Humor, I've been told, is something of a cure-all for emotional and mental traumas. Like a homemade tonic sold at a sideshow, people claim it can "cure whatever ails you," whether what ails you is male pattern baldness, an especially persistent boil, or something far more serious. It is true that...
I was not the first student to do so – there had been some other examples, all involving mishaps with that early generation of sunless self-tanners – but I was the first one to achieve a full-body neon effect. Everything but my eyes, teeth, and hair took on the jaundiced hue of a wilting tiger li...