27 January 2005
To how many words can I append the suffix -phagic? Well, I was in the
library today looking for, I believe, a volume of the Wisconsin
Archaeologist (stupid Binford) and some older guy was in the same aisle
looking for his book. He had to go around me twice to look for his call
number, but was quite polite about it. As I got my journal and started to
leave, he said, "This is kind of like being in a grocery store. Only not
nearly as tasty." Which leads me to the obvious conclusion that he's a
bibliophage. And I'm pretty sure that's illegal in North Carolina
('though not in
the
UK, those crazy Brits).
OK, so the cephalophagic bunny story
was far more
entertaining, but the only diorama constructed today was like a bizarre
takeoff on three men in a tub; only it was more like the Butcher, the
Baker, and the Giant Pink Brain rub-a-dub-dubbing somewhere near the
splanchnocranium of the plastic head.
Posted at 2032.
24 January 2005 - Happy Birthday PAR!
Evolution ruined my dinner. OK, so that is a little dramatic. I was out
at dinner with Patrick for his birthday (Torero's, of course), and was
telling him about what I covered in recitation section today for human
evolution and adaptation. Of course, I covered evolution. And I
commented to him that the students didn't seem to want to talk about the
interplay (and, some would say, head-butting) that occurs between religion
and evolution. Before he could respond, our server came over and said, "I
couldn't help but eavesdrop. And I just want to say that God created the
Earth and everything on it. I mean, people say that we came from, what,
tadpoles? But where did tadpoles come from? It makes you think, y'know?"
Uhhhmmmm, sure. I didn't feel like arguing with him, lest he spit in
my taco salad or beat me up (survival of the fittest and all that). But is
it really too much to ask living in the South that people not
randomly tell me about their misinformed religious/scientific beliefs
while I'm eating dinner?
Posted at 2032.
19 January 2005
To facilitate searching for my mittens yesterday morning on account of the
cold-as-a-witch's-teat weather, I went through all the pockets of all my
jackets in the closet. One happened to be a wool blazer I got at the Gap
back in high school. There were no mittens in it, but the pockets
contained a decade-old time capsule. In the right pocket was a
paystub from Kroger showing just how crappy a job it
was in 1994 (keep in mind, I made $0.15 per hour
more than minimum
wage) and a receipt from my bank showing I had just over $20 in my
checking account. In the left pocket, a note from my best friend Juline
complaining about her biology test, English quiz, and calculus class.
Kind of a crappy time capsule, but it is kind of a crappy jacket. I can't
believe I haven't given it to Goodwill yet if I haven't worn it in nearly
11 years.
Posted at 1042.
15 January 2005
It's just wrong when classically-educated people flaunt their vocabulary
in their writing. Not because it doesn't impress me, because it does, but
because sometimes words aren't in common parlance for a reason. In an
article about burial practices in Rome, an author was talking about wills
and used the word "defalcate." Sure it's from the Latin for sickle and
means to misuse funds and was used entirely appropriately in the context
of wills and last testaments... but it's one phoneme away from meaning
something
entirely different. To wit: "Meg Scott Phipps defalcated
all over the ag commissioner position in North Carolina."
Posted at 1045.
12 January 2005
The Trouble with Neo. Any reference to the Matrix and that
godawful actor Keanu Reeves aside, the trouble with neo- is that it is a
prefix that means a sequel. A prequel. No, wait, that's not right.
Neo-evolutionism, neo-functionalism, neo-Kantism, neo-racial... We in
academia are so quick to classify a (for lack of a better word) new take
on an old problem based on the germ of an idea it shares with an older
theory. And in christening this idea the reincarnation, reinvention, or
remake of the old, we fall into the trap of essentialism that we, as
anthropologists, stridently decry. Can't I think that Kant had some good
ideas, that evolution isn't all bad, or that sometimes objects have a
function in society without being branded with the ISM insignia? Neo is a
giant copout, a way for professors with none of their own good ideas to
commit to paper to criticize others who go out on a limb to integrate the
past and the present of a discipline's theoretical history.
Wow:
"to commit to paper to criticize..." One "to" away from being
chiasmically bad grammar.
Posted at 1031.
10 January 2005
Top 16 80s Sitcoms I Want to See Again
8.
