In one segment, a caller called to complain about particualr body odors being expelled by fellow fliers on long transcontinental flights. The moderator turned it over to “Captain Bob” for an explanation.

It’s a well recognized problem, Captain Bob said. Some of it is pure physics – as the plane climbs, the air pressure in the cabin falls while the air pressure inside the body remains the same. And as all things must be equalized…

Seems that the flight attendants, especially on international red-eye flights, will often avoid the cabin area as much as possible because of this…problem. But sometimes, on a particularly expressive flight, they may retaliate by walking down the aisle and extend their own atmospheric offerings.

It’s referred to as “crop dusting.”

Captain Bob offered that in order to escape the effects of…ahem…crop dusting, you should bring some gifts or candy on board for the crew. Maybe even a box of chocolates to avoid the fly-by. They may just give you a bit of a reprieve and take their crop dusting further afield.

Then again, maybe you could wear this shirt that I found online this morning:

May even be cheaper than that small box of Godiva you were planning on bringing. Comes in long sleeve version too…

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Something I’ve always had trouble with…

[h/t to Editor & Publisher newsletter...]

Just being ironical…heh…

[h/t to swissmiss...lead in from Steve Layman...who's also seems to be thinking about tattoos...]

“…Armansky’s star researcher was a pale, anorexic young woman who had hair as short as a fuse, and a pierced nose and eyebrows. She had a wasp tattoo about an inch long on her neck, a tattooed loop around the biceps of her left arm and another around her left ankle. On those occassions when she had been wearing a tank top, Armansky also saw that she had a dragon tattoo on her left shoulder blade. She was a natural redhead, but she dyed her hair raven black.

She had a wide mouth, a small nose, and high cheekbones that gave her an almost Asian look. Her movements were quick and spidery…her extreme slenderness would have made a career in modeling impossible, but with the right makeup her face could have put her on any billboard in the world.

Sometimes she wore black lipstick, and in spite of the tattoos and the pierced nose and eyebrows she was…well…attractive.

It was inexplicable.”

- excerpted from The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larson

Watched the US  version with Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara last weekend…just picked up the Danish release and the book today at the library.

Trailer here…

Cueing up the DVD now…

Leon Russell was one of those singing poets I could sit for. Maybe that’s why I also segued into the raspy tones of a Tom Waits or the written growl of Charles Bukowski.

“I’ve been so many places in my life and time…”

It’s a quiet Saturday morning…

Notice that I was an early adopter of “texting”… heh…

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Quote from Treblinka: “The Jews are prone to anguish but seldom given to despair.

And said by an anonymous Jewish poet: “Till now we have lived with fear, now we can know hope.”

- Eve Arnold writing in her photography memoir, Eve Arnold: Film Journal

Anouk Aimee, on the set of Justine by Eve Arnold, 1968

And another Brunette to fall hopelessly in love with…

[..and a h/t to Steve Layman for reminding me...]