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Sunday 18th 2005f December 2005

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, posted by Anthony in the early afternoon.

I’ve been ill. Actually I haven’t been well for about six weeks since I had that knock down cold. It’s ebbed and flowed, but always lingered. Then on Thursday I coughed up some nasty green stuff, so I thought I had better get a professional opinion.

Sure enough, I have a chest infection. Antibiotics. More importantly, though, I’ve been put back on Singulair. This is an Asthma/allergy mediaction I was on in Ireland. I stopped taking it when I moved to NYC for a couple of reasons: firstly, I didn’t seem to be allergic to America and secondly, I ran out and I didn’t have insurance.

Now it seems that my body (specifically, my nasal passages) has looked around and decided that yes, New York is a perfectly acceptable place to be allergic to, and that there is much lost time to be made up. And I have insurance. I’ve been taking the Singulair for a couple of days and I already feel much better. Of course, I have the usual shitty I’m-on-antibiotics feeling, but it’s a short course. I hope to be fighting fit by the time I fly into Dublin on Saturday. Strictly speaking, today is my last chance to do my Christmas shopping. I’d better get on that.

So, feeling ill I’ve done very little. Just work, sleep, read and play Battlefield 2. We got our own server: [R*] Meat shield come hither at 70.86.222.118:16567. It’s proving very difficult to get enough people to have a proper game. Come one, come all!

Due to lack of content I’m going to borrow a meme from Tom:

If you read this, if your eyes are passing over this right now, even if we don’t speak often, please post a comment with a COMPLETELY MADE UP AND FICTIONAL MEMORY OF YOU AND ME.

It can be anything you want – good or bad – BUT IT HAS TO BE FAKE.

When you’re finished, post this paragraph on your blog and be surprised (or mortified) about what people DON’T ACTUALLY remember about you.

Hopefully I’ll see those of you who’ll be in Dublin over Christmas while I’m there. I won’t have a phone other than my US one, which will be expensive for both of us if you call it, so the best way to get in touch will be through email or calling my parents. If you don’t have that number, email me and I’ll give it to you. Maybe.

Merry Christmas!

PS – STUFF I FORGOT

Some links I forgot about, relevant to work.

Washington Post Article
The Onion
Readers Respond to Roger Ebert

And a Douglas Adams quote from the last link:

Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

I’m dangerously close to thirty five. I wonder what dark turn the world will take?

Comments on "Medicine"

Comment ID: 5632
At 4:20 pm on Sunday 18th 2005f December 2005, Ivan said

1st to post, I like them apples. Luckilly I have your old phone and your parents number comes up as ‘folks’. Despite what G.W.Bush says I don’t think they are terrorists.
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At 4:22 pm on Sunday 18th 2005f December 2005, Ivan was inspired to add

On that last comment, I assume you have already performed a google search on ‘failure’.....
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At 5:35 pm on Sunday 18th 2005f December 2005, JIMI wrote

Hey! I’m on Singulair too, not to mention nasal steroid spray! Cool, huh? I’m a recent Singulair convert but not sure if I’m reaping huge benefits yet. Still, this isn’t a medical site so ‘nuff said already.

Oh, I just realised I’ve nothing else to say other than “I’m on Singulair too”.

CIAO
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At 5:44 pm on Sunday 18th 2005f December 2005, Anthony posted

No need to apologise. That is about twice as much relevant content as any of your other posts.
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At 5:11 am on Monday 19th 2005f December 2005, D said

You’re dangerously close to thirty-ONE! Calm down! I feel old enough already!!
Your loving Mam
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At 2:58 pm on Monday 19th 2005f December 2005, JIMI felt the urge to write

ANTHONY>> In sticking with my new policy of making relevant comments, all I’m saying is I’m with Roger Ebert on this one.
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At 3:11 pm on Monday 19th 2005f December 2005, Roger Ebert asserted

Relevance is for schmucks young man
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At 4:20 pm on Monday 19th 2005f December 2005, JIMI proclaimed

Hey, Roger. I’m AGREEING with you old man. Cut me some slack…
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At 4:38 pm on Monday 19th 2005f December 2005, Roger Ebert blurted

Re vera, cara mea, mea nil refert.
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At 12:25 am on Tuesday 20th 2005f December 2005, Babs was compelled to share

Anthony, I’m noticing that everyone previous has failed to take heed of the ‘meme’ you popped in your post.

