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Boston Elites Get Made Up at Mizu Salon!

 

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Things got hot this past Saturday in Boston as Elites made their way to Mizu Salon in the Mandarin Oriental Hotel for an evening of beautification, bevvies, bites and beats!

Upon entrance to the sleek, modern space at Mizu, Elites had the chance to watch a transformation of our makeover contest winners Anna F, Orly M and Deepa C. Check out the before photos of our gals:

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While the makeovers were taking place, Elites were treated to complimentary blowouts, hairstyles and makeup consultations with the Mizu staff and our friends at Sephora! On hand to provide a little liquid love for the event was local liquor purveyors Berkshire Mountain Distillers, serving up their signature cocktail, The Ice Pick, along with cupfuls of their delicious vodka, gin and rum! And with bartenders on hand from Drinkmaster Bartending School, the cocktails were consistently flowing! All the while, the makeovers were in progress:

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Jenny N found herself loving the spread of pate and cheese provided by Sel de la Terre on Boylston Street, and cupcakes from Sugar in West Roxbury were designer for sure, with flavors like Cotton Candy, Milky Way, Pistachio, Chocolate Peanut Butter and ELEVEN more varieties of cupcakes!

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Throughout the night, Andy from Wicked Good Records kept the music pumping and the mood elevated with his selection of funk, soul and dance music. Sara S was definitely loving his remix of Brittany Spears! And if that weren’t enough, Boston Photobooth was in the house, giving Elites the chance to get cute behind the curtain in their old-school style photobooth. The best part? Pics were printed on the spot and everyone took home their very own photos! And you check them all out here!

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Our raffle winners Becki W, Susan J, John L and lucky plus-one Kaitlyn Z snagged tickets to Wine Riot, and Blair H‘s better half, also known as Lauren S, took home a pair of tickets to Cochon 555!

 

If you’re looking for photographic evidence of all the fun, check out pics posted by Trish F and the official photos snapped by Nathan E. And of course, if you’d like to add your own thoughts, jot down a few choice words here. 

And those makeovers? Check out the gorgeous results:

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Until we meet again, Boston!

Cheers,Leighann F

Yelp, Inc. is a Web 2.0 company that operates a social networking, user review, and local search web site of the same name. Over 10.6 million people access Yelp’s website each month, putting it in the top 100 of U.S. Internet web sites.

After an aborted start as an email recommendation service, Yelp launched its namesake web site into the San Francisco market in October 2004 under the direction of founders Jeremy Stoppelman and Russel Simmons, both of whom were early software engineering employees at PayPal. The company received $6 million in early funding from venture capital firms Mission Street, led by another former Paypal-er Max Levchin, and Bessemer Venture Partners. Additional investments were made in the amounts of $10 million by Benchmark Capital in 2006 and $15 million by DAG Ventures in 2008. Yelp expanded from its San Francisco roots to open an east coast office in Manhattan in the first half of 2008 and by introducing a Canadian-focused version of the site in 2008. Yelp currently gets about as many pageviews as it its predecessor and closest rival, Citysearch, but is growing much faster.  Profitability is expected in 2009.

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MATTHEW WHITTINGER

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Matthew Hittinger is the author of Pear Slip, winner of the Spire Press 2006 Spring Chapbook Award. Shortlisted for the National Poetry Series, the New Issues Poetry Prize, and twice for the Walt Whitman Award, Matthew’s honors include a Hopwood Award and The Helen S. and John Wagner Prize from the University of Michigan, the Kay Deeter Award from the journal Fine Madness, and three Pushcart nominations. His work has appeared in many journals including American Letters & Commentary, Center: A Journal of the Literary Arts, DIAGRAM, Mantis, Memorious, Meridian, Michigan Quarterly Review, Oranges & Sardines and elsewhere, including the anthology Best New Poets 2005. Matthew lives and works in New York City.

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Narcissus Resists

I am pleased to announce the release of my new chapbook Narcissus Resists.

In keeping with the spirit of the sequence, the chapbook is available both online and in print.
Head on over to www.resistthis.com where you can order a copy through Amazon or CreateSpace, read the online interactive version, and even listen to audio of me reading it.

Special thank-yous to Didi Menendez at MiPOesias who helped this project finally see the light of day, to Sean Keogh for the recording session, and to Connie Brady who lent me work for the front and back covers.  You can hear Sean’s work here and contact Connie here to see more of her work.

