99 degrees

Aug 02, 2006 16:00

I'm sticky.

I feel remarkably better than I did yesterday, thank god.

Today is definately going to be spent eating spaghetti in front of a fan watching movies until somebody calls to get me out of the house. Yes, I'm a recluse. I used to have a social life, but I traded it for spaghetti.

Adam made me a retardedly fucking awesome shirt. It's too big, but I'll figure it out. He airbrushed a face on the side in red and black and put a little silver stud on the bottom...which sounds awful, but trust me it's brilliant.

Did you know Elizbeth 1 was balding? She had a collection of red-orange wigs to wear in public, which revived the wig fad....men and women wore bright orange hair. The Church was vehemently against wigs....and just about everything else...which I guess hasn't changed too much.

I've been reading a book which mostly details the origins of various trivial things like makeup, wigs, and spermicide.

The ancient Egyptians used a mixture of crocodile dung and something else I can't remember in their hoohas to thwart pregnancy. Isn't that fucked up?

UTI's have been around for centuries (if not thousands of years) in the forms of glass beads, wires, and other painful sounding things I wouldn't want shoved in my uterus. They were concieved (obvious pun not intended) by middle eastern men when they had to take their camels on long journeys to war and such and didn't want to deal with little camels. So they devised a way of sticking tubes in a camel's baby maker and put glass or somesuch up there.

Women used to eat small amounts of arsenic to make their skin pale so that their rouge would stand out more.

Beauty patches were invented to divert eyes from unsightly smallpox scars, but after a vaccine was invented they went out of style and the bejeweled boxes they were kept in became makeup compacts.

In ancient Egypt unibrows were hot and kohl was used to connect eyebrows that weren't already connected. Sometimes (I think it was mostly the wealthy) eyebrows were shaved off and repainted with kohl.

The first bra was made out of ribbon and hankerchiefs not for comfort but for fashion because a lady noticed that the boning of her corset was visible through her thin dress. She sold the patent for a few thousand bucks.

I'm going to go rent some movies now.
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