Musical moment: Meryn Cadell's Barbie

[mzrowan]

I was startled to hear this being played at the dance studio around the corner from me tonight. How a Boston dance teacher knew about a song from an obscure Canadian artist that is twenty years old and was never released as a single boggles my mind. But it's a great song, so I didn't mind hearing it over and over. (And from a great album!) I

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[crunchywitch]

Yay! Haven't heard that song in years! I had the first tape Cadell did on constant play in my "walkman" for a full year of high-school. Ah, nostalgia.
. Apropos of nothing related to this, you had, I think, talked about a pill that was supposed to allow gluten-intolerant people to occasionally indulge? Am I remembering at all correctly? My youngest sister is in the process of self-and-professionally diagnosing a gluten sensitivity, and I was referencing you. Did the pill seem at all useful?

[mzrowan]

This is it: http://www.nowfoods.com/Products/M101094.htm

Now, if she has celiac, she shouldn't take that pill. Celiac disease means that the intestine is damaged by the smallest amounts of gluten -- even if the person doesn't feel anything. If she's gluten-sensitive (GI symptoms) or gluten-allergic (respiratory symptoms), she should give it a try. I haven't thoroughly tested it myself, though, because I don't want to eat a whack of gluten while I'm trying to get pregnant.

She might also want to get the DNA test for celiac to help with the diagnosis part: https://myceliacid.com/Consumer/signup.aspx It ain't cheap, but drooling into a tube for a few minutes beats an intestinal biopsy!

[crunchywitch]

Thanks! I'll sugest it to her!

[lapsedmodernist]

The Sweater Song was def. a cult hit at my small liberal arts college with the girls who listened to Ani Difranco and Tori Amos... I would not be surprised if that sort of demographic grew up to teach dance in Cambridge.

[lightcastle]

Sweater was the song that introduced me to the artist, but I had the Barbie and the Pope song as faves for awhile.

And the working for minimum wage song.
And the bee song.

[cos]

I used to play that on WBRS.