Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Laid low

I am home today, sick as can be. After an exhaustive analysis of my symptoms, and a comprehensive search of case studies at the web site for the National Institutes of Health, I rejected some of the preliminary diagnoses, which included diphtheria, the West Indian dry gripes, and Ondine’s curse, and settled on the common cold.

I rarely get colds, which is why, when I do catch one, I find it particularly annoying. Clogged sinuses, head like a cast-iron door-stop. You know how it is. So, if my posts today turn out to be rubbish, just chalk it up to illness.

I mean, if they turn out to be more rubbishy than usual. For example, I saw a news item about the actress, Viola Davis, who won two Screen Actors’ Guild awards. I had no idea who she was until I read the article, but in a fit of completely irrelevant word association, I was suddenly seized by a desire to write a farcical story about a fictional rural cousin named Cello Hunneycutt.

See what I mean? Only a temporary abatement of my delirium prevented me from cobbling together some preposterous yarn and inflicting it on my unsuspecting readers.

Dang! Where’s the Vick’s vapor rub?

11 comments:

  1. You have my sympathies. I've just finished getting over a cold, but am dealing with an injured tendon. Yay!

    Still, I prefer your delirium to the considered words of just about any politician. Get well soon!

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  2. enjoy a day of rest - and get well soon

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  3. Howza 'bout Cymbal Scales.

    Here's a ROPer update to occupy some of your time. This is from yesterday morning on The Blaze. Seems an Afghan man strangled his wife to death because she delivered a girl instead of a boy.

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  4. Get well, Paco.

    Actually, Cello Hunneycutt sounds like an intriguing character: a West Virginian librarian, or something.

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  5. Have you considered a soothing tonic, Paco?

    With plenty of ice, of course....

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  6. he will need lots of lime with that tonic - you know vitamin c and all.

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  7. I do not presently have the makings, but my favorite cold remedy was always a cup of hot tea with a large splash of Southern Comfort and a little lime juice. A friend of mine modestly dubbed it the Gastrointestinal Delight of the Orient.

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  8. Poe wrote some of his best work while under the influence.

    Get well soon, Candidate Paco: I don't know what we'd do if you had to drop out of the race.

    Remedy: 1/3 cup of hot tea [Earl Gray], 1/3 cup of warmed bourbon, 1 tablespoon of honey.

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  9. "Chel-o" or "Cell-o"?

    It's important.

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  10. Vicks doesn't cure, of course, but it does give comfort and a feeling that somebody cares about you even if it is only a distant corporation. I was surprised to learn that Vicks is owned by Procter & Gamble.

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