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Fáilte ar ais chuig eagrán nua de Ar An Lá Seo ar an 29ú lá de mí na Samhna, liomsa Lauren Ní Loingsigh. I 1971 tharla troid idir na póilíní agus oibrithe ECC sa Bhruiséil. Bhí siad ag labhairt faoina fadhbanna ECC iascach. I 1978 cáineadh Rialtas na hÉireann de bharr a dhearcadh cearta daonna. Níor shínigh Éire chúpla páirt den Dearbhú Uilechoiteann do na Cearta Daonna agus ní raibh Amnesty International sásta faoi sin. I 2008 bhí reilig nua á fhorbairt in Aonach Urmhumhan. Bhronnadh an cead pleanála ón gComhairle Contae chun reilig nua a fhorbairt. Chomh maith leis sin dúradh go mbeidh carrchlós ann. I 2010 ghlac siad le foireann bhainistíochta d'fhoireann Tiobraid Árann sinsearacha. Tháinig sé amach go mbeidh Declan Ryan mar bhainisteoir, Tommy Dunne mar chóitseálaí agus Michael Gleeson mar roghnóir. Sin Boney M le Mary's Boy Child – an t-amhrán is mó ar an lá seo I 1978. Ag lean ar aghaidh le nuacht cheoil ar an lá seo I 2001 fuair giotáraí ó The Beatles George Harrison bás in LA. Fuair sé bás ó ailse scamhóg ag aois 58. I 2009 chuaigh albam Susan Boyle chuig uimhir a haon sna cairteacha. Dhíol sí níos mó ná 400,000 cóipeanna den albam I Dreamed A Dream. Agus ar deireadh breithlá daoine cáiliúla ar an lá seo rugadh Howie Mandel I gCeanada I 1955 agus rugadh aisteoir Anna Faris I Meiriceá I 1976 agus seo chuid de na rudaí a rinne sí. Beidh mé ar ais libh an tseachtain seo chugainn le heagrán nua de Ar An Lá Seo.

Fáilte ar ais chuig eagrán nua de Ar An Lá Seo ar an 29ú lá de mí na Samhna, liomsa Lauren Ní Loingsigh. I 1971 tharla troid idir na póilíní agus oibrithe ECC sa Bhruiséil. Bhí siad ag labhairt faoina fadhbanna ECC iascach. I 1978 cáineadh Rialtas na hÉireann de bharr a dhearcadh cearta daonna. Níor shínigh Éire chúpla páirt den Dearbhú Uilechoiteann do na Cearta Daonna agus ní raibh Amnesty International sásta faoi sin. I 1968 chuireadh suas na chéad soilse tráchta I Sionainn ar bóthair an t-aerfort. Cheap na daoine áitiúla ní raibh gá leo. I 1978 bhí bád nua darbh ainm The Shannon Willow á úsáid ag The Shannon Ferry. Tháinig sé ó Albain isteach chuig Cill Rois. Sin Boney M le Mary's Boy Child – an t-amhrán is mó ar an lá seo I 1978. Ag lean ar aghaidh le nuacht cheoil ar an lá seo I 2001 fuair giotáraí ó The Beatles George Harrison bás in LA. Fuair sé bás ó ailse scamhóg ag aois 58. I 2009 chuaigh albam Susan Boyle chuig uimhir a haon sna cairteacha. Dhíol sí níos mó ná 400,000 cóipeanna den albam I Dreamed A Dream. Agus ar deireadh breithlá daoine cáiliúla ar an lá seo rugadh Howie Mandel I gCeanada I 1955 agus rugadh aisteoir Anna Faris I Meiriceá I 1976 agus seo chuid de na rudaí a rinne sí. Beidh mé ar ais libh an tseachtain seo chugainn le heagrán nua de Ar An Lá Seo.

