The Blog discovers the cure for America's Most Pressing Crisis

America, at least those who understand that the world is HSM I, II and III, and we are merely players in it, have been fraught with concern over Zac Effron's excess ear wax. The Blog has more concern for Vanessa Hudgens as excess ear wax is certainly problematic for any ear canoodling she may want to do. Thankfully, the Blog has learned of a cure for excess ear wax -- Ear Candling. Ear candling, also called ear coning or thermal-auricular therapy, is an alternative medicine practice claimed to improve general health and well-being by lighting one end of a hollow candle and placing the other end in the ear canal. One end of a cylinder or cone of waxed cloth is lit, and the other placed into the subject's ear. Usually the subject is lying on one side with the treated ear uppermost and the candle vertical, and can be stuck through a paper plate or aluminum pie tin to protect against any hot wax or ash falling down the side. However, some have the subject sit up, keep the candle nearly horizontal, and watch for dripping wax. Some candles have an internal filter to catch debris. The flame is cut back occasionally with scissors and extinguished between two and four inches from the subject. Its proponents claim that the flame creates negative pressure, drawing wax and debris out of the ear canal, which appears as a dark residue.