Parker Lewis Can't
Lose (1990) - This series was kind of like a TV version of Ferris
Bueller. You know, as in, "My best friend's boyfriend's brother's
girlfriend heard from this guy who knew this kid who's going with the girl
who saw Ferris pass out at 31 Flavors last night." It was a witty sitcom
at times, but Parker had the dorkiest haircut. I mostly remember that the
big guy from ER was on this show as Kubiak.
7.
Greatest American
Hero (1981) - Look at what's happened to meeeeeee. It hit me from
out of the blue... A hilarious premise: some dorky high-school teacher
gets hit by an alien beam and gets magic powers. The aliens give him an
instruction manual and a suit, but he loses the former and has to try to
figure out how to use his powers without it. Mostly I liked the theme
song and the horribly fake green-screening whenever he flew through the
air.
6.
Blossom (1990) - A
coming-of-age story about a teenage girl who lives with her father and
brothers. She had bizarre fashion sense, which spawned such phrases as a
"Blossom hat" in my middle school. Blossom wasn't really pretty, she
wasn't the smartest kid ever, so she was was our everygirl. There was a
little too much sex in it, though. My most vivid memory of the show is
one in which Six and Blossom were talking about the naked male body, and
Blossom says, "It's kind of like an undecorated Christmas tree." Man, I
wish that hadn't stuck with me in my formative years.
5.
Head of the Class
(1986) - One of my favorite shows because it centered around all the
nerds, of course. I really wanted to be the 12-year-old kid in the high
school classes, or at least the girl with the gorgeous red curly hair.
They got to go on glamorous fieldtrips, like to Russia, and were the stars
in the school's musical version of Little Shop of Horrors. Anyway, my
high school wasn't anything like this, which I was happy about once they
replaced Howard Hesseman with that annoying Billy Connolly.
4.
RipTide (1984) -
Murray built a robot, Nick flies a helicopter (the Screaming Mimi), and
Cody owns the eponymous boat. They're all Vietnam vets for some reason,
and they solve crimes with their robot, helicopter, and boat. My mom had
a thing for Joe Penny; after Riptide, he moved on to Jake and the Fatman,
which wasn't nearly as good. If nothing else, I'd like to see this show
again for the 1980s versions of computers and robots that Boz had.
3.
The Wonder Years
(1988) - Although it didn't have its own original theme song, at least it
borrowed a good Beatles standard. Kevin and Winnie were the Romeo and
Juliet for our generation. The voice-over wasn't annoying at all -- it
really worked as the older Kevin looked back on his childhood.
Fortunately, this show was on in reruns just a couple months ago. I hope
it lasts.
2.
Perfect Strangers
(1986) - He's Balki Bartokomous from the little Greek island of Mepos
(which, incidentally, means "maybe" in modern Greek)!
They're cousins, but not identical cousins... more like the Odd Couple.
Balki has fabulous lines and malapropisms. Unfortunately, it spawned the
spinoff Family Matters because the mother was the elevator operator at
Cousin Larry's job. Or something. Family Matters was a wretched show,
but I did meet Steve Urkel one year at UVa.
1.
Doogie Howser, M.D.
(1989) - What more could an adolescent nerdy girl want out of a sitcom but
a cute, blonde, genius 16-year-old doctor? He wrote pithy observations
about teen life on his crappy computer, which occasionally made me keep a
journal too. Once Doogie turned 18 and lost his virginity, well, there
wasn't really a show there anymore. He wasn't a kid, he wasn't living
with his parents, he was just a young doctor. But Neil Patrick Harris is
still my favorite sitcom actor of all time... plus, he was hilarious as
himself in
Harold and Kumar
Go to White Castle.
So there you have it. My favorite and least favorite TV shows from the
1980s. Man, I watched a lot of television when I was a kid. And I didn't
even mention some of the shows I occasionally saw but don't ever want to
remember, like
Small
Wonder.
Posted at 1205.
9 January 2005
Top 16 80s Sitcoms I Want to See Again
16.
Punky Brewster
(1984) - I actually never really watched this show. Her father wasn't in
the picture and her mother abandoned her in a grocery store. She wears
colorful clothes and pigtails and has a bandana around her leg. She'd be
pretty lovable... if she were a labrador. Anyway, I'm sure it was
heartwarming.
15.
