Comments on: After the cold https://www.vianegativa.us/2006/10/after-the-cold/ Purveyors of fine poetry since 2003. Sun, 23 Sep 2012 21:27:01 +0000 hourly 1 By: Burning Silo » Blog Archive » recently read and enjoyed https://www.vianegativa.us/2006/10/after-the-cold/#comment-2463 Tue, 07 Nov 2006 16:56:53 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/10/31/after-the-cold/#comment-2463 […] * While just getting over a bad cold picked up during my wanderings in the west, I came across *this* piece at Via Negativa. Just what I needed to read, Dave! […]

]]> By: Dave https://www.vianegativa.us/2006/10/after-the-cold/#comment-2462 Sun, 05 Nov 2006 18:06:28 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/10/31/after-the-cold/#comment-2462 Well, parts of it were true!

]]> By: Beer Activist https://www.vianegativa.us/2006/10/after-the-cold/#comment-2461 Sun, 05 Nov 2006 18:00:01 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/10/31/after-the-cold/#comment-2461 Dave,

I was so disappointed to find out this was a tall tale. I thought you were finally coming into your own.

Chris

]]> By: Dave https://www.vianegativa.us/2006/10/after-the-cold/#comment-2460 Sat, 04 Nov 2006 21:06:26 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/10/31/after-the-cold/#comment-2460 Thanks, leslee. Something tells me, though, that you’d be pretty hard to fool in any case.

]]> By: leslee https://www.vianegativa.us/2006/10/after-the-cold/#comment-2459 Sat, 04 Nov 2006 19:38:03 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/10/31/after-the-cold/#comment-2459 Coming to this late, as I am, and from your subsequent post, I was already pretty suspicious early on. But yes, the sudden urge to eviscerate the porcupine made it. This was very fun to read.

]]> By: Dave https://www.vianegativa.us/2006/10/after-the-cold/#comment-2458 Thu, 02 Nov 2006 12:06:23 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/10/31/after-the-cold/#comment-2458 Well, I always have at least one, sometimes two porcupines living under my house, and consorting with the oil furnace and heating pipes in unholy union. (That’s along with a shifting assortment of woodchucks, rabbits, raccoons and skunks. No bears yet.) I like porkies because they are cute but unpettable, solitary, slow-moving, and as fond of trees as I am.

Thanks for the info on antidepressants. I hope I won’t have a direct use for it any time soon. I’m sorry to hear about your photosensitivity, but on the positive side, I guess you won’t have to worry about skin cancer.

]]> By: David Harmon https://www.vianegativa.us/2006/10/after-the-cold/#comment-2457 Thu, 02 Nov 2006 04:48:06 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/10/31/after-the-cold/#comment-2457 Most of the SSRIs such as Prozac and Zoloft (and related drugs, such as the Effexor I take) can produce photosensitivity. On a sunny day without sunglasses, I’m pretty much blinded, and have tears streaming down my face! While I haven’t researched St. John’s Wort deeply, what I’ve heard about its effects and side-effects sounds like it’s a weak member of the same group. The thing about antidepressants in general is, even the newer sorts have enough obnoxious side effects that you really don’t want to mess with them unless you *need* them.

And of course if you tried to *bite* a porcupine, you’d have more immediate problems than “bad luck”! ;-) (Interesting that your fantasy mixed human and lupine attacks!) Porcs are cool critters — I’ve never had the chance to “hang out” with one, but I’m told they can be socialized well enough to live in a house with humans. (Of course, “socialized” isn’t “domesticated”, so I assume there would be a few hitches….)

]]> By: Dave https://www.vianegativa.us/2006/10/after-the-cold/#comment-2456 Thu, 02 Nov 2006 02:30:05 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/10/31/after-the-cold/#comment-2456

right up to the swift dispatching of the porcupine

Good catch! Were I to kill my totem animal for real, it would bring seven years of bad luck.

]]> By: beth https://www.vianegativa.us/2006/10/after-the-cold/#comment-2455 Thu, 02 Nov 2006 02:04:01 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/10/31/after-the-cold/#comment-2455 You had me, right up to the swift dispatching of the porcupine! great post, and the most entertaining read I’ve had today. Thanks, Dave.

]]> By: Dave https://www.vianegativa.us/2006/10/after-the-cold/#comment-2454 Thu, 02 Nov 2006 01:20:56 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/10/31/after-the-cold/#comment-2454 Joan – Lupus, right. I do know one lady with the disease, but she’s managed to battle it into remission through lots of exercise of a better diet. She walks five miles or more a day now, so I can’t think the sun bothers her any more. I hadn’t thought about the derivation of the name “Lupus” — fascinating!

One drug that induces photosensitivity is the active ingredient in St. John’s wort (speaking of depression), a good reason not to take it, in my view.

robin andrea – You too, eh? You’re the last person I would’ve thought might fall for that yarn! Glad you liked it, though.

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