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E hoje a grande família se reúne de novo pra mais um programa credo-que-delícia-me-chama-que-eu-vou! Sim, meu amooor! Os 4 cavaleiros da loucura batem na sua porta trazendo alegria e muita música! A vida é como um filme… cada pessoa tem sua própria trilha sonora! É impressionante como a música puxa memórias e momentos importantes da nossa vida! Mas, como sempre na nossa família, tudo começa no amor e acaba na baixaria! Aperte o play pra se deleitar com o créme de la créme dos musicais da Broadway e pra descer essa bundinha até o chão com o melhor do funk proibidão! ARTE DA VITRINE: Felipe Camêlo Baixe Versão Wallpaper da Vitrine TESOUROS DE GHANOR Clique e participe do financiamento coletivo!  Confira a playlist das lives - Bárbaros no Paraíso MENCIONADOS NO PROGRAMA Lip Sync Battle - Tom Holland Lip Sync Battle - Anne Hathaway Les Misérables (2012) - I Dreamed A Dream  I Dreamed A Dream and One Day More - Credit to 'Humanity' Música - Peppa Pig  Bring Him Home (Hugh Jackman) | Les Misérables (2012) | TUNE Bring Him Home (Alfie Boe) | Les Misérables in Concert: The 25th Anniversary | TUNE Jesus Jedi - Ilustração Altar com Jesus Jedi  REDES SOCIAIS Almôndega - @decoduboc Alan Dubox - @alandubox Andreia Pazos - @deiaduboc Agatha Ottoni - @agathaottoni Mande suas histórias, críticas, elogios e sugestões para: canecademamicas@jovemnerd.com.br EDIÇÃO COMPLETA POR RADIOFOBIA PODCAST E MULTIMÍDIA

Seven Dreams I Have for YOU - Matthew KellyGet Matthew's 60 Second Wisdom delivered to your inbox: https://www.matthewkelly.com/subscribeVideo Transcript:“Dreams animate us. They bring us to life. It is good to have dreams for ourselves, and it is good to have dreams for others. These are my seven dreams for you. I believe that the pursuit of these dreams will lead us to peace, happiness, success, satisfaction, service, wholeness, and holiness. They are my dreams, but they are also my dreams for you. The First Dream I have a dream for you... that you have complete control over your mental and physical faculties and that you are slave neither to food, nor drink, nor any other substance. I dream that you will be free, that you will have freedom in the truest sense of the word—the strength of character to do what is right in each situation. The Second Dream I have a dream for you... that you are able to discern the people, activities, and possessions that are most important to you. And that you are able to give each of them their time and place according to their appropriate priority. The Third Dream I have a dream for you... that you have the courage, determination, firmness, and persistence to perform the tasks that you choose, decide, and resolve to perform. That you perform them with a commitment to excellence and attention to detail. The Fourth Dream I have a dream for you... that you discover a unique talent that leads you to dedicate the professional aspect of your life to some work you can be passionate about. I dream that you may enjoy the rare privilege of spending your days in meaningful work. That you serve your neighbor, your family, and your community in this occupation and that by it, you are able to provide for your temporal needs. The Fifth Dream I have a dream for you... that you grow in wealth in every sense of the word, that you are never in need, and that whatever your wealth is, you share it with all you can. The Sixth Dream I have a dream for you... that you find true love. Someone you can cherish. Someone who makes you want to be a better person. A soulmate who can challenge you and love you. A companion who can walk with you, know you, share your joy, perceive your pain and heartache, and comfort you in your disappointments. The Seventh Dream I have a dream for you... that you discover a deep and abiding interior peace. The peace that comes from knowing that who you are, where you are, and what you do is essentially good and makes sense; that you are contributing to the happiness of others; and that you are progressing toward becoming the-best-version-of-yourself.”If you have not read LIFE IS MESSY, order your copy today: https://amzn.to/2TTgZKn Subscribe to Matthew's YouTube Channel today! https://www.youtube.com/c/MatthewKellyAuthor/featured?sub_confirmation=1https://www.matthewkelly.comGet Matthew's 60 Second Wisdom delivered to your inbox: https://www.matthewkelly.com/subscribe The Best Version of Yourself and 60 Second Wisdom are registered trademarks.#MatthewKelly #BestVersionOfYourself #BestVersion #ThoughtLeader

