Teeny-Weeny A brief history of the bikini.
From picture #7 on the slideshow:
Brigitte Bardot's legs, at least, didn't need the help. This photo was taken at the Cannes Film Festival in 1953, just as the bikini was becoming de rigueur on the French Riviera. Even so, it remained off-limits in the States, where it was seen as a suspect garment favored by licentious Mediterranean types. A few years ago, Sports Illustrated dug up a 1957 issue of Modern Girl that declared: "It is hardly necessary to waste words over the so-called bikini since it is inconceivable that any girl with tact and decency would ever wear such a thing."
It's a sad kitty day around here, for sure. GC and Sue, they've had the best of all possible humans in having you for owners.
This.
Work Nemesis just called with an "urgent" question that my coworker assures me was answered in an email she was copied on already. Awesome.
Sue, I'm so sorry. May Pico and Josie meet up on the other side...
I'm so sorry about Pico and Josie.
Sorry to hear the bad news about your cats, Sue and GC.
In a startling development, I came back to work and discovered that things ran more or less smoothly on the production end in my absence, with a reasonable amount of work waiting for me rather than an overwhelming pile. Though two of my co-workers did turn in their notice while I was away.
I think I'm finished with my second big project. Huh.
In the last two weeks, I have written a 77 page manual and a 28 page story, and edited 24 screens in another manual.
After I get back from Michigan this weekend, I'm going to celebrate by being the slothiest slothful slothmeister in all of slothyland. In fact, I wish I were an Animagus just so I could transform myself into an actual sloth, that is how slothalicious I would like to be.
Would that sloth slounge?
A bunch of old products that contained radium: [link]
Back in the day when radium was good for you. I think my fave is the "Radium Emanation Bath." Also, the jug of "Pure Radium Water - Remedy for... Eczema, Stomach Troubles" (can't read the other thing it's for).
And the radioactive spark plugs. Oh, and if you have grey hair, radium will fix that for you. (Nope, your hair don't fall out - it returns to your natural color.)
Best of all - Radium Chocolate! (more info here: [link]
Would that sloth slounge?
Surely this is a rhetorical question.
I can slounge on bar stool, Frank. Asking me if I slounge is like asking me if I breathe or require coffee or hate people and want to stab them in the face.
Poor Sue, Pico, Josie and GC. Not a good day for kitties here.
I also find Billy Drago strangely Hot, but really not surprising considering my lust for Mick Jagger and Steven Tyler.
