Sarah Ruhl wrote a play about the early history of the vibrator. Argh, why are plays like this and movies like Hysteria always so hard to go see?

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The human heart, as doctors delight in pointing out, isn't shaped like the little things we make out of paper. In other words 💘 ≠
 
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And go to the festival that features this film.

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For all you medfetters out there, it's K-Tel's newest album: Invasive. These are the dark sounds you need for every psych ward and waiting room, every operating theater during the big event. Only $9.99 for LP or cassette, 8-track just $7.99.


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( Chatroom silliness. )

I'm of many minds about this clip.



Your opinions?

(Hat tip to destruya, who paged me regarding this)

So I was searching for Scrubs parodies on YouTube the other day. MadTV has a great one and I was looking to find other things in the same vein -- IN A TOTALLY INNOCENT MANNER, I might add. Instead I found this:

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At first glance, it seems like this might be more than the lets-rent-a-vacant-house-in-the-valley-and-put-some-overly-waxed-yet-odd-featured ( Read more... )

In an effort to refine my powers of description and come up with further ideas for the epic that is Away Rotation,  I've been watching old episodes of Scrubs. It's a fun show and fluffy. I can mellow out to it late at night when I'm totally brain-dead from work, which has been beating me with what feels like a cricket bat in the last few weeks.

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 (or, why pushy bottoms never prosper)


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On my e-clinic profile under "hobbies", I wrote

Figuring out the names of medical instruments. Forming latin plurals. Worshipping people who can form latin plurals and who know the names of their medical instruments.

Somebody asked why I listed these things. I was tempted to say I was just feeling the pull of asshattery when I first wrote it. However ( Read more... )