Frazz by Jef Mallett for January 15, 2021

That WAS a trick question, yes.

That’s what keeps him in Chevettes.

And when it’s somebody else’s song?

Earworms return unexpectedly. Darn it!

I usually cure my earworms by listening to the whole song. Then I add some brain bleach from Van Halen, Yes, or The Who.

How come we never see Frazz play music? He bikes, he runs, he mops, he advises… but he never performs.

You give it to someone else!

The Fall. Blindness. Stomps that earworm right outta existence. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH1KhxKh1YA

To write it down you have to able to write music.

“The music — it’s trying to get out of my head!” —Piotr Ilyich Tschaikovsky, at age 6, to his nanny, on why he wasn’t yet ready to go to bed

More of a smart alec answer. The best way to get a tune out of your head is replace it with a different one more to your liking.

So I guess a lot of you mistrust anyone who prefers to be with kids and actually listen to them, and gets the same in return, HAS to be a perv ? How sad.

Read somewhere that a writer writes to get a book out of their head, and a reader reads to get a book into their head.

I have a simple solution that actually works – at least for me. I just sing “Red River Valley” for a couple minutes. It drives the earworm away without creating another problem.

My singing is so bad that this does the job.