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Welcome back to one, and feeling appalled for the other.

        Nevada American Lung Association Hosts Benefit Luncheon and Fashion Show

Matthew Gray Gubler and his mother Marilyn

Matthew Gubler laughed with the audience when his mother raised her hand to ask a question saying, “Mom, you could have asked me that at home.” He also made fun of himself when he couldn’t make out his own ‘chicken scratch’ speech he was trying to read from a yellow legal pad.

Gubler actually took time out to research the subject matter and was quite surprised at the information he found.

“I found out that smoking is the leading cause of statistics,” mocked Gubler. “If you just do a Google search and type in smoking or lung cancer and you will be barraged with never-ending facts and numbers, like how 1 in every 3 Americans is affected by lung disease, how COPD [chronic obstructive pulmonary disease] is the 3rd leading cause of death and how if you get lung cancer the odds are 95% that you will die.”

Matthew Gray Gubler  and Tami Corbin

Gubler went on to mention that if those in the audience were anything like him, statistics cause him to glaze over. He went on to share one of his personal twitter messages sent after he tweeted about attending the lung association fundraiser.

“I typically receive a lot of tweets, but the response to my tweet about lung cancer was, like absolutely flabbergasting,” said Gubler. “Which just reminds you how far reaching and serious a disease like lung cancer is.”

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I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels a similar theme was being employed in this scene from the season  6 finale.

111. Watermelons on sweltering, devilishly sunny day

Copyright of Bill Watterson and Universal Press Syndicate

Found an injured fledging today. It then died minutes after.
Remembered this.
Still a little upset. Allow me to sulk for a while.

110. When your sister makes pancakes for you, just so you would finally shut up about crêpes

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Often. This happens.

Sometimes the world can be such a lonely space of imagination.

The amazing fingerprint scanner app! 

Unless Morgan's iPhone has an very sensitive touchscreen or Garcia has given it some Tech-fairy dust, then I don't know how is this possible.

All I can find in my un-amazing real life are simulators meant for entertainment purposes.

109. Chilli chocolate



They really must have made this with April Fools in mind.
Beware, capsaicin-intolerants.

The Look: Mr Matthew Gray Gubler
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6.24 Supply and Demand Sneak Peek!

CBS kills off 'Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior'

A dear friend suggested that if I thought guinea pigs are unusually discordant for an animal of their size and cuteness, perhaps I should hear how a fennec fox sounds like.

108. Hearing for the first time that a guinea pig is capable of disproportionately loud squeaks

hopping toward the renaissance festival

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Wallace and Gromit Matthew Gray Gubler: The Curse of the Werebunny

Watch out for hungry eagles and angry carrot farmers 

The standard answer to the standard (sometimes annoying) question.

Jim_Clemente: Actually, that is an issue I have discussed with the writers many times. It is why we changed the name of the drug we mentioned in Big Sea to Trilimide ( a made up drug). We do not want to give potential offenders any new ideas. Also, the kinds of things we focus on in the show are Behaviors that are intrinsic to that particular person. They are not the kinds of things they can change on a whim. Other shows may do that, but we stay away from forensics on Criminal Minds... Deliberately.

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Explains why spending the past 5+ hours Googling and consulting a biomedical friend on 'trilimide' came up with nothing.

A real-life drug which actually fits the bill however is a type of anticholinergic known as scopolamine. Like 'trilimide', the drug's most common use is to allay motion sickness. There are records of scopolamine also being used to reduce parkinsonian tremors, uveitis and iritis (both inflammation of the eye).

