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Joni Mitchell reminds me of someone. Can’t quite put my finger on it.

Ramses II!

Okay, that was mean. She’s always been a slightly strange looking person, age has just added a subtle layer of WTF.

There’s a long article on Joni Mitchell in NY Mag this month, if’n you’re interested. I was a huge fan in my teens. Back when she wrote great love songs, not incomprehensible jazz boolshit.

The other day, I was trying to tell Uncle B about the freaky disease she’s got, and I couldn’t remember the name. It was in the article: Morgellons disease.

Have you heard of this thing? The Wikipedia article states flatly that it’s a delusion. Which surprises me, since Wikipedia is usually willing to equivocate on controversial topics — so perhaps it’s not so controversial any more.

I read about it years ago, when it first appeared (2002, per the article). Sufferers believe itchy little colored wires or fibers come poking out of their skin. They claim the fibers, when analyzed, are not vegetable nor animal nor mineral.

Doctors say Morgellons patients are round-the-bend bugshit animalcrackers.

If you ever want to spend an afternoon down the rabbit hole, have a Google at Morgellons. You can start with the Morgellons Research Foundation.

How come the clever ones are always crazy?

Comments


Comment from drew458
Time: February 10, 2015, 10:26 pm

This one did so many drugs in the 60s you could probably get a contact high just walking past her, 50 years later. Not surprised she has lifelong acid flashback syndrome.


Comment from Uncle Al
Time: February 10, 2015, 11:30 pm

How come the clever ones are always crazy?

Hey, now! I’m fairly clever but I’m not crazy! Except maybe for occasionally imagining my Volkswagen is really a Zamboni.

But what is “crazy” other than acting in ways you/we don’t understand? When such people become violent, my problem with them is the violence, not my inability to understand their behavior.

(And please don’t get me started on DSM IV.)


Comment from Mrs Compton
Time: February 10, 2015, 11:54 pm

California hardest hit.


Comment from SCOTTtheBADGER
Time: February 11, 2015, 12:28 am

You don’t have access to Coast to Coast AM, or you would know that Morgellons are UFO contact related. (Badger Snicker.) http://cdn1.arkive.org/media/4D/4DE56548-5BC9-45B8-8364-64996C0737D8/Presentation.Large/american-badger-at-sett.jpg


Comment from p2
Time: February 11, 2015, 7:51 am

its not just the clever ones…. i submit for your consideration either of my ex wives. one of whom was born & raised in suffolk….


Comment from Animositas
Time: February 11, 2015, 9:32 am

“…but I’m not crazy! Except maybe for occasionally imagining my Volkswagen is really a Zamboni.”

That’s not crazy, that’s imaginative, unless you try to drive it onto local ice rinks – that would be crazy.

“(And please don’t get me started on DSM IV.)”

Oy, the DSM IV, suggested subtitle: “You’re all crazy! Really, every one of you.”


Comment from Stark Dickflüssig
Time: February 11, 2015, 4:24 pm

Oy, the DSM IV, suggested subtitle: “You’re all crazy! Really, every one of you.”

DSM V: You’re all definitely nuts & need drugs, except homos, trannies, & paedos who are victims & need drugs.

Also, is there a British Diagnostic and Statistical Manual? Cause having a BDSM(IV? IXX? EIEIO?) would be kinda neato.


Comment from JuliaM
Time: February 11, 2015, 7:47 pm

Morgellons! Which my iPad spell check wants to change to ‘morgue loons’!

I thought that was no longer a thing, but it is. The everlasting power of crazy, huh?


Comment from Christopher Taylor
Time: February 11, 2015, 8:02 pm

Never been a big fan, there was a time period in the early 70s where this whole Carole King Joni Mitchell phase swept over music and made it… squishy.


Comment from Stark Dickflüssig
Time: February 11, 2015, 8:59 pm

there was a time period in the early 70s where this whole Carole King Joni Mitchell phase swept over music and made it… squishy.

Ah, yes, & this is what you get if you don’t wipe properly after a squishy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMkIuKXwmlU


Comment from LesterIII
Time: February 12, 2015, 2:09 pm

I present a pallet cleanser after Stark’s click-trap. The audio is not the best, but I like Lemmy’s pre-song dedication:

http://youtu.be/dO1nJcFyNWw


Comment from Ike
Time: February 15, 2015, 2:30 am

We have a noticeable (though tiny) number of folks who believe they are the opposite sex despite the evidence of their primary and secondary sexual characteristics. Why should the existence of folks who think they have “little tiny hairs growin’ out of my nostrils” surprise us??


Comment from Bob Mulroy
Time: February 17, 2015, 9:03 pm

Yeah man, those morgelleons cats are twisted, flip city, boobie-shoobie!

Jamming blanket fuzz under your skin? Cray-cray!


Comment from Brenda
Time: December 14, 2015, 12:26 am

The picture is so cruel. The drugs may have something to do with the illusion of wires coming out of her skin….but guess what, after 40 years as a mind body counselor I KNOW for a fact that ALL illnesses are concocted out of our consciousness. All illnesses,are psycho somatic and all can be cured by making a deliberate change in your mind…away from illusionart beliefs and towards TRUTH. The big objective spiritual Truth.


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: December 14, 2015, 7:36 am

Not all of them, surely, or the enlightened would never die (old age itself being a kind of disease).

Unless you think there is no objective reality, and this is all just a dream…

…just a dream…

…just a dream…

…just a dream…


Comment from Can’t Hark My Cry
Time: December 15, 2015, 12:10 am

But, Stoaty–old age and death are, you know, natural. And in tune with the cosmos, and like that.

Yeah, I know what you’re thinking. Me too.

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