The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by ers:

Jim, are the legal issues too complicated for you to publish your medical posts under the title Yog Sysop's Guide to Emergency Medicine for Dummies or something like that? I can't express (and I'm a writer, too) how well-written and well-thought-out these I find these posts. I hope I never have a chance to prove how valuable they are.

Change of topic:
Why do Scotsmen wear kilts?
Because sheep have learned to recognize the sound of a zipper.

I'm sorry, I tried to resist the urge (she said sheepishly).

I'm sure I'm not alone in missing Mike Ford at times like these. Alev ha'shalom.

#166

Natural pest control: plant poison ivy.

Mazel tov! You are in danger of giving marriage a good name.

Jim @ #78

Please forward that to Stephen King. He sang "Teen Angel" in the Rock Bottom Remainders, and he and Dave Barry destroyed it. The RBRs were/are a pick-up band comprising authors such as Dave Barry, Amy Tan, Matt Groening, Roy Blount Jr., and, for a while, led by Al Kooper (of Blood, Sweat, and Tears)). See Mid-life Confidential for an account of one of their tours.

Thank you all for this thread -- I do horror makeup and this has been an inspiration.

Yup, Jeff Burke is the guy. A mensch beyond mention. I won't see him until May, but I'll try to remember.

Susie, I know we have stuff out on youtube. Google on Red Herring Morris and Border Crossing, and bob's yer uncle. (I mostly lurk here... it's Never Boring)

BTW, insofar as we have a hobbycritter, it's a fish. So there. Right now it's a stuffed sockeye salmon named Waldo.

I have had the pleasure of playing pennywhistle with a bassoon and a trombone for a morris dance in Canada. Traditional instruments, forsooth!

w/r/t living tradition, from the sublime to the ridiculous: My team has written (both dance and music) a dance in the Border style to honor a teammate's recently deceased father. We were asked to dance at his memorial service, and the dance is now part of our repertoire, complete with introductory explanation.

The ridiculous? Well, en route to Canada (from the US), my team wrote a dance called Border Crossing -- to the tune of "I Fought the Law and the Law Won."

Just about every folk genre community has its TraditionIsTheOneTrueWay faction and its It'sALivingTraditionDammit faction. It would be nice if they both stopped trying to prove themselves Right. They're both Right, and the world is enriched thereby.

(hi, Susie!)

You beat the rap, babyface!

Oh, meant to add: I seriously pity the medical staffer who tries to snow you with jargon (you, collectively, meaning Patrick, Elise, and Teresa), or give anything less than a straight answer. The maintenance crew will need to hose down the ceiling afterward.

One thing I find comforting about illness in a community like this: you get support from your friends, yes, but you also get fearsome intellectual support and the benefit of the knowledge and experience of said friends. And this is an extraordinarily bright group of folks.

Pleasae add my voice to the chorus of good wishes. Teresa, the world is a better place for your being in it. And it's certainly more grammatically correct.

Thanks, alabatross. You articulated and summarized what I was too tired or lazy to spell out (as it were).

There is no unbiased information. The best we can hope for is a way to determine what the bias is.

Oops. Of all places to tangle my syntax. No, what I meant is that first-hand accounts, when the source can be verified, *are* real data. Or the closest thing to it.

More to the point, I am in a maze of realities and truths, all twisty. Who's an underground agent for which entity? Or is the idea of an underground agent meant to discredit... well, who? The sponsors of the agent, or the group the agent infiltrates?

Sigh.

Just a little existential despair, that's all.

Arrrgghhh. With all due respect and a sincere desire not to undermine the content and value of this entire exchange, I think what we have here is an exercise in self-referential irony. All that's best and worst... caring, sniping, digressions, informed opinions, uninformed opinions, facts, references...

What I'm worried about is the same thing that I always worry about: we are stuck theorizing in the absence of real data because we can hardly lay our hands on real data. The most trustworthy information I've seen here is the first-person accounts from those on-site. I wish I could think of a remedy for this. OTOH, has there ever been a remedy for this? mumble human condition mumble mumble *shit*

If the Doleful Ghost of your True Love offers you one last kiss from his or her Cold Clay Lips, turn it down. Kissing a corpse is a surefire way to turn into one yourself.

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