Inception was great fun, guys! And thanks to the chat room!

/now trying to get Eleventh Doctor's theme out of my head
//hey, anybody else notice that DiCaprio and Nolan look a lot alike?

The brief hour that I spent in the chatroom was wonderful. Great commentary guys. I can't wait to hear the whole thing!

A Few Good Men is one of those movies that I've always meant to get around to watching, but haven't. So glad I decided to swing by the forum again tonight

So, I get Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer. We are THIS much closer to a DiF Top Gun Commentary with Matt and the Doty!

Congrats for holding together during such drastic circumstances. Hope Teague gets well soon.

Holy shit, what happened?

I think he's got a kidney stone. I showed up late to the show, tho, so I don't have all the details of what happened. The last we heard was that they were heading to the hospital. Someone else will have to fill in the details and such.

Once again, Michael misses the drama. Are you sure you're gay?

This morning I was in some pretty severe pain, and then during the episode it went from bad to impossible. Wrestled with the notion of not going, but it got to the point where I was about to start screaming, so I quickly hammered out the outro script on Brian's iPad and went to an urgent care center.

After arriving and waiting an hour, I was told 1. that there was no MD available today, and that they thusly couldn't provide narcotics and 2. that I just had a muscle spasm in my back, here's a prescription for Motrin. (Displaying a very low threshold for both "urgent" and "care.")

I have had kidney stones before, and I felt strongly that what I was experiencing was a lodged kidney stone (it has to scrape its way from your kidney to your bladder before the passing-it part happens, and the period where it goes from kidney to bladder is by far the most painful bit, lasting hours). In the car, I called Cloe who's in San Francisco with her parents (a doctor and a surgeon) and, after explaining my symptoms, her mom said she was certain I had gotten a shit diagnosis and told me to get to a hospital immediately.

I was quite willing to do so, because I was in frustrated, overwhelming, unrelenting pain at that point. I hopped on the highway to get to the nearest hospital and encountered a traffic jam that seemed like the end of the world. Upon arriving at the emergency room, I filled out paperwork in a crumpled heap on the floor and before I had even finished, they had me back in the rooms answering preliminary questions and all. Very shortly thereafter, they put me in a gown and gave me an IV with dilaudid (a very strong painkiller, stronger than morphine) and gave me a sonogram. The painkillers kicked in and after three or four hours of this mess, I was finally numb, and the result of the sonogram was that I was right from the get go. It's a kidney stone jammed between my kidney and bladder.

They eventually gave me another shot of dilaudid and a script for percocet, and sent me on my way. This brings us to the present.

Thanks for the well wishes everybody, I still have a long weekend ahead of me.

Mine from last year.

THAT THING CAME OUT OF YOUR PENIS!?

ouch