Letters to the Editor
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Restless legs and cheesy songs
Tomhere, music has the power to create permanent mental connections, but for me, so does a truly magnificent pun. I will never be able to watch that restless legs commercial again without thinking that somewhere out there is a band they should be dancing to!
Back to the connections, again -- last weekend some spontaneous karaoke broke out at a party; the host had a karaoke function on his cable programming so we were selecting songs from a relatively small menu. Here's a question for the neuroscientists: Why were the cheesiest, most annoying songs that were hated so much when endured on radio, so much blasted FUN when we were singing them together?

