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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!
March 31st, 2007 at 4:54 pm
OMG!! Best of luck to your sister!!!
And you take care of yourself, Katie, and feel better soon!
April 1st, 2007 at 2:43 am
That’s cool. Good luck to your sister! I love her lippie :) Hope you get better soon! Hrm. I forgot it was April Fool’s Day.
April 3rd, 2007 at 8:50 am
Your sister is gorgeous! They *should* pick her! Take good care of yourself!!!
April 4th, 2007 at 12:37 pm
Marina, thanks. She thinks she did fairly well, but we’ll have to wait and see now what happens!
kuri, that’s pretty much her regular color: she’s only got on the lightest coating of a Bourjois lipgloss that matches her natural lip color. She annoyingly got the blue eye genes and the good lip genes.
Patty, thanks. Keep your fingers crossed for her :)
April 5th, 2007 at 3:38 pm
I forgot to post the other day - on the 2nd - that whatever trickery Grant was up to on the 1st was already down. Can you give a recap?
I love ANTM! Just cracks me up. I am soooo PO’d that I missed most of last night because the painters stayed late, and I read on TVw/o pity that the sleaziest! ones of all, P.Hilton and the Richie one that drives the wrong way were judging. I hope your dear little sis ain’t exposed to that kind of weirdness on the show. Oh. Wait. The show is all about weird! Quick, wrap her in bubble wrap and spirit her away from the Tyraness of it all.
April 7th, 2007 at 11:26 am
ANTM is such a guilty pleasure show. My sis does a killer impression of Jael’s low-effect yet oddly adenoidal voice - it’s so, so dead on and funny. I miss Janice, though… somehow her batshit crazy balanced out Tyra’s crazy. I don’t know how that works. Twiggy’s okay, but she’s no Janice.
The recap on Grant’s spoof was perfectly silly. I made a little screen grab of it, in just such a case:
http://flickr.com/photos/43278412@N00/449745224/