http://chemoisnotapony.com/blog Thu, 02 Apr 2009 08:12:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So apparently a new slew of Casey Anthony pics have been distributed across the web (see above). It's 3:59AM Eastern Standard Time, and I was taking a break from reading some Walter Benjamin essays (and no, I don't pronounce his name as though I speak German because, really, my German ... http://chemoisnotapony.com/blog/297/im-huge-in-russia-also-china/ As of 00:33H EST on 03/23, we have reached $2,169.74. I am now aiming for the new goal of raising a grand total of $2,500. So: $331 more to go... See also this post. http://chemoisnotapony.com/blog/292/new-update-regarding-fundraising/ I would like to help a homeless young adult pay for the cost of an undergraduate education, but I can't do it alone: The money will go into my Paypal account, and I will gather it into one lump sum and send it as a check to Covenant House in Newark, ... http://chemoisnotapony.com/blog/274/my-goal-to-help-a-homeless-young-adult-pay-for-the-cost-of-an-undergraduate-education/ Too good not to share. My God I love The Onion... http://chemoisnotapony.com/blog/272/despondex-the-first-prescription-depressant-pill-hahahaha/ [Cross-posted with some slight changes in wording from my private blog; those of you who have already read it, please forgive the repeat. Thanks.] Some of you may remember that I was considering HiCy as a possible MS treatment, but then had to cancel my trip to Baltimore (last August) due ... http://chemoisnotapony.com/blog/267/new-appointments-at-johns-hopkins/ Much has happened. Isn't that the story of everyone's life though? I've been very busy with school. Those of you who know me in person know what the deal is, but I'm reluctant to go into too much detail about my education here, on this blog, simply because it is ... http://chemoisnotapony.com/blog/265/ok-i-know-i-havent-blogged-here-in-awhile/ The original, for those who never saw it: "David After Dentist, the REMIX" audio downloadable in .MP3 format here. [Right-click 'save-as' to download a copy to your computer.] http://chemoisnotapony.com/blog/262/david-after-dentist-and-david-after-dentist-the-remix/ For now I offer up this little gem of audio to you: Immunosuppression as a field of unicorns.... [It's in .MP3 format, so click to listen or download and save]. I've been doing 6 months of "pulse steroids" in addition to continuing on Rebif. Let me just say that some ... http://chemoisnotapony.com/blog/258/immunosuppression-as-unicorns-or-this-post-is-not-about-caylee-anthony/ Big surprise. And although Jose Baez & Co. will surely try to pin this on the meter reader who led police to the remains, and/or to the "mystery" (= nonexistent) "nanny" Zenaida Fernandez-Gonzalez, it seems pretty obvious to me (as it has since the very beginning) that Casey Anthony is ... http://chemoisnotapony.com/blog/255/remains-positively-identified-caylee-anthony-is-dead/ Police 'Somewhat Confident' Child's Remains Are Caylee Anthony; Evidence Discovered With Child's Skull 'Linked' to Anthony Home, Prompting Police Search of House By LEE FERRAN Dec. 12, 2008 — Police are "somewhat confident" that a child's remains found Thursday near the home of Caylee Anthony's grandparents belong to the missing toddler, Carlos Padilla of ... http://chemoisnotapony.com/blog/251/like-ive-been-saying-all-along-casey-anthony-killed-her-kid/ UPDATE, 16:50 EST: Casey Anthony has been indicted for capital murder. Other sources say that Casey has until 17:30H EST---around a half hour from now---to turn herself in. George Anthony, Casey's father and Caylee's grandfather, testified against his own daughter before a Grand Jury this morning. Updates as they happen...no ... http://chemoisnotapony.com/blog/235/george-anthony-finally-does-the-right-thing/ Here are downloads of (or links to) documents, video, and audio released in the case since yesterday: 1. Interview with Casey's ex, Anthony Rusciano (.PDF). 