Silver Spoons
(1982) - It's every kid's dream to find out he has a millionaire father
with a house full of toys. Rickey Schroder was a spoiled brat with a
ride-on train and friends Carlton Banks and Michael Bluth. It was a lot
like Ritchie Rich, only not as smug and smarmy... I don't think anyone
ever actually rolled in money. My only question is why isn't little Ricky
named Edward Stratton IV?
14.
Mr. Belvedere (1985)
- Need someone to watch your kids? Why not hire a professional British
butler? There must have been some reason that I watched this show, but I
really remember disliking the kids. The oldest kid was a wussy teenage
guy, the middle kid was a whiny, prissy girl, and the youngest kid was a
troublemaker and ugly to boot. The mother was OK, but the sportswriter
father was a jackass. But Mr. Belvedere obviously learned life lessons
from the screwed-up family that he wrote down in his diary every night.
I guess I felt so sorry for him having to live with the family that I
watched the show.
13.
The Facts of Life
(1979) - You take the good, you take the bad, you take them both and there
you have... a show I really wanted to be in, as long as I didn't have to
be the fat one. How cool would it be to go to boarding school and get to
look at George Clooney every day? I only wish they had actually taught
kids the facts of life on the show, possibly during a scene in which they
also outed Jo. That would have been amusing.
12. My Two Dads (1987)
- Ever noticed how all these 80s sitcoms were centered around a kid's
parent or parents dying? When her mother dies, the tween kid in this show
is given to the custody of two men who don't know she exists. So her
mother's kind of a slut for not knowing who the father is and kind of
irresponsible in death to entrust her daughter to two strange men. Paul
Reiser was good as the straight-laced father, and the girl went on to the
awful 90s show Step by Step (which also had Balki in
it). I wonder if in 1987 the idea of my two dads connoted the same thing
it does today, though.
11.
The Hogan Family
(1988) - This show was a spinoff of Valerie and renamed after they fired
Valerie Harper. Of course, I only liked the show for Jason Bateman, so I
didn't care who the female lead was. They gave it to Sandy Duncan, who,
according to my mother, has a glass eye. I spent every episode looking
for evidence of this. The show was kind of like Family Ties (which
Jason's sister Justine was on), and they dealt with such heady issues as
drunk driving, using condoms, and a friend contracting AIDS.
10.
ALF (1986) - The
acronym ALF stood for, I believe, Gordon Schumway. Although Alf is very
much overexposed these days with those crappy 10-10-220 commercials with
other washed-up actors and athletes, and then with *barf* his own talk
show, the original sitcom was fairly cute. The human family was dorky,
except for the teen girl who was actually pretty hot, but Alf always did
something wrong simply because he was trying to help. Besides, who can't
like an alien that eats cats?
9.
Sledge Hammer!
(1986) - The title of this show confused me, since the lead character,
Sledge
as played by David Rasche, had nothing at all to do with the song of the
same name by
Peter
Gabriel, yet they look eerily alike. At any rate, the show was kind
of like the Police Academy movies, but far, far more violent. Yet it was
a hilarious kind of violence, and there were lots of witty comebacks and
satirical lines and spoofs of everything from The Police to Robocop. I'd
love to see this show today... if anyone has the desire to buy me a gift,
it's on
DVD
at Amazon.
Posted at 1211.
8 January 2005
Great 80s Kids' Shows
10.
Double Dare (1986) -
This kids' game show was created by the same guy who did
You Can't Do
That on Television, which figures since people get slimed in both
shows. Any game in which kids do stuff they do every day (running through
obstacles and getting dirty) has got to be good. My favorite challenges
were the kid-sized Hamster Wheel, the Blue Plate Special, Buried Treasure
(of
course I liked this one), Granny's Attic, Desert Trike, Toe
Jam, and Pick The Nose. Basically, you run through goo or search through
goo to find flags. I'm sure this show was a mother's worst nightmare (and
host Marc Summers' - he's OCD), but my brother and I loved it.
9.
Jem! (1985) - Can't
come up with any better lyrics for a cartoon theme song? Just repeat the
same three words and add exclamation points! Jem! She's truly
outrageous! Truly, truly, truly outrageous! She was actually just a
teenage girl in a band, the Holograms, with her friends, but for some odd
reason they had to project themselves as holograms using their earrings.
They were all foster kids, I think, and people loved their songs. But why
they couldn't tell people who they were is beyond me.
8.
