Haiku for Health

Doc Gurley 2008 Haiku: Cherry blossom bomb, Petal shrapnel pelts my hair, Trees shake with laughter.

It’s that time of year. Easter, spring break, and cherry blossoms. Take a moment (really, it won’t take long!) to write a haiku in honor of something you enjoy. It’s a great way to both lift your mood and […]

Dave Barry Forum Withdrawal

I’m sweaty, crampy and I’ve got the shakes. Did I eat too much snow? (see the Doc Gurley post on yellow snow) Or am I suffering from withdrawal symptoms because the Dave Barry Forum is (gasp) gone? The site claims that Dave Barry is changing the forum’s technology, so it will be down for “4 […]

Dave Barry Forum Smack-Down

 

 

OMG! I feel faint! As many (both) of you readers may be aware, I, Doc Gurley, have stalked written into the on-line Dave Barry for President Forum to ask a question or two, and His Barryness has, on occasion, gotten a restraining order replied. The situation has escalated into a Red […]

Can You Feel The Love Tonight? Five Tips for Valentine’s

Perhaps it is the fact that the Elton John song by this title is acted out by writhing cartoon animals, but Doc Gurley has always found the phrase “Can you feel the love tonight?” somewhat clinically disturbing. What if you can’t? Are we talking a sudden neuroparesis with selective sensory loss that paradoxically maintains motor […]

Expensive Sterile Saline, or Tapwater? It’s a Wash!

If you grew up in the rural South like Doc Gurley, your childhood memories include such everyday events as peeling all the epithelium off both knees and elbows, stubbing the entire top off both big toes, and then sliding into so much dirt with said injuries that the injured skin looked like a new, high-tech […]

Okay, I’m Obsessed

For all you loyal Doc Gurley website visitors (yes, all two of you), you may be thinking this is another article about Dave Barry. But nooo. Just to prove how fickle my fantasy stalker-affections are, I’m outing myself right here, right now, on international Internet, as being obsessed yet again–only this time with a face. […]