A Scottish Podcast About Scotland!This week we look back at the incredible and inspiring and bonkers story of Susan Boyle; the local singer who came on to the Britain's Got Talent stage in 2009 looking "old", "frumpy", "weird" and many other unflattering adjectives, only to blow the judges, the audience and the world away. After her appearance she became the biggest ever viral sensation to hit social media. Her rise to fame was devastatingly fast, having an impact on her mental health and well being, but ultimately changing her life forever, while giving her the influence to big time Obama! We also discuss how she got some of her terrible nicknames. If you hear some atmospheric rumblings in this episode it's because Chris was recording in a storm. It only adds to the drama of Su Bo's incredible life and career.  SláinteCONTACT:Instagram: thistledopodTwitter: @thistledopodFacebook: www.facebook.com/thistledopodEmail: thistledonicelypod@gmail.comwebsite: https://www.thistledonicelypod.com/Google Voicemail: 4844 TDN POD (484 483-6763)SOURCES: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/dec/08/susan-boyle-autismSusan Boyle: An Unlikely Superstar (2011) dir. Osca Humphreyshttps://www.tvtechnology.com/news/youtube-lists-mostwatched-videos-of-2009https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britain%27s_Got_Talent_(series_3)#Final_(30_May)I DREAMED A DREAM - THE SUSAN BOYLE STORY (2009) dir. David Notman-Watthttps://www.theguardian.com/media/2009/apr/18/susan-boyle-britains-got-talenthttps://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/143464686526https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXXDF2bwdFshttps://www.theguardian.com/media/2009/jun/01/susan-boyle-taken-to-priory-clinichttps://www.theguardian.com/media/mediamonkeyblog/2009/jul/22/barack-obama-susan-boylehttps://www.9news.com.au/entertainment/susan-boyle-turns-down-date-with-obama/097e7c0f-78c1-4b59-be06-10112003015fhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Boylehttps://www.bbc.com/news/av/entertainment-arts-11793403https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn7So0NC74shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUY300UJjGEhttps://playbill.com/article/new-musical-i-dreamed-a-dream-to-tell-susan-boyles-life-story-com-180156https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99vN7pB8zcohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5sFowfXKO0500 Miles by Susan Boyle, Written by Charlie Reid, Craig Reid

Tim Foljahn has had a very interesting career. He's worked with Steve Shelly, Lee Ranaldo, and Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth. He's toured extensively with Jad Phair, Half Japanese, Cat Power; Thurston Moore, Townes Van Zandt, and others. He's been in a TV band called Side Boob on Orange Is The New Black. He's pursuing a Master's degree in psychoanalysis. AND...he has a new album coming out. It's called I Dreamed A Dream and it'll throw some of the coolest curveballs at you. Check it out on Cart/Horse records. Preorder it on their site or at timfoljahn.com. He's on social media @twodollarguitar. Follow us @PerformanceAnx. Rate & review! Buy us coffee at ko-fi.com/performanceanxiety. Merch is at performanceanx.threadless.com. Let's jump right into this episode with Tim Foljahn on Performance Anxiety, part of the Pantheon Podcast Network.

Tim Foljahn has had a very interesting career. He’s worked with Steve Shelly, Lee Ranaldo, and Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth. He’s toured extensively with Jad Phair, Half Japanese, Cat Power; Thurston Moore, Townes Van Zandt, and others. He’s been in a TV band called Side Boob on Orange Is The New Black. He’s pursuing a Master’s degree in psychoanalysis. AND...he has a new album coming out. It’s called I Dreamed A Dream and it’ll throw some of the coolest curveballs at you. Check it out on Cart/Horse records. Preorder it on their site or at timfoljahn.com. He’s on social media @twodollarguitar. Follow us @PerformanceAnx. Rate & review! Buy us coffee at ko-fi.com/performanceanxiety. Merch is at performanceanx.threadless.com. Let’s jump right into this episode with Tim Foljahn on Performance Anxiety, part of the Pantheon Podcast Network.

Tim Foljahn has had a very interesting career. He's worked with Steve Shelly, Lee Ranaldo, and Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth. He's toured extensively with Jad Phair, Half Japanese, Cat Power; Thurston Moore, Townes Van Zandt, and others. He's been in a TV band called Side Boob on Orange Is The New Black. He's pursuing a Master's degree in psychoanalysis. AND...he has a new album coming out. It's called I Dreamed A Dream and it'll throw some of the coolest curveballs at you. Check it out on Cart/Horse records. Preorder it on their site or at timfoljahn.com. He's on social media @twodollarguitar. Follow us @PerformanceAnx. Rate & review! Buy us coffee at ko-fi.com/performanceanxiety. Merch is at performanceanx.threadless.com. Let's jump right into this episode with Tim Foljahn on Performance Anxiety, part of the Pantheon Podcast Network.

Tim Foljahn has had a very interesting career. He’s worked with Steve Shelly, Lee Ranaldo, and Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth. He’s toured extensively with Jad Phair, Half Japanese, Cat Power; Thurston Moore, Townes Van Zandt, and others. He’s been in a TV band called Side Boob on Orange Is The New Black. He’s pursuing a Master’s degree in psychoanalysis. AND...he has a new album coming out. It’s called I Dreamed A Dream and it’ll throw some of the coolest curveballs at you. Check it out on Cart/Horse records. Preorder it on their site or at timfoljahn.com. He’s on social media @twodollarguitar. Follow us @PerformanceAnx. Rate & review! Buy us coffee at ko-fi.com/performanceanxiety. Merch is at performanceanx.threadless.com. Let’s jump right into this episode with Tim Foljahn on Performance Anxiety, part of the Pantheon Podcast Network.

