neon epiphany

Note to self: Do not try to eat the chocolate whipped cream body lotion. Do not try to eat the chocolate whipped cream body lotion. Do not. It would be a bad idea.

Additional birthday bounty:

• 1 bar of (mmm!) persimmon bath soap
• 1 soft, fuzzy elephant
• 1 guide to aging gracelessly
• 1 xbox game (Shenmue II)
• 1 dvd (Men With Brooms)
• 1 cd (conjure one)

Warm gratitude to everyone for the gifts, and extra special thanks to Rav for the unbelievably yummy Chinese strawberry cake which accompanied dinner.

• via Jill, a tragic and distressing Photographic History of Michael Jackson’s Face.
• via rosebaby and others, Make Your Own Bush Speech.
• Presumably because the subject came up in the novel, Tom sent along a link to “Haggis, the Food of Poets (Well, One Scottish Poet)” (from the New York Times).