substitute: (phrenology head)
substitute ([personal profile] substitute) wrote2005-10-20 01:49 am

Insert open mind joke into this hole in my head. Please.

Tonight I was talking to [livejournal.com profile] nickjb about my problems finding non-insane commentary on neurofeedback, etc. and we got onto the topic of failed therapies. One of these is trepanation, otherwise known as making a hole in your skull. Ancient people did this, and sometimes survived it. Sometimes they probably even felt better.

Nick explained that there was a sixties thing where people started saying trepanation was hip and happening and it was touted for a while, and I didn't really believe him. Color me wrong. Color me also slightly nauseous (green).

Ladies and gentlemen, I present the International Trepanation Advocacy Group. Don't skip intro. The spacy Heavens Gate-quality film is worth a few minutes. One side effecdt of trepanation has already been identified: smooth jazz and trippy 3D rendered animation.

I know I'm mining a rich vein when their short film credits the Mutter Museum and the State Department of Health of Nuevo Leon, Mexico.

"Some of us are willing to present ourselves publicly so that the old stigma associated with making a hole in the skull will be worn down over time."

[identity profile] scromp.livejournal.com 2005-10-20 02:42 pm (UTC)(link)
May I add this idiot to the pile for consideration? Gross and squicky, but chock-filled with unintentional hilarity.

[identity profile] salome-st-john.livejournal.com 2005-10-20 07:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow. I am very, very rarely squicked out but I gotta say, reading that made my stomach flip. And also: What a total tool.

[identity profile] eyeteeth.livejournal.com 2005-10-20 10:36 pm (UTC)(link)
IAWTC, wholeheartedly. I write short stories wherein I play torture for laughs, and reading that made me have to lie down for a minute until the woozy feeling went away. I dunno, it's just something about home brain surgery, I guess!

[identity profile] leolo.livejournal.com 2005-10-21 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
The guy gave up marijuana and coffee and got the trepannation. And now he feels more alert, less grumpy in the morning. I wonder why.

Actually, no I don't.

[identity profile] scromp.livejournal.com 2005-10-21 12:58 pm (UTC)(link)
It is because of his pulsating infant brain!