bill barber
Throat Infection: My Newest Fave Thing
I thought my favourite med was the crap-in-a-bucket they give you to take over a four-hour period the night before you have your colonoscopy. I was wrong. Benzydamine Hydrochloride beats it hands down. Benzydamine is a gargle that does a real number on the gag reflex. If you thought you didn't have a gag reflex, try this stuff.
On the upside, I've been in bed for pretty much five days now, and I've been catching up on all the daytime TV I've missed over the last few years. Just watched a look-alike show where a goth chick got turned into Céline Dion. Go, Canada!
America's Next Top Model is on right now. Lots of tears. I hate that silver-gell-haired schmuck (Jay Manuel). He's nasty. I think he must have been beaten up in the schoolyard a lot.
Here's a question. How many times have Nikki and Victor been married and divorced? This is not a smartass question. I really need to know.
Speaking of Y&R, does anybody remember when, over twenty years ago, Cassandra Rawlings Hall (Nina Arveson) was saved by Paul Williams (Doug Davidson)? She was tied to a chair with a gun propped next to her head. The trigger was operated by an ice cube that would melt, thus releasing the charge and bullet. After Dougie saved her, she walked out the door and was creamed by a truck. I have always been in awe of soap storyline writers. Some of you younger writers out there should pay attention to the work of such genius-mentors.
One of the things I have to watch over and over again is that screaming bitch in the Grey Power ad. What a piece of work she is. Nobody but Canucks will understand what I'm talking about unless they check the link below. This is truly the most annoying commercial I have heard or seen in my life, and it has been playing every five minutes for well over a year now. If you switch channels, it turns up on the channel you switched to. I hope the actress was paid well. I bet she gets tons of hate mail.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdPDmz5vKfY
I would much rather be posting to flickr and reading the history tomes that I favour, but I don't have a crapload of energy, so I'm into this other stuff. If I'm not any better tomorrow, I may post a photo of the latest junk mail I've been reading. It's fascinating, and such a posting may well help future sociologists
I hope to be back up by Friday. If not, it'll be Sunday, since I work Saturday (maybe)
I'd better go now. Who knows, there may be a cool documentary about sea snails on Discovery Channel, and I sure as hell wouldn't want to miss that.
Take care, my friends, Georgie and Gretel want me to cuddle with them. The pups are good little mommies to Karen and me.
Throat Infection: My Newest Fave Thing
I thought my favourite med was the crap-in-a-bucket they give you to take over a four-hour period the night before you have your colonoscopy. I was wrong. Benzydamine Hydrochloride beats it hands down. Benzydamine is a gargle that does a real number on the gag reflex. If you thought you didn't have a gag reflex, try this stuff.
On the upside, I've been in bed for pretty much five days now, and I've been catching up on all the daytime TV I've missed over the last few years. Just watched a look-alike show where a goth chick got turned into Céline Dion. Go, Canada!
America's Next Top Model is on right now. Lots of tears. I hate that silver-gell-haired schmuck (Jay Manuel). He's nasty. I think he must have been beaten up in the schoolyard a lot.
Here's a question. How many times have Nikki and Victor been married and divorced? This is not a smartass question. I really need to know.
Speaking of Y&R, does anybody remember when, over twenty years ago, Cassandra Rawlings Hall (Nina Arveson) was saved by Paul Williams (Doug Davidson)? She was tied to a chair with a gun propped next to her head. The trigger was operated by an ice cube that would melt, thus releasing the charge and bullet. After Dougie saved her, she walked out the door and was creamed by a truck. I have always been in awe of soap storyline writers. Some of you younger writers out there should pay attention to the work of such genius-mentors.
One of the things I have to watch over and over again is that screaming bitch in the Grey Power ad. What a piece of work she is. Nobody but Canucks will understand what I'm talking about unless they check the link below. This is truly the most annoying commercial I have heard or seen in my life, and it has been playing every five minutes for well over a year now. If you switch channels, it turns up on the channel you switched to. I hope the actress was paid well. I bet she gets tons of hate mail.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdPDmz5vKfY
I would much rather be posting to flickr and reading the history tomes that I favour, but I don't have a crapload of energy, so I'm into this other stuff. If I'm not any better tomorrow, I may post a photo of the latest junk mail I've been reading. It's fascinating, and such a posting may well help future sociologists
I hope to be back up by Friday. If not, it'll be Sunday, since I work Saturday (maybe)
I'd better go now. Who knows, there may be a cool documentary about sea snails on Discovery Channel, and I sure as hell wouldn't want to miss that.
Take care, my friends, Georgie and Gretel want me to cuddle with them. The pups are good little mommies to Karen and me.