When the husband and I watched Signs we had a different view of the ending then most. Maybe it's because we're both asthmatics, but we thought the alien was about to CURE that kid of his asthma, but then his big dopey bro had to just beat the life out him. We thought the aliens were good, enlightened and stumbled upon a culture that was dumb, brutal and fearful. That family put all their trust into a faith that always let them down. Poor aliens. They were just trying to help with something they... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by dog food sugar at 7:57 PM on June 18, 2008

I don't know if this is real or not, but I could see it happening and I'd be surprised if anyone would jump in. I'd think most would flee. Perhaps that's sad and unheroic, but self-preservation is a strong urge. When people flip out on the public transit not many people interact, me included. Whenever someone starts to yell incoherent ramblings on the rail everyone seems to just clam up and hope the nutter gets off on the next stop - which they seem to usually do - and the train collectively... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by dog food sugar at 5:16 AM on June 4, 2008

Oh I really liked this. Thanks! I have Tom Waits on the brain right now. I had a wonderful dream the other night where he was the Attending at the hospital I work at - reading chemo orders out loud in a wrinkled lab coat. The husband and I are going to see him in Tulsa.
posted to MetaFilter by dog food sugar at 8:57 AM on May 21, 2008

The husband's band conflicts with the Houston show date so we picked Tulsa as a little mini vacation. Jones Hall would be nice - I love all that red inside that hall - but the Brady in Tulsa looks like an interesting place too. I'm getting rather excited about Tulsa. It looks like a quirky town.
posted to MetaFilter by dog food sugar at 5:10 PM on May 21, 2008

I liked it!

I don't know why I do this, but with some regularity I like to imagine people around me breaking out into some sort of show tune like song and dance about whatever is going on. It is seriously fun. Imagine - you're at work, the grocery store, on the public transit - and everyone starts to sing about it and dance step over the backs of chairs.

I know in real life it would probably sound awful and be annoying, but in my imagination... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by dog food sugar at 1:49 PM on May 4, 2008

Yes mhectic! Just like that!

Similar old but good if you missed it: Lecture Musical.
posted to MetaFilter by dog food sugar at 2:19 PM on May 4, 2008

Vosges makes bacon and chocolate candy bars.
posted to MetaFilter by dog food sugar at 1:56 PM on May 4, 2008

Enjoyed the essays. Working with people when they are ill can be so immediately intimate and personal and he captures some of those moments well.

My dad was a neuro pathologist and he and his coworkers did make a lot of weird jokes in and out of autopsies. He always cut birthday sheet cakes in a Y as if it were a chest incision. He laughed and laughed at this every time. And he would tell classmates our family stored brains for dissection in the bathtub. Dumb and... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by dog food sugar at 10:49 AM on April 24, 2008

Good grief! The article is worth reading. What a sad story. Poor guy.

A few years ago at a hospital in my city a surgical resident died trying to catch an elevator (Warning : linked article is full of scary elevator stories). It was rather horrific: the door closed on him while he was partially in, trapping him in the doors and then it began to move to the next floor, decapitating him. There was a Physician's Assistant in that elevator, trapped for over an hour with... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by dog food sugar at 7:19 AM on April 15, 2008

Oh yay! This is fun! I'll add Dave Elsewhere to this dance thread.
posted to MetaFilter by dog food sugar at 6:08 PM on April 11, 2008

I really like that YouTube clip under 'singer' in the post. I'm really hoping for the best for him. Tejano / Conjunto music is such wonderful fun.
posted to MetaFilter by dog food sugar at 3:00 PM on March 26, 2008

Wonderful thread! That flickr one reminds me of a boxy old Cushman. Give me hope for the broken down old 80's scoots in my shed.
posted to MetaFilter by dog food sugar at 6:08 AM on February 13, 2008

I have an internet crush on tkchrist.
posted to MetaFilter by dog food sugar at 1:57 PM on February 4, 2008

That made me giggle a LOT. Excuse me princess indeed.
posted to MetaFilter by dog food sugar at 8:11 AM on January 31, 2008

I was telling one of the other nurses at work how much I loved hospital ice. She said it's just like Sonic ice which you can buy by the bag full if you ask. I never knew that.
posted to MetaFilter by dog food sugar at 7:58 PM on January 30, 2008

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This is just so sad. I remember being really moved by his performance in Monster's Ball. And he just broke my heart in Brokeback Mntn. Like someone said before I was looking forward to watching him for years from now. So very sad.
posted to MetaFilter by dog food sugar at 3:28 PM on January 22, 2008

It's back and I think it's lovely. Thanks!
posted to MetaFilter by dog food sugar at 12:13 PM on January 17, 2008

Aw.

