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Harry chose contacts and here's why... believe it or not, it has to do with watching movies!
Hey folks, Harry here... typing at ya without the need for glasses. Now, I don't have a problem doing that usually, but as I'm always watching movies in the background, I have to have glasses on to see what's on that screen over there... Well, I don't know how many of you folks are like me... you've been a geek for a long time and you've been wearing glasses and those glasses helped to define your personality as well as your impression of your face.
Well... A few days ago I went to see BOLT in 3D and - well, I hate putting 3D glasses on top of my regular glasses - and I don't want to go through with the expense of LASIK LASERING OF MY EYEBALLS - and I've always liked the eyedea of contacts. So a few days ago I randomly picked an Optometrist out to go get my eyeballs evaluated for the exo-lenses for me vision. Basically - I feel I need protection for the fucking that AVATAR is going to be giving my eyes this time next year.
I don't know what brought me to Jerry Brinegar, OD - at Highland Mall - next to the LensCrafters, but ya know... sometimes the powers that be guide you to the absolute ideal physician to make things all awesome. Turns out Dr Brinegar is a big honking geek. So the small talk between the various eye tortures was about BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, STAR TREK, BENJAMIN BUTTONS, 3D, BLU-RAY and on and on and on. Hell, I think we even got a little LORD OF THE RINGS and STAR WARS in there.
For me, it really took the nerves off. I mean... here this guy is, measuring my eyes, talking me through pinching stuff off my eyeball and the entire process for doing everything and... well, he totally put me in my element. It's like my regular doctor, whose office is covered with Marvel & DC superheroes memoribilia and posters. Is this normal? Are all doctors cool, or do I just randomly have the super power to weed them out. Cuz it sure feels like fate, when the only two doctors I've gone to see were big honking geeks. So cool.
Anyway, Jerry was cool enough to email me my eyeballs to share with you. I know - you've seen my cut open leg and you've seen my exposed stomach... but here - you'll actually see the delivery device with which all movies enter my brain - and the nerves that carry them. Dr Brinegar says they're in excellent shape and I don't have any of the bad evil scary Diabetic problems with my eyes at all - which was a great relief. But right now - I'm just grooving to perfect peripheral vision. This shits amazing! Can't wait to go see POLAR EXPRESS at the IMAX in 3D or BOLT again!!!


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Reader Talkback
WTF?! by CaptainCosmos | Dec 4th, 2008 03:15:26 PM | neat by unkempt_sock | Dec 4th, 2008 03:16:04 PM | s by unkempt_sock | Dec 4th, 2008 03:16:16 PM | I'm almost blind on my right
eye. by DerLanghaarige | Dec 4th, 2008 03:16:28 PM | Good call, Harry. Fuck Lasik!
by SpyGuy | Dec 4th, 2008 03:16:46 PM | oy by DarthHomercles | Dec 4th, 2008 03:17:19 PM | this story is a non sequitur by frankenfickle | Dec 4th, 2008 03:18:33 PM | Now we have your retinal
patterns. by Nordling | Dec 4th, 2008 03:19:17 PM | great by Broodwich | Dec 4th, 2008 03:19:22 PM | Sweet, now DVD reviews please! by SoylentMean | Dec 4th, 2008 03:19:26 PM | next up... boxers or
briefs!?!? by LargoJr | Dec 4th, 2008 03:19:46 PM | harry's brown eye by smiteboy | Dec 4th, 2008 03:19:48 PM | Could it be stuff like this
that drove Mori away? by Hawaiian Organ Donor | Dec 4th, 2008 03:19:54 PM | Maybe I should really try some
laser surgery one day. by DerLanghaarige | Dec 4th, 2008 03:24:58 PM | I don't see Venom anywhere in
those fucking things! by Mr. Nice Gaius | Dec 4th, 2008 03:27:24 PM | You talked this guy about
Battlestar Galactica... by Johnny Smith | Dec 4th, 2008 03:27:26 PM | Contacts are the HD-DVD of
vision correction. by thebearovingian | Dec 4th, 2008 03:27:28 PM | When I had Lasik done... by ZsAsZz | Dec 4th, 2008 03:27:31 PM | One other argument against
LASIK... by Archive | Dec 4th, 2008 03:28:36 PM | Harry -- Showering & Contacts by I Own You | Dec 4th, 2008 03:29:44 PM | Thank goodness. by HoboCode | Dec 4th, 2008 03:30:09 PM | Who gives a shit? by Harrigan | Dec 4th, 2008 03:31:09 PM | I had a lazy eye for the first
16 years of my life... by odo19 | Dec 4th, 2008 03:31:32 PM | Had LASIK. by Lucasblows | Dec 4th, 2008 03:33:01 PM | Lasik - worst mistake of my
life. by HoboCode | Dec 4th, 2008 03:33:18 PM | Sweet: Now I can defeat the
Retina Scan security by chromedome | Dec 4th, 2008 03:38:28 PM | BOYCOTT AVATAR!! SAY NO TO
MEDIOCRITY! by DANNYGLOVERS_DICKBLOOD | Dec 4th, 2008 03:40:52 PM | -sigh- I should get my
contacts back. by Anna Valerious | Dec 4th, 2008 03:41:35 PM | Don't be such a baby, Harry.