Wir sind gescheitert und haben für diese Folge keinen Gast bekommen können. Das ist ok - das haben wir ja schließlich in den letzten 22 Episoden gelernt. Deswegen geben wir euch ein kleines Mini-Episoden-Update: Unsere Flüge wurden gecancelt und uns beschäftigt das Scheitern von Fantine aus Les Misérables. Es gibt sogar ein kleines Ständchen von I Dreamed A Dream. Wenn das nicht eine kleine Entschädigung für eine ganze Folge ist! ;)  _______________________________  Unsere E-Mail Adresse: hartaberfail@gmail.com Unser Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hartaberfail.podcast/ Foto: Saskia Allers Illustration: Timo Zett Musik: Jonathan Wolters --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/hartaberfail/message

On this week's show, Jamie and Rob close season two with the final installation of their special three part mini-series looking at some of the biggest Broadway musical hits of all time. In part three, the British Invasion lands on our shores, and a Windy City murderess, an iconic mask, a helicopter, and La Vie Bohème visit Broadway! At the top of the episode, the always fabulous Jennifer Simard stops by to check in and say farewell for the summer. This week's music: “Overture”, “McCavity”, “Memory”, and “Skimbelshanks" from “Cats”, “La Journée”, “I Dreamed A Dream”, “Turning” from “Les Miserables”, “Overture”, and “Wishing You Were Here” from “The Phantom of the Opera”. “Movie In My Mind”, “I'd Give My Life For You” and “American Dream” from “Miss Saigon”, Willamania” from “The Will Rogers Follies”, “Rent”, “I'll Cover You”, “Seasons Of Love” and “Take Me For What I Am” all from “Rent”. “Overture”, “I Can't Do It Alone”, “All That Jazz” from Chicago” “He Lives In You”, from “The Lion King”, “Overture” and “The Face” from “The Producers”. “Mamma Mia” and “The Winner Takes All”, from “Mamma Mia”, “Popular”, “For Good” from “Wicked” and “I Believe” from “The Book of Mormon”. Find us on Twitter & Instagram: @fabulousinvalid Facebook: www.facebook.com/fabulousinvalid Rob's reviews: www.stageleft.nyc Email us at: info@fabulousinvalid.com  2 Jamie Du Mont Twitter: @jamiedumont  Instagram: @troutinnyc  Rob Russo Twitter/Instagram: @StageLeft_NYC  Jennifer Simard Twitter: @SimardJennifer  Instagram: @thejennifersimard Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Meet Bryan Ryan! Artie Dances! Rachel's Mom Revealed! Jenna & Kevin talk about working with NEIL PATRICK HARRIS & JOSS WHEDON - Tina's tap dancing - and BTS on SAFETY DANCE!! Featured Songs: PIANO MAN - DREAM ON - I DREAMED A DREAM - and DREAM A LITTLE DREAM OF ME!! Fill in the gaps in your diet with RITUAL - the obsessively-researched vitamin for women. Get 10% off during your first three months! Visit www.ritual.com/SHOWMANCE to start your ritual today! Get a quote online at www.Progressive.com in as little as 5 minutes and see how much you could be saving!

19 Tracks of Coronavirus Anthems 1. My Corona 2. COVID Time Bomb 3. Heartbreak House 4. Lockdown Road 5. Do The Social Distance 6. C.R.E.A.M. Cough Ruin Everything Around Me 7. Corona's Everywhere Man 8. Smells Like Quarantine Spirit 9. Hey COVID! 10. COVID Nineteen 11. I'll Be Missing Sports 12. First Date (I Can Leave My House) 13. Coronavirish 14. Sweer Coronavirus 15. Home Locked Down 16. In My Living Room 17. We All Live With COVID 19 18. I Dreamed A Dream of Mid-July 19. Wake Me Up When Corona Ends --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/wylde/support

