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the last time i went to the dentist was over ten years ago, and i didn't get the cavities i had then filled.

hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 22:45 (twenty years ago)

The reason I haven't been to a dentist for such a while is that my last dentist, a boisterous South African, used to tell off-color jokes to my mother and it made me resent dentistry in general as the last reserve of the horny and the damned.

Too Gay for America (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 22:46 (twenty years ago)

But my new dentist is a quiet Iranian lady. She confounded all my previous expectations by not saying "cock" once during my exam.

Too Gay for America (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 22:48 (twenty years ago)

My teeth are going to be gone by the time I'm Gygax's age!

NONE OF US ARE GONNA HAVE TEETH AT THAT AGE

team jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 22:58 (twenty years ago)

I've said it before. GET TO THE FUCKING DENTIST! What's worse, paying to have some cavities filled now...or paying a LOT more and being in much more pain in a few years when you're teeth just shatter and you need root canals and crowns and bridges...

Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 23:00 (twenty years ago)

I've said it before. I'M TOTALLY FUCKING BROKE, DAN!

hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 23:07 (twenty years ago)

Dudes, stop talking about gygax! and your dire dentistry, this thread is for Dan Selzer questions.

Dan,
How long have you lived in the NYC?

Steve

Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 23:09 (twenty years ago)

I moved here at the end of 97.

But I grew up in West Orange, NJ, which is very close by.

I was in Ohio from 1993-ish to 97-ish.


New York City Technical College
300 Jay Street
Brooklyn, NY
718.260.5074
Provides cleaning, fluoride treatment, and x-rays. All services performed by dental hygiene students and supervised by licensed dental hygienists and dentists. All services are $10.

from http://www.lacnyc.org/resources/healthlit/dent-vision.htm

Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 23:18 (twenty years ago)

THAT'S $10 I CAN'T SPEND ON BOOZE, MAN.

hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 23:20 (twenty years ago)

Laurel, did you really refer to Chinese medicine as "kooky?" 'Cause that's like what they use in China and people do get sick there. I find it to be a much more holistic way of looking at ailments. Very in depth, too. From my experience, western medicine is often stuck in treating symptoms rather than root causes of things.

Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 23:21 (twenty years ago)

What part of Ohio, Dan?
I lived in Ohio for a short while.

Too Gay for America (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 23:24 (twenty years ago)

a beautiful and special little town called Oberlin, Ohio. Just 40 or so minutes south-west of Cleveland!

Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 23:27 (twenty years ago)

I lived in Ohio, too. NOT A LOT OF PRACTITIONERS OF CHINESE MEDICINE THERE.

Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 23:28 (twenty years ago)

I've got no time for Western lesson.

senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 23:30 (twenty years ago)

what if laurel's doc isn't chinese? seemed like a recommendation anyway, if only for being "goofy."

hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 23:36 (twenty years ago)

There are plenty of good practicioners of Chinese medicine who are not Chinese!

Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 23:55 (twenty years ago)

And possibly some not-so-good ones, too, but asking about your bowel movements, looking at your tongue, feeling your pulses are basic stuff (and, yeah, one of the ways they talk about things is in terms of heat and cold, etc.).

Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 16 February 2006 00:03 (twenty years ago)

Laurel, did you really refer to Chinese medicine as "kooky?" 'Cause that's like what they use in China and people do get sick there. I find it to be a much more holistic way of looking at ailments. Very in depth, too. From my experience, western medicine is often stuck in treating symptoms rather than root causes of things.

Hahaha. It's more than just the holistic stuff, really, my doctor is honestly a little crazy: she can't keep a receptionist, for one thing, and she's always taking calls for, like, insurance coverage while in the exam room with me. Then there's the way she champions her Baptist church attendance and raises her hands, palms up, over her head while she describes how it feels to cast all her cares upon God. And at one visit she said to me "you could lose a little weight, why don't you cut the dairy?" and then she took blood samples and when she got my calcium results a while later, said "these numbers could be higher -- do you eat enough dairy?" So you see, I take salt with me.

Also, the last time I saw her it was because one of my eyes was swollen and weepy and I suspected pink eye, but she was more interested in de-clogging my sinuses and asking about my bowel movements. I was like, "I know colds are viral. I promise to go home and sweat it out with ginger tea. And eat fiber, yes I PROMISE. Can we PLEASE move on to the eye now, because I can't touch anyone as long as I have a contagious eye infection!"

Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 16 February 2006 00:11 (twenty years ago)

I also suspect she's right about a lot of things, which is why I keep going even though she's almost impossible to pin down to a particular diagnosis or prescription.

Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 16 February 2006 00:13 (twenty years ago)

Does she prescribe herbs?

Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 16 February 2006 00:15 (twenty years ago)

I believe so, although I haven't tried any.

Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 16 February 2006 00:19 (twenty years ago)

what does holistic medicine have to do with me?

Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 16 February 2006 00:22 (twenty years ago)

you WERE asking about a new doctor, dan. follow the plot.

Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Thursday, 16 February 2006 00:27 (twenty years ago)

It has to do with every human. Which is not to say that the Chinese system would have a simple solution for your situation, Dan, or indeed that it would necessarily have any solution better than what you're currently doing.

Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 16 February 2006 00:32 (twenty years ago)

a new doctor to give me my thyroid pills! No amount of chakra re-aligning and needle's being stuck in me will fix that.

Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 16 February 2006 00:39 (twenty years ago)

This is an interview with my uncle:

http://www.longevity-center.com/thyroid_interview.html

Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 16 February 2006 00:49 (twenty years ago)

will read but, regardless of treating the "cause" of hyperthyroidism, western treatment of creating hypothyroidism instead has left me in a permantly thyroid-disabled state.

Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 16 February 2006 01:08 (twenty years ago)

dan, do you take synthroid? my dad had the same thing (and i'm probably at risk for it) and i always thought it was weird that the treatment was to just destroy your thyroid.

but, i like the word "synthroid."

bell labs (bell_labs), Thursday, 16 February 2006 18:23 (twenty years ago)

Yes I take synthroid. Synthetic Thyroid. Either it replaces treatment based on sheep thyroid hormone...or is a version of. I dunno. I'd rather not think I have sheep hormones coursing through my body. I had the overactive thyroid for years. When a new endocrinologist saw me after college he was suprised because as you say, anyone with over-active thyroid these days gets the radioactive treatment to stunt it, but most of the time it just kills it, making you go on synthroid, which is a much more stable thing. It's all very common, something like 1 in every 18 americans. Or maybe that's the statistic of how many men are freemasons. I forget.

If you are at risk maybe it can be prevented. Maybe taking care of yourself. Stress has something to do with it, apparently a stressfull situation can set it off. My mother's only kicked in just after her divoce. And I know this sounds melodromatic, but mine kicked in quickly after being dumped by my first girlfriend in 10th grade, who I had convinced myself was going to be with me forever. I mean, of course in retrospect it seems silly, but at the time, I was devasted. The hyperthyroidism kicked in and I lost 40 pounts over a few weeks.

Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 16 February 2006 18:39 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...
daerest dan,

I have downloaded a version of the awesome 'walk the night' by the skatt bros, which is about seven minutes long and starts dropping lyrics from frankie goes to hollywood's 'relax' halfway though. isn't there about five years between these records? wtf have I got here exactly??

thx in advance,

lil' merzbow wow (haitch), Monday, 17 April 2006 14:41 (twenty years ago)

maybe you downloaded the version of Walk the Night that appears on an old mix CD porkchop made where Walk the Night segued into a weird version of Relax? Proper versions of Walk the Night, but the Skatt Bros or the more electro version by the Bent Boys (or something) don't have any Frankie lyrics I don't think.

Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 17 April 2006 14:59 (twenty years ago)

no, really. ask me anything. it's a sloooow day.

Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 17 April 2006 16:04 (twenty years ago)

what the hell am i listening to? i downloaded a david mancuso set. i'm already 20 minutes into it and it's hecka weird. started out with a lightweight worldy/jazz track. then some "jazz vocalist" and now a version of My Favorite Things. i thought dude was a "disco" dj. were there dinner guests before the gancing?

Jaxon von Jaxon (jaxon), Monday, 17 April 2006 16:16 (twenty years ago)

david mancuso weaves all sorts of semi-wack stuff into his disco mixes. he likes coldplay apparently

geeta (geeta), Monday, 17 April 2006 16:20 (twenty years ago)

i've never been to one of his loft parties, but i guess at this point he's entitled to do whatever he wants.

geeta (geeta), Monday, 17 April 2006 16:22 (twenty years ago)

hey that semi-wack weaving is what gave us disco in the first place! question not the methods of a master!