Narcissus now lives at www.resistthis.com.  Spread the word!

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ADRIANA SASSOON PHOTOGRAPHY

A Arte do Reflexo

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Copyright © 2009 ADRIANA SASSOON .All Rights Reserved.

Nova Iorque como , ja sabemos esta localizada no nordeste do país, é a cidade mais populosa dos Estados Unidos e uma das cidades mais importantes e influentes do mundo, já que nela está localizado o principal centro financeiro mundial, bem como a sede da Organização das Nações Unidas.

Sentada na bancada da minha janela, no quarto do meu hotel em Nova Iorque eu descobri a beleza do reflexo.Comecei entao a prestar atencao na riqueza de detalhes de cada imagem refletida. Descobri uma maneira nova de ver as coisas a minha volta.Os predios em Nova Iorque estao entre os mais altos do mundo.Nova Iorque é conhecida mundialmente pelos seus arranha-céus e edifícios espalhados por toda cidade concentrando a maioria deles em Manhattan. Muitos destes altos edifícios são famosos mundo afora. A Flatiron Building, com seus 22 andares, foi um dos primeiros a serem inaugurados em Nova Iorque, em 1902.

Na década de 1930, muitos arranha-céus foram construídos. Primeiramente, o Chrysler Building (77 andares), finalizado em 1930. O Empire State Building (102 andares), um dos principais cartões postais da cidade, foi finalizado em 1931, e é atualmente o prédio mais alto. O Rockefeller Center (72 andares) foi inaugurado em 1940, e possui uma grande praça, famosa especialmente no inverno.A Estátua da Liberdade, montada em 1884, na França, desmontada e transportada em navios, para ser finalmente remontada em Nova Iorque, e inaugurada em 1886. Esta estátua muito comumente era a primeira vista dos muitos imigrantes que chegavam até a década de 1970.

Muitas igrejas são famosas pelo estilo gótico de arquitetura. Entre elas, a Catedral Episcopal de São João, o Divino, a Igreja Católica de São Patrício e a Igreja Riverside.

 REFLECTION By Adriana Sassoon 

Olhando a vida por um outro ângulo, descobrimos elementos novos. A reflexão pode ser em forma de pensamento ou imagem. O momento atual, pede atenção. Vivemos em um mundo totalmente, capitalista. Deixamos de lado a apreciação pelo convívio com amigos e os familiares, e tudo mais a nossa volta passa desapercebido.

A falta de tempo nos obriga a viver quase que roboticamente.As artes clássicas , são de minha preferência. A musica, as pinturas, as esculturas. A natureza, e a maior fonte de inspirarão para as mentes criativas, isso data desde o homem primitivo ate a atualidade.A arquitetura e o carro chefe, na área da criação das artes visuais, a moda e depois o resto. Que tal refletir-mos um pouco a respeito desta questão.Já que estamos em uma sociedade globalizada,e digitalizada.A arte, e uma só e a linguagem de comunicação para todas as áreas do design. O que difere entre uma área e outra sao somente os elementos, materiais a serem usados pelo artista.

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 The world’s most famous hairdresser, lends his scissors to storm-recovery effort.

Vidal Sassoon, the world’s most famous hairdresser, was in Lacombe on a bright, cool Sunday afternoon last month. He had come to celebrate the success of “Hairdressers Unlocking Hope,” an international fund-raising effort by beauty professionals that has generated more than $1.7 million for the East St. Tammany Habitat for Humanity.

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Strolling around East Chestnut Street, he posed for pictures, helped screw in the railing on a new Habitat house and chatted with dozens of hairstylists laying sod and spreading mulch around the tidy cottages they helped construct.

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 Looking remarkably fit, (he swims four times a week) and naturally gray- haired at 79 years old, (he turns 80 in January), Sassoon borrowed a black marker and added his autograph to a piece of white poster paper listing contributors to the project. There are big fans of the Sassoon line of hair products. Vidal  Sassoon the name that’s graced a million shampoo bottles.

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  “If you don’t look good, we don’t look good” Vidal Sassoon.

