Category Archives: Health

The Comfort Of A Siesta

Last week I worked every day 8 to 5 at my cousin’s metal shop. I cut bronze with a band saw, picked up steel from a Newtown Creek foundry, installed bathroom fixtures at a West 14th Street luxury condo, and delivered decorative storage bins to the patio of a 5th Avenue penthouse. The work was […]

An Orgasm of Sneezes

Der Speyer by FX Messerschmidt. Franz Xavier Messerschmidt stunned the Baroque Age with his sculptures of contorted facial expressions. The artist lost favor with the Viennese court and he retreated to Swabian Alps to complete the 64 studies while studying necromancy under the influence of the pagan prophet Hermes Trismegistus. My Art 101 professor at […]

Mustard Plaster – Covid 19

Aside from Europeans singing from their balconies, one of the worst phenomenas of the Covid 19 pandemic has been the misinformation about how to treat the virus on the Internet. Suddenly everyone thinks they went to Harvard Medical School. Holding your breath for ten seconds. It’s just a hoax. Malaria pills stop the virus. And […]

Recovery From Covid 19

Each day my health improves from my bout with Covid 19. My temperature is normal and throat is no longer parched by dehydration. My sense of taste has returned along with my appetite, although my sense of smell remains in shutdown mode. Of course I have no proof that I had the virus. NYC health […]

Loss Of Smell and Taste Symptoms – Covid 19

Your sense of smell is closely tied to your sense of taste. The human nose has 10cm squared, while dogs possess 170cm squared. Back in the 20th Century Doctor Joyce Brothers theorized that human survival depended more on our smelling bad and tasting worse than intelligence, but not all of us smell the same. I’ve […]