Twelve Inches of Pure Terror
September 2009
Xntrek...
at first I was a little overwhelmed by the thought of you wearing cologne…that is until I looked up a review of it.
via: About.com Guide to Men’s Fashion / Grooming:
“This has to be my favorite fragrance of all time. A fragrance aficionado described Rochas Man as “a well balanced gourmand, never cloying, mixes perfectly the vanilla, chocolate and coffee notes in a cozy and warm scent. It’s versatile and sexy…” If you want women to attack you, then this is it. I can’t wear this fragrance without getting compliments.” (Daniel Billett)
All I can say now is oh my god I want to smell that…(you)…! yes?
For the record:
- I have never had women attack me (well, because of this cologne)
- Was that offered as a money back guarantee?
- I have no issues with flirting
- Every person, married or not, finds it nice to know that there is someone, somewhere that wishes they were available.
- Flirting is good for the health - scientists have said so.
- Maybe we need to set up a Flirty Flirt Friday?
why i am not afraid to take your money, by amanda fucking palmer →
blog.amandapalmer.net
From the article, that I recommend reading all of:
artists need to make money to eat and to continue to make art.
artists used to rely on middlemen to collect their money on their behalf, thereby rendering themselves innocent of cash-handling in the public eye.
artists will now be coming straight to you (yes YOU, you who want their music, their films, their books) for their paychecks.
please welcome them. please help them. please do not make them feel badly about asking you directly for money.
dead serious: this is the way shit is going to work from now on and it will work best if we all embrace it and don’t fight it.
unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve surely noticed that artists ALL over the place are reaching out directly to their fans for money.
how you do it is a different matter.
maybe i should be more tasteful.
maybe i should not stop my concerts and auction off art.
i do not claim to have figured out the perfect system, not by a long shot.
BUT … i’d rather get the system right gradually and learn from the mistakes and break new ground (with the help of an incredibly responsive and positive fanbase) for other artists who i assume are going to cautiously follow in our footsteps. we are creating the protocol, people, right here and now.
i don’t care if we fuck up. i care THAT we’re doing it.
in fact, i ENJOY being the slightly crass, outspoken, crazy-(naked?)-chick-on-a-soapbox holding out a ukulele case of crumpled dollars asking for your money so that someone else a few steps behind me, perhaps some artist of shy and understated temperament, can feel better and maybe a little less nervous when they quietly step up and hold out their hat, fully clothed.
i am shameless, and fearless, when it comes to money and art.
I just got out of the shower
Now I am not a fan of perfume or cologne or other rather smelly things on either sex. I like the way a person smells on their own (a clean person that is), fresh sweat also has it’s place. I mean we attract each other that way, right?
However that new Caress evenly gorgeous exfoliating body wash is so yummy smelling. My skin has a faint smell of brown sugar.
I guess when it comes to scents I prefer the ones that smell more like sweet food and less like flowers.
I agree — the biggest problem people have in choosing scents is not doing so correctly. They go into a store, smell a few hundred at once, then choose one based on a sprayed piece of cardboard.
You need to know what your own base smell is and then you need to choose a scent based on enhancement or complementing of that base. If you have a base muskness, then choosing fruity smells are going to conflict while earthy smells will balance out nicely.
Also, never bruise a good scent - spray it and let it air dry — leave it on for ten minutes and then smell it — either it works or it doesn’t … and just because it worked on xx doesn’t mean it’ll work on you.
For me, I use a combination of complimentary scents starting with Milk & Honey Liquid Shower Soap, layered with Rexona Original for Men as my deodorant, and then topped off with ROCHAS MAN (or if they are out of stock the similar but not as sweet MAN.AUBUSSON).
I must be getting old
in my day, no pants = party.
apparently you need pants to party now days.
I have pants and no party.
Something.is.wrong.
I think maybe if everyone takes off their pants there will be a party? I prefer to stalk people sans pants but avec chocolate.
So, what you’re saying is …
It’s Pantsless liquid chocolate coated party time!
I must be getting old
in my day, no pants = party.
apparently you need pants to party now days.
I have pants and no party.
Something.is.wrong.
I'm a fan of random tossing
by speaking purple fruit fish or other imaginary creatures
Regarding Colin Firth, imaginary boyfriends, that guy from The Office whose name I can't even remember, the sparkly vampire and the entire cast of Gossip Girl.
Whatever happened to lusting after real-life, flesh and blood people?
[…]
It’s also possible that I should be allowed to lust after the few celebrities I do deign to lust after. Furthermore, there’s not a hint of glitter or polish, for that matter, on Colin Firth.
I lust after them all. Real and imaginary. Preferably dirty. Sometimes clean. Though, oddly enough, never sparkly.
Because, dear, we can’t post pictures of real people on our blogs. That’s called stalking.
Are you people real or imaginary?
Is it stalking if I lust after you all?
If it is, can you all bath in salt water, let it air dry so you can be all sparkly, then take photos in the sun with douchebag like emo faces and I can pretend you’re all …
ah screw it …
I’ll just go with the stalking …
Holy smokes!
I just input mathcat345 into the google image search box and came up with photos and Tumblr entries from me and from people who have reblogged, or for no reason I could ascertain!
There are photos of @ange_black, @yhf, @LucyKateHopkins, @penbleth, @gesteves, @jaydensmommie, @frageelay, @melissasantos and I stopped looking because I’m hyperventilating!
While I’m not thrilled to have my face on google images, I’m more concerned that our words are showing up. The pages show not only the image but whatever you wrote to accompany that on Tumblr.
You might want to do a google search under images for your Tumblr name to see what comes up.
Now what do we do?
you can go into customise, edit the html of the template you use and add this line in the head section:
<meta name="robots" content="noindex">if this is an issue for you.
Fellas...
I need your ears for a moment.
Please bring back the handsome suits of the 50’s (with fedora) look. You will be doing the country, nah the world, a great service.
Also, Fedora + Sexy Suit = Panty Dropper
It’s simple math really.
(I might be totally in lust with Don Draper. I can neither confirm nor deny this.)
Just for the record, I have always worn this (still wear the fedora) but y’all went and called me a damn hipster.
Damn fickle … panty droppers
Immigrant asks to be deported, citing poverty →
chron.com
… an illegal immigrant from Guatemala entered a police station, told officers he had stolen another man’s identity and asked to be deported because he could no longer make ends meet in America.
Microsoft's grinning robots or the Brotherhood of the Mac. Which is worse? →
feedproxy.google.com
Charlie Brooker with a fine piece on Mac vs. Windows, including what I consider to be the finest description of the Windows 7 launch party videos:
[They’re] so terrible, it induces an entirely…
Best thing I have ever read :
It’s so terrible, it induces an entirely new emotion: a blend of vertigo, disgust, anger and embarrassment which I like to call “shitasmia”. It not only creates this emotion: it defines it. It’s the most shitasmic cultural artefact in history.
