Unexpected Room at the Inn

[laguera25]

My con hotel still has rooms available despite being little more than two months out from both Dragoncon and the College Football Kickoff Classic. No accessible ones, of course, but rooms, nonetheless. This is odd, as it's usually full by now. Are the nerds that unimpressed by the con lineup, or did so many football fans get hosed by Trump's tax reforms that they can't afford to drop the money on the games and getting bombed and roaring up and down the hotel corridors in the wee hours? Maybe it's backlash against the restrictive abortion ban the state passed not long back, but I doubt it. Abortion predominantly affects women, and let's face it, most men don't give one wet squirt about women unless it's the one they get during orgasm, so the other possibilities are more likely.

I finished The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth and Other Curiosities From the History of Medicine by Thomas Morris last night. What a joyful romp. For someone who isn't a doctor, Morris offers clear explanations of medical procedures and terminology, and his humor was less performatively snide than that found in Quackery, a similar book. It's a leisurely, strangely summery tour through the vagaries of medicine and the human body, and I enjoyed every page of it. A must-have coffee-table book and perfect for when you need a reminder that humans are so wonderfully weird.

Comments

[sabine]

I've been reading a lot of weird medical history lately. It's funny and horrifying and I REEAALLLY want to know what the books are going to say about *us* in 200 years.

Assuming, of course, that humans are around in 200 years.