2. Interview with tow-truck driver, surname Burch. He describes opening the trunk of Casey Anthony's care for the first time: "...and a real bad smell like oh, ... http://chemoisnotapony.com/blog/223/casey-anthony-visited-missing-child-websites-3-months-before-caylee-disappeared/ Surprise, surprise! Apparently you can't randomly accuse total strangers of having kidnapped your child without expecting to face some fairly serious civil as well as criminal charges. WFTV snagged an exclusive interview with Zenaida Fernandez-Gonzalez's brand-spanking-new attorney, John Morgan, who is gleefully preparing at least one lawsuit against Casey Anthony ... http://chemoisnotapony.com/blog/218/casey-anthony-is-getting-sued/ [Photo credit - AP, taken by Red Huber.] Breaking news from Florida's WFTV Channel 9, which announces that the state has released even more new documents--over 600 pages of them--pertaining to the Casey / Caylee Anthony case. Among some of the juicier (and definitely incriminating) revelations: *Lee Anthony said Casey's mother was ... http://chemoisnotapony.com/blog/194/the-dead-body-smell-went-over-the-anthonys-garage-like-a-wave-said-lee-anthony/ http://chemoisnotapony.com/blog/187/typical-monday/ In this case, Casey Anthony's ex-fiancée, Jesse Grund..for the murder of Caylee. Wait...what's that? Murder of Caylee, you say? As in, the Anthonys appear to be admitting that the child is dead? Gee...I could've sworn that just last week they were vehemently insisting that the baby was "still alive" and ... http://chemoisnotapony.com/blog/185/george-and-cindy-anthony-enjoy-framing-innocent-people/ The voices of the ill are easy to ignore, because these voices are often faltering in tone and mixed in message, particularly in their spoken form before some editor has rendered them fit for reading by the healthy (Frank 25, italics mine). Perhaps my greatest triumph in life, were I actually ... http://chemoisnotapony.com/blog/180/sick-to-well-dictionary/ Today I don't feel so hot. Not sick-sick, but not well, either. I feel like I'm on the brink of getting a cold, which is, of course, exacerbating some of my existing neurological issues. On the way to the supermarket my roommate suddenly said: "Hey...you can't feel your right foot ... http://chemoisnotapony.com/blog/172/neither-antiseptic-nor-sterile-nor-particularly-uplifting/ And they show that absolutely none of the phone calls she claims to have made or received actually took place. If there was any shred of doubt, up until this point, about the existence (or lack thereof) of Zenaida Fernandez-Gonzalez, the alleged "babysitter" who "kidnapped" Caylee, these records should serve ... http://chemoisnotapony.com/blog/165/casey-anthony-has-cell-phone-records/ Today I spent over an hour in the most powerful MRI machine on the market. This was phase two of one of the three longitudinal studies in which I have elected to participate. This particular study looks at brain atrophy and cognitive performance. About a week ago I completed the cognitive ... http://chemoisnotapony.com/blog/160/its-a-party-in-ges-94-tesla-magnet-equipped-mri-machine-and-i-was-invited/ -- Tina Fey's interpretation of Sarah Palin is flawless, and the skit itself is utterly brilliant, managing to pack into slightly over 5 minutes more layers of (truly astute) political and social analysis than most Ph.D.s can manage to stuff into 200+ pages of a doctoral dissertation. I applaud SNL for ... http://chemoisnotapony.com/blog/156/sarah-palin-and-hillary-clinton-address-the-nation-snl-skit-hilarious/ Recently I've heard some buzz about injectable meds for MS (such as Rebif, Avonex, Betaseron, and Copaxone) being turned into pills in the future, so that people can just swallow them rather than having to inject. Personally, I would not want such a pill. When I first started doing my injections ... http://chemoisnotapony.com/blog/153/in-praise-of-injections/ Some time ago, I made an extensive post about the Casey / Caylee Anthony case down in Florida, including links to photos, video, and downloadable .PDF documents released by investigators. As I just learned via MissingAbducted, (which, by the way, is the best online resource for up-to-date information on the ... http://chemoisnotapony.com/blog/146/casey-anthony-likes-to-lie-to-investigators/ Created by and starring Jason Zumwalt. http://chemoisnotapony.com/blog/140/i-masturbated-to-sarah-palin-quite-possibly-the-funniest-spoof-political-ad-of-all-time/ Although I actually don't owe any explanations to anyone, I thought I'd go ahead and post this, since it's on my mind. Many of you may wonder why, on this blog, there is so little personal information about me. Sure, you know a few things---like my gender, approximate age, and ... http://chemoisnotapony.com/blog/138/something-i-feel-needs-to-be-made-clear-under-the-circumstances/ "homeless men piss" I have to wonder if the individual found what they were looking for. I'll keep this post updated as more amusing searches show up. ;) http://chemoisnotapony.com/blog/136/hilarious-keyword-searches-that-got-people-here-this-month/ As some of you happen to know and others of you don't, I have another blog, a top-s33krit one (ZOMG!) where I sometimes write other things. If you're one of the people who doesn't already know about the "other blog" to which I am referring, that means "Don't ask because ... http://chemoisnotapony.com/blog/131/holy-fucking-shit-these-people-have-labs-named-after-them/ Click on the thumbnails to view a larger version of each image. Please note that these are only 18 images that I personally selected from close to 1,000 that were taken of my brain (with and without contrast), cervical (upper) spine, and thoracic (mid) spine. The round white spots that ... http://chemoisnotapony.com/blog/107/as-promisedmri-images-from-08292008/ I liked this article and thus decided to reproduce it here, on my blog. -Xenu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Multiple sclerosis: the eloquent rage of a party girl cut down Last Updated: 12:01am BST 01/09/2008 Elizabeth Grice meets a woman who conveys the full horror of MS through poetry There's an itch on Collette Waller's face that she ... http://chemoisnotapony.com/blog/103/the-eloquent-rage-of-a-party-girl-cut-down-reprint-from-the-telegraph-uk/ There is a feeling that goes along with chronic illness--a feeling that no one, including most chronically ill people, will ever tell you about. It's the feeling of I am going to lose my fucking mind. The one of I cannot fathom how I am going to continue like this ... http://chemoisnotapony.com/blog/99/everything-is-not-going-to-be-ok-ever-again/ I got only four hours of sleep last night and have been running around since 7AM, so this is just a quick update for now, until I have time to post pics, etc. 1. The MRI took several hours. The radiologist was a rather severe and unpleasant Russian woman. 2. As my ... http://chemoisnotapony.com/blog/93/my-name-is-lesion/ David Duchovny is in rehab for sex addiction, and he wants you to know about it. Seriously, if you had a sex addiction, would you announce it to the entire world via your attorney? Honestly. Even a crack addiction, a la Amy Winehouse, would probably be less humiliating. I wonder what tipped ... http://chemoisnotapony.com/blog/84/david-duchovny-probably-has-sex-with-picnic-tables/ Tomorrow is my annual MRI. They are doing brain, c-spine, and t-spine, with and without contrast. What does this mean in real-world terms? Let me tell you: it means I will be spending several hours in the tube. And because I am just so fucking whimsical that I have panic ... http://chemoisnotapony.com/blog/80/this-post-is-not-about-mongooses-mongeese/ This just broke less than an hour ago: it has been confirmed that the forensics on Casey Anthony's car came back and that there was, indeed, a decomposing human body in the car. Nope Cindy---your dead granddaughter is not "rotten pizza" after all. (See also this news blurb.) Ok. Up until ... http://chemoisnotapony.com/blog/70/leonard-padilla-is-an-idiot/ Today I woke up with major ataxia in my arms, hands, legs, and feet. This has happened around a half a dozen times over the course of the past year. Usually it lasts around 24 hours and then disappears. I think the longest it's ever lasted was close to 48 ... http://chemoisnotapony.com/blog/63/ataxia-chinese-hamsters-and-sesame-street-band-aids/ "[...] E a morte passa de boca em boca com a leve saliva, com o terror que há sempre no fundo informulado de uma vida [...]" -From Herberto Hélder, Poesia toda, "Poemacto II." --- "[...] And death passes from mouth to mouth with its light saliva, with the terror that exists