---
title: "Them Singin', Dancin' Demons Do It Every Time"
date: '2002-07-03T06:50:11-04:00'
permalink: /them-singin-dancin-demons-do-it-every-time/
tags:
    - body
    - networks
    - television
---

Inspired in part by the wonderful [pulchritude](http://pulchritude.blogspot.com), and in part by my own [overindulgences](/hawaii_is_good/), I’ve undertaken a plan of (somewhat) radical detoxing. The most significant aspect of my pretty much semi-annual attempt to achieve a less chemical existence is giving up caffeine, which has the immediate effect of making me feel as though someone is driving a railroad spike through my temporal lobe. Not good when one is frantically trying to finish up work on a manuscript about which one is decidedly ambivalent anyway.

The good news is that, as of last night, about 7:00 pm CDT, after two days of head-splitting and general depression, the pall lifted. Headache gone. Not thinking entirely clearly yet, but no longer feeling quite the same urge to dash in front of a streetcar, either.

What made the difference? Either the simple passage of time, or last night’s replay of the [Buffy](http://www.buffy.com) musical. You decide.