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[grumpymartian]

I sign up for way more email newsletters than is healthy. I think it's a hold over when I'd sign up for every kind of junk mail imaginable (I LOVED getting mail until I started getting bills). This morning the message at the top of my list read:

"Get Glowing Skin for the Holidays"

The absolutely first thing that popped into my head was, "That would

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[anghara]

HAH. So it would. And I could see it being "tailored" so that a flaming redhead gets an International Orange glow, and a blonde gets a zombie-green one to make her look extra sickly and pallid... and some poor sap gets blacklight or UV...

[grumpymartian]

Glowing UV skin would be a great power for a vampire hunter. Blacklight skin would be a really horrible power for a stripper.

I played the part of Puck once upon a time. It involved a lot of green body paint. I managed to cut myself the day after dress rehearsal moving some stage lights and had to go to the nurse for a bandaid. The nurse gasped when she saw me under florescent lights and literally pushed me over to a cot because she thought I was about to pass out and die. I couldn't figure out why she was freaking out. Luckily the stage manager had come with me and managed to get the nurse to stand down in between gasps of laughter.