Observation
 

Sunscreen
 

Okay, I need a really good nonsticky, nongreasy, odorless sunscreen for every day use.

Any recommendations? Anyone try the new Neutrogena?

Even(just got sunburned walking across the parking lot)Odds

Sunscreen
 

Do not try the Neutrogena oil-free 45 sunblock. It is as slimey as goose shit.

The Neutrogena visibly firm face lotion SPF 20 is quite nice, though, and 20 is all you really need for everyday stuff short of sunbathing or heading to an outdoor game. The copper content, though, does make it smell a bit like fresh blood.

Observation
 

I did that once on accident. The window washer / painter / repair guy (I can't remember what they were doing) in question was working early in the morning on my third floor window in a dorm. My bed was right next to the window, and I just opened the curtain to see what was going on. I totally forgot that I wasn't wearing anything. The guy nearly fell off his scafolding.

25th Hour
 

I didn't miss the point that it was Tony Siragusa who fucked him over. There just wasn't any interesting explanation or twist as to WHY. I stand by my opinion.

(As opposed to all the brilliant movies from the last few years for which my employer is responsible. Heh.)

str8

Sunscreen
 

Are you talking face or body? For face (if you only want 15spf) try the Body shop lotion with Vitamin C - in the orange tube - smells nice and citrusy (bonus).

Sunscreen
 

Body.

I have stuff for face, but my pale Irish arms are now pink in about 50 yards, so I need something I can wear to work without it being goopy.

Sunscreen
 

There is a great zinc oxide lotion that comes in a silver tube -- I think it's by Skinceuticals (sp?). It's SPF 20, non-greasy, doesn't smell at all, can be worn under make-up, and I wear it every day in the summer. It's kind of pricey -- around $36 for a tube -- but one tube will last all summer if you just use it on your face and neck. I got mine at Blue Mercury, I'm not sure if you have those in your neck of the woods, but I'm sure some place down there must carry it.

btw, I tried the citrus-y smelling stuff that someone else suggested, and my mother asked me why my face was orange (I'm very pale).

Sunscreen
 

Couldn't you use the bodyshop face stuff on your body? Generally it doesn't seem like their products are terrifically expensive.

But you might become orange like barely.

25th Hour
 

There was no great twist (though the reason was clearer in the book) -- he was looking at a "three strikes" kind of thing, so he flipped. And the fact that Monty screamed "why?" at him in Uncle Nikolai's office, and all the Goose could say was "I had no choice" made it that much more realistic.

Drug dealers tagged by the feds flip like a pancake nine times out of ten not because they have some secret grudge against the flipee, but becuase the sentancing guidelines are so strict that whether you die in prison at age 87 with most of your time un-served is almost entirely up to the prosecutorial charging decision. Be nice, and we'll charge you with possession of less than a kilo. No? Gosh, maybe it's trafficking 100+ kilos in a school zone.

Sunscreen
 

Just keep a handkerchief-linen blouse in your office/car to use as a cover up to get you to/from the car without burning for everyday use--I have yet to find a body sunblock that is not oppressive gunk so I hate everything I've tried.

I heard there are spray-ons out there--anyone try them? Do they work?

Sunscreen
 

Just got a spray on to use this weekend. I'll report back Monday. I too am very fair so I have to be careful what I use. This one is a sport one, I got it to use when I am...out on the boat thing that we talk about too much.

Hard time good and hard time fine, but first take care of head.
 

Here's the latest on medical marijuana in California. PLF might want close his ears for this.

Ed Rosenthal was convicted in February of growing more than 100 cannabis plants in an Oakland warehouse. Rosenthal's defense was the 1996 state ballot initiative permitting marijuana possession for medical purposes. He said he had been specially deputized by the city of Oakland to grow marijuana as its official supplier for medical use.

But federal judge Charles Breyer (that's Stephen's brother, for those of you with U.S.D.C. trading cards) granted the USA's motion in limine to exclude all testimony regarding Rosenthal's purported authorization to grow under state law, or reference to medical use of the plants he was cultivating.

The jury accordingly found Rosenthal guilty of three counts of cultivation. Several jurors later said they would have acquitted him if they had known he was growing the plants for patients in Oakland, a fact they never heard in evidence. Breyer denied Rosenthal's motion for new trial.