Further Google searches cement the fact that the CM writers probably based their fictional 'trilimide' on  Colombia's 'Devil Breath' or burundanga. Burundanga is a street version of scopolamine which became a hot topic of chain e-mail rumors/hoaxes/urban legends a few years back, as duly noted by Snopes and Hoax-slayer. Victims often come in contact with the drug through ingestion or inhalation (when the drug is blown into the face). There are texts (my biomedical friend's textbooks really) which states that the drugs are even well-absorbed in the conjunctival (eye) membrane. Nasal insufflation itself already allows a faster onset of effect as compared to ingestion. Therefore, victims are treated to a double whammy of burundanga absorption. There's a video was made by VBS TV on burundanga :



The zombielike effects of the burundanga is often debatable (as is the problem with exaggeration when it comes to lurid horror urban legends). A consistent thread to victims' accounts is memory loss. Scopolamine is in fact an antagonist for the neurotransmitter acetycholine (Ach). Ach is vital in movement regulation (which explains scopolamine's use in movement disorders) and learning and short-term memory. Thus, inhibiting Ach affects the victim's ability to recall events at the point of drug assimilation into the body system.

Other known side effects of scopolamine are drowsiness (in recommended dosages) and amnesia (in sensitive individuals). At toxic doses, poisoned individuals could exhibit dry mouth, mydriasis (blurred vision), tachycardia, hot and flushed skin, agitation, delirium - as shown in the adage 'dry as a bone, blind as a bat, red as a beet, mad as a hatter'. Severe side effects include confusion, difficulty urinating, fast or irregular heartbeat, hallucinations, disorientation, mood or mental changes, trouble speaking and severe drowsiness. It is easy to see how bystanders might interpret several of these symptoms together as 'zombielike'.

The question remains if scopolamine actually makes one more vulnerable to suggestion. So far, I couldn't find any confirmation how the drug's mechanism of action would cause victims to be more likely to consent to a criminal's commands. After all, Ach inhibition should only affect the storage of new memories. There is still the possibility however that scopolamine affects the brain in other ways other than blocking acetylcholine.

Interestingly, scopolamine has actually been used as a truth serum in the past.

In the Mint Museum of Toys.

The most inspiring life motto ever, on an automobile bumper sticker.

Reid being OCD! Okay, it is more likely of him being polite in a stranger's house (although I could very well see his house in a similar state of tidiness). This is sadly the same thing my Pa and I do for each other everytime we are in someone else's place.

6.18 Lauren and 6.22 Out of the Light

catching up on some classic literature

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"Illustrated by Matthew Gray Gubler"

Synopsis: Jay Gatsby is resurrected from the dead in the 1960s as part man, part machine by a deranged time-traveler tripping in a police box. At the same time, The Terminator, who is suffering from brain damage as he thinks John F. Kennedy is John Connor, makes an (un)timely appearance in that era. Can the robofied Gatsby build his bootlegging business from scratch, handle his constant rust-and-grease angst, fend off an insane Terminator and hordes of Daleks with severe superiority complexes while putting up with an author obviously suffering from severe confusion due to a displaced timeline? Read more to find out!

Other amazing titles in this collection:
Alien vs Predator: A Midsummer Night's Killin' by William Shakespeare
Tron: Legacy by Mark Twain
Kick-Ass by John Steinbeck

Wakin' up in the morning to see this on my screen.
Spilt my mug and spat cereal all onto my keys.
Yeah, Gube - poster boy for Hollywood Abs he is!

Listverse - Top 10 Bizarre Mental Cases

Young Hollywood - On the Set of 'Criminal Minds'

Initial Thoughts on 6.22 'Out of the Light'

Good mix of scary, funny, heartwarming and intense moments.

Great piece of film editing in the beginning.

Jack and laughing Hotch is always awesome, awesome. Rossi pitching in to help is just as cool. (Wait, how did the two of them find time anyway to coach a soccer team?)

Underwater headshot - that's why Hotch's better than Spiderman and Superman. He's G-man. His bullets overwhelms the viscosity of water, the thickness of a windscreen pane and the density of bone and flesh of an unsub.

Interesting take on 'body profiling'. First time seeing it on the show.

Kind of suspected, but never really expected, that little twist at the end.

Now I can imagine those critters building a massive base inside of my dorm's walls whilst plotting revenge for my unprecedented interruption of their kitchen-raiding missions.