This is a public service announcement: To our viewing audience - stay tuned while we attempt to reanimate your host. Doc Gurley learned today that Dave Barry (himself!) answered two (count them, two) of her Dave Barry for President Forum questions, and, faced with a double Dave, she did what any self-respecting fan possessing a [...]

Here’s my kind of weight loss - and a nice, pragmatic follow-up to the Annual Bikini Bamboozle. Prevention magazine noticed that a lot of medical literature about weight deals with the way our daily lives prevent us from moving around. It’s not hard to spend entire days doing nothing more than a series of “sits” [...]

Ever stand in front of the bulletin board at the local coffee shop and see two side by side notes tacked up with pushpins? Dog Lost. Dog Found. Makes you want to call both and let them know things would work out much better if they just got together and compared info. Similar things happen [...]

Doc Gurley: We want to start today’s interview by first congratulating you, Bertha, on the very successful launch of your new magazine, Bertha Stuart Livering. Could you tell us a bit about how you chose the name - there’s been so much media speculation.
Bertha Stuart: Well, Dr. Gurley - you don’t mind if I call [...]

Another Doc Gurley question has been answered at the (in)famous Dave Barry for President Forum! Yes, actual words typed by an actual comedic genius. What’s with the Dave Barry obsession? Well, giggles, mayhem, and snorting-milk-out-the-nose are all fine symptoms of a successfully cultivated Joy Habit. Check it out! (while we go get a mop for [...]

One of the keys to developing a joy habit is to recognize the hidden gems sitting right under our noses, covered with a coating of everyday dust. Sometimes, however, these gems appear and blind you with their brilliant rays of hope - which is what happened to me at Wright State Medical School last week. [...]

Yes, my sweeties, we have (yet again!) gotten a question answered by Dave Barry himself (sound track: Doc Gurley maniacal cackling bwha ha ha) at the new and not improved Dave Barry For President Forum. What, you ask, could it concern?
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Submitted by Area 51 from Roswell, NM [...]

Doc Gurley 2008 Haiku: Cherry blossom bomb, Petal shrapnel pelts my hair, Trees shake with laughter.
It’s that time of year. Easter, spring break, and cherry blossoms. Take a moment (really, it won’t take long!) to write a haiku in honor of something you enjoy. It’s a great way to both lift your mood and use [...]

I’m sweaty, crampy and I’ve got the shakes. Did I eat too much snow? (see the Doc Gurley post on yellow snow) Or am I suffering from withdrawal symptoms because the Dave Barry Forum is (gasp) gone? The site claims that Dave Barry is changing the forum’s technology, so it will be down for “4 [...]

 
 
OMG! I feel faint! As many (both) of you readers may be aware, I, Doc Gurley, have stalked written into the on-line Dave Barry for President Forum to ask a question or two, and His Barryness has, on occasion, gotten a restraining order replied. The situation has escalated into a Red Alert Crisis, due to [...]

Perhaps it is the fact that the Elton John song by this title is acted out by writhing cartoon animals, but Doc Gurley has always found the phrase “Can you feel the love tonight?” somewhat clinically disturbing. What if you can’t? Are we talking a sudden neuroparesis with selective sensory loss that paradoxically maintains motor [...]

If you grew up in the rural South like Doc Gurley, your childhood memories include such everyday events as peeling all the epithelium off both knees and elbows, stubbing the entire top off both big toes, and then sliding into so much dirt with said injuries that the injured skin looked like a new, high-tech [...]

For all you loyal Doc Gurley website visitors (yes, all two of you), you may be thinking this is another article about Dave Barry. But nooo. Just to prove how fickle my fantasy stalker-affections are, I’m outing myself right here, right now, on international Internet, as being obsessed yet again–only this time with a face. [...]

It’s sometimes hard to find a decent health/science article that not only covers a topic well, but, as a bonus, includes practical advice–if you don’t believe me, check out the widely reported, abysmal, First Bogus Award-winner of 2008! For those looking for good news, and solid health-news reporting, here’s a great article to kick off [...]

Here we have it–the first detailed, performance-enhancing medical video of 2008!
Why Don’t We Do It In Our Sleeves? is a new, raunchy approach to which of the following:
1) Sex guidelines for people who have a deep-seated fear of looking silly because they aren’t sure what to do with their arms (humerophobia).
2) A massive push by [...]

It is with a heavy and broken heart (yes, both—imagine a massive boulder, pounded into bits of sand, then put in very large plastic bags and doused with water, rendering the bag so heavy that if you try to lift one, the plastic just stretches and tears—that heavy), that I am forced to concede, nay, [...]

As we head into the last days of the holiday season, some people are feeling just a wee bit overloaded. Here’s a Doc Gurley questionnaire to help you decide if you too might be fraying at the edges:
Check which of these situations applies to you:
1) When another pedestrian wanders into the crosswalk just as the [...]

 

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We launch the first Doc Gurley audiocast with a Homeless Gift Guide broadcast on UK’s Global Local Radio at http://www.canstream.co.uk/copperbeech/index.php?id=78
In this broadcast, we go on a fieldtrip and gift a homeless person “live”–just to show how safe and easy the whole process can be. Listen for yourself and see how much joy you can [...]

This week’s Sunday San Francisco Chronicle includes an article by Doc Gurley about how to give a gift to a homeless person. Heavily edited due to space constraints (despite the impressive amount of space they gave me–when I get inspired, I go for it, but there’s only so much space on a Sunday paper page…), [...]

We love Dave Barry here at Doc Gurley (in a purely platonic, stalker fan, restraining-order kind of way). With teenager squeals and bouncing and hand-flapping, we share an actual response from His Daveness to Doc Gurley (O.M.G.) to a question I submitted to the Dave Barry For President Q&A Forum. Check it out while I [...]