{"id":236,"date":"2004-02-25T15:11:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-25T14:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/2004\/2\/we_heart_vicks.html"},"modified":"2004-02-25T15:11:00","modified_gmt":"2004-02-25T14:11:00","slug":"we_heart_vicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/2004\/02\/25\/we_heart_vicks\/","title":{"rendered":"we heart vick’s"},"content":{"rendered":"

First off, belated (but no less heartfelt for the delay) thanks and congratulations to those who came out for the reading<\/a> on Saturday and to my fellow readers, respectively. I’ve got a lot more blogs to follow now – there’s some great writing out there, and I’ll tell you right now: I’d get up on the same stage with Shasta McNasty<\/a> any day. I started recapping everyone’s triumphs, but then realized that the highlights were too numerous to mention without dragging on forever, so suffice it to say I’m glad to have been a part of it. So much so, in fact, that I might even do another one. I’ll keep you posted.<\/p>\n

And now for something completely different. <\/p>\n

The sinus infection I got rid of a few weeks back has returned with a vengeance, so I’m spending the day camped out on my sofa, popping Dayquil<\/a> and ostensibly working on designs. What I’m really doing is watching movies and daytime TV, though, because my attention span seems to have collapsed down to roughly 22.6 seconds. I keep flashing back to Denis Leary’s bit<\/a> on Nyquil being more hard core than most stuff you can get on the street, but this stuff is supposed to be mild, right? I mean, I’ve heard tell of people taking Dayquil and going to work<\/i>, even. I can just imagine myself standing at a white board with a marker in my hand in my current state, although the standing part might be a little tricky. I’d start off drawing a Venn diagram and wind up with cartoon dialogue and little fluffy clouds or something. Seriously, how do people function<\/i> on this shit? My hands feel like they’re halfway across the room, and about a third of what I hear seems to be coming at me from somewhere underwater, or maybe through a train tunnel. My mouth is as arid as the great gobi desert, and I’m even more easily distracted by shiny things than usual, which is more than a little alarming. Even more alarming is the fact that I’m actually starting to enjoy the trip. Maybe i should just thank the gods for my low tolerance for over the counter pharma. It sure makes television a lot more fun. Hell, I’ve been stuck on the TV Guide channel now for almost an hour…<\/p>\n

Also, since I can’t make it, I exhort those of you who are fans to get your asses to Delilah’s<\/a> tonight for Johnny Cash<\/a>‘s birthday celebration, featuring something involving DJ John Langford of the Waco Brothers<\/a>. Cheap beer<\/a>, cheap bourbon<\/a>, and a tribute to the Man in Black. What more could you ask for? Me, I’m asking for a new head. Preferably, one that doesn’t outweigh my body by a factor of three.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First off, belated (but no less heartfelt for the delay) thanks and congratulations to those who came out for the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}