to Maupin's Tales of the City. I can see why he says they are similar but this book isn't nearly as appealing to me as the Tales of the City books were. Maupin made those characters come alive in a way few writers have for me. I can't really say I care too much what happens to the characters in The Buddha of Suburbia but I'm only about 70 pages into it. I'll finish it though. Probably. I didn't finish White Teeth by Zadie Smith and it reminds me a bit of TBoS also.

I'm also partway into River of Gods by Ian McDonald. This one is science fiction set in India in 2047. It's ok so far. I'm not sure if I'm going to finish it. I'll give it a bit more and see how it goes.

Somebody should have told me about this...

Somebody gave me this mix cd that had a bunch of crap on it but it also had this song called Steady As She Goes by some band I've never heard of called The Raconteurs which I'm really digging.

Turns out it's a band with Jack White of the White Stripes and some old buddies of his. You'd think I would have heard of this from someplace else before now (I put up with thedeepgreensea's lies about his sexual exploits just so I can hear about some new music, but no, I have to find this one myself).

I'll probably tire of it quickly, like the musical equivalent of ... something sweet and new but ultimately shallow, make up your own analogy. But for now I'm listening to it over and over again.

Hopefully I'll get the whole cd soon. Is it ok to say 'cd' or should we still call them 'albums'?

***********

Recently finished reading Red Thunder and it's sequel Red Lightning by John Varley. I liked em both. If you dig old school Robert Heinlein then you have got to check these two books out. Varley must have spent a fortune on mediums to channel Heinlein's spirit long enough to get these two novels out of him.

I'm in the middle of The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi which was recommended by the aforementioned thedeepgreensea as being similar to Maupin's Tales of the City. I can see why he says they are similar but this book isn't nearly as appealing to me as the Tales of the City books were. Maupin made those characters come alive in a way few writers have for me. I can't really say I care too much what happens to the characters in The Buddha of Suburbia but I'm only about 70 pages into it. I'll finish it though. Probably. I didn't finish White Teeth by Zadie Smith and it reminds me a bit of TBoS also.

I'm also partway into River of Gods by Ian McDonald. This one is science fiction set in India in 2047. It's ok so far. I'm not sure if I'm going to finish it. I'll give it a bit more and see how it goes.

My newest infatuation

Many years ago I had one of these. I don't remember why I got rid of it.

I've recently gotten a bug to get another motorcycle. If this was for sale closer to Chico I'd bid on it but it's in freaking Atlanta and that's too far away. I like that old Triumph though.

I also like this new Triumph but it's a bit more expensive.

For now I just buy used motorcycle magazines at the library book sale and oogle over those.

Ooh, this is in Redding. An old BMW like that would be sweet.

My newest infatuation

Many years ago I had one of these. I don't remember why I got rid of it.

I've recently gotten a bug to get another motorcycle. If this was for sale closer to Chico I'd bid on it but it's in freaking Atlanta and that's too far away. I like that old Triumph though.

I also like this new Triumph but it's a bit more expensive.

For now I just buy used motorcycle magazines at the library book sale and oogle over those.

Ooh, this is in Redding. An old BMW like that would be sweet.