Assortment

Robert S. Boynton article on intellectual property in the latest Bookforum, which Bookdwarf brought home for me. The print version has a great picture of DJ Danger Mouse.

The resurgent The Minor Fall, the Major Lift points us to the occasional hilarity of electrocuted puppies on Prozac. Now, in Boston, dogs and people sometimes get electrocuted by the street as well– usually from standing or peeing on manhole covers that have been accidentally touched to live wires. But few of the dogs are on Prozac.

Presumably, their owners consult CrazyMeds, which is the best mental health consumer resource I’ve ever seen. It’s run by a bipolar epileptic and some other crazy people and they provide a mixture of common sense advice (“side effects suck, but being psychotic sucks more!”), glosses and explanations of the drug warning sheets, and general commentary and user reports (“This one works for me, but it totally did nothing for my buddy Tom. I suggest a low dose at first.”) on drugs, mental health practicioners, and the experience of depression, mania, epilepsy, narcolepsy, neuropathy, and whatever else ails them, their friends, and their readers. Could use a better layout, but quite the site nonetheless.