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posted to MetaFilter by dog food sugar at 6:16 PM on December 15, 2007

I think Wolfdog sums it up pretty well. The dogs in that article are really not behaving very well.

My mom had a dog she was really attached to. She often referred to him as the "only person around" when all the kids were off at college. A ex-boyfriend noticed this attachment and dotted on the dog. When we broke up my mom drove me nuts with continually saying: but he was so nice to Bruiser..." and therefore I should have found some way to stay with this... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by dog food sugar at 9:45 AM on December 13, 2007

Miss Tea: ....the intern asked her in this weird veiled way what her "wishes" were...

I wonder if that intern was referencing Aging With Dignity's Five Wishes, a document that is accepted in 40 States (and generally honored in the others, including mine, Texas). If so, sorry you got a weird introduction to it. These conversations should not come off as weird or veiled to the patient and family. Many people live active full lives with late... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by dog food sugar at 7:13 AM on December 12, 2007

Oh Theora55. My heart goes out to you and your family.
posted to MetaFilter by dog food sugar at 8:31 AM on December 12, 2007

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This is sad. Only 33 years old.

I heard about this yesterday after I got home from work because my partner has edited some of the local dirty south videos over the years. I have very little awareness of rap music in general, but living in Houston and with an editor I get to hear some of the local artists. I heard the following songs over and over again as they were edited and grew rather fond of both:

Draped... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by dog food sugar at 10:09 AM on December 5, 2007

At first I felt bad for the EMS workers having to come help the people that fell and got trampled. Then I thought of all the weird places EMS workers have to probably go to help people and figured the mall maybe wasn't the worst of it for them. But then again, the mostly young healthy people that make up EMS teams are ruining their backs picking up all these large people.

It's hard for me to understand why the fervor that surrounds this experience is fun for people.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by dog food sugar at 6:06 AM on November 26, 2007

That was wonderful.
posted to MetaFilter by dog food sugar at 7:43 AM on November 23, 2007

I saw Special Music by Special People once and they were awesome.
posted to MetaFilter by dog food sugar at 6:01 AM on November 22, 2007

Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer was indeed disturbing. I agree about Bug and The Vanishing. I thought Happiness was funny too.
posted to MetaFilter by dog food sugar at 8:56 AM on November 7, 2007

I was on a public bus once where a man had a very loud and long conversation on his cell. When he finished the homeless-looking man across from him started reaching for the phone while saying: "Gimme here." Cellphone guy looked a little alarmed, homeless guy simply says: "Lemme make a call." Homeless guy was completely serious. The guy with the phone looked completely freaked out. It was a fun little performance to watch. Sometimes I really love the theater of public transit.
posted to MetaFilter by dog food sugar at 4:18 PM on November 4, 2007

The Rice University Marching Owl Band (the MOB) ends every halftime performance with their version of this song. Always very fun.
posted to MetaFilter by dog food sugar at 5:11 AM on November 2, 2007

Wow thank you! A treat indeed. FYI your youTube link sent me to a dubbed version. Here's the Vincent Price narration YouTube link. Hopefully admins will fix it and it won't distract into a derail because this is a very fun find. Thanks again.
posted to MetaFilter by dog food sugar at 6:55 AM on October 21, 2007

I really love the relationship between Burton and Price. They both seem to share this love of spooky story telling and the work they did together is so fun. Price's role in Edward Scissorhands is so great: an eccentric mad inventor in the middle of an insane suburbia. What a perfect final role for Price's long career. Sorry to be such a gushy fan, but I guess that's what I am here and this post has suddenly put me in the mood for halloween.
posted to MetaFilter by dog food sugar at 7:03 AM on October 21, 2007

That was really excellent. Thank you.
posted to MetaFilter by dog food sugar at 5:56 PM on October 15, 2007

Oh my gosh these are all so wonderful! I love love lurve insipid pointless metafilter. When I watched these shows as a kid all the camp totally went over my head. Hook, line, shark repellant spray.
posted to MetaFilter by dog food sugar at 5:05 AM on September 23, 2007

Another border collie owner here. We got ours from a friend who was a teacher at an elementary school in a somewhat rough neighborhood. He watched the then homeless dog try and herd the parents cars as they dropped their kids off. After a few days he had to stop her. We took her and it took a long time to ween her off cars. She would hear them and you could see it in her face that it was driving her crazy - those cars - driving around randomly with no collie containing them properly. She was a... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by dog food sugar at 4:00 PM on September 2, 2007

