Head In A Box

[MattieCooper]

I spent time at the VA hospital when my tire had a flat and I rolled into their parking lot...this really cool doctor from Australia helped me with everything...it was surreal.

[marquisdejolie]

Was he drinking?

[MattieCooper]

LOL! I think so, but everything worked out.

[fehquig]

Interesting observation. I never looked at things like that in such a way. Then again, I've

never had any dealings with the DVA (DepartmentofVeteranAffairs)

[marquisdejolie]

I think the D stands for Damned. I'm pretty sure.

[coloursepia]

yey, this ones a saver!

[marquisdejolie]

Thanks

[MattieCooper]

I have a marquise collection; this went straight there.

[marquisdejolie]

Thanks. My homeless attorney asked me to make a CD of my crap.

[LordTempist]

Regan was actually infested with Aliens, they hollowed him out and preserved his muffied remains with cheap bourbon and antifungal toenail solutions. Nancy never noticed the difference.

[LordTempist]

~mummified~ remains.

[marquisdejolie]

I don't know: 'muffied remains' sounds pretty accurate, too.

[LordTempist]

lol.

[doubleaamazin]

Thats kinda funny considering Reagan addressed the United Nations saying an alien attack would unite the world. Reagan wins the weirdest president award for sure.

[marquisdejolie]

i think Ronnie might've been sniffing the Borax.

[LordTempist]

Bizzarre isn't it. We get all their cab drivers too.  And telemarketers.

[marquisdejolie]

Who is left to telemarket in their country, I wonder?

[LordTempist]

They outsource.

[marquisdejolie]

Hahaha! You know, I THOUGHT I was talking to someone from another planet during a couple of their calls.

[LordTempist]

You know what the SETI program really is now don't you? It isn't the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. It's a phone Service for Extraterrestrial Telemarketing Interests!

[marquisdejolie]

Hahaha! I hear the ETs work for peanuts. Literally: peanuts.

[LordTempist]

See, that is where the whole thing got started. During the Carter Administration.

[marquisdejolie]

hahahaha!

[DahliaK]

Please don't hold a gun near your temple. I'll feel so bad the day I hear JJ "did" it. Please?

[marquisdejolie]

But a back scratcher at WalMart costs 2 bucks!

[DahliaK]

I'll scratch your back if you'll scratch mine. No money need change hands.

[marquisdejolie]

Hahaha. My dog might get jealous.

[MannyBei]

I don't think it's any different in the private healthcare sector...I'm not sure what a WASP doctor looks like anymore.

[marquisdejolie]

I've seen 'em in books and on TV.

[FunToRelate]

The VA never gets enough funding. I don't know where all the WASP doctors are, they tend to be specialists. I really don't think it matters if the doctor has met all the qualifications.

[marquisdejolie]

Perhaps if the soldier spent his entire military career stateside it wouldn't matter. It's not their actual skill level, it's their mere appearance. Let me try an analogy. Let's say that you're a dyed-in-the-wool hardcore reactionary Republican. How would feel going to a hospital that only hires left-wing liberal Democrats?

[FunToRelate]

Let's say that you're a dyed-in-the-wool hardcore reactionary Republican. How would feel going to a hospital that only hires left-wing liberal Democrats?

Probably like any other VA patient right now.

[marquisdejolie]

:D!

[marquisdejolie]

"I really don't think it matters if the doctor has met all the qualifications."

You're right there. It doesn't matter to the VA whether the doctor has met all the qualifications or not. That's why they use so many volunteers, med students, passersby and career civil servants for the job.

[foxalito]

...btw, what did you do in the forces...?

[marquisdejolie]

Lady killer

[marquisdejolie]

DINFOS trained killer

[marquisdejolie]

What? Fox, you haven't been to my jamesjarvis (DOT) net site where I spill my military guts?

[foxalito]

Have done

Don't think I saw that bit.

Not as effective at negotiting the net as the Spambots I'm afraid...

I am a bit of a luddite: how did/do you set-up your own site like that??

[marquisdejolie]

Hahaha! A luddite wouldn't have DSL! That "Help Me Keep My Mean Drunk Sister Fat" site is a free Lycos site. You can make one, too using their online pagebuilder software. It's not as easy as setting up a blogsite, but it's supposed to have some sort of search engine advantage over blogs. Have you visited my main blog at marquisdejolie (DOT) com?

[foxalito]

You might have just said 'blah, blah, blah'! Lycos? Pagebuilder software? Blogsite? - whats the difference and how do you do it?

I have to say, I have looked at the sites plenty (got it bookmarked!): now that I went looking for it, I found the biog stuff, though generally when I have clicked on stuff it has drawn me to your vids, but always in a way that seems a lot less accessible/easy to use than the youtube stuff...

[foxalito]

...and you have to remember - up until about one year ago, I'd only ever sent an email or looked up my stars on the net.

Steep learning curve...

[marquisdejolie]

Mine has been a looooong, slow gradual learning curve.

