The original Nightmare is one of my favorite movies. There’s so much to love about it. My legal friends assure me that the setup doesn’t make sense, however: conducting a search on the right house when the wrong house is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
By now you may have heard that a feature-length Hollywood movie based on the game Battleship is being made. This is kind of the reverse idea.
As you can see, the thing is enormous, but bafflingly it’s mostly blank stone. Clearly it is designed to be seen either from far away or from right close up, and perhaps that in itself is symbolic.
You guys seem to like me best when I’m waving my bitter unfunny little fists, as witness the fact that this comic and this comic are the two most popular on the site. So witness the first text-only installment of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This anecdote appears in Walter’s book The Psychiatrist, a collection of capsule biographies of great figures in neuroscience. Why does Walter put anecdotes about himself in a book ostensibly about other people? Because he’s a narcissist, and therefore literally incapable[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Another sample from the book, presenting another psychiatric treatment you haven’t heard of. The term for what happens when you yell NOT THE CLOWN SUIT! is abreaction.
Why should cats be the only ones we berate this way? The title of this post, incidentally, is yet another funny thing Ignatz said and I stole from him.