Rosenthal's sentencing was today. The federal probation department recommended a 21-month prison term. Prosecutors asked for 6 1/2 years, saying that Rosenthal was not entitled to a downward departure because of his refusal to accept responsibility and show remorse ("Your Honor, I am deeply, deeply sorry about the Supremacy Clause."). The maximum sentence is 60 years.

Breyer sentenced Rosenthal to one day in prison on each of three counts, to be served concurrently. He then set him free after crediting him for time served.

Rosenthal gave a press-conference through a cloud of smoke in which he told his supporters that he would appeal his conviction.

(I would have waited for my 420th post for style points, but that might be too late. Like tomorrow.)

Sunscreen
 

The Body shop stuff with Vitamin C is white in color and has never discolored my skin in any way. And yes, it's not super expensive so you could easily use it for your arms/legs and not feel guilty. My dermatologist has recommended many other better/more comprehensive sunblocks but ALL of them have been on the greasy side and so a $60 tube of total block sits in the drawer while the Body shop stuff gets used every morning.

Sunscreen
 

Damn all this awareness of the sun's harm, and the aging process generally. Time was one could take a beach vacation and not cover oneself in the tactile equivalent of Elmer's fucking Glue. In a given vacation week in the tropics, we probably lose a day to applying/reapplying/scrubbing off whatever waterproof sunblock I can get my skin to accept.

At least for daily use you can get away with a light non-goopish SPF 15, particularly this spring.

Accentuate the Negative
 

I know people who say it, but not in a Joey from Friends sort of way, more in a That's How You Say The Word sort of way...

Supposebly
 

I remember being struck when I read "V." in college that Pynchon spelled "probably" as "prolly" in dialog. I slowly realized: It's a word we all prolly use three times a day, but prolly 90% of the people I know either pronounce it "prolly" or "prawbly" IRL. Such people are neither stupid nor ill-spoken. That middle syllable is unnecessary to the listener to understand its meaning, so it's linguistically doomed.

Supposebly
 

Can we do the same thing with Worchestershire sauce? Call it wooster sauce?

On another note, a woman I used to work with used to say "well just for chagrins...let do (insert activity here). I told her on many occasions that what she said was not what she meant - what she meant was for shits and grins blah blah blah - but she didn't want to say that in front of customers so she continued to use chagrins in that way. She was also the person who went out for expresso (argghhhhhhh!).

Sunscreen
 

I already have the straw hat and I almost always wear long sleeves to protect my arms, but we are talking hands, calves, etc.

Today, I walked across the parking lot with bare arms and could not believe how pink I became immediately.

I have worn the philosophy spray on -- it's not gunky, but it does not provide full spectrum protection.

Since I grew up on the beach (and racing sailboats), I abused my skin horribly until I hit 23 or 24. Now, I have undone most of the sun's damage and I strive to keep it that way.

Sosa Update
 

MLB tested all 76 of his bats and they all came back negative.

Sosa Update
 

Well, duh. You only cork one of them at a time. And you make it your "practice" bat, because you definitely want to warm up with a bat that's lighter than the one you'll use during games. Everybody does it, right?

25th Hour (plus bonus accent material)
 

Ted Connover wrote Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing and remarked that he never saw anyone raped or knew of anyone raped in the prison. While I am certain that rapes do occur in prison, there now seems to be a perception (fueled by gangsta rap, Oz, and women's prison movies like Caged Heat) that everyone who goes to prison is sexually assaulted. I don't think that is correct, though I'm certain that I don't want the opportunity to have first-hand knowledge.

Having spent the past 25+ years in California, I hear most accents on television and in movies (instead of in person). I was surprised to hear a Linda Richman-like accent from a woman shopper when I worked at a department store one summer. I remember an interviewer at OCI had a strong accent that I couldn't place until about halfway through the interview, when I realized he sounded just like an uncle. I was distracted until I placed the accent.

On the soda/pop issue, it's soda if you're in California (maybe the far-Northern counties say "pop," the whole board knows I haven't been camping since the 80's, so I wouldn't know for sure.)

I liked all women with southern accents until I heard a woman with a deep, backwoods version. I still love the more cultured version. If all women in Charleston have that accent, then please send Bar Exam and law firm salary info to jack_manfred@hotmail.com.

