Scentzilla!

So, uh… yeah… I was flattened by my woeful back injury worse than I thought. D’oh! Moving on, so as to avoid another annoying “poor me” post…

David Pybus, whom I interviewed a wee while back, has some excellent news: He’s recreating many of his archaeological perfume discoveries for the public!

Dorothy Parker once said, “The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.” Who wouldn’t be endlessly curious to smell ancient fragrances? Lacking a functional flux capacitor, at least we’re able to time travel via nose.

You can watch portions of the pitch he made to investors on a BBC2 TV program called Dragon’s Den, directly through the official website for Dragon’s Den, episode five. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/dragonsden/episodes/dragons4_ep5.shtml).

Better yet, check out the new site for his project at Scents of Time (http://www.scentsoftime.co.uk/). Mr. Pybus suggests checking back once a month or so to read updates on how it’s all going. He mentions that release of the first three perfumes is scheduled to coincide with the holiday shopping season later this year!

In some personal news, my sister-in-law-to-be has started blogging at Lipstick and Legalese (http://lipstickandlegalese.blogspot.com/). She’s awfully funny and sweet, and I’m so glad that she’ll finally become an official part of our family this summer. Please drop in and say “howdy.”

Also, my little sister (she’s the usual human guinea pig I mention in reviews) is trying out at the America’s Next Top Model auditions for Portland today, and I want to wish her the bestest luck EVER! GO SIS!! Knock ‘em dead! Be fierce (heh!)

April Fool’s Day: Grant over at Basenotes slays me. Check out the front page: http://basenotes.net. Good gawd, that’s just twisted. Hee!

I threw my back out. Unfortunately, I threw it a loooong ways, as you can see from the completely scientific diagram below. As you can also see, the area of pain was all of my lower back, and being unable to bend at all led my children to amusingly claim “Mommy broke her butt!”

New posts will coming shortly, but I am going to try to spend part of today catching up on a couple weeks worth of stockpiled emails and reading the posts on my favorite blogs.