RECOVERING GRADY ADDICT

I was happy to see that they finally enabled the embedding codes for this video. So happy happy happy I can share it. All my Atlanta friends and colleagues will laugh their asses off. It's a great spoof of Atlanta history and landmarks. Check it out.

Today, we were discussing the legendary drag performer Mr. Charlie Brown. Around this time Paula Deen came on Food Network, which is nearly always on our TV. If you haven't read my post on Food Network Addiction. I suddenly realized that Mr. Charlie Brown looks an awful lot like Ms. Paula Deen. Actually, Ms. Paula Deen looks an awful lot like Mr. Charlie Brown. I figure the later to be the case, seeing as Paula Deen's Homepage FAQ's divulges that "The sweetest man named Jamie Cribbs does my hair for me." I think I found her hair-dresser's inspiration!!!

Ok... while prepping for my next post, I ran across this little savory waste of 2 minutes you will never get back: DRAG QUEEN NAME GENERATOR Give it s shot and post YOUR DRAG QUEEN NAME in my comments! Mine was Ivana Dick. Strange. Maybe it's temporarily out of order?

...I miss the witt and humor of EMS and ER staffers. Yeah... that's just damn funny. THE DNR SONG - Sung to "Rockstar" by Nickelback

TOP 10 THINGS A PARAMEDIC SHOULDN'T SAY...

Lenya is working tonight (at Grady) with a reputable Class Ten Shit Magnet named Shawn Moore. Shawn is the kind of Shit Magnet who has two cardiac arrests back to back followed by a couple of critical traumas, ending the night with a decompensating CHF'er that gets intubated. That's his daily norm. Always has been. Tonight beats all I have ever heard. Sumdood strikes again!!! Shawn was mugged outside the CNN center by a crackhead. For his radio. Not an I-Pod or other portable entertainment device. His DISPATCH RADIO. It wasn't long before the thief was talking in Spanglish over the dispatch frequency. APD, EMS, and Park Police followed the sounds of the radio communications, and said crackhead was found by Lenya and the shift supervisor hanging out near the bushes over in Centinnial Olympic Park where he was tackled and subdued, and held at MagLight point until poe-poe could put him in handcuffs. His story: Shawn "sold" him the radio. Uh-huh. Sure. Sumdood seems t...

Alternate Title: Straw... Meet Camel! 23:05 Dispatch: "7262 prepair to copy." Former Grady Medic: "262 go ahead" Mouthy Renegade Partner: "Fuck Me! We get off in ten fuckin minutes!" Dispatch: "Respond to blah blah blah Peachtree Street, Hyatt Regency, Difficulty Breathing. Stand by..... Text advises your subject will be across the street, at the liquor store. Be advised your 78 will be a black male, wearing all blue, and a straw hat." MRP: "Oh great. Some drunk-ass rooter at the liquor store. Bet he wants to go to Piedmont to sober up and have a place to sleep it off." FGM: "We'll see if he'll go to Grady. Just grab and go. Me and (Starry-Eyed Intern) will treat 'em on the way in." (pulling up to liquor store opposite to the Hyatt) MRP: "I don't see 'em" FGM: "Leave the lights goin so he can see us." *Just incase he is deaf and couldn't hear all the sirens blaring* Starry-Eyed Inter...