Smurfs (1981) - The
Smurfs are a timeless classic, no one can deny that. Silly little blue
creatures who live under mushrooms and are afraid of a cat and his owner.
Plus, they've been dubbed into
so
many different languages with really funny names. I didn't really
like any of the characters except Brainy Smurf and Papa Smurf. Smurfette
was far too girly and annoying for me, as was Gay--er, Vanity Smurf. But
the lasting legacy of the Smurfs is their language... and its wonderful
translation to grown-up dirty talk, e.g. "I want to smurf your smurf all
smurfin' night."
7.
Inspector Gadget
(1983) - In spite of the ridiculous Dr. Claw, this cartoon (pre-Broderick,
of course) was kind of amusing. I don't know why he had so many gadgets,
why he had to solve crimes, or why he was so stupid that Penny had to do
stuff for him. But it was likely a parody of Get Smart. How can we
update Gadget for our late 20s? Make the show into a
drinking game!
6.
G.I. Joe (1985) -
Anyone who's been around me for longer than a day knows that my favorite
reponse to "Now I know" is "Knowing is half the battle!" My brother had
all the G.I. Joe dolls, most of which he bashed, decapitated, amputated,
ran over, or buried. Honestly, whoever owns that house
now has a large cemetery of figurines in their backyard just waiting to be
discovered while leveling for a new shed. I didn't like Cobra Commander
because my brother always pronounced it "Cobra Commando" and it annoyed
the crap out of me. I think there were all of two women: Scarlett, who
was
kick-ass, and Lady Jaye, who was cleavaged-out and, according to her File
Card, went to Bryn Mawr. Yeah, right.
5.
Where in the World is
Carmen Sandiego? (1991) - Based far too strictly on the computer game
that I so loved, this game show was probably aimed at kids younger than I
was, as the questions were hella easy. You were still chasing some fake
characters around (like Patty Larceny), and getting orders from the chief,
who at that time was played by the same woman who stole a baby on my soap
opera. But, ahhh, Rockapella, you were the best feature, inaugurating my
love of a capella groups that lasted all of about three months.
4.
Romper Room (1953) -
Although created in the 1950s for preschoolers, it came into syndication
in the early 1980s, famous for its magic mirror that saw all kinds of boys
and girls on the other side of the TV. Of course, she always saw Timmy
and Bobby and Katie and Elizabeth, never Kristina. I remember watching
the show when I was about 4, and I thought for sure that Kindergarten
would be just like
Romper Room.
Unfortunately, my Kindergarten class included a kid who always had to be
the family dog when we played house (he liked to lick other people) and a
kid who routinely walked out of the bathroom with his underpants around
his ankles. I learned early that school's not all it's cracked up to be.
3.
Pinwheel (1979) -
Sing with me! Pinwheel, pinwheel, spinning around... look at my pinwheel
and see what I've found! Pinwheel had such great characters (and Sesame
Street ripoffs) as Plus and Minus (Bert and Ernie), Luigi O'Brien (Mr.
Hooper), Silas the Snail (Snuffleupagus), and Ebeneezer T. Squint (Oscar
the Grouch). The characters and the humans on the show did cute things,
like pretend to go to the moon, and there were mini cartoons interspersed
in the show. Pinwheel was the first time I saw Simon, as in "I know my
name is Simon, and the things I draw come true." I loved Simon. It's a
shame that kids these days don't know that Mike Myers was not doing an
original character in his SNL skits.
2.
You Can't Do That on
Television (1979) - The original slime show, it taught kids not to say
"I don't know." Plus, it starred a girl named Christine who had long,
dark hair, which was close enough to me that I finally felt represented on
Nickelodeon. Although it featured a very young Alanis Morissette, my
favorite character was the ever-dreamy Alasdair. (He's
still pretty
cute today.) Anywho, this show featured incredibly dumb but funny
jokes and lots of scary characters. It was like SNL for kids.
1.
Today's Special
(1981) - I'm not sure if this is my favorite 80s kids' show of all time,
but it's one I'd love to see again just because it was so bizarre. The
premise was a little like that of Mannequin... but you have to go one step
further: Jeff the mannequin has a magic hat that has to be put on his head
and someone has to say the magic words "Hocus pocus alimagocus" and he
comes to life. There's also the store manager, the night watchman, and
Muffy and Mort, mice that talk in rhyme. Anyway, it had songs and freaky
characters and a dorky guy with a perm. "Today's special... it's about to
appear. Today's special... shout it loud and clear! Today's Special!"
