Medusa Hair Nostalgia

Squiggles

Let us think about what was in the zeitgeist nine years ago. Remember when “Medusa Hair” threatened the fabric of our democracy itself? I spent gobs of money on small rodents just to keep my new-fangled do happy. Still, in the softening patina of time, I supposed it was a better style than “The Rachel” or “The Kate Gosselin!”

Rain on Your Wedding Day

Squiggles

Here are some other “ironic” coincidences that Alanis missed out on that would have made for a fabulous song sung in rounds.

  • Hans Asperger died of Alzheimer’s disease.
  • Alois Alzheimer frequently shouted that he had Tourette’s syndrome ya fuckin’ scabby witch.
  • George de las Tourette’s lymph nodes were prudish and came down with Hodgkin’s lymphoma (not the good kind).
  • Thomas Hodgkin was a colleague of Thomas Addison and caught Addison’s disease from him.
  • Thomas Addison had a shaky grasp of reality after coming down with Parkinson’s disease.
  • James Parkinson got a shitty deal after coming down with Crohn’s disease.
  • Burrill Crohn was Jewish.  In a fantastic twist of fate, he did not have Tay-Sachs disease, but instead went full-spectrum with Asperger’s.
  • Rinse and repeat.