Some guy just sent me a picture of his wife and daughter to put up on my provocateuse site. Not as traumatic as the nude full frontal self-portrait I once received, but quite missing the point. He seemed so proud of them in the email. I'm not sure how to reply to him.

I'm late to the chocolate discussion, but these are my favourites: [link] [link] [link] All Cadbury. I missed real Cadbury chocolate so much during my year in the US that my family had to send me care packages full of it. SO good.

Maltesers are also nice. But they're Mars chocolate. Not so good.

Burrell,

if you can trace a family line to NO and the family had a plot, you used to be able to have rights to use it.

Bah. I put in my earplugs last night because someone was playing music and slept through my alarm at 5:00 a.m. this morning. I was supposed to be at work at 6:00 today, but just got here at 7:00. Today was supposed to be a critical day with implementation of this new software at London, but there's been a delay, so it ended up not mattering that I overslept.

So yay. Now I just have a dentist appointment to leave for in half an hour....

The greenest route is probably donating my body to medical research, but I'm also quite enamoured of the Life Gem idea.

I like the idea of stipulating that any heirs will only receive their portion of the estate as long as they wear a Life Gem made out of me.

Of course, the idea falls apart when I realize my "estate" consists of comic books.

In that case, your job is properly brainwashing your heirs so that they really really want those comic books.

I've been involved in the conversations that ended up with the purchase of a $2,000 casket.

My mother was just telling me the story of going with her mother to get the casket, etc., for my grandfather, and how the cracked up in the car, thinking that the funeral home guy must have thought they really didn't like my grandfather all that much. Not true, BTW. But they weren't going to waste all that money!

Congrats, Hec!

Don't some people say that cremation isn't all that environmentally sound?

A former roommate of mine worked on a study assessing the emissions from crematoriums and their effect on the environment. Sadly, I don't remember the results. But there are people looking at it!

I'm not sure how to reply to him.

Dear sir, I regret to inform you that your submissions do not meet our editorial standards.

or

Hey, nutbag, if you think your daughter is sexy I DON'T WANT TO KNOW ABOUT IT.

Could go either way.

I wonder if I could start a business making cardboard/papier mache coffins that look exactly like the real thing. (With, like a glued-together frame of wood, so there's no metal.) With a couple nice coats of shellac they'd be all shiny and curvy and sleek which would satisfy the traditional-minded relatives but be quite biodegradeable, plus the materials and skilled labor would be cheaper than the regular coffin costs....