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Comment on Always get a human being for a doctor by Gary H.

Gary H. — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:29:46 +0000

Whoa! How did you manage to find a HUMAN doctor? All mine are the type who’ll make you wait because they left for the Bahamas on Friday at noon and won’t be back until Tuesday or Wednesday at the earliest.

Comment on Always get a human being for a doctor by Alicia

Alicia — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:43:06 +0000

This is such great news! Cant tell you how pleased I am to hear it.
Yay for human doctors!

Comment on Kim Jong A-ha by Gary H.

Gary H. — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:19:00 +0000

Ahem. Yeah. How dare he expose innocent children to that crap.

Comment on A week in the life by Gary H.

Gary H. — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:15:02 +0000

My mother is a 25-year survivor of breast cancer. Every trip to the doctor, she’s on pins and needles, still. And every time my phone rings and it’s her, and she’s got a serious tone of voice, I wait for the other shoe to drop. “My liver numbers were a little off, so they’re…” “The doctor said he wants me to take an extra mammogram because…” So far, all of those times, it has been something similar to your ‘had the flu and my nodes were likely still swollen’ thing.

So far.

It’s never over.

Comment on Depressing cancer v. cancerous depression by Garden Lobster

Garden Lobster — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 02:53:19 +0000

Wow. This post is so timely and so true. I can’t thank you enough. YOU GET IT.

Comment on No, Jose, can you see? by Gary H.

Gary H. — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:14:44 +0000

Melisma seems to be de rigueur these days. I blame Star Search. Remember Sam Harris?

I also blame Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, and every singer who–whether deservedly or not–is hung with the moniker “diva.” They all seem to think they have to “hit” (read: slide through or around) as many notes as possible on every syllable of every word in every song. Now, when you hear someone sing a single note on a single syllable, it actually sounds wrong. Or like a hymn.

Comment on No, Jose, can you see? by Christian

Christian — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:22:19 +0000

I would bet they are all prerecorded these days. With a billion people watching, they don’t want a Carl Lewis moment.

It is weird to hear it played right. But most of my experiences with the anthem comes from standing on the football field trying to get it finished before some 350 lb lineman pile-drives me. But the whole crowd sings along and it’s a much more powerful moment than listening to the recording artist du jour wring the last ounce of faux soul from every note.

Comment on No, Jose, can you see? by Kolyan

Kolyan — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:00:59 +0000

I read that the Whitney anthem was pre-recorded and she was just lip synching it which would seem to give her an unfair advantage to those actually singing it live.

These days when I hear someone perform it at the proper tempo, like when I saw the Michigan State band play it at the Big Ten championship game, it seems fast to me.

Comment on No, Jose, can you see? by Gary H.

Gary H. — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:31:09 +0000

I should have said that, at this point in time, it is due to the fact that you said “Save the funeral marches for Wagner. (Much love to Herr Richard, by the way. If his music hadn’t made the Nazis goose-step so slowly, WWII might have been different.)”, I am mentally imagining Nazis goose-stepping to Yakkity Sax in my mind.

I’m just being mischievious, of course. In other news, my own nerves are jangling just from having typed that.

Comment on No, Jose, can you see? by Gary H.

Gary H. — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:24:25 +0000

Save the funeral marches for Wagner. (Much love to Herr Richard, by the way. If his music hadn’t made the Nazis goose-step so slowly, WWII might have been different.)

It is now your fault entirely that I am picturing Nazis goose-stepping to Yakkity Sax.