Headaches. All the pain in the world located right inside the very confines of your skull. A pounding ache, a throbbing mess and there appears to be even faster and faster aspirins being made.

For the simple reasons, it's things such as environmental allergies, skipping a meal or two, or running more than your heart and head can take. On the weightier end, it could be anything from the liver kicking out, depression or some other systemic shut down.

Whatever it is, be mindful of the fact that your head is doing road works when the council workers are still on their five hour lunch break.

At the very least, consider yourself lucky if it does only turn out to be a headache. Don't lose your head (WARNING: GROSS) over your body's warning systems.

 

Nineteen years in the brewing, Man With The Screaming Brain is basically a story about a greedy Americans who cross paths with the wrong type of gypsy. Mad science and double-brain-transplants ensue in a swamp full of horror and slight feelings of wrongness.

Such as the stupor from an overcast bender of the night before. Be it of the demon drink or too much of that Dr Pepper stuff that leaves the body shivering and quaking in its little cotton boots.

Or the dehydrated after effects of wrenching your skull between two blocks for a vice. Headaches all around in either case and like Tic Tacs, aspirin flies from bottle to mouth and down the throat.

Even late nights breaking into the early morning are ripe for making the brain feel like it needs to stretch in more space than the skull will allow. Sleep, though, is not for the restless. Or those on another type of pill.

 

Gremlins, like any pet that chews holes into budgets and smears its love all over the carpeted areas of the dungeon, need some care. Essential to the domesticity of their kind into being civil citizens of a house are three golden rules.

1. Keep them away from bright light; 2. Don't get them wet; 3. Never feed them after midnight.

All very well and good and transferable to many other species, such as mutants and goldfish. Takes some thought into looking after pets, and humans, and even cars for that matter.

Short of drinking a spiked flask of Dr Catheter's brain formula, there are more than a few ways to work on increasing the nubbly wobbly matter floating in the skull.

Meditation - According to New Scientist, the quiet still of deep meditation can work those brain muscles into throbbing busters of thought and cognition.

The Guarana hit - found in many Brazilian drinks and swimming in the backwash with Vitamin B in some energy drinks. Like drinking brain juice, moderation is key. (Dr Pepper is still hard to find in Australian stores and somewhat irrelevant to this note.)

Mental calisthenics - Crossword puzzles, Sudoku, anagrams featuring Alec Guinness, little exercises that work on the memory and its acuity also happen to stave off Alzheimers. To an extent.

Man With Two Brains - If all else fails, there's the option of swapping brains. Warning, some personality waste may affect as part of any transfer.

 

As dark in the night with a white bright hood for the rain to run off, his name is Moon Knight. And he's got more than a one track mind on him. In fact, he's got more than a single personality running rampant in that noggin of his.

Pay attention when someone the likes of him starts talking to you. Might not actually be the "him" him of the suit. May very well be that of the "other him" him in the hoodie.

Best way to tell? Who knows.

 

 

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