I bet he was pretty PO'd.
ahahahahahaha.
I wonder if he has a tongue. Would you notice if you didn't have a tongue? Right now, my own, unused, is not in my foreground. I do touch my teeth with it just a little.
Does Ebert have teeth? Can he open his mouth? A larnyx, throat, palate? Does he always breath thru his nose?
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(Some?) Doctors can be like that. The only point at which they will discuss "quality of life" issues with you is the point at which they think they are wasting their time and somebody's money. When some committee or authority says the Medicare cost is too high. Been there.
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It is rare that a person put though extraordinary life-saving medical measures will say they were not worth it. Or not.
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Over the course of forty years, without exception Ebert has in every encounter I have had with him grown in my estimation, admiration, and affection. I like him a little more than yesterday.
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I tried while reading the article to remember the taste of toffee. I vaguely succeeded.
Mr. Ebert really is an extraordinarily gracious person. I'm always impressed when I read anything by him.
When my sister did a ten-day fast/cleanse, her main impression was similar to what Mr. Ebert reports. The food part was minor; being left out of social occasions made the fast boring. I think I would miss food more than my sister did, though.
I think I would miss cooking the most. Sure, I could still cook even if I couldn't eat, but I probably wouldn't.
Wow, very interesting.
I wonder if he's ever ordered something at a restaurant for the purpose of being able to smell it.
This and the recent Tony Judt essay remind me to be immensely grateful for such health as I enjoy.
8: Not to mention that I am watching a biopic of Ernie Davis, and it is almost too sad to bear.
I don't really understand 5, but I'm taking it as a compliment in an effort to cheer myself up.
10: Sorry, it was an obscure (and not very funny) reference to an earlier threa in which it was observed that ogged had a pattern of becoming very attentive (not in a bad way) to some female blogger every year or so.
I was just noting that H-G has been linking to you a lot lately.
I almost didn't post the comment because I didn't want to complain. I just thought it was amusing.
10: Sorry, it was an obscure (and not very funny) reference to an earlier threa in which it was observed that ogged had a pattern of becoming very attentive (not in a bad way) to some female blogger every year or so.
I was just noting that H-G has been linking to you a lot lately.
I almost didn't post the comment because I didn't want to complain. I just thought it was amusing.
Ah. I was confused by the jump from Ogged to Heebie, mainly.
Also I thought the reference had something to do with dating Ogged. Or going on a date. Or something. And I never! Heebie is MARRIED!
I thought these were all links posted in "Emessily"'s dating profile.
Yes, it wasn't just frequent linking, but the supposition of lustful intent.
It was a stretch but it seemed amusing to me.
Thanks to 16 and 17 for showing that I wasn't just being crazy.
20 is kinda freaky now. What is the truth value of this statement?
17- well, then, she'd have to ask me out. Lustfully. And we'd see what happened from there.
20 is kinda freaky now. What is the truth value of this statement?
Hmmm. I think you'd have to say that 20 is false -- despite purporting to state an obvious truth.
24 is kinda freaky now. What is the truth value of this statement?
doesn't having "me" in it make it more complicated somehow?
Simpler, perhaps, in that 20, unlike NickS, is either a number or a comment identified by a number.
Maybe NickS IS a comment, and it is comment number 20 that he is, and that's why I found the whole thing so befuddling.
I knew it would be more complicated with me in it.
Someone linked to that Ebert piece and I read it yesterday - pretty intense. It has been fascinating, over the past few years, reading his writing and appreciating just what an interesting thinker he is. Has anyone seen his AA piece? I think it may have been ostensibly an obit for Bill W.
Someone should probably delete 30 as well.
*shrug*
I have a feeling I just missed something intensely pervy. Or at least entertaining.
What the fuck clock is the unfogeed server on, anyway?
the unfogeed server's fuck clock is legendary, man.
I've mentioned before my crush on Grant Achatz, right? He talked about how, when he was diagnosed with oral cancer, the docs immediately wanted to remove his tongue. He had to really fight to find a doc who would explore alternatives. To imagine not being warned by the doctors that this was possible, to just wake and find you'd had your last creamy soup or juicy roast. I'd be much angrier than Ebert seems to be.
I was just noting that H-G has been linking to you a lot lately.
Cecily sends me lots of great links. Anyone can get in on the hot linky action as long as they know the secret, which is that my Unfogged e-mail address is broken, and so they should use my gmail address, which is heebie dot geebie.
Can anyone find the RSS feed for Ebert's blog? I always get linked to an outstanding article there, promptly forget he has a blog, until six months later I get another link. Where's the feed?
I thought Ebert's post was especially poignant after reading another article on the subject in Esquire. It shows how different the perspectives two people can have on the same subject.
Edible gold and silver is old news. Gold-coated almonds. Silver foil.
The link in 41 seems really whiny and irritating to me. But I'm not in a very good mood, so maybe I'm just being a jerk.
That doesn't make it any less silly, though.
Did we have a conversation here about the pretend illness where alien fibers come out of your skin, and so you have to eat silver and turn blue to cure it? Let's have that conversation again; those people were fun to mock.
Morgellons? I think that was the fiber illness.
Was that the article about the person who scratched through her skull? I think I was too horrified to find anything mockworthy.
Yes! Oh, man. I forgot how great this is.
A Montana politician ate lots of silver and turned permanently blue. Because Montana politics is awesome.
Yeah, but that wasn't because of Morgellon's.
YOU don't know that. He probably kept the Morgellon's secret for fear of appearing weak.
(in reality, his reason was almost better than Morgellons: he thought there would be no medicine after Y2K so he prophylactically turned himself purple)
Don't you think it's more likely that the story about eating silver was just a coverup for the fact that Montana isn't ready for its first Zombie-American politician?
Don't ask don't tell has always been big in the west.
Okay, I'm now feeling better about getting my first crown in my early 30s.