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SASSOON  STYLE  BOB

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Before the bob hair cut became popular in the 1920’s, women were confined to having long hairstyles that were swept up with combs or often worn with hairnets to keep their curls. The 1920’s changed all this when the constraints of the Victorian styles were abandoned.With the war, women were finally able to wear their hair short, thanks to the actions of Irene Castle, silent-screen actress, who started this popular haircut in 1917 to help with the war efforts. It was the promoted style to change the outlook of women that in the time of war, they did not have the time to spend on their hair and the style would help keep their hair from being tangled in factory machines. This style became the most demanded style in this time.By the 1940’s, however, long hair was back, with emphasize on the soft, wavy looks of the shoulder length style. It wasn’t until the 1960’s that the bob style became popular again. Women were back in the work force and they needed more manageable styles. Long hair did not fit the style of the working woman.It wasn’t long before the most influential hairstylist to date, Vidal Sassoon, helped to make the bob style more popular than ever by changing the cut of the bob style haircut.Sassoon and his creative director, Maurice Tidy spent time developing variations to the cut and before long, most women wanted their hair cut in the bob cut.This trend continued along into the 1970’s with the Dorothy Hamill cut that everyone seemed to copy. Even today, with the hairstyles varied, this style continues to be popular.The bob hair cuts of today are simply variations of the look created in the 1920’s. Four decades ago, Maurice Tidy worked with Vidal Sassoon in London popularizing the 1960s bob hair style.

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There is nothing more simple and elegant than a Sassoon bob.  And for a  hairdresser, there is no cut more challenging to master.  It requires perfect technique, meticulous attention to detail, and a keen understanding of hair texture and growth patterns.  Just as many executive chefs test the skills of potential employees by asking them to make something as simple to prepare yet as challenging to perfect as the omlette, anyone in the hair business knows a true stylist is only as good as her bob.  Indeed, the bob is the omlette of the hair world.Sometimes the higher-end the salon, the higher-end the snob factor, especially when you’re not a client.  But despite the Sassoon name, despite the Beverly Hills address.They say that in the beauty industry, a successful  hairdresser is 20% talent and 80% personality.  

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The style was, at first, shocking as women who previously prided themselves on long, luxurious hair, chopped off their locks in a show of independence and equality with men. The original style was worn straight and flat on top or waved with a Marcel iron.

A style is a ‘bob’ if it is cut with a weighted area falling anywhere from just below the ears to just below the chin.Although the bob has faded from the style front on occasion it has always been in the back-ground showing sophistication and class. Vidal Sassoon made such a hit with his severe and sculpted adaptation of this style that many think that it originated with him.The most interesting about the bob is that it has been updated and modified for many style trends but with each come-back, the original look is still as acceptable as the new styles.This style is adaptable to many facial structures and textures of hair. This, along with the ease of styling most adaptations are likely reasons for its tendency to keep reappearing on the style scene.

Over the years, the cut has been modified by adding bangs or taking them away, stylized by cutting one side short while leaving the other long, texturized, permed, waved, poofed and flattened, but it is always unmistakably a bob.Curly or straight, there is a bob haircut to fit just about every face and life style. So if you are looking for a new look that is sophisticated and stylish as well as appropriate for the office and easy to care for, there is very likely a bob that is perfect for you.

 

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Jenna Malone at the Los Angeles Special Screening of "The Ruins" on April 2, 2008 at the Arclight Theater in Los Angeles

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Vidal Sassoon Hair Revival

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The Quant: Sixties designer Mary Quant’s slick pageboy cut was a variation on Vidal Sassoon’s classic angular bob.There were other mod idols, too. Learn more about Mary Quant, a fashion designer who claimed to have invented the miniskirt. She and her husband were a driving force behind 1960’s “Swinging London.”

 

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The Twiggy crop: The original supermodel was hailed as the face of 1966 when she went for a super-short boyish cut.

Twiggy really only had one look, but she took it very seriously. Although the mod fashion movement got its start in 1950’s London, it’s Twiggy who is frequently remembered as the face of mod.  Mod fashion was streamlined and bold, definitively minimalist. Look for geometric patterns, startling colors, and hemlines cut well above the knee.With her short-cropped mod hairstyle, neat side-part, and long, dark lashes, Twiggy epitomized the streamlined grace that so many mod kids exalted.

