DXM
 

I don't think death is the serious issue. Its going to be how many people have fried brains and will have to take zoloft et al for the rest of their lives in order to get out of bed.

Win-wins?
 

Slave, now that you have 1010 posts, I am inspired to ask, if I gave you 22 minutes, could you give me the world?



ETA you ruined my joke by posting again so soon. Bastard.

DXM
 

Or from cigarettes.

She's with me.
 

What can I say - that guy scared me.

Kelly Osbourne - damn, that's cold.

DXM
 

You think the reason I have to take a Zoloft et al to get out of bed is because I fried my brain doing X?...

Shit, I thought it was because I had a really shitty childhood.

DXM
 

How many people actually need Zoloft now? You don't need to be an X casualty to wind up on that shit. Hell, all you need to be is someone who's worried too much or depresed about some life choice.

There was a great article in the paper recently about how choice, and knowledge of life choices, creates anxiety and depression. The crux of it was that people now know how good they could possibly have it, or might have had it had they made different choices, and are confronted daily with the results of their decisions. This leads them to lament and brood - a sort of "the grass is always greener elsewhere" syndrome. In the old days, you didn't know how others lived because technology didn't shove it in your face. You didn't know you could find fulfillment in another career, location, etc..., so you didn't brood or get anxious about where you were or where you were going.

I buy the article's premise. Now I have to find someone to sue for the fact that I'll never be satisfied no matter what I do with myself.

Reflexive verbs
 

Forgive my nitpicking, but I think you mean to say "no matter what I do with my life."

DXM
 

Ok. How many?

It is one thing to make the argument that X is dangerous as a gateway drug. It seems to me that is the best argument you can make for it to be illegal.

Possible long-term effects? Ok. Let's see what evidence comes up (I don't think there is much conclusive evidence right now, but please, prove me wrong). And in any event I seriously doubt they could be as bad as those resulting from the use of alcohol and cigarettes.

X was initially used (fairly successfully, with supervision) as an antidepressant. There are even some psychiatrists who today believe that it would be helpful for treatment of certain types of patients.

It is, without a doubt, safer than either alcohol or nicotine. But the government wants people to worry about it, so they run ridiculous ads inferring that kids are dying from it. That is not true.

I haven't heard anything about the drug that NFH is discussing, and maybe kids ARE dying from it (I'll look into it). All I'm saying is I don't believe things that the government says about drugs in this country just because it is the government saying them. Our drug policy is a hypocricy-leaden mess.

Black Ambition
 

Gervais is hilarious.

I forgot to mention Bill Murray. He's like Chappelle for me. I would rather just hang out with him. It's like every one of his mannerisms is funny.

TM

DXM
 

When did we start caring about being fulfilled - that is what I would like to know. There are still tons of people in the world that do what they do because their father did it (I mean like the guy in Morocco who knows from birth that he is going to be a particular artisan because that is what he is expected to be because his father and grandfather etc were). Do they care about being fulfilled and just shut up about it? When I see other people like that it makes me feel very self-indulgent to be preoccupied with my happiness and yet at the same time if I live in a time when I can, why not? Hard to decide.

Black Ambition
 

You don't know Diddley.

TM

Cough, cough
 

Everything you'd ever want to know about recreational cough syrup, including known deaths.

I knew some guys in college who liked to "robotize." They annoyed the fuck out of me. And it's not like you couldn't get real drugs.

DXM
 

Yes.

And no, sweetie, the Paxil is for the shitty childhood. Please keep your meds straight.

Cough, cough
 

DXM
 

So how many zoloft pills did you have this morning?

TM

Cough, cough
 

Was it because of all the coughing and sneezing?

Black Ambition
 

JFC, TM, Mr. Hand is already looking good, and I'm already feeling good.

The Agony and the X
 

I wish someone would have told me to wait for the effects of the spacecake in Amsterdam...but nooooooooooo, I ate another.

Good night.

Glass Kitchens
 

My rent and student loan payments are sufficient motiviation to get me out of bed in the morning, thank you.

Et tu, Chef Marshall?

Cough, cough
 

I knew those guys. They spent 3 days once completely fucking wasted off of nutmeg.

TM

Black Ambition
 

*deep voice* Yeah!

Cough, cough
 

Will that cancel out my nearsightedness?

TM

Black Ambition
 

Have you seen Gervais in anything other than the Office? If that's it, you can't make him the best comic actor. He's great in the role, but the role is perfect, with strong writing.
Until you see another role, you can't say he isn't another Don Knotts' playing Barney Fife, but getting ready for a career of Ralph Furleys.

