There was an art opening at Remote Lounge yesterday. The place itself is interesting and has potential, there is a photobooth and you can video conference between tables. Problem is the position of the cameras, you never get to make real eyecontact, if you look at the person you can't look at the camera and vice versa. Try for yourself. The other problem is a lack of reason to video conference with other tables. But that could be just the socially maladjusted me that I am. For what reason, however, was the art displayed as still images on monitors? We are talking about art created for monitors, websites for instance. There is nothing wrong with having them on monitors, but not if people can't interact. I wish bars would just give up their artsy aspirations and go back to a classic booze/highnoise approach.
On a more positive note, I am listening to the WhiteAlbum (Beatles) and I finally performed the hatefull yet necessary task of cutting my nails. Just in time for the peacemarch.

Neighbors. Are. Amazing. Not even a war will make them shut up. bbooom---bo-bo-booomboIf I drilled a hole in the floor and put a pipe through it and nerve gas through the pipe....I mean, everyone would blame the terrorists, right? boom--Booom-bobbobo---boom-Boooooboobobbbobom

Safer!!! America!!!!

Still here, reporting from lower Manhattan. Has any of that stuff since 9/11 had much effect on the Arts? Besides a new lack of Twin Tower panoramas.

Good Morning New York! Interestingly survival of the fittest seems to have turned into survival of the richest.
In New York only those with the high quality protective gear will survive? Isn't it enough that they have a natural selection of New Yorkers by keeping rents astronomically high and jobs catastrophically scarce? I can't believe that my favorite city is supposed to be emptied of a lower and middle class. I will take my chances. Here I am, inhaling deeply, unrestricted and uncovered. For everyone else, this place opened last year near Ground Zero:http://saferamerica.com.

Suffering pre-war-tension. And I'm not even near any warzone. Better go eat more red meat.

Jeans again:
I knew there were hiddden dangers.
Letter to the Canadian Medical Association from Malvinder S. Parmar, Medical Director, Medical Program, Timmins & District Hospital, Timmins, Ont.

I recently saw 3 mildly obese young women between the ages of 22 and 35, who had worn tight "low-rise" trousers (also called hiphuggers) over the previous 6 to 8 months. All presented with symptoms of tingling or a burning sensation on the lateral aspect of the thigh (bilateral in one case). The results of a physical examination were unremarkable, except for mild local tenderness at the anterior superior iliac spine in 2 patients. These 2 patients also had Tinel's sign, whereby a reproducible tingling sensation was elicited when the lateral femoral cutaneous nerve was stimulated by finger-tapping close to the anterior superior iliac spine. One of the women was concerned about multiple sclerosis and requested MRI but was reassured by my explanation of the origin of her symptoms. In all 3 patients, the symptoms resolved after 4 to 6 weeks of avoiding hiphuggers and wearing loose-fitting dresses.

Meralgia paresthetica has been described in association with various garments and accessories (such as wallets and tight jeans) causing compression of the lateral femoral cutaneous nerve. Now that hiphuggers are back in fashion, physicians can expect to see more patients with tingly thighs. Simple observation of the patient's mode of dress may give a clue to the diagnosis and prevent unnecessary investigations.

By the way, if a wound itches unbearably, is that a good sign or a bad sign? And what is one to do about it?

Mysterious illness, spreading from Asia by airplane, effects the respiratory system, it's called SARS. Reminds me a whole lot of The Andromeda Strain or the even more successfull Strain Andromeda, The.