Now’s the time to cry your tears
April 29, 2010
The top 5 psychiatric prescriptions for 2009:
| Medication | Used for… | U.S. Prescriptions | |
| 1. | Xanax | Anxiety | 44,029,000 |
| 2. | Lexapro | Depression, anxiety | 27,698,000 |
| 3. | Ativan | Anxiety, panic disorder | 25,868,000 |
| 4. | Zoloft | Depression, Anxiety, OCD, PTSD, PMDD | 19,500,000 |
| 5. | Prozac | Depression, anxiety | 19,499,000 |
More:
- The top 20 psychiatric prescriptions for 2009 (psychcentral.com)
Happy Holidays!
April 4, 2010
Infrequent “Quote of the Day” #21
March 13, 2010
“There are only two choices. A world with an eight-track museum and a world without an eight-track museum. I choose with.”
- Former Tiny Tim manager, Bucks Burnett.
More:
- Play It Again: Promoter Has One-Track Mind About Eight Tracks (Wall Street Journal)
Hang out with Steve
December 31, 2009
All the New Year resolutions you’ll ever need:
Original source: Found Magazine
Infrequent “Quote of the Day” #20
October 30, 2009
“Some mornings, in a perfect world, you might wake up, have a coffee, finish meditation, and say ‘Okay, today I’m going into the shop to work on a lamp.’ This idea comes to you, you can see it, but to accomplish it you need what I call a ‘setup.’ For example, you may need a working shop or a working painting studio. You may need a working music studio. Or a computer room where you can write something. It’s crucial to have a setup, so that, at any given moment, when you get an idea, you have the place and the tools to make it happen.
“If you don’t have a setup, there are many times when you get the inspiration, the idea, but you have no tools, no place to put it together. And the idea just sits there and festers. Over time it will go away. You didn’t fulfill it – and that’s just a heartache.”
David Lynch – “Catching the Big Fish”
A Present for a Good Boy from Scarborough
July 27, 2009
In recognition of the 40th anniversary of the publication of the first novel in the Flashman series, BBC Radio 7 recently rebroadcast an edition of ‘Book Club’ from 2006 featuring the author, George MacDonald Fraser (1925-2008). In the 30-minute show a group of readers, guided by Radio 4 presenter James Naughtie, ask the author questions about the book, the characters and himself.
The content is fairly insubstantial but for anyone who has even a passing interest in the very wonderful and very funny Flashman series this is an enjoyable diversion.
- Book Club: George MacDonald Fraser (rapidshare.com)
The 30-minute program in 128Kb/s mp3 format.
Approx. 25Mb.
More:
- Flashman by George MacDonald Fraser eBook (rapidshare.com)
The first book in the series in DRM-free ePub format.
Approx. 2.5Mb. - Flashman by George MacDonald Fraser unabridged audiobook (getdropbox.com)
At 64Kb/s mp3 this isn’t the best quality but this is the definitive, out-of-print version. Read by Timothy West and far superior to the currently available edition.
Approx. 210Mb. - Royal Flash, the movie (piratebay.org)
The second in the series and the only one of the Flashman novels to be turned into a movie.
Starring Malcolm MacDowell, it’s played for laughs more than the book but it remains, even today, a worthy interpretation. - The Flashman Society (harryflashman.org)
- The Book Club, BBC Radio 4 (bbc.co.uk)
- George MacDonald Fraser audiobook collection (ioffer.com)
17 GMF audiobooks, converted to MP3 and offered on two DVDs.
Includes all of the Flashman series.
Sex Pistols
February 1, 2009
Despite the fact that it is aleady being offered for sale on AbeBooks.com for $245, there are still a few copies of the latest portfolio from Stu Mead available at the regular price of €35 from the publisher, Le Dernier cri. Published in August, 2008 and limited to only 150 copies, this collection of 16 silk-screened prints (each 9″ x 12″ – 23cm x 30cm) features Stu Mead’s take on the legendary Krampus as well as his more familiar obsessions which will be well known to his fans and admirers.
Mead’s previous publications such as Manbag and Miniput rarely appear on the used book market and only then at extortionate prices so get it while you still can.
More:
- Le Dernier cri online shop (lederniercri.org)
- Stu Mead (stumead.com)
- Le Dernier cri – New books Summer of Hell (flickr.com)
Pictures of all prints in the Krampussy portfolio, as well as from other Dernier cri publications. - Krampus: The Sinister Sidekick of Santa (socyberty.com)
A brief introduction to the legend and festival of Krampus. - Krampus Postcards (oldpostcards.com)
A wide variety of original postcards featuring Krampus.
Previously:
Wordle-ized
January 30, 2009
‘Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes.’
Here’s what the RSS feed for this blog produces. For more interesting and creative uses of Wordle, check out the gallery.
More:
- Wordle – Beautiful Word Clouds (wordle.net)
Obamination
January 20, 2009
As the irrational wave of false-idol worship continues to sweep the U.S., Dutch newspaper De Pers peers into it’s crystal ball and sees nothing but violent death in the future of President Obama…
Illustration by Pluis Producties
More:
- ‘Lone wolf’ loert op Obama (depers.nl) – original Dutch
- ‘Lone wolf’ lurks on Obama (depers.nl) – Google translation to English
- Nation’s Presidential Assassins Still Undecided (theonion.com)
