The Devil is a patriot, a proper party man
After a weekend of worsening listlessness, brainlessness, and general malaise, I finally saw a doctor and seem not to have any of the currently circulating plagues, but was sent home with a new inhaler and instructions to medicate myself like the nineteenth century on account of my lungs sounding terrible. I would so very much like to be able to think about anything that matters to me. Have some links.
1. Courtesy of![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
thisbluespirit: a substantial cache of British television plays on YouTube, as usual for however long it takes for the BBC to notice.
2. Courtesy ofdavidgillon: the ongoing investigation of HMS Erebus on the clock of climate change. I had somehow forgotten the pre-printed Admiralty equivalent of a black box recorder.
3. I had occasion last night to share Donald Swann's recording of "Lord of the Dance," from his Sydney Carter-penned EP Songs of Faith and Doubt (1964). I am never going to get over the existence of this version and I also happen to like it.
4. I am delighted that the latest bog body discovery went through the normal stage of checking out a recent homicide before settling on the Ice Age, but I really love the universal and automatic association with Seamus Heaney.
5. Ainsley Hawthorn's "The Sea, Like Glass" (2024) is a marvelous haunting of sea and selves.
1. Courtesy of
thisbluespirit: a substantial cache of British television plays on YouTube, as usual for however long it takes for the BBC to notice.2. Courtesy of
davidgillon: the ongoing investigation of HMS Erebus on the clock of climate change. I had somehow forgotten the pre-printed Admiralty equivalent of a black box recorder.3. I had occasion last night to share Donald Swann's recording of "Lord of the Dance," from his Sydney Carter-penned EP Songs of Faith and Doubt (1964). I am never going to get over the existence of this version and I also happen to like it.
4. I am delighted that the latest bog body discovery went through the normal stage of checking out a recent homicide before settling on the Ice Age, but I really love the universal and automatic association with Seamus Heaney.
5. Ainsley Hawthorn's "The Sea, Like Glass" (2024) is a marvelous haunting of sea and selves.
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I mean, it would account for the experience of damn near no psychotropic drugs ever working on me. (In 2006–07, when the chronic facial pain which was eventually identified as a kind of nerve damage was first diagnosed, I was tried on just about everything legally indicated for pain, including of necessity a number of antidepressants and antipsychotics. I racked up an impressive collection of prohibitive side effects without relief. A lower-than-therapeutic dose of amitriptyline helped me sleep a non-zero number of hours a night after the first year, but the effect burned off after about three years. Consequently I have a strong aversion to experimenting with any other brain drugs despite the state my brain is in. I don't even like to take new medications if I can avoid it, which the experience of anaphylaxis has only reinforced.) Thank you for these links.