Aren't you glad you chose this season to pimp me into it?

Little did I know! Did you know there's only one other time that the leader has been kicked out in the middle of the Tour? It was in something like 1978, and they caught him with a whole tubing system and someone else's urine. Oops.

This is the nuttiest TdF evah!

It really is -- and it's a nutty-assed sport. In non-dog-thwacking news, Paul did the stage description in Swahili today, quite fluently, and in what sounded like a lot of detail. (And I though he was impressive for not mangling French!)

Hee. Whoopsie! That seems very complex. (Ha! Edited to clarify, tubing-based urination seems complex. Although Swahili seems complex, too, in a whole different way.)

Yeah, the SO & I were talking about it and we were all, there's not really any way it could be a bigger scandal. I mean, I guess naked paratroopers could land on the cyclists' heads with cocaine, but short of that...

Anyway, I know people have been talking about it like it's ruining the sport and all that stuff, and I definitely know there are going to be credibility questions and played politics and all that junk. But to me, right now, as a novice? Totally fascinating.

I'm so sorry, Sheryl.

It's nothing-ma to both Lisah and Bev.

did anybody else watch The Nine? 'cause i was going through my TiFaux's scheduled recordings and it looks like ABC is bringing it back to burn off the remaining episodes. i never thought i'd get to see them!

oooh. Thanks for the heads up.

My perfect weekend would involve a tropical beach, a clean ocean with lots of pretty fishies, and maybe a cabana boy or two.

I mean, I guess naked paratroopers could land on the cyclists' heads with cocaine, but short of that...

I love this image. If that happened it would be FANTASTIC!

My midlife crisis continues (as does the fucking headache--I'm pissed, but I am not going near an ER this weekend) and I'm toying with another hair idea.

I don't know how artificial I can go at this job, but I saw a guy who had coloured just the front fringe of his hair. I keep mine longer, and usually lighter than the rest, and I wonder if I bleached just that and then coloured it red or something, and left the rest natural, or dyed it black...

Suddenly it sounds like work. But for a couple seconds there I imagined my outfit with my 'fringe' matching my corset and it was very cool.

There is just about nothing I could imagine happening to the TdF to make it more exciting. Because I totally don't care for cycling, but who doesn't love a good human scandal? It's great. Especially the bits where people bring shit down on themselves.

Kat, I owe you mail. Let me get on that.

Aw, Axel Merckx got all teary at the end of the stage.

Well, it's not as fun as naked paratroopers, but there were some separatist bombings the other day. Of course, if you're blowing shit up and you can't get people to notice, your attention grab isn't so attention-grabby. [link]

Making of the diamond skull.

Hirst is one of those artists who believes the art is in the concept, and will get other people to do the gruntwork. I'm assuming he's paid his dues, but I'm still tempted to call him a designer.

I'd love to be able to get people to execute my ideas. I have a million clothes mostly-designed in my head, and a bunch of other crap I have neither the knowledge or the skill to make real.

ita, I'm not convinced two-tone hair is going to play as you imagine it.

I'm trying to think of an analogy and the only thing I can think of is the art-girl I dated who would wear odd combinations of vintage clothes that worked tonally, but clashed with each other as statements of style.

That is, the colors worked together but there was a meta-conversation in her fashion that she ignored that other people would not.

While you could visually marry the color in the fringe with your ensemble, for other people having two-toned hair is just going to register as something different than you intend.