Dancing Machine

In a turn that surprised even me, dancing saved my life. This phenomena called “status migrainous” means you have migraine symptoms until you go insane. More than three days. My symptoms come and go, but my brain won’t right itself. My life isn’t in danger, really, it just feels that way. I went home for […]

Butterfly

Without gooey, wet music, nonfiction can get dry and flaky. Its author may also become too fact-heavy, which feels sort of like having eaten too much white rice. Tonight I read a survival strategy of a favorite writer: listen to opera when you write nonfiction. Makes sense. They’re cranking out the same goddamn “La Boheme,” […]

Brain Based

A migraine is good for creative types, because it has to do with your brain. The brain and the lungs are the best sites for artistic diseases. Lung problems give you coughing, and coughing is a clear, dramatic, and not-too-gross way of showing your suffering. (See “La Boheme.”) A lot of artists have genital diseases, […]

The Best Table

Last week has been hard to handle– full of yeses. Yes, we’d like to print this, and yes, we’d like to print that, too. I feel like someone just sent me to the best table in the restaurant, and I need to remind them I am the OTHER Schurman party, the one who has no […]