Which, as you’ll recall, is precisely what I told you would happen when you first mentioned the idea two weeks ago. You know, when we went hunting for Jackabasselopes with Al Roker and the ghost of Minnie Pearl.
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At 3:54 am on Wednesday 21st 2005f December 2005, INGMAR BERGMAN decided it was worth pointing out

Mr Anthony.

I read with great interest the article in “The Onion” which your interesting site so thoughtfully provided a link to. I would be very interested in location this “Stacker” video game of which they talk. Could you please direct me to the necessary place where I can locate such product? Here on this small island where I live, I have no such access to high technology. Any help you can provide me would be gratefully appreciated.

Yours with fondness and a healthy dose of enigmatic aloofness and irrelevance…

Ingmar.

P.S: I still remember that evening in the rowing club at the Fleadh where you waxed eloquent about “Wild Strawberries” and how it influenced you in the making of your fine short “David’s Adventures in Space and Reality”. I told you I loved you. Then you ran. I assumed you were running to the commode to relieve yourself. Alas, I never saw you again…
Comment ID: 5651
At 4:43 am on Wednesday 21st 2005f December 2005, DORIAN GRAY was inspired to add

ANTHONY>> Bet you’re glad you moved to Manhattan, eh? What with the transit strike. Nice thinking Batman. Methinks you may have had inside info, n’est ce pas?
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At 7:00 am on Wednesday 21st 2005f December 2005, JIMI testified

ANTHONY>> I urge you and EVERYBODY to check out this website:

http://www.missingpersons-ireland.freepress-freespeech.com/

It’s earth-shattering and groundbreaking stuff. You will never look at things in the same way again…
Comment ID: 5656
At 10:17 am on Wednesday 21st 2005f December 2005, daragh announced

Trust you to find this James, or did they find you?
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At 10:23 am on Wednesday 21st 2005f December 2005, J decided it was worth pointing out

As I’m shortly heading to a place where turnips are more common than that new fangled invention known as th’internet, I just wanted to wish you all a very happy christmas and New Years. Talk to you when we’re all a little older, though I’m guessing not much wiser!
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At 12:26 pm on Wednesday 21st 2005f December 2005, Ivan was compelled to share

Start walking to JFK now but make sure to carry a sandwich board proclaiming solidarity with your opressed brothers. Is hitching illegal in NYC?
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At 4:08 pm on Wednesday 21st 2005f December 2005, JIMI announced

DARAGH>> They found me. He’s absolutely nuts that guy. He thinks the IRA and the UVF and all the Born Again Christians are part of a Satanic group who want to kill him. He also thinks it’s no coincidence that he shares the same surname with Philip Cairns (the schoolboy who disappeared in 1986 – remember him?). Strange stuff indeed. You should do a documentary on him.
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At 5:12 am on Thursday 22nd 2005f December 2005, daragh asserted

Met up with a few Dun Laoighaire heads last night in McSorleys – Justine, Catherine, and Aisling – it was her birthday. They’re trying to get another get together for the 30th – since its Christmas, theres more of a chance that people can meet up and are coming back home.. – Hope to see you there Anthony.
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At 3:49 am on Friday 23rd 2005f December 2005, daragh discoursed

Happy Christmas to you all & have a great New Year!
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At 1:08 pm on Tuesday 27th 2005f December 2005, JIMI opined

Wow, it’s quiet in here…
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At 12:42 am on Wednesday 28th 2005f December 2005, Babs wanted everyone to know

Don’t blame me, I didn’t cook it.
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At 1:02 am on Friday 30th 2005f December 2005, Babs started typing, with this result

Anyone home??
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At 3:07 am on Friday 30th 2005f December 2005, JIMI wrote

nope…
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At 11:42 pm on Friday 30th 2005f December 2005, Babs opined

Well if you’re here then OBVIOUSLY someone is home.