Twiggy’s fellow model Peggy Moffitt popularized the austere “five point” Vidal Sassoon haircut, the moddest mod hairstyle there ever was.

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Forget Twiggy: American model Peggy Moffitt is one of the most iconic faces of 1960’s mod fashion. The actress-turned-model, who became muse to designer Rudy Gernreich, redefined the high fashion look of the era. Her Japanese Theater-inspired makeup and signature hairstyle came to represent the strengthening bond between pop art and fashion.Moffitt started modeling when she began dating photographer William Claxson, whom she later dated. Unconventionally beautiful, Moffitt’s symmetrical, almost cartoonish face redefined the qualities sought in fashion models, paving the way for superstar Twiggy.Moffitt and Gernreich continue to influence the fashion world, despite Gernreich’s death in 1985. Moffitt’s look remains popular in the haute fashion world, and several vintage Gernreich designs were redistributed under the Japanese label Commes des Garcons in 2003. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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AS BAD GIRLS ESTAO  DE VOLTA

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Depois das bonitinhas de plantão, o estilo atrevido e descolado das rebeldes sem causa faz sucesso novamente entre as celebs. O único probleminha é que, vez ou outra, elas perdem o rumo e exageram na dose.Elas não param de causar. Escândalo, sensação, rebeldia. Para o bem e para o mal. Abusam das mordomias, beijam mulheres na boca, se enchem de remédios, caem bêbadas em seus carros luxuosos, mas não saem das primeiras páginas de jornais, revistas e sites de celebridades. Agora atire o primeiro piercing quem não adora uma personalidade ousada, interessante, desafiadora e ainda por cima estilosa.

O motivo mais provável dessa atração é que, em parte, acabamos nos reconhecendo nessas bad girls. Isso porque não existe alguém que num dia difícil da vida não tenha desejado chutar o pau da barraca. Bernardo Jablonski, psicólogo e professor da PUC do Rio de Janeiro, explica que só não botamos isso sempre em prática porque pensamos no que os outros – o que inclui mãe, namorado, polícia, amigos, vizinhos – vão pensar. “Então, refreamos nossos desejos e nos satisfazemos assistindo ao desempenho dos outsiders, admirando e invejando quem ousa nadar contra a corrente”, diz.Amadas a distância e geralmente odiadas por quem está por perto, as bad girls que mais nos fascinam são as que têm algum talento para mostrar. Correm riscos, se expõem, mas acreditam no que fazem. E dão o seu recado. A seguir, algumas rebeldes de hoje e outras que já fizeram história.  Regina Valadares

1930 MARQUESA LUISA CASATI
A aristocrata italiana ficou conhecida na belle époque por andar nua sob seu casaco de pele. Acompanhada por um par de lulus com coleiras de diamantes, frequentou a nata da sociedade europeia. Seus empregados a serviam nus, com uma folha de ouro tapando as partes íntimas. Foi musa de artistas e designers e ainda hoje inspira a marca Marchesa.

1970 VIVIENNE WESTWOOD
A estilista inglesa não inventou o rock, mas foi quem melhor o vestiu. Seu estilo inteligente, anarquista e nada convencional é revolucionário. Aos 67 anos, ela é a avó de todos os movimentos que propõem mais e mais liberdade. Não existe nada mais inspirador do que uma mulher que se recusa a sucumbir, não importa a idade. E continua a inovar.

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1980 MADONNA
Quanto é marketing e quanto é verdade, não importa. O fato é que ela é um símbolo sexy há 20 anos. Fez fotos eróticas, filme sexy, filme sério, teve filhos, casou, descasou e criou um estilo. Crucifixo, sutiã em forma de cone, chapéu de caubói, ela reinventa a moda e se reinventa. E, aos 50 anos, continua inteirona!

 

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JAIME  HAYON

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Jaime Hayón Spanish artist-designer Jaime Hayon was born in Madrid in 1974. As a teenager, he submerged himself in skateboard culture and graffiti art, the foundation of the detailed, bold-yet-whimsical imagery so imminent in his work today.

After studying industrial design in Madrid and Paris he joined Fabrica in 1997, the Benetton-funded design and communication academy, working closely with the legendary image-maker and agitator Oliverio Toscani. In a short time he was promoted from student to head of their Design Department, where he oversaw projects ranging from shop, restaurant and exhibition conception and design to graphics. Eight years later, Jaime broke out on his own, first with collections of designer toys, ceramics and furniture, followed by interior design and installation.

