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Since I’m only a half-mile away, I will be at the space for SPEAK tonight, just in case some of the folks who aren’t online show up. I doubt much will happen. We’ll reschedule the “hunger” theme for another night.

Drop a comment or a line if you are coming, just so I know.

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I have a crazy day, so won’t be around much.

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Snow again. 5-10 inches, depending on where you are.

Baby, we got us a WINTER.

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This note from the Pharmaceutical Poets’ Society:

Medications, properly prescribed to the right patients, can help. There’s almost no such thing as “always bad” or “always good” when it comes to these meds. (I preclude from this obviously flawed meds like Halcyon.)

Using a drug as a panacea, not having adequate therapy, not monitoring it correctly, not including proper spiritual/dietary/lifestyle guidelines, and (most of all) incorrectly prescribing the drug for mild or even NON EXISTENT issues IS wrong.

I am tired (old story) of losing friends who refused treatment because they were afraid of losing their creativity, their souls, or because of some false notion of not wanting to give in to Big Pharm.

Big Pharm sucks, yes. They push and hype the meds beyond the point of sane usage. But it doesn’t mean that the drugs are automatically of no value.

Save your credibility, by all means; save your creativity, and be skeptical of every claim. Do your research.

But recall, please, that death and catatonia and total dysfunction don’t make you a particularly productive artist, either.