Category: Steve’s Blog

One of our favorite restaurants in Sullivan’s Island, SC is The Obstinate Daughter.  They take reservations through the “Resy” app, and often it’s hard to get in (make it 6 months in advance if you know you’ll be there!)  If you can’t get in, this is one of their most outstanding offerings (Frogmore Chowder is […]

I have the notebook from which PA John and I did our very first live Weird Medicine shows, with notes, bumper music cues, topics, etc.  I should probably keep it but f-it I’m trying not to be so sentimental and hoard-y about these things.   I’ll toss in some crappy swag we’ve accumulated over the years […]

Are you interested in owning every Weird Medicine Show (and some extra content)? Well, you CAN for only $30! Here’s what you get: 16.5 Gb of content (about 300 hours, more or less) a 32 Gb thumb drive Our unlimited gratitude Just click below and give us your address and we’ll send it right out […]

The common narrative these days is that prescription opioids are driving the opioid “crisis” and doctors must be restricted from writing “so many pills.”   While the initial wave of self-imposed and statutory restrictions on using opioids for the treatment of chronic, nonmalignant pain were successful in decreasing the total volume of pharmaceutical grade opioids […]

Yes, yes, “F-PA John” is a thing, but mad “respek” for the brewmaster he has become. Please help BM John win a dopey contest by going to: https://theloaferonline.com/the-art-of-craft/ And vote for JRH Tree Streets Ale. Vote as many times as you can! I don’t want to have to deal with “Sad BM John” if he […]

I’m just putting this up here so I don’t have to share it on Facebook any more.  I am working in my synthesizer lab and tried, for the first time, to sync up my Drummer From Another Mother (Moogfest 2017), Electribe 2, and Moog Mother 32.  All running through a cheap-ass Behringer mixer with a […]

News release 7 JULY 2017 | GENEVA – Data from 77 countries show that antibiotic resistance is making gonorrhoea – a common sexually-transmitted infection – much harder, and sometimes impossible, to treat. “The bacteria that cause gonorrhoea are particularly smart. Every time we use a new class of antibiotics to treat the infection, the bacteria evolve […]

As many of you know, I suffered from a “demyelinating polyneuropathy” that gradually worsened last year. My symptoms were ataxia (inability to walk a straight line), loss of proprioception (inability to judge where parts of my body existed in space), and horrible paresthesias (pins and needles) in the extremities. My neurologist basically said “oh well, […]

By Andrew M. Seaman (Reuters Health) – The measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine is not linked to development of autism spectrum disorders, even among children considered to be at risk, a large new study finds. Among nearly 100,000 children, receipt of the MMR vaccine did not increase the risk for autism spectrum disorder (ASD), […]

Ha ha some genius who lingers WAY longer heard me tell the story of my magic show in the 7th grade, billed as “Esteban the Magnificent,” and what I really did with the silk foulard that was part of my zombie ball trick.   Anyway, an artist who actually illustrated a book with a character […]