I'm on Vicodin!!!

Oh God... I wish I were dead...

This, right here, is the X-Ray of my upper right molars, specifically 1-4. What you'll see is that I have my upper right wisdom tooth absolutely destroying my already terrible molar. I've had bad teeth in the back since I was in high school. For various reasons, I've not really taken care of problems as they've arisen in the back there since the mid-90's.

Now, I've always taken decent enough care of my mouth, brushing twice a day, etc.. but, when I was younger, poor hygiene, and what I think might have been a greedy dental practitioner led to several fillings in the back teeth. The front have always been fine, although somewhat yellowed from too much coca-cola, coffee, and eventually smoking.

When I was in high school, I was told I needed a root canal. I don't remember experiencing a lot of pain until after the procedure was done, then the filling immediately came out and there was a ton of pain. They re-performed, but since then, I've more or less sworn off dentists. Relying instead on better hygiene and Tylenol, Ibuprofen, and Aspirin.

The lower wisdom teeth came in years ago, both breaking apart the teeth in front of them. The upper left came in about two months ago, with very little fan fare. I just sort of noticed one day that there was a tooth where gum had been.

This one, however, has been troubling me for about as long, and it's been absolute murder. I haven't slept now in three days, and yesterday I actually passed out at work from the pain.

Going to the dentist today, I was informed that I need to have both of those teeth surgically removed.

Surgery is scheduled for Monday at 11:45 AM in St. Paul.

Wish me luck. Oh, and feel free to donate money to me, because I have NO IDEA how I'm going to pay for this.

The good news is that my teeth up front still look just fine. And that's all that matters, right?


Rant

No, actually, it's not me that's ranting. Instead, and I'm not sure how he snuck it out on me, but, Chuck Palahniuk's new book, Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey, comes out on March 1st! I can't believe that I didn't know about this sooner. I was anticipating Haunted, his last novel, forever. Literally from the dawn of time I waited for it.

Rant seems to be written in an interview format. The couple of pre-reviews I've read so far seem positive, but even if they'd said it sucked, I still would read it. Chuck's work is amazing!

Anyway, checking out Chuck's Website, I also saw info on a book written through his Writer's Workshop: Monica Drake's Clown Girl. It seems to be about some sort of strange clown chick, and her struggles with life, or something. I read the first few pages on Amazon, and it's pretty good so far. It has a real Chuck feel, which might be why he's given writing credit... so I'll likely pick that up soon as well.

If you've never read his work, or are like me and just can't get enough of the guy, you can check out a short story he had published in the magazine Viceland called "Mister Elegant". It's not exactly his greatest work, but it gives you a decent feel for his work. He's the mastermind behind Fight Club, which was actually a book before it was a movie.


LED Throwies

I absolutely must make a million of these!

I don't' know if you're familiar with instrucables.com, but, in the vein of many howto sites, like wikihow.com, the content of which come solely from it's users, though, instructables is much more stylish. It's filled with a ton of useless shit and a few really interesting bits.

One of those interesting bits is LED Throwies, as seen on the right. It's amazing. I must do it... MUST DO IT!!!

Wow, you think the Vicodin is making me loopy?


Heeeere FISHY FISHY FISHY!!!



Rare memories of joy from my youth... good times.



The Onion's new ploy for illiteracy in America.

Yep, they're promoting it. Why read the magazine that used to be really funny... when you can watch it and just let it happen at you...




Maybe they'll have edgy new material...





no, they won't.


I need to go lay down...

bye.