I also like most British/Scottish/Welsh/Irish accents for women. Cockney was even okay when Samantha Fox was speaking (yes, I know, but I was 14 when she was played on the radio, cut me some slack). In college there was a woman in my dorms who still had a British accent from her childhood. Fantastic. Years later I found she was the roommate of a friend of mine and learned that guys called the house just to hear her accent. She could have paid for college with a phone sex service, but she found the whole idea perverted.

If I could have any accent, I'd pick a Scottish one- nice rounded vowels and a lilt. Name me a woman Ewan MacGregor couldn't have if he wanted. (Granted he's good looking, but I suspect a blindfolded woman would be happy as well.)

I knew 2 people from San Diego who swore to me it was pop in SD. In Seattle it's pop. In SF it's freakin soda. And in LA I heard it both ways enough times that I didn't feel like a freak ordering a pop.

On the East Coast, I have isolated the soda/pop line in NYS as falling somewhere around Syracuse. In Albany, its soda. In Rochester, its pop.

Pop is prevalent in the midwest. Soda in much of the Northeast (except for parts of New England that use tonic or others completely non-sensical terms).

n(this discussion must just thrill TM)cs

Soda v. Pop
 

It's been posted before, but it's a goody - http://www.popvssoda.com/ (soda v. pop study with four color map and great list of things people call soda other than soda, pop, or coke)

25th Hour (plus bonus accent material)
 

I didn't realize we were including foreign accents. If so, for me it's the particular accent that Indian, South Asian, Indonesian and Sri Lankan women have when educated in British schools. My heart melts when I hear Lakshmi Singh on NPR.

Soda/Pop and accents
 

I've managed to successfully avoid the situation by referring to carbonated non-alcoholic bevarages by brand name, or failing that, by generic flavor-type.

"Excuse me, do you have a Diet Sprite? Well then do you have any diet carbonated lemon-lime beverage?" Or "I'm going to the store to pick up some Diet Coke or other brand of diet cola."

If I could have any accent I wanted, it'd no doubt be Aussie. Those guys get laid like carpet. It almost always makes one more appealing. Exception: Rachel Griffiths, who is unappealing with or without her aussie accent.

str(not really surprised that the 6FU finale received little or no comment here)8.

what we talk about
 

I'm not there yet, but this is funny.

"There's a great moment in Barry Levinson's classic film Diner in which the young husband Shrevie, played by Daniel Stern, is asked by one of his buddies if he's happy being married. "I don't know," he sighs, before proceeding to air a big but. "When you're dating, everything is talking about sex. Where can we do it? Why can't we do it? Are your parents going to be home so we can do it? ... Then when you get married, you can get it whenever you want. You get up in the morning, and she's there. And you come home from work, and she's there. And so all that sex planning talk is over with ... I cannot hold a five-minute conversation with my wife."

And thus is revealed the great secret problem of adulthood--finding things to talk about once there's no more talk about sex. Of course, you can find other people with whom to talk about having sex, but that's an awful lot of work--more, if you get caught. You can talk about work, which for most people is a subject gleefully and immediately abandoned at quitting time. You can talk about one of the pastimes you have developed to replace talking about sex--barbecuing, for example, or watching "Six Feet Under"--but these are invariably less interesting than talking about sex, and you and everyone else knows it. But the human being is a determined animal, and more and more people, especially men, are finding an acceptable substitute: Golf."


http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/fea...ki.html#byline

edited to add:
"I'm not there yet" = I don't do the golf thing

Make Your Reservations Now...
 

The social event of the summer...

Lebowski Fest is an annual celebration of all things Lebowski.

The 2nd Annual Lebowski Fest is July 19th , 2003 and will include:

• Unlimited Bowling and Free Shoe Rental
• Celebrity appearance by Jeff "The Dude" Dowd
• Big Lebowski Costume Contest
• White Russians, Sarsaparillas, and Oat Sodas
• Trivia, Farthest Traveled, and Bowling Contests
• What-Have-You

2nd Annual Lebowski Fest
Saturday, July 19th, 2003
AMF Rose Bowl | Louisville, KY
8 PM to 1 AM - $12