Posted at 0040.
7 January 2005 - Khristos Razhdayetsia!
It's a great teenage rite of passage to make a mix tape for a best friend
or a love interest in the hopes of winning them over by forcing them to
listen to shitty music you think is good. But it's a shame we can't do
that with old sitcoms, cartoons, and dramas from our youth. Though mix
DVDs will be a couple years in coming, I'd like to initiate a miniseries
as it were of blog entries about the good, the bad, and the
should-never-be-seen-again TV from my formative years... the mid to late
80s. In
the vein of
The Brunching
Shuttlecocks, I give you my rankings of
Shows
Not Worth Bringing Back,
Great Kids' Shows, and my
Top 16
Shows to Bring Back, preferably all on their own network to make my
mix-DVD-ing that much easier. (Why
doesn't my generation have its
own nostalgia station yet?)
There are a bunch of old shows that are far too mainstream to merit being
mentioned on the blog, most of which are currently shown in syndication.
The Good: Cheers, The Brady Bunch, Growing Pains, The Cosby Show, and
Family Ties (pre-Andy, of course); and The Bad: Who's the Boss, Saved by
the Bell,
and Full House (which, I am certain, has a special place in the Seventh
Circle of Hell for their violence against the TV viewing public). But on
to the series...
80s Shows Not Worth Bringing Back
8.
The Golden Girls
(1985) - Who wouldn't love a bunch of geriatric,
post-menopausal women living together in one Florida condo? This isn't
the worst show of all time (and it is technically still on TV), as there
were some witty moments, but the
major flaw of this show is that it gave Bea Arthur enough exposure for
years of fodder for obnoxious comedians with no better material than to
make fun of her voice and height (which, for the record, is half an inch
shorter than me).
7.
Empty Nest (1988) -
I believe this series was a spinoff of The Golden
Girls, with the father Harry Weston being a neighbor of Da Au Girlz, as I
like to call them. It
lasted seven seasons, which was far too long. Charley was almost
endearing as a Joey-forerunner, but the daughters were disempowered and
simpering, and the fakey southern nurse was, well, fakey. By the end of
the series in the mid-90s, they had to bring in Sophia from the Girls and
a black woman doctor and two more siblings running home to daddy. The one
good memory I have of this show is vague... Charley got a license plate
that he thought said one thing but could be read wrong. I wish I could
remember what it was. The poor owner of
ANUSTART could have
used friends like Charley's.
6.
A Different World
(1987) - This series was created as a spin-off of the Cosby Show and
followed Lisa Bonet to college. Although it was one of the earliest
appearances for such future stars as Marisa Tomei, Jada Pinkett Smith, and
Sinbad, as with most college shows it was not exactly the most accurate
depiction of higher education. They had the balls to name a character
Dwayne Wayne, but ended up marrying him to Whitley, who had a voice that
could stop dogs in their tracks. Can anyone say
Saved By the Bell?
5.
Major Dad (1989) -
Here's the story, of a lovely lady, who was bringing up three very lovely
girls. All of them were pacifists, like their mother. And they were
liberals. Here's the story, of a Major named Dad, who was busy with
ordering people around. He was stern and a fuddy-duddy, yet he was full
of love. 'Til the one day when the lady met this fellow, and they knew
that it was much more than a hunch. That they should get married one day
later. And that's the way they all became... Major Dad. What a crappy
show.
4.
Webster (1983) -
Capitalizing on the Diff'rent Strokes phenomenon, somehow TV land found
another diminuative black kid and let him be adopted by white parents.
"Laughter -- and life lessons -- in every episode," promises the IMDB. I
was a little scared of the
father in this show,
because he looked eerily like the crazy gymnastics coach
Bela Karolyi. The
cast included Ben Vereen for a couple years, who was incidentally also on
Zoobilee Zoo (1986), a terrible
show in which adults dressed in giant animal suits and sang songs (a
Furry-lover's dream!). My main memory of Webster is this episode where
they agree to buy a lottery ticket based on the collective ages of the
family... It would have won, but the mother lied about her age. I dunno
if it taught me about irony or vanity, but I'm sure it was a life lesson.
3.
