Go with god, and without soap!

HEY.

Next time I need to curse someone, remind me that “MAY YOU BE STUCK EDITING A 130MB GRAPHIC ON YOUR SHITTY WINDOWS COMPUTER” is a darn good one.

On the totally-worth-it flipside, the cover art for Ubersleep came out *gorgeous* and it’s going to look far, far cooler than I’d hoped. I’m making the back cover out of “mutations” of Conor’s work, and even with my fairly crappy skills it still looks awesome.

I’d say Conor is my new god, but Conor’s been in my pantheon ever since he spontaneously delivered an entire set of Clutch lyrics in the style of Tom Waits. That’s the sort of thing that’s likely to happen if you put Conor unattended in a back seat, and that, my friends, is why he’s in my collection of personal gods. And his art is awesome. And messy. I <3 messy art.

Also, lest I be said to not have learned something freaky this week, I should mention that I figured out how to wash my hair without soap. …Again. Last time, I tried baking soda, and it was utterly wonderful at first but then became quite the nightmare — I found out that this is because it strips your hair totally, so the first time, it’s like magic; but very few people have hair that needs, or can tolerate, baking soda regularly.

This time, I’ve learned to wash my hair in only conditioner. This is not so difficult as it sounds; conditioner does contain mild cleaning agents. You just have to use a LOT of it, scrub it in really well, leave it on for about 10 minutes, and then rinse your butt off. (Hmm, that didn’t come out sounding quite right, did it?) Theoretically, this will gently clean without drying, and you can “clarify” (with soap, or something like baking soda) every month or so to keep it from getting limp or dull.

Well, it’s been a week of “conditioner only” for me, and my hair is nicer than it’s ever been, hands down. Not a trace of dryness, greasiness, or even unmanageability, which is saying something when you’re sporting about three people’s worth of fine, mid-back-length lion-mane-lookin’ thing. I said I was going to figure out how to manage my hair if I was going to grow it out again, and step one was to learn a way to wash it that looked nice for more than a day (when your hair takes 12 hours to dry, washing it every day just isn’t gonna work) and was healthy. I think I did it!

(Now, if only step two wasn’t learning how to restrain it. My hair is not into bondage…but if it gets much longer, it’ll have to learn to like it, or at least fake it for me now and again. Ah, long-term relationships…)

P.S. I know I already did the link dump, but come on, this is cool…taking awful sexist ads and re-creating them to say incredibly snarky things like “Your Mom Had Groupies“? Nice. Plus, the blog is called “Racialicious”, which I gotta give both thumbs-up to for invented words. *yay*