Friday Knows Tea

The Excelsior My parents met in their high school Star Trek club, and so naturally baby's first fandom was the one to which I literally owe my existence. I've lost count of the number of conventions I attended growing up. The Klingons I've met surely number in the hundreds at this point. This may not have made me the coolest kid growing up, but I can honestly boast the ability to paint my body head-to-toe green with no streaking in fifteen minutes flat (while the only tool in my cosplay skill set, I do love to brag about it). When I was nineteen years old, I had the distinct pleasure of meeting lifelong heroes George Takei and Nichelle Nichols at the Star Trek 40th anniversary gala atop Seattle's Space Needle. They were both so warm and affable and allowed me to hug them (after of course being reassured my green body paint was sealed and wouldn't stain their clothing). I was enchanted, and still smile every time one or the other crosses my Twitter timeline. ...

Disclaimer: what follows is an unedited, unfiltered stream of consciousness typed out as I was half asleep the other night. Way less structured than any other blog post you've seen from me before, for sure! This is undistilled Synesthesia Brain. It's a whole lot of nonsense, but it's also the way I think, feel, taste, smell, see and hear all day every day. Take this as an expository art piece and make of it what you will. *     *     * All day every day every moment I'm flayed. I walk around this city with my insides on my outsides and I'm giving and taking and loving and caring and listening and I'm just this wide open thing, and when I look at myself I don't exist or I exist too much. It hurts to look at myself, like a cognitive dissonance ice cream headache. I'm a dead girl electrified, or actually I'm the battery force for all of life. Wicked alive in every nerve every minute and it won't ever turn off, but from time to time a breaker fl...

Gosh is it EVER headache season. Whether it's the holiday energy drain hangover, a renewed commitment to reading five million books a week (hello, eye strain), back-to-school blues or sugar withdrawal, I've got you covered with hella plants to help fix what ails ya. Of course herbal medicine has its strengths and flaws. Very few reliable studies have been done on efficacy of medicinal herbs due to lack of funding and wild fluctuations of nutrient levels over the course of the plant's life cycle (not to mention what time of day it was picked, where it was grown, what part of the plant is being used, etc.) and I will never claim to be a doctor or a miracle worker. That being said, hopefully some of the plant knowledge I have acquired in my lifetime will be of use to you. Give these remedies a try and let me know in the comments what worked for you! Green and Black Tea First on our list of of headache tea recommendations is just straight-up tea. Green and black tea are...