“Edward Shorter, a medical historian, concluded from his study of the medical literature that the incidence of a psychogenic disorder grows to epidemic proportions when the disorder is in vogue. Strange as it may seem, people with an unconscious psychological need for symptoms tend to develop a disorder that is well known, like back pain, hay fever, or eczema. This is not a conscious decision.”

Q — How was the shock administered?

A — The pad was supposed to set off an alarm to wake me up. It short-circuited and electrocuted my boonga, but like the villain in the 1990 Lou Diamond Phillip’s neo-noir horror film, The First Power, it resurrected.

Q — Hmm, maybe parasites? I have heard something similar before.

A — The New Age is obsessed with parasites and pink UFOs.

More likely I was really “pissed off” as a child. That’s often a cause of urinary bladder issues. It beats being “sick and tired” or “heartbroken.”

Dragged Across Concrete (2018) is more my kind of movie.

Mel Gibson has “character deficiencies” as a person (ask his baby mama, Oksana Grigorieva), but the dude sure is a first-class actor and director.

His support of “assisted dying” is what Adano called a “Living to Die attitude,” a mindset I’m sure Master Wu Dang Chen would call “pathetic.”

The Medical-Industrial Police State loves “old fart” geldings like Daltry. He and his ilk illustrate that the Hippie Revolution was successfully annihilated by The Man and his Slave-Bots. Will the Phoenix ever arise from the ashes one day?

It’s a bummer seeing all my old rock & roll heroes wearing neckties instead of paisley.

My fifth wife and I were cold in Bellingham, Washington, so I used a mirror to angle the sunlight into the window of our rented upstairs room. We basked in the sunshine while drinking our morning Cobalamin Tonics.

If we had lived there longer, I might have bought several dozen mirrors, so I wouldn’t have to go outside every so often to calibrate the single mirror to the Sun.