Duh!!
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At 11:47 pm on Friday 30th 2005f December 2005, Ivan wrote

ARRR! meslf an noigel be poissed uop an absinthee aweee yee anglo saxee fukareess, me thinkees we be sufferin o theee diseees o wee jimme. ARRRR!
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At 8:24 am on Saturday 31st 2005f December 2005, Babs was compelled to share

Is anyone here a translator??

I can’t read absinthian.
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At 1:51 pm on Saturday 31st 2005f December 2005, daragh professed

Just delivered Anthony safely back from Galway – after visiting Zaini & Sagel- they got a gaff in your hometown of Oranmore James! Some good stuff to go on the blog soon… nice little movies too…wait and see
Gave him the Xanda Expierence too – I am now handing him over to you lads Ivan & Nigel…he maybe sill drunk already, he’s fond of the aul butterballs…
Comment ID: 5703
At 2:50 pm on Monday 02nd 2006f January 2006, JIMI asserted

GREETINGS FROM L.A!

Hello there folks. Fascinating to hear that you were in Oranmore, Daragh! Actually, contrary to popular (and unpopular) belief, I’m not from Oranmore but here is not the place for such political discussions.

Anyway, on a much less interesting note, I’m in L.A staying with Brian Shanley. We went out to Arizona the other day and visited none other than Monument Valley. We rang in the New Year in a little town called Flagstaff, although somewhere along the line I got it into my head that the place was called Forklift. Well, stranger things have happened. I was in a place in Washington State last summer called Forks. But I digress.

You’d never guess who I saw on Venice Beach. None other than Wee Jimmy himself. At least, I could have sworn it was him. He was working in a tatoo shop. I barely recognised him with all the tatoos. Anyway, I think he saw me because he slinked off and I lost the little fecker before I could take a pic. Oh well.

Well that’s it for now. Just my luck – I hit L.A and it’s pissing rain. Just like Ireland. Just like Vancouver. Man, what a bummer…
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At 8:42 am on Tuesday 03rd 2006f January 2006, STILLINDUBLIN discoursed

Howyiz all gettin alaung there?

Anthony, I hope you have arrived back safely… although, who knows after a night with Ivan & Nigel eh? Hu? Hau? Wha’?

It was good to see your parents too. They’ll no doubt feast for weeks on those turnips. And all that money you brung back wich ye… that’ll keep the magistrate from the door for a few months. Who knows, maybe if things get bad again, your father could spark up the old Smart and deliver pizza in the evenings? Anything is possible, now.

I’d also like to take this moment to point out to all American readers, we here in Oirahland get at least 20 days holidays a year!!!!!!!!

Daragh, it turns out I texted your home phone. I know, I should’ve paid more attention. But now Anthony has given me yer Mobie, so who knows eh.. hau, wha’, hu!? Congratulaions on the new bird too! Maybe we can go dopple-dating! I hear yours is a Frog? Mine’s a Kraut so they should hate each other! Could be fun!

As for that “wee Jimi Fecker”, Happy New Year…. friend.

And Elenamary… sorry to hear about that awful experience in Dublin Airport Customs. I know they can be a bit rough, but that’s what happens when you try smuggling Christmas Trees into this country. Anthony should’ve warned you. But don’t worry, the swelling will die down soon.

HAPPY NEW YEAR BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH
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At 2:05 pm on Wednesday 04th 2006f January 2006, J asserted

Glad to see ye’re doing your bit for international relations there lads
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At 3:27 pm on Thursday 05th 2006f January 2006, JIMI started typing, with this result

Jon Stewart hosting the Oscars. Is it just me, or wouldn’t Bill O’Reilly have been a better choice?

Discuss…
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At 3:55 am on Friday 06th 2006f January 2006, STILLINDUBLIN declared

Hmmm… I’m not sure Jimi. While Jon Stewart is a likely candidate, I do agree, Bill O’Reilly has an interesting Irish twang about it. Not unlike Bill O’Herlihy…. “De-da-de-daaa-... de-de-d-dh-dhheeeee… de-de-dee-dah-deee… The Final Countdown, whaooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!” Ahhh, them where the days.