always in the unformulated depth of a life [...]" --- I remember a time ... http://chemoisnotapony.com/blog/58/ventriloquism/ Because it's the weekend, which means more work for me (yes, my schedule is the opposite of yours, thank you), I've decided to re-post this article from Salon.com about Gillian Anderson, aka Special Agent Dana Scully. I agree with every word of it---except for the unnecessary fawning over Duchovny sprinkled ... http://chemoisnotapony.com/blog/56/scully-have-i-loved-from-saloncom-worth-the-re-post/ I've gotten in the habit of sending them "Thank you" cards. When you actually sit down and think about it, it seems bizarre to pick out a card with an image of a penguin on the front and write inside: "Dear Dr. So-and-So, Thank you for the wonderful job you ... http://chemoisnotapony.com/blog/38/my-doctors-are-my-heroes-right-now/ I've found that the best way of dealing with those obnoxious MassPirg kids is with a meme. If you live in or near a major urban area, then you know those kids. They are invariably college freshman (with the occasional high-school senior sprinkled in for variety) who aggressively accost passersby, ... http://chemoisnotapony.com/blog/36/on-the-usefulness-of-memes-in-daily-life/ To be perfectly honest, I am not sure quite how I feel about this. I am aware that one of Ms. Hilton's grandmothers lived (and died) with MS, and I can only commend her for her recent efforts to break out of the mold of perpetual airhead party-girl and actually do ... http://chemoisnotapony.com/blog/33/paris-hilton-tommy-hilfiger-and-ms/ So today (after the toothpaste run, during which, yes, I ran into both one-dred flea-infested homeless woman and urine-soaked, perpetually pissing homeless man) I made a couple of phone calls to the leaders of two local IRL MS support groups. The first was run by a very helpful, lively-sounding woman ... http://chemoisnotapony.com/blog/28/mirror-mirror/ Since I am still on a diet of liquids and semi-solids 2 weeks after my wisdom teeth extraction (and have lost 15 pounds in the process), I've decided that the only solution is to consume a couple of bowls of Edy's Take the Cake ice cream each day. Hopefully it ... http://chemoisnotapony.com/blog/26/party-cake-ice-cream-and-homeless-men-who-piss-themselves-on-purpose/ MRIs were not designed for thecoolkids [tm]. I have a tiny, razor-thin hoop in my left nostril. It's so insignificant that I've already undergone 3 separate MRIs with it in and had no problem whatsoever. Of course, the image of the hoop shows up on the resultant MRI images, much ... http://chemoisnotapony.com/blog/24/mris-make-me-feel-special-inside/ If you haven't already had the privilege of beholding Isabella Rossellini's "green porno" in all of its absurd glory, then I highly recommend that you check it out. [Obviously this is NSFW.] I find it difficult to determine whether or not these shorts were intended to be humorous, but they crack ... http://chemoisnotapony.com/blog/22/bug-porn-its-more-likely-than-you-think/ The Jamaican cab driver was telling me about his cock. "I have magic dick, ok?" he started off. "Right on," I responded from the back seat, "Oh, can you make a left here? Thanks…" "I have eight inches cock," he continued, with obvious pride. "Right on," I repeated, not particularly caring. "And when I fuck ... http://chemoisnotapony.com/blog/20/the-jamaican-cab-driver-incident-based-on-a-true-story/ I'll probably get sued for writing this, but every time I look at the cover of the National MS Society's quarterly magazine, Momentum, all I can think about is how a more appropriate title would be Stasis. The Fall issue is on the floor of my bedroom right now. The ... http://chemoisnotapony.com/blog/17/its-109-in-the-morning-and-im-eating-instant-mashed-potatoes-with-ketchup/ I was supposed to have my appointments with Dr.s Kerr and Brodsky at Johns Hopkins on August 6th and 12th, respectively. Unfortunately, my teeth had another plan. For years I had been putting off the dreaded wisdom tooth extraction. You see, I hate teeth. I would rather undergo a lumbar ... http://chemoisnotapony.com/blog/9/anticlimax-extraordinaire-or-zomg-teef1-the-story-of-an-unexpected-wisdom-teeth-extraction/