McKay won’t tell you man, don’t you know he’s in the pocket of the big gay Chinese frog 5G corona virus Amazon Microsoft Chemtrail deep state industrial complex, I read it on 7396514⁸Chan so you know it's true.

hey, small world!  i was in england during the mad cow thing (my senior semester abroad) & b/c i was there for just barely 3 months, i can’t donate blood either! (also, i have malaria.) the prion thing is scary. very very rare but if anyone gets it, it will be me, i’m sure. i’ve saw some documentary of that italian…

The mirror thing is so cool! Like forget drugs and therapy. Just grab yourself a mirror and go to town.

thanks, that would be right up my alley! the thing that currently freaks me out totally is “Fatal Familial Insomnia.” the only good thing about it is that it is pretty much an inherited malady.

If you like stuff like this I recommend the book The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons by Sam Kean. He talked a bit about Capgras and other things like Cotards and phantom limb. 

...I always thought the AV Commentariat was sharper than this, but for those who need it spelled out: the “Unrelated,” that begins my comment is a misdirect, and I’m actually making a joke about the topic of the article.

It’s just a quarantine beard, I swear! And I need this agony booth in the kitchen to work at home!

I actually covered Jade Helm a while back in this column, and was a little worried Pineland was too close to repeating myself, but fuck it, the world’s going to hell, and I’m pretty sure the Noble Prize for Litaratchur is out of my reach anyway.

The most famous instance of someone believed to have been replaced by a duplicate is of course Lee Harvey Oswald. Though it was not a result of anyone suffering from this syndrome, but rather a result of an altogether different type of delusion. One suffered by imbeciles and nitwits. For the record, those who knew…

Was it Stephen King that made the point that true horror (not fear or terror) would be when a person woke up to find everything in his room replaced by exact duplicates, placed in exactly the same spots?

If you think it’s bad now, just you wait until you open one of the listicles and see that if you want to see the author’s Top 21 Rom-Coms, you have to click through 21 separate pages.

It’s also easy to throw us off. A new haircut or a change of clothes can make people look like a whole new person. Superman’s Clark Kent disguise would totally work on me, is what I’m saying.

“That military exercises we were doing in Texas were designed to begin martial law so that I could usurp the Constitution and stay in power longer.

To be fair on the brain lesion front, until the MRI (and realistically the fmri) it was extremely difficult to try and study how the physical parts of the brain related to cognition outside of the phinneus gage’s of the world (and even that anecdote has been a bit overstated.)

from what i’ve read (i love weird shit like this, as long as it isn’t happening to me), the theory that makes the most sense to me is that when we look at objects, we have 2 brain responses - identification & memory. we recognize that’s a chair & we remember when we sat on a similar chair & it broke. with capgras, the…

Remember Jade Helm? That was fun/stupid.

I mean, it looks the same, and all the features are in the same place, but it’s definitely totally different!

you married too young (which is true)

Wow, I have, like, zero sympathy for ITS. Granted, I feel bad for his upbringing and for whatever it was in his psyche that led him to decide to marry his first sexual partner.  But woof, that’s some pretty harsh stuff to say about someone he otherwise claims to love.

Give me 100 pages on THUNDERHEART, another 100 on WILLOW, and another 100 on THE GHOST AND THE DARKNESS, and I’m good. Maybe an Afterword on his Elvis impersonation.