Hmmm, other famous Irish presenters could apply for the Oscar job too. Lets here some nominations for top Irish Presenter at The Oscars Awards Ceremony.

Discuss please, with great gusto.
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At 5:40 am on Friday 06th 2006f January 2006, JIMI stated

DEAN>> I never watch the Oscars but if Bill O’Herlihy presented them now THAT I’d have to watch. Can you just imagine it? Or Jimmy Magee. Actually, come to think of it, they should just get the Apres Match guys to present it. That would really fuck with all the American’s heads…
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At 11:34 am on Friday 06th 2006f January 2006, STILLINDUBLIN started typing, with this result

Yeah! That’d be deadly alright! Either them or Bosco! In fact, Bosco’d be right at home. And the previews of the nominees could be seen through special windows. Or was the special windows thing part of BBC’s Playschool? He’d have to have frequent frock changes though, but if I know Bosco, he’d like that.

Maybe Apres Match could do a take on Bosco? Bosco, the life story, in scale and everything! Like an Irish Toy Story!
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At 12:00 pm on Friday 06th 2006f January 2006, daragh said

Yawn….Different year…... same shit…........
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At 5:27 pm on Friday 06th 2006f January 2006, JIMI asserted

I think it’s the “Magic Door” you’re thinking of…
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At 6:01 pm on Friday 06th 2006f January 2006, J imparted

Playschool had the magic windows – Bosco had the magic door, and posh kids in expensive wellies in ice-cream factories if I remember rightly…
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At 6:39 pm on Friday 06th 2006f January 2006, JIMI proclaimed

I’m more of a Sesame Street man myself…
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At 9:36 pm on Friday 06th 2006f January 2006, JIMI posted
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At 6:45 am on Saturday 07th 2006f January 2006, Babs declared

Oog. Things have gotten scary.
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At 8:21 am on Saturday 07th 2006f January 2006, Ivan discoursed

Yes Jimi, as a child I too prefered the suggested bestial content of sesame st and the muppets to the dungarees wearing minciness of Bosco, I much confess an overall prefeance for playschool though, even as a child I could discern a certain quality in anything not made in Ireland.
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At 2:07 pm on Saturday 07th 2006f January 2006, A person felt the urge to write

Yes yes yes

It took some time folks, but after much reseacrh and painstaking investigation, we can now finally, finally, reveal the TRUE existance of Anthony in America. He has being lying to us all.. I knew it!!!

Look here… if you dare!

http://www.mopoc.net/members/anthonyl/anthonyl.htm
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At 2:37 pm on Saturday 07th 2006f January 2006, A friend announced

... some of you may have found that distressing I know. The truth hurts, does’nt it? Interestingly though, our so-called ‘friend’ still sports a hat. Although, it is a slightly less aristocratic look one might add.

The jig’s up Anthony… we’ve all seen your “Probe”! And it pains me so… er…. not the probe.

Abd before you all say it.. yes, there was many a spelling boo-boo in that last post. Knobs!
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At 3:53 pm on Saturday 07th 2006f January 2006, JIMI felt the urge to write

DEAN>> it’s all starting to make sense. The final piece in the puzzle clicks into place. Nice work, my friend. There is no longer any need for this blog, its comments or delusional guerilla blogs. The search for meaning ends here…

IVAN>> I always hated Bosco. Fraggle Rock – now that was a cool show, especially the travelling guy – what was his name? Uncle Travelling Nick or something…
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At 11:10 am on Sunday 08th 2006f January 2006, J realised it was important that we all should understand

Uncle travelling Matt
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At 2:35 pm on Sunday 08th 2006f January 2006, JIMI posted

but of course…
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At 2:45 pm on Sunday 08th 2006f January 2006, Anthony announced

Just ignore my new post why don’t you.

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Sunday 18th 2005f December 2005

Medicine

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