LASIK by Alifemde | Dec 4th, 2008 03:43:51 PM | Okay this was disturbing by Orionsangels | Dec 4th, 2008 03:45:10 PM | dickblood... by kaspianwithak | Dec 4th, 2008 03:46:09 PM | Hobocode... by Alifemde | Dec 4th, 2008 03:46:59 PM | loser by reckni | Dec 4th, 2008 03:47:45 PM | Photos of your eyeballs, Harry
??!!! by Bill Clay | Dec 4th, 2008 03:48:55 PM | So since Harry titled this
article the same way... by Little Beavis | Dec 4th, 2008 03:51:49 PM | Next a photo of my
testicles... by quantize | Dec 4th, 2008 03:53:07 PM | DGDB please tell me your
joking by rhcp2sweet | Dec 4th, 2008 03:55:53 PM | Lasik by MamoVaka | Dec 4th, 2008 03:56:43 PM | Though those were green
coktail onions... by Darth Macchio | Dec 4th, 2008 03:57:09 PM | Super power to find geek
doctors... by The Eskimo | Dec 4th, 2008 03:57:19 PM | The Doc should have talked
about Saturn 3 while by Monkeybrains | Dec 4th, 2008 03:59:06 PM | Lasik will be the way of the
future... by catman | Dec 4th, 2008 04:01:46 PM | Harry by matalo | Dec 4th, 2008 04:02:43 PM | This is absolutely FASCINATING
NEWS!! by The Gospel According to
Bastardface | Dec 4th, 2008 04:02:47 PM | Medical procedure for obesity,
but not by teethgnasher | Dec 4th, 2008 04:03:20 PM | So Contacts will be going out
of business? by Monkey Man Zero | Dec 4th, 2008 04:03:46 PM | Many people can't even see 3D
anyways by Mr. Moe | Dec 4th, 2008 04:07:24 PM | Harold's teeth by Little Beavis | Dec 4th, 2008 04:07:53 PM | What the fuck just happened? by My Mom Is A Whore | Dec 4th, 2008 04:09:21 PM | So no Tuesday DVD releases by yomomma | Dec 4th, 2008 04:10:24 PM | The Gospel According to
Bastardface by unkempt_sock | Dec 4th, 2008 04:11:07 PM | I once sat throught BNAT with
wire holding my glasses
together. by The Reluctant Austinite | Dec 4th, 2008 04:11:35 PM | Re 3D: by GoSensGo | Dec 4th, 2008 04:12:41 PM | Harry has chosen toilet paper
and here's why.. by BobParr | Dec 4th, 2008 04:14:42 PM | The main point by evil twin | Dec 4th, 2008 04:15:36 PM | Harry, those pics are WICKED! by SkidMarkedUndies | Dec 4th, 2008 04:17:28 PM | highland mall by bluepizza | Dec 4th, 2008 04:18:55 PM | Caveat ocular by TheGreatPumpkin | Dec 4th, 2008 04:19:45 PM | Harry hit a soft spot. by The Reluctant Austinite | Dec 4th, 2008 04:21:17 PM | Cool News? by p0llk4t | Dec 4th, 2008 04:26:23 PM | Fascinating by MattmanReturns | Dec 4th, 2008 04:29:28 PM | Funny thing... by p0llk4t | Dec 4th, 2008 04:31:19 PM | No..The Main point of this
story is.. by conspiracy | Dec 4th, 2008 04:34:57 PM | 3D movies are annoying. by Pissed Off And Bitter | Dec 4th, 2008 04:36:26 PM | Harry, can you post the links by the milf lover | Dec 4th, 2008 04:36:51 PM | Reluctant Austinite by HEADGEEK | Dec 4th, 2008 04:38:53 PM | bluepizza by yoko knowles | Dec 4th, 2008 04:41:04 PM | Slow news day? by kravmaguffin | Dec 4th, 2008 04:41:11 PM | I was under the impression
that Halloween wasn't for
seeing by SoylentMean | Dec 4th, 2008 04:42:49 PM | A family affair, here on AICN?
