Today's illustrious band:

Mental Floss

Brought to you by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, author of Frankenstein, who said, "Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose — a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye."

Mental floss is anything that cleans out the crevices of your brain and lets thought flow freely again. Like dental floss, it's a health tool. It could be goal-setting, as it was for Shelley, or cooking or athletics or writing or singing or praying or gardening or fly fishing or mountain climbing or whatever. But you've got to have something. The important thing is to know which brand(s) of floss you like, stock up and use it regularly. Fall means back-to-school time, hunker-down time, pre-holiday-frenzy time, deadline time — not to mention time to remember the events of last September. Plenty of food for thought there that can get stuck in one's mental craw. So I'm preaching this subversive gospel: don't forget to floss.

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The results of my highly scientific survey are in!
I've tallied the votes on your favorite band names, and the audience is unanimous: everyone has his or her own preferences. No band got more than three votes, but 28 received at least one mention. Leading the league were Lutefisk Pudding and Homemade Teeth with 3 votes apiece, followed closely by The Brunching Shuttlecocks, Green Tomato Pie and Wowie Warm at two apiece. Other than a leaning toward food-based band names, I can detect no trends in the lists I received.

Thanks to the half-dozen people who responded; have the rest of you lost the ability to hit "reply" or something?