The Book Is STILL Free
That’s right. Free. No charge. No gimmick. Just ask (see below).
Today’s theme:
Hair
Colorful Living Tip of the Day (I) …
360: Aspire to one day be as happy as all the girls in the hair commercials. They make having really great hair seem utterly euphoric.
Random related …
• A mohawk is a colorful hairdo. A Moe Hawk is an irrationally angry bird that inflicts slapstick violence on a Curly Hawk or Larry Hawk.
• Try and do at least one thing each week that will blow your hair back and allow you to scream, “Wheeeeeeee!!!"
• Amazing new shampoo promises to re-grow hair on bald heads. Question: What happens when you pour some on your palms?
• Any time police are said to be combing crime scene for evidence, reporters should be required to describe the situation as “hairy.”
• I find it a medical irony anytime doctors diagnose bald men with hairline fractures.
Random Bard party reference …
• William Shakespeare is a famous writer. William Shakesbeer is a guy you don't want to be next to at the party.
Zeitgust Word of the Week (a word I made up with the goal of getting it into a dictionary) …
Bornograher: An amateur cinematographer, usually a male who was involved in the act of conception, who in a hospital delivery room spends his time recording all the intimate details of a child’s birth; resulting film is bornography
Spotlight video …
In ’14, I asked 70 people who’d attended my talk to say in 20 words or less what they thought. Includes cameos by my late mother, the late Boris Yeltsin, the late Arnold Palmer and the still living, but often late Bill Clinton. Check it out right here …
Today’s Feature Post
“Hair farms & the cure for baldness (from ’13)
Crafty headline writers over the past few days have rejoiced over the timely opportunity to describe a new baldness cure as “hair raising.” The news is that they were able to grow human hair on lab mice.
And let’s take a moment to exalt that we live in a world so free of want, poverty and deprivation that we can devote precious research dollars to tinker with mice cells just to satisfy the vanity of men like Larry David.
None of the stories I saw said anything if they’d used previously bald mice as guinea pigs -- and I can only begin to guess how that designation rates on the rodent status ladder.
I know I’ve never seen a bald mouse or even one with a cheap toupee.
Or have I?
Read extended version here …
Related posts …
Increase facial hair to ward off winter
A profane discourse on barbers & bartending
The odd Amish barber crime wave
Oddly enough …
Maine company soaking up profits from urine harvests
You can wind up piss poor in any field, but only in the lucrative niche field of urine harvesting can someone wind up piss rich. A Bangor, Maine, firm named Predator Pee is the leading harvester and distributor of wild animal urines used for hunting, training and animal control purposes. Predator Pee began marketing wild animal urines in 1986 and unabashedly boasts on www.predatorpee.com, “No one knows urine like we do, we've been in the pee business a long time!” The site encourages readers to immerse themselves in the urine industry and wade into a field that boasts straight-faced about what a wonderful puddle of “Butterfly Pee” can do for you.
The Page 1 “Crayons!” Pledge (still applies)
The Book Is STILL Free
That’s right. Free. Anyone who wants a copy mailed to his or her home, no charge, is welcome to one. Just ask.
Author Chris Rodell, of course, encourages you to buy it and hopes you’ll support him and the people who distribute, promote and sell books. But if you’re one of those Americans who are out of work and having a tough time, or if you know a US serviceman or woman who might benefit from a book that aims to brighten daily lives, then Rodell wants you to get in touch at storyteller@chrisrodell.com.
He doesn’t believe a book that, at its heart, aims to help people be happy should be withheld from anyone over a few dollars. “It’s said the best things in life—love, friendship, laughter—are free,” Rodell says. “I don’t presume this book is among the best things in life but, by God, there’s nothing to say it can’t keep good company.”
All Chris’s books can be purchased through www.ChrisRodell.com