Tag: Squiggles

Medusa Hair Nostalgia

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

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.