Today's guests are longtime friend of the club Alice Ripley and her frequent collaborator Christopher Schelling. Alice, who has been hailed by The New York Times as “simply astonishing,” is a consummate Broadway star, a versatile film and TV actor, and a distinguished singer-songwriter. She earned her first Tony Award nomination in 1997 with her brilliant work in the legendary Side Show, before winning the 2009 Tony Award for “Best Actress in a Musical '' for her performance as Diana Goodman in the Pulitzer Prize-winning Next to Normal. She has also originated roles in such Broadway productions as The Who's Tommy, Sunset Boulevard, and, most recently, American Psycho. Alice is joined today by her collaborator of nearly 40 years, Christopher Schelling, who is also a founding member of Ripley, the band formed by Alice in 2001. Christopher has served as musical director and manager for a number of other pop rock/cabaret performers. Additionally, his literary agency represents such bestselling authors as Augusten Burroughs, Rainbow Rowell and Kathy Valentine of the Go-Go's. Alice and Christopher sat down with our Marketing Associate, Adrian Karnani, to discuss memories from these iconic original casts, revisiting Sunset Boulevard, and creating original music for the last decade. For tickets and information visit: https://54below.com/events/alice-ripley-crossovers/ See Alice sing “As If We Never Said Goodbye:” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7nUF5yeU3A See Alice sing “I'm Alive:” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJEX5t0l1Hs See Alice sing “I Dreamed A Dream:” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWHpILm5PCI Credits This podcast is hosted by Nella Vera and Adrian Karnani and produced by Grace Benigni, with support from the Feinstein's/54 Below marketing staff. Artwork by Philip Romano. Follow Nella on Twitter at @spinstripes and Adrian on Instagram at @adriankarnani. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