D. Nile., M.D.
 

I honestly cannot believe that you are actually suggesting that E is a "safe" drug when I'm assuming you all have had actually had the severe cases of "suicide monday", the hourly euphoric ups and downs, the deathly chills and sleep deprivation that comes with frying your brain while dancing to Sasha and Digweed.

Not condemning the use at all - but all the same, not naive enough to dare suggest it isnt damaging.

Black Ambition
 

They're panicking out there. I can feel it. They're panicking. Get your posts up to 2000. By then you'll have weeded out all the suckers.

TM

Cough, cough
 

Is that similar to smoking banana peels?

Black Ambition
 

The funniest line in that movie that no one ever concentrates on is when he's in the bar, surrounded by women and the two guys from jail are approaching. He's talking to some girl when he says, "People don't understand my sexuality. I'm very sexual." Or something like that. Gets me every time.

So, what is the line from the song he's singing in the bathtub?

TM

D. Nile., M.D.
 

Is all that really worse than the anorgasmia caused by Paxil?

(That ain't no cure for my childhood blues.)

D. Nile., M.D.
 

No wonder he's been in hiding.

Black Ambition
 

I give. Haven't seen it in a while...

What do you think my moniker is, Clarence Beeks?

Black Ambition
 

You've GOT to be kidding.

I will be astonished (and it will be a sad, sad day for the FB) if someone hasn't already answered this, but the answer (of course), is Bo Diddley.

DXM
 

We're an upper middle class nation. We'll never be satisfied.

Its harder to grow up with some wealth than none at all. If you had a cushy life for a while, it sucks to realize you'll have to grind like a fucking dog to maintain it. If you never had shit, everything you get is gravy.

Because Not Bob cares for all of you. Really.
 

From Yahoo: MTV says it got punk'd by Janet Jackson. Tom Freston, the chairman and CEO of MTV Networks, said Tuesday neither his company nor CBS knew of plans for the bodice-ripping incident during the Super Bowl halftime show ... Jackson said the incident, which exposed her right breast, went further than planned. A spokeswoman for Jackson said a red lace garment was supposed to remain when Timberlake tore off the outer covering.

And in my favorite example of "the buck stops anywhere other than here" corporate weasling in a long time: "When you're doing live television ... there's a great reliance and trust you have to put in the performers," Freston said in an interview after the panel talk. "And our trust was violated by the performer." Suit, please.

Link to Yahoo news story

D. Nile., M.D.
 

The first way you had it (pre ETA) I thought it said something about your "slutty childhood" and I thought "anorgasmia serves her right for all the sex she had as a child."

Cough, cough
 

Thank you. As you get older, your sources for the more commonly-turned-to drugs dry up, and you need alternatives.

D. Nile., M.D.
 

Sicko!

Black Ambition
 

I'm thinking, "Roxanne, you don't have to put out the red light."

But I do know that when he was a kid they had to fart in the bathtub if they wanted a jacuzzi.

Get your freak on
 

So your evidence is that it must be unsafe because you felt bad the next day? Hmm.

All I'm saying is that there is no evidence that it is any more dangerous than other stuff kids are using. Or even stuff that adults are legally allowed to use (and kids are illegally using).

And I am frankly concerned to have a drug policy that says - well if people are having fun with [insert substance name], better make it illegal. Kids will experiment with whatever they can get their hands on. Be it asthma inhalers, whipped cream cans, glue, etc. That is what they do. Some might even die from it. That was true when we were kids and it is true today. After they take away our Robitussen, kids will still find something to get high on. It is the way of the world.

Mannish Boy
 

I'm holding out hope he was going for Ellas Bates McDaniel.

Note: I actually know this because during one college summer job, I filed a foreclosure on one of his homes

Comedians; Why Less will never watch HDTV
 

Comedians --

Concur with Eddie Izzard. I agree, his stuff doesn't lend itself to quotes, but the material is clever and the delivery quirky.

Same effect for Anthony Clark (who's been wasting his time and ours on sitcoms).

I suspect that it resonates far better with parents, but Bill Cosby's family humor can't be beat.


In other news, we can safely conclude that Less will not be investing in HDTV anytime soon. [spree: State article on the horrors of watching porn on HDTV. Sadly, no pics]

My favorite excerpt:

Now I'm guessing that until the industry starts investing in prettier people, Less' viewing habits will be kept limited to the 13" Panasonic.*

Gattigap


* Taking the size joke one step further, while tempting, is discarded in the interest of avoiding a whiff on one's own post.