Toad in the Hole

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Birding and other pleasures and aggravations, in Berkeley and beyond, by Ron Sullivan.

Culture Jam

Clearly I don’t watch enough TV. According to the Chron’s listings, just yesterday I missed two chances to see The Doctors warn me about “The perils of nose-hair waxing.”

I have no idea whether these included lots of bleeding and/or screaming burning agonyarrghohgodwhathaveIdonetomyself, nor whether there’d be live footage of regrettable incidents. In fact, until reading that, I’d had no idea that people, actual human beings presumably with their senses and sanity at least legally intact, would ever consider doing such a thing.

Silly me, I’d thought face and naughty-bits waxing was as bad as it could get. Maybe now I can find someone to give me that glow-in-the-dark eyeball tattoo I’ve been fantasizing about.

At least it’d distract viewers from my nose hair.

Posted by: Ron Sullivan

Responses

1 | By: Sally Mack on May 27, 2010 at 09:53 AM

But if you waxed your nose hair, you wouldn’t WANT to distract viewers from it. Uh, right? Tiny little Van Dykes, maybe? Wouldn’t that be cute, something of which you could be rightfully proud?

2 | By: Ron Sullivan on May 27, 2010 at 11:45 AM

Maybe I’ll braid it instead, and put beads in the braids. Dreadnose!

3 | By: kathy a on May 27, 2010 at 12:38 PM

i’m not waxing anything.

i’m advised by someone younger that there are decorative contact lenses, which may not be quite as FDA approved as regular contacts, but what’s the worst that could happen?

4 | By: Ron Sullivan on May 28, 2010 at 07:14 AM

I’ve seen those “costume” lenses advertised. Some of them are pretty cool.

5 | By: VS on May 28, 2010 at 07:54 AM

Oh, those decorative contacts are cool, all right, until you get ulcerated corneas. Having cat or goat pupils - or even dice or 8balls - isn’t worth the risk.

On the waxing, Ron, you forgot backs and chest hair. Some men who are naturally walking carpets don’t like it.

6 | By: Ron Sullivan on May 28, 2010 at 12:54 PM

Oh yeah. And eyebrows and (subset of naughty bits, true) scrota. And—no. Just, no.

OK, and I won’t wax my eyeballs either.

7 | By: VS on May 29, 2010 at 09:23 AM

A light shower is much better for the eyeballs - no waxy residue.

8 | By: Ron Sullivan on May 30, 2010 at 09:54 PM

You mean better it should be waning?

9 | By: VS on May 31, 2010 at 08:55 AM

Much better, at least when it comes to residue - and the garden. All this unseasonable waning has been very good for the plants.

10 | By: Ron Sullivan on June 2, 2010 at 01:11 PM

They wax when it wanes?

11 | By: VS on June 4, 2010 at 09:31 AM

Only the begonias…

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