Month: February 2007

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…. don’t marry your brother!

Yuo're like kising my..... brother! yuck!

We’ve known for a while now that folks that have similar immune systems tend to find each other… well unattractive. The reason is the couple is relatively similar… genetically.

On a site for making science ‘understandable’, an Evolutionary Neuroscientist explains the reasons behind fniding a partner with a different immune system. It’s a hybrid vigor type of thing… better for the offspring. There are a couple of videos on the site you might find interesting… besides, Neuroscientists are not hard on the eyes… they tend to be attractive people.

Roger Freberg

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What is it about her ‘smell’ that draws me to her?

aaaahhhh.... so, what is that wonderful smell?It is certainly true that one will notice an attractive and enticing smell long before we become aware of it’s origin?

As a young boy, I certainly was warned shortly before elderly female relatives grabbed my cheeks and planted an unwanted kiss apon me! Their ‘flowery’ essence spoke to me… run!… only my legs were a little bit too slow!

We know what we like … but how do folks find and put together those wonderful variations found in perfumes that tickle our memories so that we remember who we were with and where we were when we first enjoyed it?

A book came out last year and maybe you saw it… but I doubt it, unless you were combing the biology section of your local book store. It is the story of Perfume.  It is entitled:

“the Secret of Scent” by Luca Turin

Michael Kors I won’t promise you that it will answer every question… but the author has a wonderful sense of humor that will make the technical and artistic aspects of perfume development understandable in an appreciably short time.

So, what do I like?

Michael Kors “Hawaii” — review

Caron’s Infini
Caron’s Bellodgia
Estee Lauder Intuition
Estee Lauder Pleasures
YSL Opium

Chanel No. 5

I do recommend the book… it may not help you pick the ‘perfect’ gift… or maybe it will… but at least you will actually enjoy the process  So instead of handing a bottle to your hun and saying…’ ah… it smells nice’… maybe you might say like the author:

“What ‘Nombre Noir’ said was ‘flower.’ But the way it said it was an epipthany. The flower at the core of the ‘Nombre Noir’ was halfway between a rose and a violet…(with) almost saintly background of cigar box cedar notes…”

Enjoy your discoveries.

Roger Freberg

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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FREE Campean & Ramos!

Let Our People Go! Save our Border Patrol AgentsThe word ‘scapegoats’ comes to mind when I think of our two Border Patrol agents rotting in prison for shooting ‘in the leg’ a fleeing Mexican drug dealer.

Frankly, I don’t see anything good happening.

What it does clarify even to the most deluded of us, is that ‘we’ — meaning our government — really don’t want our borders secure and that immigration policy is something we use to keep some folks out and let others sweep in.

I feel sorry for most sorry for the friends and families of former Border Patrol Agents Campean and Ramos. Free them now! Let them do their job.

Roger Freberg

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Al Franken …. Senator? heh heh… okay… you got me on that one

Al Frankin ... given it to you 24-7They say in American anyone can be president… but can anyone be a U.S. Senator…. maybe. Well, we’ve got Barbara “never-saw-a-soldier-I-didn’t-hate” Boxer… so maybe Al Franken can make it.

However Al has a few explanations to make:

“I used to say I’d never run because I’d be a terrible officeholder,” Franken said. “Now I don’t want to say that, because it would look bad if I ever did run.”

I do worry about our country … too many ‘actors’ out there already. You know what I mean… say one thing and live another way. That — they say — is ‘politics.’ Actually, there are people who I admire who play this game… but they are few and it is far too easy to become tempted and corrupted.

Once apon a time, I ,too, put a very small toe in the water of politics ( at a much lower level) and came away learning a lot… it’s a tough game and I can’t help but wonder if Al Franken is tough enough? He can dish it out… but can he take it? Besides, I know what he is against… but what is he ‘for?’

Read more on ‘Senator Al’:

Wikipedia
Salon Magazine (Liberal)
Al Franken T-Shirts (Liberal)
FrankenFluff
Sister Toljah

Roger Freberg

P.S. 2008 is gearing up to be a fun election … oh yeaah, it goes without saying that Al Franken wins the coveted BIG WEENIE AWARD for doing little more than being himself.

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LONDON FASHION SHOW… taking things a little FUR-ther!

You’ve got to admire a guy who is willing to defend his ‘craft’ from the slings, arrows and paint of infamous “anti-fur mob(s)”… we all know who they are… in fact, I thought of a great screen play entitled “Vegetarians Gone wild.”

In any event, the London Fashion show has redeemed itself in my eyes because of folks like Julien MacDonald who said such great lines like…

“People who don’t like fur can p*ss off. I love fur. It’s a beautiful natural product from animals.”

I couldn’t have said it better myself! Makes me kinda proud of the similar ancestry we share in common.

Well, the extreme vegetarian fundamentalists at Peta had a few things to say:

“Today a spokeswoman for anti-fur group Peta said: “Every year tens of thousands of animals will be killed for Julien’s collections.”

Actress Pamela Anderson, a Peta supporter, snubbed an invitation from Macdonald this week, telling him: “If you stop using fur, I’d be thrilled to attend… I know you can come up with killer fashions that don’t kill anything.”

Anyway, Julien… you are our ‘Hero’ Awardee!
for lighting the darkness

Roger Freberg