His singular vision was first fully exposed in ‘Mediterranean Digital Baroque’ at London’s David Gill Gallery, an exciting mise en scène, largely executed in ceramic, followed by ‘Mon Cirque’, which traveled to Frankfurt, Barcelona, Paris and Kuala Lumpur.

These collections put Jaime at the forefront a new wave of creators that blurred the lines between art, decoration and design and a renaissance in finely-crafted, intricate objects within the context of contemporary design culture.

Jaime further defined his vision in subsequent solo exhibitions and shows at London’s Aram Gallery, and Milan’s Salone de Mobile and his work has been displayed in Germany’s Vitra Museum, London’s Design Museum, Rotterdam’s Vivid Gallery, the Gronginger Museum (also in Holland) and the Basel Art Fair and has attracted the attention of prestigious art collectors. Jaime’s esteem and knowledge of artisan skills and his inherent creativity has allowed him to push the boundaries of many mediums and functions, resulting in collections for clients as diverse as ArtQuitect (bathrooms) b.d. ediciones, Established and Sons and Moooi (domestic furniture), Metalarte and Swarovski (lighting fixtures), Berhardt Design (textiles), Piper Heidsieck (champagne buckets), Gaia and Gino (vases) and Bosa Ceramiche (ceramic objects). He has conceived two important collections for Bisazza. Most recently, he has created the ‘Rencontres’ collection for Baccarat; a collection of vases and lamps that reinterpret the firm’s famous cut crystal by adding elements in ceramic and plastic. His ongoing work as a creative consultant for the Spanish porcelain manufacturer Lladró has resulted in a new direction for the company, as well as Jaime’s own collection ‘Fantasy’. Adding to his acclaimed intramurals for Madrid’s La Terraza del Casino restaurant and Camper footwear stores, Jaime is currently working on interiors for leading hotels, restaurants and retail establishments around the world. Jaime currently resides in London, with offices in Barcelona and Treviso (Italy).

His work has appeared in the most prestigious art and design publications worldwide. He has won numerous awards including ‘Best Installation’ (Icon Magazine), ‘Breakthrough Creator’ (Wallpaper Magazine) and the 2006 Elle Deco International Award. In 2008, Jaime was guest of honor at Belgium’s Interieur Biennial, the youngest person ever to receive the accolade.

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Jaime Hayon ha diseñado el nuevo interior del Restaurante La Terraza del Casino.
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 This unusual bathroom presented designer Jaime Hayon (Hayon Studio) . The combination of the organic with minimal and colors, concluded at this idea makes bathroom bright and delightful.

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Sneak preview: Italian mosaic brand Bisazza will present installations by young designers Jaime Hayon and Studio Job in Milan this April, during the city’s furniture fair.

The installations will showcase a range of new objects by the designers for Bisazza’s homeware range Bisazza Home, which will be shown at Superstudio Più in Milan’s Zona Tortona.

Upcoming Spanish designer Hayon will present an installation featuring “Pinocchione” – a giant Pinocchio-type figure – plus a range of new products including lights and pedestals clad in Bisazza mosaics (top image).

 

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Meeno Peluce

Meeno Peluce (born February 26, 1970) is a former American child actor, the child of Floyd Peluce and Sondra Peluce Londy. He has one half-sister, actress Soleil Moon Frye, whose father is actor Virgil Frye. With dark curly hair and pixieish looks, Peluce made guest appearances on American television programs during the 1970s and early 1980s, including “Starsky and Hutch”, “Diff’rent Strokes”, “The Incredible Hulk”, “Happy Days”, …

 Among his regular television roles were Tanner Boyle in The Bad News Bears and as history prodigy Jeffrey Jones in Voyagers!. He appeared in the pilot episode of the M*A*S*H spinoff W*A*L*T*E*R with Gary Burghoff, but the series was not picked up.

He also appeared in several made-for-TV movies, including Night Cries, Fast Friends, and World War III, and in the original theatrical release of The Amityville Horror, as one of the Lutz children. Peluce also appeared in the music video for “The Last in Line” by the group Dio.