 You know what's funny? Watching somebody try to drink right after a trip to the dentist's office while their mouth is still numb and everything spills down the front of their shirt like a tiny baby. You know what's NOT funny? After the numbing stuff wears off and every single nerve ending is zapping you face with electric hell. I've had some conditions I've had to heal from that have been quite embarrassing, gross, or both, and I wouldn't normally even consider mentioning them, but hey – we throw ourselves out there for the sake of comedy, right?  ________________  A Tooth Extraction Is A Major Head Wound  The following was written in a pain-induced state on a hot and humid night in July of 2015.  And NO, I DO NOT WHINE!  It’s a hot and humid night in July of 2015.  I hesitate to write about the poor condition of my teeth because I’m from the south and there is a long observed stereotype about southerners and their dental habits, or lack thereof, and I don't enjoy the idea of progressing it. However, I'm moved to do just that in order to tell a complete story.  This narrative officially begins as follows: My teeth are crap.  I don’t mean that I have a few cavities in need of looking into; I’m telling you that what I have are laboratory curiosities. They're brittle enough that I fear being in the proximity of even a mildly talented soprano. The word “cavity” is a misnomer for me, as the plight of my teeth should more readily favor a new word, “cavern-ty”.  So it should come as no surprise when I tell you that I recently had to have an extraction performed. The tooth in question had worn – allow me to rephrase that - it had rotted to the point that it had become merely two broken wedges sticking out from the gum at the back of my mouth. Upon inspection, I found it to resemble the black, volcanic peaks of Tolkien’s Mordor, but it didn’t hurt, so I let it go. The absence of dental insurance will cause one to do stupid things like that. Also, as I said, it was at the back of my mouth and thus hidden, so I was able to smile when I saw my reflection and note that no one would be the wiser.  There's a word in the medical field when something such as a rotten tooth becomes infected. That word is “Abscessed”. In more practical layman terms it means, “HOLY MOLAR, THAT HURTS!” And oh by the way, if unattended, it can kill you.  That happened to the tooth right before a trip to the beach, of course. I’d looked forward to it for weeks while my gums and broken tooth happily played well with each other. Then BAM! “You think you’re going to enjoy the beach trip?” my mouth said to me because it’s a mouth and mouths say things, “How about we amp up the dang it factor and throw a little infection party?!” It’s akin to planning a trip to Universal Studios and getting an ingrown toenail right before you go. (Oooooh, a little foreshadowing.)  You might imagine my festive demeanor among the waves over the next few days and I made an appointment to get it extracted as soon as I got back. For the layman, the word “extracted” means, “Someone just shoved a needle into my gums over and over and then wrenched bone out of my skull in the similar fashion a dog employs when playing tug of war with a rope.”  You may even be interested to note that while the aforementioned round of tug of war was being enacted, I could hear the sound of bone fragments cracking and popping inside my head and I started to laugh about it. I solemnly swear that I was not on any medication that would have induced silliness. It was just that I realized how loud it sounded as the intrusion happened in and around my skull and it made me chuckle. I couldn’t feel much at the time other than the tugging. It did occur to me that it would be my luck to get a dentist that would, much like the dentist in the Little Shop Of Horrors, take my laughter as a challenge. But she remained undaunted and eventually blighted Mordor from the face of Middle Earth. In the course of it all, though, she destroyed my gums.  While the numbing agent was still at work, all was well and once I had my pain meds, it was easy enough to manage then too. But as I traveled to work on a bright Tuesday morning, I had a six-hour commute to think about how two ulcers that had developed over the last couple of days had made the healing process more painful than it needed to be. At first I pushed the idea aside and told myself to be a man! It’s only a couple of sores in your mouth alongside a deep hole where your tooth used to be. It’s no more than three open lesions seriously restricting any profitable use of the left side of my mouth. Then I remembered it was more than that. She'd torn my gums asunder back there.  I HAVE A MAJOR HEAD WOUND! An extracted tooth hole is a head wound; a gaping maw of tender and vulnerable flesh.  Why hasn’t the great jury of society come to this verdict yet? Have we been systematically brainwashed to believe there’s really nothing to it by the ADA? Did three out of four dentists agree that we should keep this information under wraps; great big spit-filled gauze wraps? I want to feel some sort of victory at this discovery, but coming to terms with the fact that I have a major head wound has made me question everything I once believed to be true.  Is there really a silver lining to every cloud? What if the little engine actually couldn’t? Did Joanie truly love Chachi? And what if it’s all about something other than the Hokey Pokey?  I’ve been led to believe that the pit in my gum where a tooth used to be – formerly the deadly destination on the itinerary of hobbits with evil rings - is only a minor inconvenience, but googly-MOOGLY, my mouth hurts right now!  Perhaps a good night’s sleep will help me to make some sense of all of this once I take some of the meds.  Something tells me this rant owes a wee bit to needing the meds.  And now my big toe is beginning to hurt. What’s that about?  _________________  I believe that at least once in every man's life, there comes a time when he must do something stupid to make the pain go away. For some men, it may take going through torment to get to that point. For me, it only took realizing that …   An In-Grown Toenail Is A Major Foot Wound  An in-grown toenail is painful. Think about it - there is a hard, sharp item (the toenail) growing inside (in-grown) your toe. One might say that it’s not much to complain about. After all, it’s only a small inconvenience in and around the area of a toe; a tiny body part when compared to say, your chest (another body part that can be problematic if you have pain there – you should probably get that seen about).  But an in-grown toenail is much more than a minor inconvenience. When there is toe pain, you feel it with every step. It’s sort of like a hobnail boot you can’t take off.  What made mine all the more irritating is the knowledge that I could have avoided the whole ordeal had I paid better attention to my grooming.  