Night Court (1984) -
I wasn't too excited about this show, probably because I was only 7 and it
was likely on past my bedtime since it's a more adult sitcom than the
likes of Webster or Major Dad. John Larroquette did amuse me, but the
judge was all wishy-washy, and
Richard
Moll scared me a little. Pop quiz: which cast member has the dubious
distinction of being on two of my
Shows Not Worth Bringing Back?
Marsha Warfield, who
played Roz on Night Court and Dr. Maxine Douglas on Empty Nest.
2.
Get a Life (1990) -
Well, crap, this series is technically from the early 90s, but it was
still hideous. It starred Chris Elliott (you know, that gross guy from
There's Something About Mary) as a 30-year-old paperboy. In a stroke of
casting genius, Elliott actually cast his own father in the most
far-reaching role you could imagine... the lead character's father! They
used REM's song Stand as their theme song, which was sheer travesty.
While I realize this show has almost cult status, and I might actually
find it amusing today, as a 'tween I thought the idea of a 30-year-old
living at home with his parents was about as original as, oh, Empty Nest.
And just as sad.
1.
Just the Ten of Us
(1988) - I'm not even sure how this show spun off of Growing Pains, but I
watched it a couple of times. The football coach (Did Mike play football?
He was a little too nancy for that, wasn't he?) moves with his wife and 8
kids to a different state, and he has to enroll his girls in an all-boys
school. Hilarity ensues as the Good Daughter pursues her dream of being a
nun and the Slutty Daughters pursue their dream of doing every boy in
sight and the Brainy Daughter wants to know how they can afford college.
Fan sites laud the show for depicting the difficulties the father has in
supporting his 8 kids and wife on his high school football coach salary
(which isn't even possible - you know how much teachers make?), but my
question was always why does the stupid wife keep getting pregnant if they
can't afford to raise their kids? Oh yeah, they're Catholic. Barf.
Tune in tomorrow for
Great 80s Children's Shows.
Posted at 0005.
6 January 2005
So my mom just called me on her lunch break from work to ask me if I knew
what the word
tome meant. I said, "Sure, a large book or one book
in a series of volumes." Apparently this was a low-level question on the
Millionaire show yesterday, and one of her co-workers was quizzing
everyone in the office about this word, since the contestant had horribly
failed to answer the question. I further told her that the word
tome comes from the same Greek root as the -tom- in words like
appendectomy, as it means a cutting or section, and I thought the other
nurses and doctors in her office would appreciate that. I then passed her
other quiz... when she asked whether or not I was feeling nauseous today,
I replied, "So far today, I haven't noticed anyone puking at the sight of
me, no." It's nice when your mother cares enough to give you pop
vocabulary quizzes, even though you've been out of the house for nearly
ten years.
Posted at 1318.
5 January 2005
Through my seriously blocked nasal passages, I could still smell that the
garbage needed to be taken out tonight. I turned on the light and stepped
out onto the side porch, but noticed a possum going through a rotting log
pile across from the trashcan. Try as I could to scare the thing away,
convince it to move using my most eloquent rhetoric, and then just resort
to yelling at the thing, it just cowered closer and closer to the
trashcan, with only its creepy skinny pink tail sticking out. Stupid
creature. 'Course, I'm the one who now has to live with a bag of stinking
trash in the house until the possum gives up and goes away and I can throw
it out without fear of a rabid possum biting me. Let me know if you have
a
fool-proof way to
scare away a possum. Bunnies,
squirrels, and
possums... who would guess I technically live in a city?
Now that I think about it, possums are weird little creatures. They're
kind of like cats... no, more like Zombie Cats from Hell. All mangy and
odd-looking, with deep-set, glazed-over eyes, unfazed by any human
movement. Every time I walk into the kitchen, I half expect to see a
little army of possum zombies walking on their hind legs, swaying
side-to-side, and making odd groaning noises as they attempt to break the
French doors and eat my brain for a late evening snack.
Posted at 2247.
2 January 2005
Well, I had planned to write a sarcastic retrosblogtive commemorating a
year of doing this, but I have been on my back all weekend... in bed, on
the couch, even on the living room floor. Unfortunately, it's not because
of an exciting post festum romantic encounter. I think I have a flu.
I've never had a flu before, so this is an interesting experience.
There's a bright side: not eating because of nausea makes you lose weight!
Posted at 1214.