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j blount (papa la bas), Monday, 17 April 2006 16:23 (twenty years ago)

Dan, do you know the guy with garbage records at the PS 321 flea market? I was bringing my taxes down to the post office saturday morning and he had loads of good, new stuff:

for $22:

Class Action - Weekend 12", Extra T's - E.T. Boogie 12", Tom Tom Club s/t, Brooklyn Express - Sixty-Nine b/w Change Position (Tee Scott mix) 12", Herbie Hancock - Grandmixer D.ST. Megamix b/w TFS + Earth Beat,
Maurice - This is Acid 12", U.T.F.O - Hanging Out b/w Roxanne, Roxanne, Grandmaster & Melle Mel - White Lines 12", New Edition - Candy Girl 12", Run D.M.C. - It's Like That/Sucker M.C.'s, The Jonzun Crew - Pack Jam 12", Taana Gardner - Heartbeat (Larry Levan Mix) 12",
Strafe - Set It Off 12"

it was like buying up one of pappawheelie's slsk folders.

jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Monday, 17 April 2006 16:26 (twenty years ago)

hey dan should i check out that soul jazz tom moulton thing or is it all 'you should have this already or get it elsewhere'?

j blount (papa la bas), Monday, 17 April 2006 16:30 (twenty years ago)

I <3 THAT STRAFE SONG. did they ever do anything else?

Jaxon von Jaxon (jaxon), Monday, 17 April 2006 16:32 (twenty years ago)

this mancuso set is weird. i think there was only one "disco" track in the whole set. now he's onto playing tripped out dub?

Jaxon von Jaxon (jaxon), Monday, 17 April 2006 16:46 (twenty years ago)

dunno, dunno, dunno, and uh, don't know.

this isn't working out well at all.

Where is PS321 flea market? Could be the guy from Iris records in Jersey City who always sells at flea marktets/street fairs and the like around manhattan and brooklyn.

I haven't seen the Moulton thing, I'm really broke right now and haven't bought any music in a long time except for 2 things I just got on ebay for "research" purposes.

As far as mancuso, even those loft sets are pretty eclectic, you could say in some ways disco is what is played by David Mancuso and not the other way around! Maybe not, but a lot of those records weren't disco then and are only considered disco because he played them.

I think that was the only thing by Strafe, though there were many mixes of that, and cover versions, and I think another Strafe? Walter Gibbons gets credit for mixing it. All that talk about Moulton and Levan comp CDs makes me wonder when the proper Walter Gibbons compilation will come out, or is there one?

Nice job scoring the Brooklyn Express, Mike. I got a beat up copy of it years ago and now just play the version they bootlegged on Ballroom because Cowley's I Feel Love is on the flipside, or something else good.

For those who dont't know it, Began Cekic getting Tee Scott to produce a slamming cover of Jimmy Bo Horne's Spank, where halfway through it this cool synth arpeggio comes in. You flip the record over and it starts with the synth, thus "69/change position". It also features the "Hey you" from Madness I guess?, some killer sirens, and the "It's Partytime" shout later used by Pal Joey...not sure if this is the first place or if it's from somewhere else, but it's a good way to get a party started, to play records where someone goes "It's Partytime".

Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 17 April 2006 17:52 (twenty years ago)

Where is PS321 flea market?

it's here:
http://www.subwaywebnews.com/Park%20Slope/park%20slope2.htm

though up until Saturday I would have never rec'd going out of ones way to hit it. i think it was a fluke thing, the guy bought out a storage locker or something. don't know who he is.

jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Monday, 17 April 2006 18:08 (twenty years ago)

oh yeah, that one...that's been there for years, at least since I moved to park slope in 97. Never checked it for records, though it's near Grand Canyon, which makes my favorite hamburgers.

Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 17 April 2006 18:20 (twenty years ago)

hi, dan. here's a question for you: how come you never return my calls?

lauren (laurenp), Monday, 17 April 2006 19:32 (twenty years ago)

OOOOOOO!

cutty (mcutt), Monday, 17 April 2006 19:34 (twenty years ago)

because I'm at work.