I don’t like to admit it, but sometimes I forget that there are duties I must attend regarding my feet, i.e., cutting my toenails. It doesn’t happen often, but on occasion I find it would be quite possible to journey up the trees in the park alongside the savviest of squirrels. And because I have the feet of a caveman, with the nails on the two big toes being the consistency of barnacles, I have to take care to make sure I get all but the necessary nail off when I cut them.  That didn’t happen on one of the last sessions and I've paid a mighty price.  I cut the nail on the big toe of my right foot to completion, or so I thought. What I didn’t realize was that I had left a jagged, pointy shard – a toenail spear if you will – that would eventually grow into the flesh at the front of my toe. I suppose the growth was so gradual and I was so completely irresponsible as to the needs of my feet for a while that I just didn’t notice until a fateful day when I rammed my big toe - and the spear growing inside it - into a chair in my motel room.  Words cannot relate the delight I felt and the words of praise I expressed at the discovery of my new condition. Actually, there are words available and I tried my best to use them all, but this is not the place for such pleasantries. EUREKA, by the way, was not one of them.  I am a man. And a man comes up with solutions to such circumstances. My solution was this: Wait for it to grow through the front of my toe, then pull it out.  Hindsight has educated me in the ways of the human body and I've learned it has certain procedures it employs, unwavering from its course. And although I didn't want cutting to occur, eventually it would have to.  I began to try and broker deals with my body on behalf of the big toe, which I came to know by the endearing name of “Ow”. I would have pedicures on a regular basis. I promised to massage my feet every night after a soak in epsom salt. I would never, ever, ever, for-the-love-of-all-that-is-pure-and-holy, let my toenails go without proper maintenance again if Ow would only regurgitate the spear without my having to go to the doctor.  But my body is a jerk. It either didn’t hear me or simply refused because it never relieved me of the pain. I decided to take matters into my own hands and I’m glad I did.  Before I venture into further detail, here is my official disclaimer:  The actions I took which I am about to relate in no way constitute any promotion of self-surgery and any medical procedures for which one is not qualified, including but not limited to: Toenail surgery, Fingernail surgery, Liposuction, General Dentistry, Captain Dentistry, Paleontology, Astrology, Faith Healing, etc. should always be conducted by a professional. (A medical professional, not just like a plumber or prostitute. Either one of those operating upon your person could set you up with much bigger issues.)  After several weeks of getting to know Ow and having to clean and dress the toe daily, I realized that it was not going to heal on its own and measures had to be taken. With a $425 price tag attached to a procedure that would be performed by a person of the Doctor persuasion in mind and having noticed that holding it under a running faucet of hot water caused the pain to subside, numbing it a bit, I decided the time had come to add “Surgeon” to my already impressive, if not stupid, list of things I can do all by myself.  I procured the following instruments in preparation:  A razor blade  Large toenail clippers with the little knife/toe-jam-digger-outer in the middle.  A second set of large toenail clippers from the bathroom drawer with only the handle part rusty. The clipper area, though dull, was shiny.  Paper towels to apply pressure to the wound  My favorite bible (for obvious reasons)  Very hot running water Good old-fashioned man-courage  An imaginary monkey (Monkeys make me smile)  My wife was out of the house, but my son was in the next room and I informed him that he should contact his mother and tell her what I was doing on only two conditions. 1. If he heard a scream that lasted more than 10 seconds, and 2. If a pool of blood began to seep into his room from under the door of the bathroom. He said okay.  Two minutes later, being the loyalist that he is, he entered the bathroom just as I was about to make the first slice with the razor blade and handed me the phone.  My wife calmly asked me one simple question. “Why are you such an idiot?”  “I know what I’m doing, don’t worry.”  “You need to let a doctor do that!”  I did not let a doctor do that, hence the disclaimer presented above.  After about ten minutes of painful slicing and digging into my flesh and periodically spooning blood spray off the sides of the bathtub with my hand, the spear was removed. After it was over, the relief was amazing and all was right with the world. I felt not only like a new, hardcore, bull of a man, but also a little bit like a smarty pants. As a matter of fact, I may submit this article to the Journal of Medicine for their consideration. I imagined all the pats on the back I would be getting from impressed friends and neighbors. I was, for all intents and purposes, a Doctor. I couldn’t wait to call my mom and tell her the good news, in no small part for the fact that she’d been terribly worried about Ow. I dialed her number and told her everything.  She calmly asked me one simple question. “Why are you such an idiot?  “That’s Doctor Idiot.”  _________________  The bible can be scary if you read some of the passages, especially the ones about issues that people have had to endure due to either being unlucky or enslaving the people of Israel and refusing to let them go. One of the things that always struck fear in me was any mention of boils. I always associated that condition with uncleanliness and the Days of Good Ol', but now I know it's common and not always because of unsanitary practices. I found out the hard way that ...   It Boils Down To Pain  It never fails to be a humbling experience when something happens to me that I always thought was reserved for tales of olden times or people who refuse to type “Amen” and share a Jesus loves you meme on Facebook. But once last year and now recently I have had the tumultuous experience of living with a skin boil.  That’s right, a skin boil.  And I think I can deliver my message without it having an effect on your lunch. It’s just that this is information that might be valuable if you're to avoid having to deal with a boil of your own. I won’t go into gory detail about what exactly a skin boil is, but instead I'll allow you the opportunity to Google it for yourself, saving everyone but the sick and curious from a grotesque experience. Just know that a boil is painful and depending on where it surfaces, you might wish that someone would crack you over the head with a croquet mallet to put you out of commission for good.  