Glaucoma as beauty

April 12, 2006


With my time stretched currently, thanks to the new job, the new lawn work and my grandmother’s impending visit, I wanted to at least get something out here that says, “Yes, my fellow readers, I’m still here.”

So while most of you who are close friends have received this website, I figured I’d better release it to the public.

What is it? It’s the Association Of International Glaucoma Societies (AIGS) website. I believe this was created to highlight the World Glaucoma Conference 2007, but all it’s really done is create a welcome diversion in my life.

The website is terrible in nearly every aspect of terribleness. The colors are awkward. The bouncing heads in the corner are distracting and incredibly unnecessary. And the blinking eye at the bottom of the sidebar is creepy. In other words, the site is awesome.

The headliner in awesomeness, however, is the Glaucoma Hymn — a download-able file that praises glaucoma. Or it praises glaucoma’s cure. I’m not sure which one. The lyrics seem heartfelt, though:

Glaucoma, Glaucoma, Glaucoma
Constricting vision slowly
Halted by progress of science
Vision of a world united
Beyond all science knowing

Beautiful.

As Kerrie said — the crazy thing is that someone got paid to do this.

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7 Responses to “Glaucoma as beauty”

  1. Will on April 12th, 2006 403 pm

    Corey, I’ve been meaning to ask you, what’s your favorite Steinbeck novel?

    For me, it’s between two obvious choices, but judging by your eclectic taste in music–I was familiar with about 10% of your top 100 songs–I’m thinking you might pick something other than East of Eden or Grapes of Wrath.

    Me, I’m going with East of Eden. If forced to choose something other than the obvious, I’d go with Travels with Charlie.

    BTW, ever read any Ken Kesey?

  2. Will on April 12th, 2006 403 pm

    Sorry, my comment has nothing to do with your post. I got this idea from your previous post.

  3. Corey Vilhauer on April 13th, 2006 801 am

    Nope. It’s East of Eden.

    In fact, I’m not even fully schooled in Steinbeck. I’m actually holding some books off so I always have some new Steinbeck to read. Grapes of Wrath is one of them.

    I really liked Tortilla Flat as well. Of the five I’ve read, it’s hard to pick a second.

    I’d like to buck tradition and say I’m enamored over The Winter of My Discontent or The Pearl, but, well, I read The Pearl at Software Etc on a slow Monday when I worked there and I didn’t fully absorb it and I’ve never read Winter.

    So, yeah. East of Eden. Followed by Tortilla Flat.

  4. Corey Vilhauer on April 13th, 2006 801 am

    Oh. And no Ken Kesey. He’s good?

  5. Will on April 13th, 2006 1030 am

    That’s a good idea, saving novels for later. I’m doing that same thing with one of my favorite authors, Tom Robbins. He’s only got about 7 books out, maybe he’ll put out a few more before he dies, but I could read them all in a month if I wanted to, I love his writing so much. Patience is a virtue.

    Once you read it, Grapes of Wrath will give East of Eden a run for its money, I think, but they’re two totally different novels. Actually, my question (what’s your favorite?) is silly, but it’s fun to talk about.

    Dude, you gotta read Kesey at some point. He’s my favorite American author. He only wrote a few books, sadly, but they are so good. “One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest” is a classic, but I’m significantly more fond of his second novel, “Sometimes a Great Notion.” In fact, I like that book so much I generally don’t tell people about it, because I don’t want to share it with them. And I’m usually a pretty generous person. It’s *that* good.

    No one writes like Ken Kesey.

    If you ever want to read him, I’d recommend starting with Cuckoo’s Nest. It’s sort of like a Ken Kesey primer. If you jump right to Great Notion, you might be scared away. For the first 100 pages of that book, you’re like, wtf? But if you get through that, the last 500 are remarkable.

    Ken Kesey was not only an amazing writer, but he was also an enormously influential cultural figure. He sort of bridged the gap between the beat generation and the hippies. I honestly believe that, if not for Ken Kesey, the hippie generation might not have ever occurred. At the very least, without him, it would have been different. And for that story I’d refer you to Tom Wolfe’s “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.”

    Sorry this is so long. If I’m going to write comments this long on other people’s blogs, maybe I should just start my own…

  6. Corey Vilhauer on April 13th, 2006 1228 pm

    Jeez. You might as well. You could write for Misc.Asst. — that blog’s barely staying alive. ;)

  7. Will on April 13th, 2006 142 pm

    It’s so much easier to comment on blogs than to write them. No responsibility.

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