(and I wish you'd stayed in London, I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE YOU!)

Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 17 April 2006 19:43 (twenty years ago)

and here i was ready to give you back your night of living dead t-shirt...

lauren (laurenp), Monday, 17 April 2006 19:46 (twenty years ago)

man, that thing wouldn't fit on one of my arms these days.

Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 17 April 2006 19:50 (twenty years ago)

DAN

is the "weekend groove" comp any good? i already have the todd terry tracks but i know jack shit about the rest of it.

vahid (vahid), Monday, 17 April 2006 21:17 (twenty years ago)

class action - "weekend" in all its iterations fucking rules

geeta (geeta), Monday, 17 April 2006 21:25 (twenty years ago)

your set was great. your bud's post countdown Stand On the Word was sublime, great start to 2015.

iggwilv azaelea (sanskrit), Friday, 2 January 2015 14:55 (eleven years ago)

stand on the word is a great start to basically everything

MAYBE HE'S NOT THE BEST THIGH SLAPPER IN THE WORLD (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 3 January 2015 05:25 (eleven years ago)

I have mixed feelings about Tom's using Stand On the Word, was kind of funny but also kind of made me think he wished he wasn't there!

dan selzer, Saturday, 3 January 2015 14:43 (eleven years ago)

?

MAYBE HE'S NOT THE BEST THIGH SLAPPER IN THE WORLD (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 3 January 2015 15:27 (eleven years ago)

The Joubert Singers were performing the song live at the Good Room party with No Ordinary Monkey and Peaking Lights. I might've chosen to celebrate New Years somehow differently! It sounded great and was a great choice obviously, but being bitter that I couldn't be two places at once, I might not wanted the reminder!

dan selzer, Saturday, 3 January 2015 16:06 (eleven years ago)

ha, yeah that's arch.

MAYBE HE'S NOT THE BEST THIGH SLAPPER IN THE WORLD (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 3 January 2015 16:10 (eleven years ago)

wha? had no clue they were doing that, what a great idea. i go out to disco things once every 18 months so was quite content with The Graham,

iggwilv azaelea (sanskrit), Saturday, 3 January 2015 18:29 (eleven years ago)

nine months pass...

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ansuhg1rr9fa1p0/a_record_halloween_2015_blue.jpg?dl=0

dan selzer, Tuesday, 13 October 2015 04:59 (ten years ago)

i used to know how to do that.

dan selzer, Tuesday, 13 October 2015 04:59 (ten years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/rtMbZif.jpg

pandit pran nathalie (sanskrit), Tuesday, 13 October 2015 20:35 (ten years ago)

thanks

dan selzer, Tuesday, 13 October 2015 23:02 (ten years ago)

is there anything more played out than a Blue Note homage?

dan selzer, Tuesday, 13 October 2015 23:03 (ten years ago)

parody clash cover

a literal scarecrow on a quaint porch (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 14 October 2015 03:25 (ten years ago)

baby/child photo?

AKA Thermo Thinwall (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 14 October 2015 15:05 (ten years ago)

five months pass...

thought of you when i saw this - feels like it's http://i.imgur.com/Vk972ds.jpg

but it could be that goth/techno store from a few years back: https://newjersey.craigslist.org/emd/5512013148.html

pandit pran nathalie (sanskrit), Thursday, 7 April 2016 19:17 (ten years ago)

There were a few stores. There was Crazy Rhythms and then there was Cafe Soundz (an Industrial Café!) and TwinTone(TwoTone?) which was next door and they merged. There was also a more indie-rock store who's name I can't remember which was someone from Venus records, and later on long after I'd left NJ another vintage store w/ record section.

dan selzer, Thursday, 7 April 2016 21:18 (ten years ago)

seven years pass...

tell us about your birthday plans, dan

Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 19 March 2024 09:02 (two years ago)

Dinner at Lexington Candy Shop. The place that still makes coke by mixing syrup with seltzer by hand.

dan selzer, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 10:51 (two years ago)

new york has only one selzer mixing expert as far as i'm concerned

Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 19 March 2024 10:54 (two years ago)

Or. Roll-and-Roaster. Haven’t decided.

dan selzer, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 11:10 (two years ago)


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