by SoylentMean | Dec 4th, 2008 04:44:06 PM | DANNYGLOVERS_DICKBLOOD by kwisatzhaderach | Dec 4th, 2008 04:44:12 PM | ALL GOOD FUN 'TIL YOU SCRATCH
AN EYEBALL by Greigy Just Wanted To Say | Dec 4th, 2008 04:47:46 PM | Now those eyeballs... by NivekJ | Dec 4th, 2008 04:49:26 PM | Best BNAT poster ever!... by Nordling | Dec 4th, 2008 04:51:02 PM | DIAL M.. and CREATURE... Now
That's real 3D by Greigy Just Wanted To Say | Dec 4th, 2008 04:51:59 PM | Harry's nine visible inches? by p0llk4t | Dec 4th, 2008 04:53:49 PM | And the dvd section!? by enough22 | Dec 4th, 2008 04:54:13 PM | enough22 by p0llk4t | Dec 4th, 2008 04:56:29 PM | IF ONLY YOU COULD SEE WHAT
I'VE SEEN WITH THOSE EYES by Greigy Just Wanted To Say | Dec 4th, 2008 04:58:06 PM | p0llk4t, I was gonna say the
same thing by SoylentMean | Dec 4th, 2008 04:58:09 PM | where can you still see Polar
Express in GOOD 3-d? by awepittance | Dec 4th, 2008 04:58:15 PM | I stopped using contacts this
year... by cifra | Dec 4th, 2008 05:00:33 PM | Polar Express in austin by HEADGEEK | Dec 4th, 2008 05:04:43 PM | Sending to the Private &
Personal/Shameless Promotional
Room!!! by seppukudkurosawa | Dec 4th, 2008 05:07:24 PM | Cifra by drewlicious | Dec 4th, 2008 05:08:26 PM | wow, dude, even your eyeballs
are huge by Magic Rat | Dec 4th, 2008 05:11:34 PM | as my eyes get older and
dryer... by crankyoldguy | Dec 4th, 2008 05:14:57 PM | Glad to see you're breast
cancer free Harry by SomaShine | Dec 4th, 2008 05:15:06 PM | Dude, you should have just got
the LASK. by Lucasblows | Dec 4th, 2008 05:16:33 PM | Wow by Mr. Zeddemore | Dec 4th, 2008 05:17:31 PM | Bob Parr by Seth_Brundle | Dec 4th, 2008 05:20:40 PM | Don't use the red-tip
rewetting drops... by TheGreatPumpkin | Dec 4th, 2008 05:41:15 PM | I heard that Lasik makes your
eyeballs fall out by SoylentMean | Dec 4th, 2008 05:47:13 PM | Listen up mother fuckers by C0ns | Dec 4th, 2008 05:58:45 PM | congratulations on contact
lenses making their way to
Austin! by m00kiedood | Dec 4th, 2008 05:59:51 PM | Avatar is Cameron's attempt at
an Edgar Rice Burroughs by DRACULA_WANTS_THE_AMULET | Dec 4th, 2008 06:15:29 PM | Lasik is painfull to watch... by Ironmuskrat | Dec 4th, 2008 06:17:12 PM | Hey Harry by HOTDOGVNDR | Dec 4th, 2008 06:18:36 PM | Laser eye surgery by gumbercules | Dec 4th, 2008 06:20:55 PM | Alifemde by HoboCode | Dec 4th, 2008 06:30:25 PM | OMG, it's full of stars! by Xandar1977 | Dec 4th, 2008 06:31:23 PM | contacts and IOL by Himbo | Dec 4th, 2008 06:50:55 PM | If you get lasik, you can
forget about space travel by DonnyUnitas | Dec 4th, 2008 07:21:14 PM | holy fucking shit by The Amazing G | Dec 4th, 2008 07:21:27 PM | Lasik worked for me just
