What is even the pain scale? How are you supposed to pick a number? Is 10 equivalent to, like, being burned alive at the stake? It's not supposed to be the worst pain you've ever felt, but the worst you can imagine. Well, I can imagine a lot. They don't know they're dealing with the guy who wrote the infamous screwdriver scene. So if I say I'm ( Read more... )

Grey and I have had a hell of a time getting over this flu, but we soldier on, and PZBART is open again with a bunch of new voodoo products including wormwood, sweet gum seed balls, alum, saltpeter, cloves, hot peppers, cinnamon bark, and powdered selenite, all in decorative glass bottles with tiny adorable skull beads ( Read more... )

Just a couple of weeks after recovering from some unspecified crud, Grey and I are both flat on our backs again with a cold/flu/plague. I don't think I have ever downed so much Alka-Seltzer and Nyquil in my life. I'm a little better today and trying to catch up on urgent correspondence, but forgive me if it takes a bit ( Read more... )

Everybody else had the Christmas Crud, and I took care of them to the extent of my caretaker abilities, which are not very extensive ("Here. Soup. Quit that coughing."). Then, a few days ago, I finally came down with it. I'm starting to feel better, but I seem to have developed an unfortunate affection for Nyquil. Also lost three days in the studio ( Read more... )

I keep promising myself I'm going to make a real update instead of just flogging art and jewelry. Where have my words gone? Any time I try to do more than scrawl a few lines of text on a painting, I get all tongue- and finger-tied ( Read more... )

That's about all the German I remember from a whole year of it. (Well, that and "Ich bin müde." I had it the last period of the day ( Read more... )

Because I need to get my blood drawn to check testosterone levels, for which the hospital will quite unreasonably want money, I'm having a sale of Drawing Blood hardcovers. Get it? I'm selling Drawing Blood because I need to get my blood drawn? ... OK, I'm not Jerry Lewis, but I'll still be here all week. In the meantime, these mint-condition, ( Read more... )

"Pot will never replace pharmaceuticals. It has no medical use. It causes anxiety and it can't get rid of pain. I don't smoke the crap, but I still think it should be legalized, because potheads are gonna smoke it and why waste resources prosecuting them ( Read more... )

Have spent a couple of days being assaulted from the inside by my own skeleton, possibly in revenge for painting so many other ones lately, and being exhausted, and sleeping. Finally got some of my energy back tonight, and am using it to paint. (Only 50% skeletons so far, but it's early.) Sorry for neglect of e-mails, comments, and eBay purchases. ( Read more... )

Just returned from a doctor's appointment where he switched me over to injectable testosterone. Now I'll be able to afford my actual prescribed dose again. Yes ( Read more... )