For those readers following my medical follies, vertigo with nystagmus is what sent me to the doctor and then the emergency room yesterday afternoon for a few hours. That was after sleeping almost all day and an evening of being dizzy and throwing up. Yuck. http://www.med.nyu.edu/patientcare/library/article.html?ChunkIID=11471 Most cases of vertigo occur with nystagmus, an abnormal, …
According to a report not yet released, the Council on Science and Public Health of the American Medical Association has recommended that a chronic and widespread affliction of Americans be officially declared a psychiatric disorder. It has been named the Political Attention Deficit Disorder (PADD). It is recommended that the disorder be included in a …
A year ago we had Nazi’s in Olympia. Not In Our Town is a grassroots media campaign that helps communities battling hate to talk and learn from each other. Not In Our Town: Olympia, Washington Not In Our Town: Olympia, Washington 2 More about these stories at http://www.pbs.org/niot More info at http://www.theworkinggroup.org Unity in the …
Thirty years ago yesterday the lights went out in New York City. Alec and I were living in the storefront of Everything for Everybody (EFE) on 13th Street in the West Village in the meat packing warehouse district near the s&m bars down by the Hudson River. Noel was a year old and I was …
Prez “pre-emptively” saves all Repubs from becoming “prison bitches.” Dems: “Can he do that?” Allegedly reacting to some sort of hallucinogenic fever dream following an overlong bubble bath during which he reportedly sputtered lots of motorboat noises and ate one too many purple crayons, President Bush today made the stunning yet somehow entirely understandable announcement …
Photos are posted now on the ClaytonWorks flicker site of when the Imagine Piano was in Olympia on May 8th. See http://www.flickr.com/photos/claytonworks/ To see more about the Imagine Piano Peace Project in Olympia, on this page scroll down to Labels in the green column on the right and click on Lennon Piano. Then read from …
THE BIG VOICE: GOD OR MERMAN?A Musical Comedy in two lives.Written by Steve Schalchlin and Jim Brochu. It will be at the New Conservatory Theatre’s Decker Theatrein San FranciscoAUGUST 1-19, 2007Performed by Jim Brochu & Steve Schalchlin! New York Times: “Side-splitting! A hilarious and utterly enthralling evening of musical theater.” Village Voice: “Jim Brochu and …
Call Out The Instigator I’m not backing off. I tried to remove myself from the political realm of the US, what BushCo is turning into an Evil Empire, but the blatant audacity of George commuting Scooter’s sentence (he’s not ruling out a full pardon —and you know he will) has dragged me kicking and screaming …