dandy. by Flip63Hole | Dec 4th, 2008 07:24:27 PM | the master of nonsense by Lobanhaki | Dec 4th, 2008 07:30:39 PM | Seth Brundle by BobParr | Dec 4th, 2008 07:44:42 PM | I didn't read the "article"
because by Exasperilious | Dec 4th, 2008 08:03:02 PM | Windows to the soul by kafka07 | Dec 4th, 2008 08:05:23 PM | WHERE'S HARRY'S "BOLT" REVIEW? by BartholomewNeff | Dec 4th, 2008 08:09:14 PM | You have beautiful eyes,
Harry! by Carl XVI Gustaf | Dec 4th, 2008 08:20:19 PM | thank god for this article by TheDudeintheShadows | Dec 4th, 2008 09:18:40 PM | Lasik... by waylayer | Dec 4th, 2008 10:12:45 PM | Every "year," not "yes." by waylayer | Dec 4th, 2008 10:13:27 PM | Thankyou Harry by hallmitchell | Dec 4th, 2008 10:32:34 PM | TWILIGHT MAKES MY EYES SPARKLE
: by PTSDPete | Dec 4th, 2008 11:33:35 PM | Funniest TB in ages. by Gilkuliehe | Dec 4th, 2008 11:37:52 PM | Harry, an honest question (or
two)... by half vader | Dec 5th, 2008 12:08:42 AM | half vader by HEADGEEK | Dec 5th, 2008 03:31:20 AM | People have gastric surgery... by emeraldboy | Dec 5th, 2008 05:14:35 AM | Glad it worked for you Harry by The McPoyle Clan | Dec 5th, 2008 05:19:22 AM | TOO SOON!!! by Cletus Van Damme | Dec 5th, 2008 07:33:41 AM | Paul Benedict just died by Grammaton Cleric Binks | Dec 5th, 2008 07:44:53 AM | Hey thanks for that Harry. by half vader | Dec 5th, 2008 08:03:37 AM | Paul McCartney teaches eye
yoga on Youtube by MELGIBSONS_DICKCHEESE | Dec 5th, 2008 08:47:39 AM | Next up: Harry Knowles
Colonoscopy by Abominable Snowcone | Dec 5th, 2008 10:08:38 AM | The reason Harry shouldn't get
LASIK by Mr Incredible | Dec 5th, 2008 11:32:58 AM | Seems like a commercial for
his eye doctor. by Bob Cryptonight | Dec 5th, 2008 11:47:19 AM | Please post a photo of Yoko
servicing your 9 inches. by Bob Cryptonight | Dec 5th, 2008 11:48:39 AM | Bob Cryptonight by Gh0ulardi | Dec 5th, 2008 12:37:35 PM | by Gh0ulardi | Dec 5th, 2008 12:40:32 PM | http://tinyurl.com/499bt2 by Gh0ulardi | Dec 5th, 2008 12:42:30 PM | Patricia--er, Yoko--that's an
image I now have to live with. by The Reluctant Austinite | Dec 5th, 2008 01:54:31 PM | Sailor's Wank by mrbong | Dec 5th, 2008 02:32:07 PM | wanking over AVATAR by mrbong | Dec 5th, 2008 02:35:11 PM | I don't want to Avatar to fuck
me in the eyes by My Mom Is A Whore | Dec 5th, 2008 03:01:04 PM | No pictures of Harry's 9
inches please by My Mom Is A Whore | Dec 5th, 2008 03:02:17 PM | Why does everyone
automatically believe Harry's
got by half vader | Dec 6th, 2008 03:40:02 AM | At least Harry can laugh at
the whole "here's why" thing by half vader | Dec 6th, 2008 03:42:05 AM |
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