From: joe@spdcc.com (Joseph Francis)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Re: Nominations for best men's colognes
Date: 6 Jan 93 16:36:47 GMT
Article-I.D.: spdcc.1993Jan6.163647.17981
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA

In article <1993Jan6.130821.13802@macc.wisc.edu> anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes:
>In article <1993Jan6.121046.8502@spdcc.com> joe@spdcc.com
>(Joseph Francis) writes:
>
>>In article <1993Jan6.114002.10153@macc.wisc.edu>
>anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes:
>
>>>In article <72990@cup.portal.com> Furr@cup.portal.com
>>>(George Dalton Madison) writes:
>
>>>>and you can make yourself
>>>>something totally unique.
>
>>>Not more uniquer yet?
>
>>I think he meant to type 'like totally' unique.  He does
>>have a totally unusual style doesn't he, almost unique.
>
>De gustibus; not quite unusual enough, perhaps.  But it's
>his own and part of his charm-substitute, eau de George.
>
>Now Jojo, I know it's lunchtime where you are, but if you
>mention patchouli (essence de cul merdatre) one more time,
>I'll be unable to face breakfast.  Please dear, be sensible,
>steer the folk toward Morrocan chypre or oak moss or even
>what passes for musk (nothing except the real thing does),
>but do help me rid the world of patchouli; we had enough for
>22 civilizations in the 60s, when you were the tiniest of
>tots.

It is just that I like to type patchouli, I have to admit.

Three of my favorite shopping experiences in the world are (1) A
traditional Chinese Apothecary in the recesses of Borneo, (2) An
Arabian Perfume Dealer in Jeddah, and (3) Deyrolle, a Taxidermist, in
Paris. All have things which look like they come out of a nightmare
from Lovecraft. I don't recommend unartifiialized gum-arabic, by the
way. It is like chewing pine resin that is squishy. Highly natural,
though. The preserved organs at the Chines apothecary are really
disturbing, while the goodies that deyrolle has in droors out of sight
to the public will keep you awake at night. In all cases, there were
interesting vegetal resins they all had, with interesting scents.

I spent part of a summer on Hydra Greece once staying with artist
Steven Mueller and his lover Frank (Frank Ross of 'Toby Ross'
filmmaking family fame). Besides getting the opportiunity to meet the
New York art croed in a Natural Setting (which makes them more
virulent, believe me) and having snits with Bryce Marden's wife, I got
to be entranced with the smell of myrrh that Steven liked to burn in
the house. Granted all the windows were open. It was only unpleasant
the night that Gary Indiana got drunk, and after I gave him a
beautiful Jean-Paul Gaultier teeshirt he became all horny and kept
asking to see my big hard tan "Wang", (I guess I did sort of wander
around the Island occasionally nude, but I thought he wouldn't like a
bleached blond, especially with a sunbleached beard) and I ended up
sleeping upstairs to avoid his inebriated condition, and was
overwhelmed during a rainstorm by a stuffy greek island room filled
with myrrh and mosquito coils.

Where was I. Oh yeah. Most completely unique. Did anyone actually like
Indiana's "Scar Tissue" except for the Disneyland sequence?"
-- 
US Jojo; damp, slighly soiled, but tasty nonetheless.
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