Monday, May 31, 2004

Don't screw around here kids, you might be cut in half by lightning

In my unending quest for nerdyness ... today i decided to find out the history of plastics. It's actually pretty interesting. I can still remember when i was really little and every product under the sun didnt come enshrined in a clear plastic shell. Stuff used to come in boring cardboard boxes. ketchup and mustard used to only come in glass bottles. packaging is kind of an interesting subject when you think about it. maybe you just have to be a weird ass. i dont know.

read adbusters ... it's good for you. they seriously print some of the THE most interesting stuff you'll probably ever read.

Though Prozac is one of the world's best-known commodities, its most terrifying potential side effect, "akathisia," remains virtually unknown. Akathisia has been described as a unique form of inner torture that, prior to the development of psychiatric drugs, probably never existed. Knowledge of the side effect, however, has been around for a while. In 1978, 10 years before "fluoxetine" would be brought to the US market and become the bestseller known as Prozac, initial clinical trails had already warned of akathisia and other problems. Minutes from Lilly's Prozac project team in that year noted that, "Some patients have converted from severe depression to agitation within a few days; in one case the agitation was marked and the patient had to be taken off [the] drug . . . There have been a fairly large number of reports of adverse reactions."

I might have A.D.D., but I'll take that over "inner torture" any day. Egad.

Egad is my new saying of the month.

how about this: Egad, the military has a bullet shortage? how does THAT happen?

I bought the catcher in the rye today (I've never read it) ... but i used cash so i wont get put on that fbi "people who've bought the catcher in the rye" list. ahhh conspiracies and hearsay, where would the world be without you?