I think it is the rosemary and mint that does me in with Aveda. I like it for a little bit and then whoa. Sage also is a comfort scent (though wet creosote is more!)

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I'm surprised because Jensen Ackles was a beautiful child on Days of Our Lives.

Now see, I remember him a bit too, and I thought he looked plastic. Like Ken doll plastic. Or, if Ken had a twit younger cousin like Barbie had Midge.

Pretty, yeah, but. I am very hard on plastic-Americans. I'm just relieved he grew up into something human-looking (to say nothing of teh hott), and also developed a personality that seemed to be totally lacking in the past.

See me trash former child/teen stars one by one! Tina Majorino is a Kewpie doll!!

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So, I just watched last night's Without A Trace, and it was all about resonances in Viv's life, but what about Martin?

I was wondering the same thing. When they first showed up the scene and Martin was there, I was expecting some acknowledgement of or reference to his aunt. Instead, he was remarkably chipper as they tracked down the woman dying of cancer.

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Oh fuck. Apparently my cousin's husband left her a while ago for another woman, in addition to other shit that is mildly veiled. Cousin has a teenage son. Aunt & uncle very close to cousin's MIL. Basically,both the inlaws helped raise the kid. I saw them all together not a little more than a year ago, no clue. Hell, last time I saw my grandmother alive was at their wedding. Shit.

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I'm just relieved he grew up into something human-looking (to say nothing of teh hott), and also developed a personality that seemed to be totally lacking in the past.

I've never seen him in anything but SPN (and a minor role in a Marilyn Monroe TV movie, with Poppy Montgomery as Norma Jean, in which Ackles played a strangely effete guy, and was seriously smoking hot as a kind of slashy decadent boozer). I think he's got just enough of a rough edge to balance the surreal pretty, because that's not really my type.

I can't take my eyes off him when he's onscreen either. He's just ... guh.

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I read recently that Native Americans smoked tobacco medicinally, because a small amount actually helped relieve uncomfortable respiratory problems, and that it was the Europeans who took it to extremes (and who got so easily addicted, because they hadn't had generations to get used to tobacco use -- sort of a reverse of the situation with the high rate of alcoholism among Native Americans).

So Joe Camel is karmic payback for firewater?

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Sage also is a comfort scent (though wet creosote is more!)

No kidding. How does the desert breed that into us?

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I just can't believe we made it through an entire "Who ate the first XXX" discussion and nobody mentioned olives! (Most seemingly odd food preparations can be chalked up to discovering them by accident, but who accidentally soaks something in lye for a week, spends another week soaking off the lye, and then even more time and effort brining it? And then still remembers that they were planning to try eating it?)

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So Joe Camel is karmic payback for firewater?

And the syph was karmic payback for smallpox. Was it syphilis, I think it was syphilis?

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isn't creosote the stuff that builds up in chimneys?

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