I love this story. There are signs that most hospice workers / family and other people that are around end of life care notice about people that are about the die: extremities get cooler to touch as blood shunts to interior organs (the floppy lower part of an earlobe might suck inward touching the side of the head), peripheral pulses may disappear on the feet and sometimes on the wrists, breathing becomes slower with occasional gasps, and with long spaces between breaths, secretions become... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by dog food sugar at 5:11 PM on July 25, 2007

Aww. I loved the Weekly World News too. I remember the Michael Jackson face melting story. Other favorite tales that have rattled around in my brain for decades now are one about a girl for whom an ambulance had to be called because the jeans she was trying on were so tight she got trapped in them in the dressing room, and, perhaps my favorite:

a man, who after a hard day at work, came home to sit on the toilet and smoke, threw his cigarette butts in the can which then... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by dog food sugar at 6:31 AM on July 24, 2007

Well said, thatweirdguy2. Another RN here. Say what you will about the writing style, but the Center for Nurse Advocacy has a point. There is a vast public misunderstanding of what nursing is about. This thread demonstrates some of that.

I might disagree with some of their reviews, but if pointing out misperceptions in popular culture gets their site some attention and makes any non-health worker think about this at all then that's a good start.
posted to MetaFilter by dog food sugar at 6:15 AM on July 15, 2007

I love the color changing house. I wish I could find more pictures / info about it but I'm a lazy googler this morning. Really fun post!
posted to MetaFilter by dog food sugar at 5:26 AM on July 8, 2007

I my gosh I loved the inversion house! I live right across the street and it became this wonderful community center for it's existence. Every evening people would walk their dogs and kids over to it and just hang around. People really would almost run into each other as they slowed their cars to look.

Now it's a pretty awesome coffee house, appropriately called Inversion. Free Wifi and cold-drip brewed iced coffee. Yum.
posted to MetaFilter by dog food sugar at 8:26 AM on June 30, 2007

When they built it they covered the entire building with this black tarp. It looked like a place getting treated for termites or something uneventful like that. So it was pretty easy to visually forget it was there during construction.

Then when they took the tarp off when it was finished it was like BAM! Overnight! Look what crazy thing happened to this house! Like 2or3ws mentions.

Here's the Art League of Houston's 2005 press release about it.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by dog food sugar at 6:09 PM on June 30, 2007

Yeah 20r3ws - If I remember correctly it was just black outline paint at first and then a few nights later filled in. I think it was just before they took the whole thing down.

Not to totally change the subject, but I have mixed feelings for the tagers. I love what Yar does. And the desperately positive responses that Give Up prompts with his posters are fascinating. The places they pick make a difference too. Un-sold space on old billboards, or the light boxes at red... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by dog food sugar at 9:50 AM on July 1, 2007

(Dang it! Sorry I messed up the spelling on your name, 2or3whiskeysoadas.)
posted to MetaFilter by dog food sugar at 9:55 AM on July 1, 2007

Neat-o!
posted to MetaFilter by dog food sugar at 1:36 PM on June 17, 2007

Do Goths come to McDonalds? Yes. I love this fpp and everyone here!
posted to MetaFilter by dog food sugar at 11:40 AM on June 15, 2007

hifiparasol did they answer that question? How do you answer that question?! This is all too funny.
posted to MetaFilter by dog food sugar at 12:17 PM on June 15, 2007

Marfa Texas is an example of art moving into a small rural town and coexisting well with the community. Anderson Ranch is another one. This is a great idea. Cynicism is really boring.
posted to MetaFilter by dog food sugar at 11:02 AM on June 5, 2007

One of the 3 ER's I worked at as a tech during nursing school had a 24 hr. non-emergent clinic next to it. That way the triage nurse was able to send the people who where there for cold/flu, pharmacological questions/refills, and other non-emergency issues next door. I've seen a few other ER's in the area work toward this direction.

I remember missing that clinic when I moved to another ER that didn't have one. In my ideal world I remember thinking there would be other... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by dog food sugar at 8:31 AM on June 5, 2007

Very fun! Perhaps some of you - if you're in the area - can join me at the Accordion Kings and Queens tomorrow night.
posted to MetaFilter by dog food sugar at 7:55 AM on June 1, 2007

Wow nice find! Thanks.
posted to MetaFilter by dog food sugar at 9:32 PM on May 28, 2007

Love these!
posted to MetaFilter by dog food sugar at 8:55 PM on May 22, 2007

Oh my gosh. YAAAAAAAAAY! Marlo Thomas's voice was my favorite.

I always felt sort of bad for the Ladies First girl. Did she really deserve that just because she was a little self-centered?!
posted to MetaFilter by dog food sugar at 9:18 AM on May 22, 2007