OH MY GOODNESS THERE IS AN EVEN BETTER ONE! Tragically there were only two books ever created in this series but the other one features ZOMBIE DRAG QUEENS!
Can you save fire island before it’s too late?
It was supposed to be a nice, relaxing weekend—with a little swimming, a lot of cocktails, and more hot bods than a year’s subscription to Men’s Health magazine. But when a vat of radioactive waste washes onto the beach, strange things start happening—and now an army of zombie drag queens is storming the coast! Can you save Fire Island before it’s too late? Or will you perish at the hands of a thousand shrieking divas? It all depends on the choices YOU make.
If you run toward the nearest ferry terminal, turn to page 44. If you flirt with the cute twink, turn to page 55. If you throw caution to the wind and join the nearest circuit party, turn to page 80.
What happens next? That depends on YOU! How does the story end? Only YOU can find out! Best of all, you can read this book again and again until you’ve had 29 amazing adventures!
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hello i am j i have feelings about draping.
(Source: lookwork.com, via dodgycreature)
The World Beard and Mustache Championships have been celebrating the art of competitive facial hair grooming since 1990. Beard is Austin-based photographer Matthew Rainwaters’ quest to document the finest of these hairy specimens and the curious characters who tend them in a stunning series of stark, visually articulate portraits. (via Chris Blattman)
your argument has never been more invalid.
Hippocampal Neurogenesis, Depression, and Stress -
For a long time, the idea was that drugs that increased serotonin in the brain helped to relieve depressive symptoms, and so this must mean that depression was caused by low levels of serotonin in the brain (and this is still how you’ll see depression presented in a lot of antidepressant commercials). But it’s not that simple. Just because increasing something in the brain helps to fix a problem, it doesn’t mean that the problem is a LACK of that something. Headaches are not caused by lack of aspirin.
And decreasing serotonin doesn’t appear to CAUSE depression, though it can make you irritable. Not only that, some new drugs on the market such as Wellbutrin treat depression without touching serotonin levels. There’s no proof that people with depression have lower levels of serotonin than people without. So the serotonin theory is on the way out.
But the drugs still work (at least in a subset of patients). It turns out that these drugs which increase serotonin in the brain ALSO increase neurogenesis: the birth of new neurons. We used to think that we were born with all the neurons we would ever have, and that from birth on it was a smooth downward curve as we killed off our neurons with alcohol, head banging, and falling into things. But now we know that that isn’t true. In fact, your brain is capable of birthing new neurons and does so for most of your life.
And antidepressant drugs can INCREASE this rate of neuron birth, paprticularly in the hippocampus, and these increases produce antidepressant-like effects in animal models. Not only that, other things, like stress, can DECREASE hippocampal neuron birth rates. And this is where it begins to maybe come together. Because life stress is a major stimulus for depressive episodes in humans. Not only that, some patients with major depressive disorder show a dysregulation of the hypothalamic-pituitary axis, which controls stress responses. And if stress decreases hippocampal neurogenesis, and antidepressants increase neurogenesis…could it be that stress and hippocampal neurogenesis modulate each other and control depressive behavior?
(Source: abbyjean)
He never used the word “beauty” except in reference to a setter dog—beauty of words or music, of faith or rebellion, did not exist for him. He rather fancied large, ambitious, banal, red-and-gold sunsets, but he merely glanced at them as he straggled home, and remarked that they were “nice.” He believed that all Parisians, artists, millionaires, and socialists were immoral. His entire system of theology was comprised in the Bible, which he never read, and the Methodist Church, which he rarely attended; and he desired no system of economics beyond the current platform of the Republican party.
- Sinclair Lewis, The Job: An American Novel (1917) [full text]
my real journal is set up as a secondary journal simply because I would like the option to password protect it if I feel the need to.
that said, it’s here.