Miscellany

1. I sure could use some leads on a good anatomically correct doll for April. Affordable and un-creepy, and I am resigned to vinyl. She currently is undressing every single doll she sees and checking out its parts. She's also checking out visitors, so mind your boundaries. It may also be time to break out Where Do Babies Come From and its terribly tasteful watercolors.

2. Barbara Payton's life story makes Frances Farmer's look like a cake walk.

3. I know you guys probably think I'm a little too obsessively politically correct on the subject of the skin hues of dolls. Nonetheless, I am disappointed in Planet Pixies.

4. An unrelated toddler disappointment: it's surprisingly hard to find dresses with either frogs or elephants on them. I finally succeeded with the frogs. Makes me wish I could sew. I wonder if Mom wants to take it up again...

5. Anyone have any recs for treating mild but very itchy eczema? This stuff just isn't going away this time for some reason.

Moar

1. Someone needs to remind me to take off the chicken skin before poaching so I can make some cracklings.

2. I am totally serious about Elizabeth Moon's rhetoric, like "the business of a citizen is the welfare of the nation," being proto-fascist.

3. I owe you all some recently read books. (Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye--Barbara Payton's bio, thus the comment last post--and a couple 33 1/3's on Murmur and In Utero. The latter is a pretty straightforward journalistic account of the making of the album; the former is seriously fascinating on all sorts of levels.)