Counting this last one, I have now suffered through three of them; the first was in my crotchety area and that was bad enough. I didn’t know what it was, only that something had seemed to burrow under the skin, way too close to sensitive stuff for my comfort. It became hard to walk and eventually, it had to be “taken care of”. I’ll just say that I have a wonderful wife who must love me more than I could ever know to willingly be the one who “took care of it”.  After the first episode, I did a little research and found that I had been the lucky host of a boil, so I knew what to look for in the future in order to stop it before it could get bad. Unfortunately, the second one apparently knew that I was wise to the ways of the boil and it crept up silently before pouncing onto my back just to the right of my spine. Upon first glances, I took the spot to be nothing more than one of those big ol’ zits one will get sometimes on their back. You know what I’m talking about. It’s like Mount St. Helens has attached there and it feels like there’s lava flowing directly beneath it till it comes to a head and either you or someone who can reach it is able to “take care of it.” It’s those little numbers that always seem to be right at the spot where your back touches everything when you sit back in a chair.  I waited for the slightly uncomfortable, yet tolerable, pimple to head up and go away, but it had other plans. It was only the tip of the iceberg and when I got home from play rehearsal two days later, I noticed that it had become hardened, painful, and very large. It had become a boil. The third one happened to be on my elbow. And while it was equally as gross as the other two, it didn't hurt at all. It mainly just caused children to cower and dogs to bark at me when I passed.  Why, you may ask, am I even telling people about it? Wouldn’t I want to keep something like this private? Do I want to be a disgusting medical oddity on a TV show about medical oddities called Disgusting Medical Oddities?  The answer is simple and, I believe, honorable. I want to be that messenger that lives on in history books and lore, galloping through the internet on my data horse shouting, “The boils are coming! The boils are coming!” I want to be remembered as the one who saw through the fog that our bodies glaze us over with when they’re about to infect us with infectious infection. And now that I have witnessed the heights my body is willing to go to in order that it could fool me and sneak this abomination onto my back, elbow, and crotchy groinous area, I think it’s only fair that I pass along any hypotheses I may have developed as to other devices your body might use on you.  So here’s a list of conditions you'll want to watch out for. The Susan Boyle Boil – So you’ve settled in for the night and started a lovely flame in the fireplace. All you want to do is sit by the fire under a nice warm blanket and jam to the soothing voice of the one and only Susan Boyle. And why not? She was an over night sensation who would soon find her CDs in thrift stores everywhere. But there is danger here. Because when Susan sings, you become carefree and at ease with everything around you. You loosen your grip on caution and that’s when boils are at their stealthiest. You’ll never see it coming. One minute you’re belting I Dreamed A Dream with one of Britain’s finest voices, the next you have a boil on your neck the size of Big Ben. You may as well draw a clock on there and hang a bell because you’re gonna be a very painful spectacle for several days. The Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle Boil – Similar to the one above, you may think you have your best, most attentive eye on things as you, via delving headlong into your reading, become the greatest detective the world has ever known. You are living vicariously through Sherlock Holmes and nothing will get past you. The tiniest detail will be scrutinized and thus, always before you. Yet you are deceived, my friend. You are the victim of diversion. Before you know it, there might well be a hound the size of a St. Bernard in the area of your Baskervilles and there’s nothing to do but let it bark at you with every step. It can be tamed, but it ain’t fun. Trust me. The Mohel Boil – No one is safe from the danger, even those who do Yahweh’s work. If you think you’re a mentsh and performing a spiritual duty will keep you from having to do a little suffering, you’re wrong. Look at Job. I think he may have been covered in boils before it was all over with. You feel good about the circumcision you’re about to do, but you realize that this is a super sensitive task. You’re dedicated to having all your concentration focused on the foreskin at hand … so to speak, and that’s when it happens. The surgery goes okay, but when you get home you realize you’ve got tsuris, or serious troubles, on your tuchis. Don’t be a putz. Get it seen about before the pain makes you destroy some poor kid’s svantz. The "To The Victor Goes The Spoils" Boils – It would seem that being a winner is ideal. Who doesn’t want to come out on top? But I doubt you’ve ever been hoisting a huge trophy with the number one glued to it and thought, “You know, I’m not really defending myself against boils right now.” Welcome to intense sorrow. You should have been on alert. You should have blown the race or fumbled at the goal line because now you’ll be dealing with an avid fan that goes everywhere you go for a while and it’s a pain in the pigskin. Did you ever hear that the winner takes it all? My friend, you’re gonna take it ALL.  Now if after looking at this list, which is nowhere near exhaustive, you've decided that life is too short to go about your day unaware of the potential threat of getting a boil somewhere on your body, then you've taken one step closer to a happy existence and I applaud you.  But if you think it would never happen to you, I can truly say that I’m sorry and I hope that you’ll remember me when you realize you’ve been intruded upon by a ninja boil you never saw coming. ________________  I'm glad I brought all of this to light. Everyone has things that have happened to us and some of them are embarrassing, but confession is good for the soul, I guess. I just hope you can enjoy a good meal after this trip down medical lane.    

This instrumental version is for dj use or backing track of I Dreamed A Dream, 130bpm..

Regrets, "I've had a few.". Looking back tends to make you think that you should rethink what you did. Unfortunately it breeds regret and self despair! Here is a soundtrack to go with it. 1. Everybody Hurts, VSQ. 2. Landslide, The Backbeats. 3. Black Coffee In Bed, Squeeze. 4. I Dreamed A Dream, Les Miserables, Anne Hathaway. 5. A Home, Dixie Chicks. 6. Tonight is the Night I Fell Asleep at the Wheel. Barenaked Ladies. 7. You Were Always on my Mind, Monica Chinazzo. 8. Cats In The Cradle, Debra Lyn. 9. I Hung my Head, Johnny Cash. 10. My Way, Frank Sinatra. 11. Hello, This is Joanie. Paul Evans. 12. Daydream Believer. Mary Beth Maziarz. 13. Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien, Edith Piaf.

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