With the rise of handy listening devices which facilitate music being played for many activities during the day, one is confronted with decisions never before considered practical. Example 1: you are going for a five mile run on a Sunday morning in some pretty municipal park. It takes you 52 minutes on a good day, plus a few minutes for stretching and whatnot. You are no longer relegated to really long cassettes. Now you can get a 99 CD player that is the size of a dime and costs $15 and runs with Microsoft software, and for an extra $1.50 you can get stock prices and world headlines funneled directly into your cortex. Example 2: on a warm August evening you feel like swimming half a mile in your pool in the backyard. So you do. You have a 125 CD player hooked up to play through speakers lining the pool walls and floor. For an extra $2.50 you can get holographic projections of Esther Williams synchronized swimming routines. Example 3: in your private gym with your private trainer, you have a 199 CD player which will cater to your every need. For a quarter you can also get random voice recordings of Beat poets interspersed with Britney Spears clips from her “Diary…” special.

Two themes run through these examples: a need to identify a grouping of CDs which will fulfill a predetermined function; and differing requirements for music which will catalyze different activities. For instance, if you are running for an hour or swimming laps for 45 minutes, you don’t want one minute songs that are dissonant and aggressive. You want long happy songs that absorb your attention. However, if you are about to do some heavy lifting or work on your jabbing, you may want something with an edge, verging on the confrontational. Following, some CD and activity pairings.

Lifting, Crunches, Stretching

Public Enemy, Fear of a Black Planet6ths, Wasp’s NestRoyal Trux, Thank YouMinistry, In Case You Didn’t Feel Like Showing UpRevolting Cocks, Linger Ficken’ Good & Other Barnyard Oddities

Swimming

Lush, SplitTortoise, Millions Now Living Will Never DiePsychedelic Furs, Psychedelic FursCan, Cannibalism 1Edith Frost, Calling Over Time

Running

Bob Dylan, Bringing It All Back HomeMary Lou Lord, Mary Lou LordBruce Springsteen, NebraskaBruce Springsteen, Darkness on the Edge of TownJohn Prine, John Prine

Cooking & Drinking

Daftpunk, HomeworkBeastie Boys, Ill CommunicationMC Solaar, Prose CombatSerge Gainsbourg, Comic StripBats, Courage

Organizing Things/Cleaning Things

Lee Scratch Perry & The Upsetters, Eastwood Rides AgainEnnio Morricone, Legendary Italian WesternsMassive Attack, Blue LinesBob Marley & The Wailers, African HerbsmanStan Getz, Bossa Nova-Vol. 53-Verve Jazz

Low self-esteem, unrealistic expectations and self-loathing are all products of the ideal beauty image projected in America. These images have damaged women to the point where they willingly subject themselves to painful treatments, plastic surgery and expensive skincare products and cosmetics.

The skincare and cosmetic product aspect of the beauty industry is a multi-billion dollar a year business providing to women “hope in a jar” or tube. Out of the many large upscale cosmetic companies like Lancome, Este Lauder and Clinique only four cater to African-American women and even less addresses the needs of other women of color. I wonder, in a multi-cultural and multi-ethnic society like ours, how this is possible. I find the biggest offenders to be department stores.

Even though most carry products, foundation particularly, in colors that are appropriate for women of color they only use European models in their commercials and print ads. As a beauty advisor for a major cosmetic company I find many women of color patronizing lines that don’t even find it necessary to include women of color in their counter displays promoting a new product or new colors for the season. These companies gladly take our money but refuse to use women of color in their ad campaigns to let us know that their products are for women of color too and that our patronage is appreciated.

Is it ignorance or blatant bigotry? I think it’s a little of both. According to Business Trends Analysts statistics show white baby boomers, the main purchasing demographic for most cosmetic companies are approaching the end of their cosmetic buying years. While African- American women, who are younger than average are still in their cosmetic purchasing prime.

Some of the largest cosmetic lines will indeed feel the pressure as the ethnic makeup of the United States changes. By the year 2020 32% of the US population will be people of color. The fastest growing ethnic groups according to Business Trends Analysts are Asian-Americans, Hispanic Americans and American Indians with Caucasians growing the least. By the year 2050 the US population will have a “minority majority”. States like California, Florida and New York have already experienced the switch.

In the not so distant future mainstream cosmetic companies will have to change their paradigm and create and market products that will meet the varied needs of women of color or else they won’t survive.

I must admit cosmetic companies mostly sold in drug and discount stores like Revlon, Maybelline and Covergirl have risen to the occasion and have incorporated products for women of color and also feature them as spokeswomen. But will higher priced and more prestigious companies occupying the aisles of department stores follow suit? We have yet to see.

Hot Sensuous Teens Want Me?

I’m puzzled. I live a relatively decorous life. I tend to behave in public, although I do apologize to lamp posts and low tree branches when I bump into them. Carelessness is part of my blundering about in the world.

But, I don’t cavort or attend amateur nights at Hooters. I don’t order bawdy books or vegetable shaped marital aids from anywhere. I don’t go to chat rooms. There’s nothing in my AOL profile that mentions pierced body parts, breast enhancement, hot dogs, or thongs.

I don’t even get the Victoria’s Secret catalogue anymore. Much to my husband’s disappointment. Although I’m not sure how I got on their list either.

So, I wonder why it is that I get questionable, unsolicited email entreating me to enjoy cyberbabes frolicking in hot tubs. I don’t want to. I never do. So why am I on a list, blind or otherwise?

Plesure can be yours…

invite yourself…just seconds

away from enjoying Pure Ecstacy!

Well, hell. If they can’t even spell “pleasure” or “Ecstasy” correctly, perhaps these folks might not know much about either. Or my version of both. Girl Scout Thin Mints are involved.

Speaking of cookies….and please understand that I am a Computer Ignoramus…the only thing I can think of is this: I’ve got cookies hidden somewhere on my web record that is telling men who dress in gold chains and have obvious comb-overs about me. But they are wrong.

The cookies might be spreading the word that I am a tattooed, gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, wandering hetero teen-age, middle-age, lonely voyeur who loves “Do Me” shoes, whips, and smut cams, Live! Live! Live!

Why would a cookie do this? I believe I have figured it out. Two years ago, when we moved south, we needed furniture for our new living room. I didn’t know where I was or where to go. So, of course I did a web search to find out where I could get a couple of couches made quickly.

Because I am a careless bumbler and the dog is allowed on the furniture I decided to get leather. I typed in Leather Center, a chain of stores that promises two week delivery.

Get it? LEATHER! It was an innocent word search. I had to go take a cold shower after I found what I was looking for what with all the other kinds of offerings that got triggered by my innocuous quest.

It’s either that, or someone remembers a party I went to in nineteen seventy-five. I swear I didn’t stay long.

Everyone is wondering, how do you get a man like that? If you are too aggressive, you might scare them off. You might never get anywhere if you wait for them to make a move. What should girls do?

Social pheromones are a great way to get a man to open up to you quickly. Social pheromone perfumes will help the both of you become less shy. All you need to do is flirt a little, and the guy will be hooked.

If you are considering using pheromones to get a man, then it’s worth it to learn more about it. Pheromones will give you the desired and amazing results, but you have to get the top grade product and apply it correctly.

Before you try it out on the man you really desire, give it a test run. Put on a small amount and go to a place with people. Look at their reactions. If they fail to be more affable, attentive and flirty, then try applying a bit more until you obtain the desired effects.

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