(though, I replaced Neil Gaiman too late for your post, because I realized some people actually know him, right? That might be sort of odd... but, I'm still with you).

Ahahahahaha. It's not odd. He's a Literary Crush Object for a lot of people.

Honestly, he is a case of farther away is better for me. Not that he's an icky person from reports, just I am less enthralled the more I know.

I am conflicted, because on the one hand the "Evening with Neil and Amanda" concert/event thingie could be a lot of fun. On the other hand ... I keep telling myself that she makes him really happy, and I shouldn't judge someone from various online blow-ups she's been part of.

He has a habit of running roughshod over everyone else on a panel.

It's hard to be surprised. I mean, he's so ~~incredibly engaging~~ to an audience that really doesn't give a shit about science and the stars and why this is really cool that his personality being totally overbearing in peer panels (and, likely, in more places) isn't odd to me.

If I hear he's an ass? That's going to make me sad. But I still will probably like that he's made science a little more seen and a little cooler.

Hearing he reeled himself back in? Kinda like it. So long as the people on stage with him are self-assured enough to shush him.

Also I like Pamela Gay. I don't see her in a lot of places. [imdbs] She's in Universe!

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I am pretty sure the take away here is that I should never be allowed to visit JPL because I will make an ass out of myself.

He's not an ass. Even when he's taking someone down, he's charming. A friend likened him to Marmaduke on panels. He's just larger than life and it's hard to get a word in edgewise. And Pamela is more like a schoolteacher with a ruler in her hand. She's inspiring and you just want her to think you're smart, too. You want her to call on you and say, "good answer!" And still, you're terrified of disappointing her.

That's how its effectiveness as a hair-growth dealie was discovered -- it was prescribed as an oral medication for (IIRC) angina, or some cardiac thing, and one of the side effects was notable hair growth.

And this, boys and girls, is why in drug trials we want to know *anything* that happens, good or bad!!

I often leave the house without makeup. If I'm going out of an evening, though, I usually pit in my contacts (without them, makeup is usually only lip gloss) and wear eyeliner, some photo finish, maybe powder, and lip gloss. If I'm feeling fancier, mascara. If SUPER fancy, maybe fake eyelashes and shadow. I do like the look of the fake eyelashes, but Latisse scares me a bit (though I too have heard the eye color changing was really only when putting it IN the eye, not the lash line)

How does Latisse supposedly change eye color? If I use it would I get amazing eye lashes and violet eyes? Would I have to get back to singing practice so I could live the dream cliche?

I thought it made the eyes browner?

It can cause the eyes to go brown-ish, as I recall when my mother went on it for her glaucoma years ago. She was miffed that hers remained green, because she's WEIRD.

So it will do nothing to my eye color, got it.

Not that I can justify spending the money on it right now, so I won't be buying it. But I am curious about the stuff.

I tend to go seasonal on my makeup, as in I forsake it late spring through early fall and start phasing it back in once the weather turns cooler.

lisah, I would LOVE a copy of your band's song!

If I recall, Vaniqa, the cream used to inhibit facial hair growth in women, was originally a treatment for African Sleeping Sickness. They had stopped making the drug and selling it in Africa--even though it was an easier, more effect treatment for sleeping sickness--because it was too expensive.

A side effect of the drug was inhibiting facial hair. It was out of production for a very long time until someone got the idea to market it for facial hair treatment! Let's let poor Africans die from a treatable illness until some woman in an industrialized nation wants to fight peach fuzz.