From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V5 #47 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Sunday, February 27 2000 Volume 05 : Number 047 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Alloy: The Great Peanut Butter Experiment! ["electrix" ] Re: Alloy: The Great Peanut Butter Experiment! [RThurF@aol.com] Re: Alloy: The Great Peanut Butter Experiment! ["electrix" Subject: Re: Alloy: The Great Peanut Butter Experiment! Keith... man, you had to ask the forbidden question, huh? :-) I just think a man can look just as handsome with hair as without. I mean... look at Yul Bryner. The guy was way ahead of his time in hair fashion... and most females would agree that he was a hunk! What I find facinating is bald woman. I don't think Sinéad O'Connor looks any prettier with it. In fact, it takes away from those fabulous eyebrows and eyes. Most females with short, trimmed hairdo can be very, very sexy... the secret in that, I think, is maintaining great complexion and natural base make-up. Our cultural society tends to place too much emphasis on hair. It is the underlying psychological theme of Samson and Delilah. I can only imagine Egyptians Dynasties, where emphasis was on face rather then the hair. They sported shaved heads. As we grow older... it's not how much boyish hair we want to have, but how mature we want to present ourselves. Of course, don't tell that to the lucky few 50 year old still sporting long strands. electrix >Keith Stansell wrote: > >> I guess another option for those with thinning hair is to take up wearing a beret constantly (;-) > >Keith, you just made me choke on my Chinese food...! > > >> A topic never breached here before, but am I the only one curious about what TMDR is sporting under that hat? > >I have a photo from a few years ago of Thomas looking exceedingly >handsome, *without* the beret. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 08:58:39 -0700 From: "Keith Stansell" Subject: Re: Alloy: The Great Peanut Butter Experiment! Hey, I'm in total agreement with you. If Robin updates my picture on the gallery, you will know what I mean. I changed to the Yule Brenner style in October. It is great. I just was curious if our leader was self conscious about the thinning locks. Perhaps he needs a bit of encouragement that baldness "ain't no big thang". But then again, perhaps he is not self-conscious about it at all and the beret just part of the "Chief Beatnik" style. While were at style and such. Two more words for TMDR if he hasn't done it already - LASIK Surgery. I had laser eye surgery about a year ago and it was one of the best things I ever did. I would imagine it would be something an avid sail boarder would want to do. Why worry about loosing a contact in the ocean when you are having fun. - -Keith - ----- Original Message ----- From: "electrix" To: Sent: Friday, February 25, 2000 2:34 PM Subject: Re: Alloy: The Great Peanut Butter Experiment! > > > Keith... man, you had to ask the forbidden question, huh? :-) > > I just think a man can look just as handsome with hair as without. I mean... look at Yul Bryner. The guy was way ahead of his time in hair fashion... and most females would agree that he was a hunk! > > What I find facinating is bald woman. I don't think Sinéad O'Connor looks any prettier with it. In fact, it takes away from those fabulous eyebrows and eyes. Most females with short, trimmed hairdo can be very, very sexy... the secret in that, I think, is maintaining great complexion and natural base make-up. > > Our cultural society tends to place too much emphasis on hair. It is the underlying psychological theme of Samson and Delilah. I can only imagine Egyptians Dynasties, where emphasis was on face rather then the hair. They sported shaved heads. > > As we grow older... it's not how much boyish hair we want to have, but how mature we want to present ourselves. > > Of course, don't tell that to the lucky few 50 year old still sporting long strands. > > electrix > > >Keith Stansell wrote: > > > >> I guess another option for those with thinning hair is to take up wearing a beret constantly (;-) > > > >Keith, you just made me choke on my Chinese food...! > > > > > >> A topic never breached here before, but am I the only one curious about what TMDR is sporting under that hat? > > > >I have a photo from a few years ago of Thomas looking exceedingly > >handsome, *without* the beret. > ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 10:06:07 -0600 From: "Julie Sweeney" Subject: Alloy: thinning hair etc. Let's see, a couple of thoughts on various threads of conversation... Robin, the news about your friends' daughter is awful. That kind of damage certainly sounds like it could be from some severe inhalant allergy; also, I know that this time of year, RSV is quite prevalent and in some kids, quite deadly. I guess it's a respiratory virus that some kids breeze through and others don't. My niece was hospitalized last February, at about 18 months of age, with something quite similar, but managed to pull through it. My heart goes out to them, what a terrible decision to have to make. One other thing for you, Robin, perhaps to pursue more privately--I have my grandparents' Bible from the early days of their marriage. It's Finnish, and while it is no rarity, and definitely nothing special (not leatherbound or anything), it has great sentimental value for me. It's quite brittle and will fall apart if I don't take care... how should I be caring for it? Can it be restored to a certain extent? On the topic of hair loss/regeneration: my mother used to make some disgusting natural foods concoction for my dad to drink every morning--brewer's yeast, wheat germ, etc. It smelled absolutely awful, but it started to reverse my dad's receding hairline. I guess it worked well enough to make him drink it every day... quite some feat, given the smell. The zinc thing is interesting--I