Men are vain
 

Plastic surgery catching on with men.
NEW YORK, June 4 — What looks good on the goose looks good on the gander too, a new survey shows. Men are turning to plastic surgery and cosmetic procedures to brighten up their appearances at a faster rate than women, according to a survey released Wednesday.
MEN’S USE of fat injections to soften deep wrinkles leaped 497 percent last year from the previous year. Women’s use of the injections fell 36 percent, according to the American Academy of Facial and Plastic Reconstructive Surgeons survey.
Men’s use of Botox injections to eliminate frown lines rose 88 percent, while women’s Botox use fell 8 percent, it said.full story here you vain men

what we talk about
 

A good alternative is to talk to your wife about her friend's sex lives and live vicariously through that. It helps if your wife has some decent looking friends and if those same friends frequently turn to her as a confidante or a therapist type figure, if you will.

accents
 

I'm not sure I buy the whole "Seattle accent" thing--I've never been able to discern one, but maybe that's because it's the same as the "Willamette Valley accent" I grew up with. For sure it's not Vancouver inflected--we had a client in Vancouver, and every person I ever talked to on the phone there talked FUNNY, and when I was on hold the people on the radio talked FUNNY too.

I think the most annoying accent is rural Utah--not just fark when you mean fork, fail when you mean fell and vice versa; there's also a weird Scandinavian-inflected lilt, and glottal stops, kind of like Minnesoootan without the flattened vowels. The name's not Hansen, it's Hantsen. Bleah. I'm just thankful growing up in Oregon saved me from any genetic predisposition to talk this way.

tm

The Woman Chaser
 

According to The Internet Movie Database, The Woman Chaser isn't available on DVD or VHS, unfortunately. I saw it pop up (in a color version) on cable. If you have Tivo, I think you can program it to record a movie that you're trying to find.

Sunscreen
 

Here is the problem with neutrognea products- they all have a scikly sweet smell. Remember when they were odor free? The cosmeticky stuff (i had gotten some eye cream and had to wash it off bc I was getting nauseous) is just cheap perfumed to death. However, if they keep that shit out of te sunscreen let me know.

Of course, epicuren has two sunscreens- a sports and an invisible zinc. i am guessing you dont need the aesthetician to order it online. I havent tried it yet but I am hoping it is the one sunscreen that wont run into my eyes and sting em ( and I have tried Kiehls, Mario Badescu, MD Forte and Skinceuticals- all do it).

Why does the Skinceturicals invisible zinc sunscreen burn my skin? Its supposed to be the best.

Sunscreen
 

THAT visibly firm line is the shit that smells sickly sweet. In an inspired moment of fiscal responsibility, I decided to buy drug store stuff (cetaphil, neutragena) and was sorely disappointed. DS,. sometimes I think you live on some bizarro planet. DC people have accents? Visibly firm smells like blood? There was something else you said recently that left me going WTF? but I cant remembe it. Sort of makes me question whether you are the true authority on everyting I have always thought you were for years. Maybe you are Cliff Clavin?

Sunscreen
 

This of course is the stuff I mentioned that burns my skin. I can actually smell a chemical reaction going on. I think my skin must be more sensitive than barely's so take that for what its worth. To note, my skin is so sensitive that I cant have my eyebrows waxed as the top layer of skin ends up coming off and I have huge burn marks around that area.

25th Hour (plus bonus accent material)
 

That lilt is lovely. My alltime favorite voice beliongs to Christiane Amapour. Deep, husky, foreign, sexy. I could listen to her talk all day.

Sunscreen
 

I have a similar problem. I can't wax, I can't use any kind of cream in place of shaving. It makes a mess of my skin, and sometimes it leaves me with a burn.

So if you have any kind of sensitive skin you are better off making sure whatever it is you use is made for your face, which tends to be more sensitive than your arms or your legs. Or you could end up with a chemical burn which is what happened to me one time when I randomly used some sun screen a friend gave me.

25th Hour (plus bonus accent material)
 

I'm betting she has a fierce disco mitt!

Sunscreen
 

Okay, I am so sorry for both of you. My skin is sensitive, but I've never gotten a chemical burn from shaving cream. I also cannot wax, though, which sucks when you are going to the beach or a week or two.

I've used the great Peter Thomas Roth sunscreen for face, unscented, nonsticky, great protection. He seems to make his stuff for sensitive skin.

Really, it's hard to find something decent for body that you can wear with real clothing. Maybe I'll just begin wearing gloves, a la Julianne Moore in Far From Heaven. (An exquisite movie, really a movie movie. I absolutely loved it.)