Scattered thoughts 1/29/09
-A while back, must be about two years ago now, I remember seeing famous Floridian/novelist/crime reporter Carl Hiassen profiled on 60 Minutes. A good part of the focus of that interview was focused on Florida, the state where Hiassen lives and centers much of his writing around. The thing that I remember most about that Hiassen interview was his expounding greatly on why it is that Florida is such an axis of absurdity, a place he called "a paradise for scandals." The basis for his theory was twofold...one part being that the state's tropical aspects attracts dreamers, and usually where there are dreamers there are people who gravitate their way in order to take advantage of them. The second part of this theory isn't so much theory as it is fact...that Florida has some of the more ridiculous bankruptcy laws in the country, laws that provide great protection against seizure of property and assets in legal proceedings. Think back to the OJ Simpson murder trial in the 90s. As soon as he was acquitted, what did he do? He immediately moved to Florida, the one place where he'd be most protected from a civil suit by the Goldman family.
So, with all of that said, the first thing, or first person if you will, that I thought of a few days ago when I first heard about former Lehman Brothers honcho Dick Fuld selling his own 13 million dollar house to his wife for $100 was Carl Hiassen and the 60 Minutes interview I'd seen him profiled in. Of course, only in Florida could someone so flagrantly attempt to skirt justice for robbing people blind and possibly even get away with it. Let's not forget that it was in Florida that a dozen or so Arab men who could barely speak English were able walk into a flight training school and pay cash to learn everything but how to land a fucking plane and not raise any suspicion. One of their guys went to Minnesota and tried the same thing and was arrested in under 24 hours. Thanks a lot Florida. Thanks a fucking lot.
-I can't really explain why, because up until about 6 months or so ago I had no trouble with it, but lately I can't remember how to spell the word "exercise" for the life of me without the help of spell check. I just can't fucking spell it. It happened again just right there a few words back...I had to spell check it after the red squiggly line popped up underneath it. WTF?!
-You know, there's been a bunch of bitching about Obama closing down Guantanamo from the right-wingers. They say that the terrorists are going to get off easy now and will be set free to roam the streets of Americana and rape and murder everyone's children. But I've long thought that it'd be more torturous for these dudes if they were locked up in an American prison with some real hardened American street criminals than huddled with all of their like-minded buddies in an island off the coast of Cuba. I'd love to see one of these guys sent to, say, Angola State Penitentiary back home. I have a hunch that the locals wouldn't take too kindly to Muslim terrorist dudes and that the threat of being ass-raped nightly by a guy named Claw is more coercive than water-boarding when it comes to getting someone to spill secrets. Just a hunch.
-I've been getting lots of spam in my Gmail accounts that claims to be coming from Gmail/Google itself and it's sort of beginning to piss me off. The emails usually contain one of two types of messages...one being that I've won some sort of cash prize for merely existing, and the only being that something I'd sent has violated a profanity policy (actually kinda plausible). I'm not sure how they're doing it, but these emails are getting past Gmail's spam filter and into my inbox. Anyone else getting these? And can someone at Google please read this and fix it, please? Thanks.
-Speaking of email/gmail, you people, with the exception of a select few of you, have been lax in sending me tips of late. WTF?!?! If you run across something on the the net and find yourself thinking, "hmmm...I bet Cajun Boy would find this interesting," just send it. Please. Thank you in advance.
-I was never really a big fan of John Updike, in fact I've never even read any of his books, but I've been reading a bunch of the stuff that's been written about him since his death a few days ago and I might just have to read some more of his work solely based on the outpouring of love from people whose opinions I respect. I read his short story titled "A&P" last night and really enjoyed it.
-I've got a really bad cold right now. For a while I thought, cockily, that I'd make it through the winter without getting sick once, and, well, so much for that. Shit is really kicking my ass too. I tried to avoid taking anything for it but last night it got so bad trying to sleep with the coughing and stuffy nose and all that that I ran out to Duane Reade at 5am, bought a bottle of Nyquil, and downed about a quarter of it on the walk back to my apartment. I slept very soundly. But now I've got one of those Nyquil hangovers, you know, where you walk around in an almost zombie-like state as the residual effects of the drug linger in your system. In fact, I think I'm gonna go lay down again right now and take an old man nap. Yes, I'm definitely going to do that.
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Whenever I feel like I'm getting a cold, I always pop a Zicam about once every 3 hours and that shit works. It usually doesn't completely take away the symptoms, but definitely eases them and the length. Don't take it now, but if you ever feel like your getting another, try one.
Re: John Updike. A friend of mine once sent me this poem by Updike, entitled "Dog's Death" - and it's haunted me ever since.
http://www.breakoutofthebox.com/goodog.htm
Heartbreaking.
For a cold in any stage take at the same time with food, capsules of:
Zinc
Vitamin C (1000mg)
B-complex
Niacinimide
Selenium
Buy a whole chicken, put in a pot of water, boil/simmer for several hours, drink the broth for the next few days. OK to freeze. Colloidal silver if you have any. I make my own by the bottle just to have on hand for rare colds. And get lots of rest. Hot tea. For sore throat gargle with hot salt water, then gargle with hot water and a T of food grade hydrogen peroxide. Run very warm water through your nose with a neti pot to kill germs. For me I can stop a cold in its tracks every time with the above. I haven't had one in ages and my office is always sick.
Then for coughing and mucus:
go to your naturey-food store and get loose herbs of mullein and coltsfoot. Simmer 20 minutes, drain out herbs, drink for next few days. No sense being in the miserable coughing stage for days. ....From someone in Florida. Born here, did not move here for the bankruptcy laws, ha. But a dreamer, yes. This weekend's the Superbowl and it's very busy with parties and famous people. :)
Please remember it's the immune system's desire and role to fight off infection. When people begin relying on medication to get better it doesn't allow the IS to fully exercise (there's the word) its proper function. So give your body some time to do what it can on its own without the meds. On the other hand if you feel incredible amounts of discomfort, by all means do what you can by taking SOME meds. Use natural "C's" and eat very healthy meals (limit the junk) to fuel the body.
If you think I nag or lecture too much, too bad. Lol! Feel better, though. I'm also just recovering from a nasty virus that would not leave, so I do empathize. And please don't be one of those fuckers who goes out coughing in store aisles, etc. I want to hurt those people.
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TITTIES.
Oh yeah, Cunty Simpleton is pregnant. Those things are going to be bruising her knees in a couple years.
Adam Carolla says there's stupid and then there's "Florida stupid". He is consistently amazed at the level of absurdly stupid human behavior that comes from that state.
I think that Zicam shit works even if it tastes like crap. I religiously take 500mg of vitamin C twice a day and rarely get bad colds.
John Updike - don't bother reading anything too long. He likes really long sentances that you can't follow. I always end up falling asleep after two pages or losing my place and rereading the same paragraph ten times without knowing it
Dude, I sent you a link to a satirical porno Sasha Grey did, but to be honest the subject line prolly got it relegated to your spam folder.
@Sunshine, I don't think the colloidal silver is a good idea. Didn't you see that story last year about the guy whose skin went blue from taking it? He looks like a smurf (his nickname is Papa Smurf) - see http://bodyodd.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/01/22/598906.aspx
I've been using a neti pot with saline solution almost every day and haven't had a cold in 4 years. Sometimes I feel that tickling/itching thing in my nose and throat like I'm going to get one, and then I use the saline rinse and it never materializes. You just have to get over the initial feeling of weirdness about douching your sinuses.
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