After growing up, Peluce attended college and became a history teacher, with a position at Hollywood High School in the late 1990s. He returned to film during 1998, co-writing and co-producing Wild Horses (aka Lunch Time Special) with Soleil Moon Frye, and in 2001 when he appeared in Alex in Wonder (also titled Sex and a Girl).

Peluce is a photographer, and showcases his photographs, along with writings, at his website, meenophoto

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Germes, Fungos e Micróbios à Espreita

por Patricia Campos Mello,

Abro o The New York Times e descubro que um certo Simon Sassoon de Nova York está ganhando a maior grana com o seguinte produto: um desinfetante de maçanetas de portas de banheiro. Trata-se de um aparelhinho que fica borrifando desinfetante hospitalar na maçaneta. Aparentemente, as pessoas morrem de nojo de encostar em maçaneta de porta de banheiro em restaurante, escola, escritório, etc.

Outro produto muito vendido, diz o diário, é uma alça portátil, para que você não precise encostar naquelas barras do metrô ou ônibus. Naquelas onde TODO mundo segura, eca….

Mas o meu favorito é um chamado Excuse Me – trata-se de uma bandeira com uma hastezinha, que a pessoa fixa na cintura. Se alguma pessoa se aproxima demais de você, leva uma bandeirada na cara – “O Excuse Me cria um espaço de 90 centímetros entre você e um possível espirro”, esclareceu ao NYT a criadora do artefato, Emily Beck. “O produto permite que você não tenha que encostar em ninguém e nem falar com ninguém em Nova York.” Presente perfeito para misantropos e hipocondríacos – ou talvez para altruístas que têm mau hálito e não querem que a humanidade sofra.

Os Estados Unidos são uma nação com fobia de micróbios. Trata-se de uma enorme aglomeração de Monks (aquele detetive obsessivo-compulsivo, que passa a vida limpando tudo, da série homônima de TV a cabo). Eles já têm teoria de conspiração para tudo, os hackers das urnas eletrônicas (culparam até o Chávez), o assassino do John Kennedy, a mídia sionista….e também os fungos, vírus e bactérias terroristas…. estão todos à espreita….os germes e o bin Laden querem te pegar…..

Eu já tinha vivido essa histeria anti-germes antes. Morei com uma colega de quarto da Pensilvânia que tinha verdadeiro pânico de infecções variadas. Ela desinfetava tudo a cada cinco minutos. Depois do 11 de setembro, quando houve a ameaça de antraz, eu fiquei encarregada de abrir toda a correspondência por meses – ela tinha certeza de que todas as cartas estavam contaminadas.

E ela me contou – depois descubro que é bastante comum por aqui, segundo o NYT –
que enrolava o dedo em papel higiênico antes de apertar a descarga.

Veio-me à cabeça uma palavra interessante: anal retentive, ou seja, indivíduo que tem retenção anal. Eh, parece um pouco rude, mas as pessoas falam isso aqui, normalmente: Fulano, você é anal! A origem é de fato psicanalítica. Segundo o Webster, uma pessoa anal tem fixação na fase anal, e, como conseqüência, é metódica, com mania de limpeza, compulsiva.

Pois é, Excuse Me pra esse pessoal com retenção.

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Germophobia is Out of Control

I think we’ve gone a little too far when we feel the need to have our doorknobs automatically sanitized every 15 minutes to feel clean.

SIMON SASSOON saw the future in a dream. Mr. Sassoon, a former watch designer, dreamed he was standing in a women’s public restroom, which his hygiene-conscious girlfriend had just left. Attached to the door above the knob was a white plastic box.

As Mr. Sassoon’s dream self watched, the box made a gushing sound. Out from the bottom sprayed a fine dry mist, which bathed the metal knob and killed every germ on it.

The girlfriend is now an ex, but two years and $250,000 of investment capital later, the HYSO, an acronym for Cantonese words meaning “happy hands,” is starting to roll off production lines. Mr. Sassoon, 49, a nephew of the hairdresser Vidal Sassoon, is betting there is a vast and rapidly expanding market for a $60 device that sprays a hospital-grade disinfectant on doorknobs every 15 minutes.

 

I sure hope this spray dries quickly because I’m not real keen on touching wet doorknobs, regardless of what the fluid is.

For this and other crazy sanitary gadgets, go here . . .

(hat tip: Kevin MD)

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