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Aquamarine

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  1. That clip was posted on here a while back, so it must have been a rerun that timothy5151 saw.

    I don't think Geddy said Robert had breakfast with him the next morning, just that he went up to speak to him when he (GL) was having breakfast with his wife the next day. They were in Morocco.

    Sorry I can't solve the Eric/Alex issue as I know nothing about Rush, but they did seem very nice guys!

  2. A few years ago my Grandmother gave me witch-hazel, and that worked pretty good. But I haven't seen that in any store lately. To my grandparents, it was one of those things that would cure anything that ails ya. Kind of like Campho phenique. Which, speaking of, is kind of what noxzema smells like.

    Witch-hazel used to be much-touted as an astringent, when I was a teenager. I wasn't sure what I needed an astringent for, but it said so in all the mags so I used it anyway! :rolleyes:

  3. Acne medications can dry out the skin alarmingly. I was misdiagnosed with it when I actually had eczema, and given acne meds, and my skin started peeling off in sheets! :o

    So much for that doctor. <_<

  4. Cocoa butter is really good for your skin.

    I'm really bad about applying lotions and cremes, etc., so I guess I'm not the one to ask. I live in a dry, dry climate, and we have very hard water, so I should totally be using lotion on a daily basis, but I just don't. I don't like how if your skin gets wet, you're all slimy.

    Lubriderm! Absorbs quickly, and bless their cotton socks, they make a fragrance-free version!! I love it, I use it by the bucketload. :D

  5. I also know about the climate due to living in it. ;) It's not a crackpot theory that temperatures often reach heights now that they never used to back then, it's simply a fact. The UK is also a country in which temperatures vary widely depending on region--annual averages are pretty irrelevant here all the way around!

  6. Your position that it is warmer now than 17 years ago is not only patently false

    No it isn't. Not about to argue the relevance issue, but temperatures frequently reach heights in the UK these days that were unheard of when I was growing up there. Just a fact.

  7. It's neon orange satin. It has beaingon it with a mostly open back. I's not a halter, just strappy. There's a slit on the right side to about halfway up the thigh.

    Sounds gorgeous! :cheer: And it's great that you can keep your job, too, it sounds so worthwhile!

  8. Nice one, FireOpal! (As Jeff looks on longingly . . . :D ) Very timely.

    (One last thing about the Jimmy pic above--I love the way the bow is positioned so that in effect it's coming from his head, too. Another evocative statement.)

  9. Well, yeah, but that's reverting to the clichéd descriptions we've all been using forever, isn't it? And the photo isn't clichéd - it really conveys power and mystery, certainly, but I think that is made possible because it isn't clichéd itself. Partly I think because there's also a kind of solitude there - something of a self-enclosed world, due to Jimmy's posture, the "magic" of the light, etc. - we can see the enigma, yet he's also shutting us out in a way, turning his back to us, leaning over the guitar and concentrating on the bowing. And this effect is even stronger because of what is NOT in the photo.

    Yes, that's what I was trying to get at regarding the composition of his body, the bow, and the guitar--they form a sort of circle (well, flattened circle) that makes an organic whole, so that there's no clear place where Jimmy ends and the guitar begins. It's self-sufficient, hence the effect of shutting us out--not in a hostile way, but in the sense that he's complete right there. And then the burst of power where the bow hits the guitar is like what galvanizes the whole organism--again, this is just what the photo suggests, and why b&w is so evocative.

  10. Ok thanks for telling me, I heard Vitamin E helps a bit, many times but I have no proof

    My dermatologist recommended Vitamin E oil for surgery scars, so it might help with acne scars--it's very good for your skin, anyway! Didn't do much for my scar, but it was an old one.

  11. I can't really put my finger on it either. The way that his body leans into the bow, which touches the guitar so that they all seem organically connected, the way the sunburst of light focuses on exactly the point where the bow meets the guitar, suggesting a burst of power . . . And something else intangible. That's why I LOVE black and white photography, it's so suggestive. :)

  12. Getting as much information as possible is certainly key to fighting any illness, and especially cancer which has so many different approaches because it can take so many forms (and has so many causes, including genetics, which nobody can avoid). And what works for one person won't necessarily work for another. All the very best to your wife, and let's hope the steps you've taken will prove successful! :)

    To lower the tone a bit--I just stopped by to say, on the subject of cleansers, mousturizers, etc., that one of my pet peeves is the fact that so many of these products contain perfumes (same applies to hairsprays etc., too), which conflict with the perfume you actually WANT to wear. Boots in the UK has a good line called Simple that doesn't have any of these extra ingredients, but needless to say, as soon as I discovered it they stopped making the sizes that were really useful for travel. :rolleyes:

  13. It's mainly English Lit, but we do (and will do) the works of American writers as well. Just thinking off the top of my head, I'll be doing Henry James, Philip K. Dick (the Do Android Dream Of Electric Sheep? author), Kate Chopin, T.S. Eliot and Allen Ginsberg (super excited about reading his stuff!), but I've done assignments on/learnt about Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Emily Dickinson, Louisa May Alcott and Alice Walker. There's probably a ton more but I can't think of them right now.

    Yay!! That's the stuff I teach (especially the African American stuff), it's great! And congratulations on a really successful year, too. :banana:

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