[foxalito]

'Head-in-the-box' vlogging, isn't that something psychos post to the mail-boxes of their victims families?

[marquisdejolie]

We have a nearby swamp for all of our disposal needs.

[foxalito]

In my town, I guess we only have the mall for the disposal of needless lives...

[marquisdejolie]

The swamp saves a lot of postage.

[dimanddiger]

you look like a wierdo with that gun 0o

[marquisdejolie]

I don't need a gun to look like a weirdo.

[foxalito]

Love the gun thing - real nice touch: really unnerving!

[marquisdejolie]

Just for a split second there....you thought it was going to get messy, eh?

[foxalito]

Tell you what...you're whacking them out at the moment: I can't type fast enough...

[marquisdejolie]

I'll slow down.

[chevkoch]

Walter Sobchak, is it really you?

[marquisdejolie]

He deals with some situations in a passive-aggressive and stubborn manner, while dealing with other situations in a recklessly head-on aggressive manner. He is boisterously confident in his actions, though his plans usually backfire, often ending disastrously.

Why yes....it is I.

[marquisdejolie]

Hahaha! I used to travel with a crew of Lebowski-ite dudes.

[chevkoch]

Walter, man, me at the wheel, at fifteen m-p-h you roll out, double back, grab one of 'em and... or alternatively, we could hit the In-and-Out Burger. If it's not Shabbos.

[marquisdejolie]

Hahaha! Only if it's not Shabbos. We are in Rosh Hashanah, though.

[chevkoch]

Right, Jesus needs to be marked zero. Then the In-and-Out Burger it is.

[marquisdejolie]

That's my brand!

[chevkoch]

Even Donny said these are good burgers.

[marquisdejolie]

Hahaha! One of the classics. The Big Lebowski. I should post a link here.

[chevkoch]

I mean it's eerily delightful, how much you look like Walter in this one :) What a classic indeed.

[marquisdejolie]

I even used to have the crewcut.

[chevkoch]

I'll have to insist you bring back Walter on future stints.

[marquisdejolie]

Haha. Okay.

[ArtisticHater]

Nice questions. I really like your head scratcher there. LOL it makes me want to think and appreciate certain things I take for granted in life ;)

[marquisdejolie]

What? You have access to doctors NOT here on H16 visas? And they don't treat you like a stinky pickpocket? Sweeeeeeeet!

[ArtisticHater]

Actually, no. I just appreciate my health so that I wouldn't have to visit any doctors yet. hahah! But my cancer should be kicking in at any moment due to those Marlboro cigarrettes ;)

[marquisdejolie]

That IanCrossland guy on Youtube says you can just tell the cancer you don't believe in it and it will go away.

[ArtisticHater]

That's reassuring to hear coming from Dr. Crossland, but I'm still going to use a condom to smoke anyways because it just feels better.

[farnk]

It's likely for the cheap labor that your former enemies are VA staff. But yeah if all that death and violence doesn't freak Vets out, the VA has it covered.

[farnk]

Oy I just realized how I worded that. VA staff very well still may be your enemies, though it's likely the crappy funding they get.

[marquisdejolie]

I reckon you worded it fine the first time. The Westwood VA does animal experimentation in its "North Labs." Sometimes I think the doctors confuse us with the canines. I could tell you some horror stories, boy howdy! But let's hear it cheap labor, hurrah! Hurrah!

[marquisdejolie]

I don't have PTSD. I have PTLASD, not to be confused with the school system.

[EmCSpiteri]

Thank heavens you did not have a Native American as a doctor, he would make you dance and smoke a piece pipe for a cure LOL.

[marquisdejolie]

Oops. I left him out...plus the German and Japanese VA doctors they fly in special for the WWII vets.

[marquisdejolie]

My Indian name is "Sees The Stars Naked" because in a smudging ceremony...oh wait, this is the wrong video comments response...nevermind.

[doubleaamazin]

That doesnt sound half bad

[gayloncole]

Dang it. If you'd just been a hippie during the mid to late 70s, like all us other slackers, you'd probably be resting on your laurels after making millions as a comedy writer for television. Instead, you just had to join the military. What the hell were you thinking? And p-l-e-a-s-e put that gun down! Jeez! (If I could make a video response, this is what I'd say. With appropriate artwork.)

[marquisdejolie]

Don't get me started playing the what-if game. And the gun isn't loaded all the way up....just a half clip.

[gayloncole]

That makes me feel worlds better.

Not.

[marquisdejolie]

I just can't tell you how many times I've heard "P-l-e-a-s-e put the gundown (and step away from that pizza)."

[doubleaamazin]

Dont put the gun down. More people need to exercise that right. They allready took our gold, if they take all of our guns, we will be powerless.

[popsuckits]

Two issues I have "The privatization of torture /terror" - "The refusal to negotiate with terrorist" It devalues there opinion and breeds hate...

[marquisdejolie]

The privatization of torture/terror: that describes my VA experience all right.