just heard zinc supplements are also recommended for prostate health! Personally, I don't think any of you guys should worry about hairline issues... a lot of women not only are not put off by a lot of scalp showing, they find it to be very sexy. Myself, I notice a growing attraction for the likes of Connery, Stewart (Picard), Willis... yum! On that note--off to have an unseasonably warm Saturday! Julie Sweeney jsweeney@netpros-inc.net ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 21:54:52 EST From: RThurF@aol.com Subject: Re: Alloy: The Great Peanut Butter Experiment! All this talk of men looking great without hair reminds me of something. It occured to me that the one and only time I ever thought Johnny Depp was even remotely attractive was when he was portraying Hunter S. Thompson in 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas', with classic pattern baldness & very short-cut hair otherwise. His acting talent really shone in a role that I doubt was easy or comfortable to perform, and I was totally impressed. I think most directors hone in on the fact that he's this heartthrob actor, but in playing Hunter Thompson and being directed by Terry Gilliam there was no need or place for that! Also I'm becoming quite a fan of actor Vin Diesel after first laying eyes on him in Pitch Black last week. He's an extremely high caliber artist - he's a screenwriter and filmmaker (his own independent films are of such excellence that they were selected for both Cannes and Sundance) & has been acting on the NYC stage since the age of seven. He is someone with a very deep understanding of and passion for his craft, which I find overwhelmingly impressive and exciting. To top it all off I find Mr Diesel very, very attractive indeed, and I've never seen him with more than about two millimeters worth of hair anywhere on his head at any given time! Robin T fan of the no-hair look :) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 19:09:03 -0800 From: "electrix" Subject: Re: Alloy: The Great Peanut Butter Experiment! >Hey, I'm in total agreement with you. If Robin updates my picture on the >gallery, you will know what I mean. I changed to the Yule Brenner style in >October. It is great. I just was curious if our leader was self conscious >about the thinning locks. Perhaps he needs a bit of encouragement that >baldness "ain't no big thang". But then again, perhaps he is not >self-conscious about it at all and the beret just part of the "Chief >Beatnik" style. Well.. in Astronaut and Heretics the inside cover displayed a blurry photo of a shaved head with pony tail... didn't look that bad to me. Judging from his daring character, I think the beatnik style is all part of the persona he wants to project. Seems like his life is immersed in making the business succeed. >LASIK Surgery. I had laser eye surgery about a year ago and it >was one of the best things I ever did. Now that's encouraging. The thought of doing it scares the bejesus of me. Was this incredibly costly? Did you have to remain blind folded for a few days? What is the success to failure rate? Julie Sweeney wrote: >On the topic of hair loss/regeneration: my mother used to make some >disgusting natural foods concoction for my dad to drink every >morning--brewer's yeast, wheat germ, etc. It smelled absolutely awful, >but it started to reverse my dad's receding hairline. I guess it >worked well enough to make him drink it every day... quite some feat, >given the smell. Ugh!!! Looks like it was mostly B complex Vitamin derived...brewers and wheat germ are loaded with it. >The zinc thing is interesting--I just heard zinc supplements are also >recommended for prostate health! That's correcto mundo. In the Nutritional circle this seems to be the conclusion. >Personally, I don't think any of you guys should worry about hairline >issues... a lot of women not only are not put off by a lot of scalp >showing, they find it to be very sexy. Myself, I notice a growing >attraction for the likes of Connery, Stewart (Picard), Willis... yum! Hey Keith... we need to know where these women are... so we can invite them to another house warming paaa--tey. :-) electrix ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 21:41:35 -0700 From: "Keith Stansell" Subject: Re: Alloy: The Great Peanut Butter Experiment! - ----- Original Message ----- From: "electrix" > >LASIK Surgery. I had laser eye surgery about a year ago and it > >was one of the best things I ever did. > > Now that's encouraging. The thought of doing it scares the bejesus of me. Was this incredibly costly? Did you have to remain blind folded for a few days? What is the success to failure rate? The cost was a bit high. I financed it and it comes out to $124 per month for four years. It is a monthly payment that I don't mind paying. After the surgery, they tell you to try to keep your eyes closed for about 12 hours. I went home and took a nap. You are not blind folded, they just give you some clear shields to prevent you from accidently rubbing your eyes. You can see, but it is a bit hazy - like the morning after sleeping in contacts. My surgery was at 3:00 and by 8:00 that night my vision was clear enough to watch tv. The next morning everything looked brilliant. I was able to drive and I could read the 20/15 line at the eye doctor's office (better than normal). I went back to my programming job the next day. The worst part of the whole thing was some eye drops that I had to put in for a week. They didn't burn, but would get into my sinuses and leave a bitter taste in my mouth. > > > Hey Keith... we need to know where these women are... so we can invite them to another house warming paaa--tey. :-) I hear ya. I have found since shaving my head, I have had women intrested in rubbing my head. No woman ever cared to run her fingers through my hair. - -Keith ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V5 #47 **************************