Wednesday, December 15, 2021

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In case you want Rod Stewart's body for Christmas...

Posted: 15 Dec 2021 04:37 AM PST

 ... I found this awfully charming and ridiculous:

@sirrodstewart

Thanks for showing us how it's done! 🎄 🕺 💃🏻 #Christmas#FelizNavidad #FestiveFashion #ChristmasDecor #WinterOutfit @penny.lancaster0

♬ Da Ya Think I'm Sexy? - Rod Stewart

"The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), published by the American Psychiatric Association, no longer includes hypochondriasis — also called hypochondria — as a diagnosis."

Posted: 15 Dec 2021 04:26 AM PST

I discover, reading the Mayo Clinic website, which I'm doing this morning after reading "Omicron spreading rapidly in U.S. and could bring punishing wave as soon as January, CDC warns" in The Washington Post. 

And — also in the Post — "Anger, emotional upset could trigger a stroke" — "Anger — such as road rage and the simmering displeasure of the ongoing pandemic — is the watchword for 2021. But be careful — those big emotions could trigger a stroke." Smart, top-rated comment over there: "This suggests I should stop reading the news."

Of course, I believe the diseases we're talking about are real, but when is the focus and obsession with them a disease in itself? There will always be diseases, and we can always take more and more and more care, but at some point the care-taking is crazy, pushing out what is valuable in life. So let's be scientific about the disease that is no longer called hypochondriasis.

The Mayo Clinic tells us the proper term these days is "illness anxiety disorder." Symptoms:
Being preoccupied with having or getting a serious disease or health condition
Worrying that minor symptoms or body sensations mean you have a serious illness
Being easily alarmed about your health status
Finding little or no reassurance from doctor visits or negative test results
Worrying excessively about a specific medical condition or your risk of developing a medical condition because it runs in your family
Having so much distress about possible illnesses that it's hard for you to function
Repeatedly checking your body for signs of illness or disease
Frequently making medical appointments for reassurance — or avoiding medical care for fear of being diagnosed with a serious illness
Avoiding people, places or activities for fear of health risks
Constantly talking about your health and possible illnesses
Frequently searching the internet for causes of symptoms or possible illnesses
I used the boldface for the symptoms that might support the notion that the whole country is suffering illness anxiety disorder.

"If we're so beautiful and so treasured, why is it that we're never touched?"

Posted: 15 Dec 2021 03:41 AM PST

This is brilliant, but I must put it below the fold because TikTok video disrupts some browsers:

 

@annaredhair__

this started as a bit and now i want to write a period piece about locked away fine china ##perioddrama ##anthropomorphism

♬ Gymnopédie No. 1 (Erik Satie) - Myuu
And "Oh, to be in the front row!"
@annaredhair__

rotating my mugs out as we speak ##morningcoffee ##comedy ##mug ##goodwillpurchase

♬ original sound - Anna Rudegeair

"She was sitting in an office with other parents and their children when one of the mothers 'accidentally' spilled coffee on Grimes’s dress just before she went in for her interview."

Posted: 15 Dec 2021 03:42 AM PST

"'It might have intimidated some little girls, but it gave me something to talk about,' she said. Capra, who 'handpicked every single person in that film,' according to Grimes, hired her." 

From "As 'It's A Wonderful Life' turns 75, Karolyn 'Zuzu' Grimes reflects on the film that belatedly changed her life" (WaPo).
Grimes played George Bailey's youngest daughter, Zuzu, the "little ginger snap" with the petals, who in the film's profoundly soul-stirring climax, says perhaps the film's most-quoted line: "Look, Daddy, teacher says every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings." 
"I had no clue whatsoever those words would be so special to so many people," she said. "I'm thrilled I got to say them and that I got to be a part of that scene and that movie."
Every time you spill coffee on somebody, an angel gets gets the part you were trying to deny her.

Sunrise — 7:13.

Posted: 14 Dec 2021 11:57 AM PST

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"Donald Trump's son sent the White House chief-of-staff frantic texts calling for his father to intervene during the Capitol riot on 6 January...."

Posted: 14 Dec 2021 02:38 PM PST

"'He's got to condemn this shit ASAP,' the younger Trump wrote, according to US lawmaker Liz Cheney, vice-chair of the committee investigating if the former president had foreknowledge of the riot."

BBC reports.
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