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DR. MONTAGUE’S ANTI-VIRUS HOME REMEDY No. 2

patented & guaranteed to work under most domestic conditions

Directions

The oral infusions below to be taken and used as before:

 

  1. Write numbers 1 through 31 on small pieces of paper.

  2. Fold and place numbers in a jam-jar or other container.

  3. Assign a moment of repose each day to visit the jar and remove a number.

  4. Assign a moment of repose each day to visit the jar and carefully remove 1 number.

  5. Match the number with the number on Home Remedy Chart no. 2 (below).

  6. Flip a coin to determine the bonus of an accompanying drink: Heads = YES, Tails = NO.

  7. If a DRINK is determined, flip coin again to determine alcoholic, or a non-alcoholic?

    “Alcoholic” allows the option of a second choice from the Remedy List, if desired.

  8. Find the appropriate YouTube site on your computer. Sit comfortably. Relax. ingest the complete content. Post infusion: reflect pensively for 5 minutes. Return to work.

  9. Dispose of used paper numbers responsibly.

Prescription Renewal

THIS REMEDY MAY BE RENEWED IN 1 MONTHS’ TIME SHOULD THE VIRUS PERSIST.

Nota Bene. Dr Montague’s Remedy List may be shared with friends and colleagues but should be withheld from miscreants, ding-dongs and suspected frilly-dillies. Hopefully a further Anti-Viral Remedy prescription will not be necessary once the governments’ “All Clears” are sounded. According to Boris Johnson/Donald Trump that should be “soonly” and “strongly”. Nevertheless we find ourselves once again thrown into further unchartered waters by Minneapolis as The Great Leader, an unmasked Potato Head, holds up The Bible and summons lightning from his terrible swift sword. Bovem de humo operies. Amen.

⚠️ Important Reminder ⚠️

The pandemic is still amongst us:

110,000 dead in USA, 40,000 in the UK!

Watch this short video first: 

Dr. Tessa Montague & Dr. Fred Rabino, Harvard scientists demonstrate their Covid-19 safety protocols for the 2020 pandemic 

…then continue your daily aural treatment with:

Dr. S. Montague’s Anti-Virus Home Remedy Dosage Chart No. 2

click to imbibe

  1. K. Penderecki: Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima (1960) in memoriam 2020

  2. Louise Bourgeous, artist: TateShots interview 2016

  3. Traditional Music Engraving demonstration. How it was done pre the digital age

  4. John Adams: Short Ride in a Fast Machine (1986) -National Youth Orchestra USA, Marin Alsop, conductor, Carnegie Hall

  5. Building a Steinway Grand Piano

  6. Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique (1830) from memory! - Aurora Orchestra, Nicholas Conlon, conductor, BBC PROMS 2019 Royal Albert Hall, London

  7. Louis Armstrong: Hello Dolly

  8. Cindy Sherman, artist: Nobody’s Here but Me (1994) - NYC

  9. Frank Sinatra: My Way (1974) - Live at Madison Square Garden, NYC

  10. Flash Mob: Beethoven’s 9th finale - Ode to Joy - somewhere in Germany

  11. Great Depression 1930s

    a. Newsreel of The FDR New Deal

    b. Franklin Roosevelt Inauguration Speech excerpt 1933

  12. The Spanish Flu – The 1918 Pandemic explained. A warning from history!

  13. Johnny Cash reads The Cremation of Sam McGee poem by Robert W. Service

  14. Tableau Vivant – Sutri (VT) - can you name the famous paintings from these poses?

  15. Tom Lehrer, Harvard math teacher

    a. We’ll All Go Together When We Go

    b. Vatican Rag

  16. Donald Trump’s “China!” – a sound text montage worthy of “sound poetry”

  17. Mark O’Connor (folk fiddle) – The Orange Blossom Special (1930s train folk tune)

  18. Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake - Act 3 pas de deux - Nureyev & Fonteyn

  19. György Ligeti: 6 Bagatelles (1953) for woodwind quintet

  20. Stephen Montague – Thule Ultima (1999) for woodwind quintet mouth pieces

  21. James Gaffigan, conductor, explains what conductors do

  22. Puccini: Madam Butterfly - Un bel di - Maria Callas, soprano

  23. Tigida Pipa for dance. Ilana Goldman, choreography, Stephen Montague, music - Florida State University School of Dance Undergraduates 2019

  24. Jackson Bates: How to Write Haiku

  25. Isobel Dixon, poet, live at Ledbury Festival, UK

  26. Stephen Montague: Haiku (1987) for piano, flange, tape - Chi-Ling Lok, piano

  27. Samina Ali: What does the Quran say about a Muslim woman’s hijab? - TED talk

  28. Interview with Fay Weldon, author of Death of a She Devil

  29. Gertrude Stein, poet/novelist: If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso (1923)

  30. Martin Luther King Jr. interview on Merv Griffin Show 1967

  31. Irish Step Dancing: River Dance - Ireland, 2009

 

© Stephen Montague 1 June 2020