The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.

Without doubt one of the best pranks I’ve ever seen.  I guess if you’re going to go to the time and effort to pull a prank, you might as well make it an epic one.  It seems as if I’m always the last one to find stuff like this, so if you’ve already seen it, my apologies.  But if you haven’t, I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.  I’ve been in Grand Central Station in New York a zillion times, and I can just imagine this scenario.

Hat tip to Channa for sending it my way

Sometimes just when everything seems to be going great, the unexpected can jump up and lay us low. In the case of this journalist, fate, in the guise of the Canadian Brown Finch, intervenes in a memorable way.

If you’re looking for the perfect gift for one of your misguided friends or relatives, here it is. I’m sure they’re available in all sizes.

I found these shirts in a comment to an old post in a blog I happened to come across while searching for something else. It amazes me that people can be so violent when it comes to the carbohydrate issue. It’s as if their spouses or children are being attacked.

This blog post was written back in 2004 when everyone had oh so briefly jumped on the low-carb bandwagon. They guy who wrote it was obviously worried that carbs were going to disappear from the shelves and he wanted to do his part to keep them there. You might think this was written tongue in cheek, but if you go to the post linked above, you’ll see that it isn’t. Read more »

I’ve learned from Tom Naughton that his new movie is titled Fat Head and carries the tagline You’ve been fed a load of bologna. Tom has also graciously agreed to answer all your questions about the movie so fire away. Submit any questions you might have as comments, and Tom will answer them in a blog post within a few days.

I’m putting up the rest of the clips from the movie on today’s post.

The sequence of these clips as they will appear in the movie is as follows: Read more »