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[shanmonster]

After another workout at the gym this morning, I had a bizarre modelling session. I got to sit most of it out because the artists were drawing a skull. Afterwards, they drew the skull again, then drew my face around it. The drawings are pretty creepy. Then they had me make faces and hold it for three minutes. This is very difficult. Just try doing it yourself. See if you can hold an animated expression of any sort for three minutes. If your head is tipped forward and your mouth is open, you'll begin to drool. If your head is tipped back, your neck will hurt. If your eyes or mouth are open wide, the muscles will begin to shimmy. Your lips will dry out and hurt.

I model again on Thursday. I hope I don't have to make faces again.

On that note, here are your links du jour:

Beavers weave cash stolen from casino into a creek dam in Louisiana: "Beavers found a bag of bills stolen from a casino, tore it open and wove the money into the sticks and brush of their dam on a creek near Baton Rouge."

Woman Walks After 47 Pounds Of Fat, Skin Removed: "Fuller tried the diets and the pills but when those didn't work, she decided gastric bypass surgery was the only thing that would save her life." I wonder if she tried exercising and eating a healthy diet. It might have saved her a lot of money and agony.

Obesity tied to brain decline Study finds 'apple shaped' seniors more likely to suffer mental loss: I'm sure they exist, but I don't know any obese old people. A bit chubby, maybe, but not outright fat. So I couldn't tell you if their minds are scintillating or not.

Cocktube: "The first drink out of a cocktube." I think it's a beverage, but I'm afraid to find out what flavour it is.

Principal is whipped to punish two teens: Teachers ought to keep their sexual kinks away from the workplace.

Speaking of sexual kinks and the religious, Christian_FemdomDs welcomes you to our home on the World-Wide-Web: I laughed aloud when I read "There are no safe words in the lake of fire."

Dick's Dick: Dick Cheney doesn't have a penis. He has a SCUD missile. Either that, or it's a colostomy bag.

Hell-carving excorcist (sic) caught with Buddhist wood in netherworld: This bizarre title is obfuscating what the story is actually about: a priest who exorcises the spirits of aborted foetuses.

Mystery surrounds 70 pairs of shoes filled with butter in woods: It must be art. Or maybe it's a fetish.

RoboDump: Ha! Hahahahahahahaha! I want one....

A Collection of Unusual Neurological States: There are some real doozies in here.

Burrell Cannon: Did Burrell Cannon make and fly a powered aircraft a year before the Wright Brothers?

Comments

[zombienought.livejournal.com]

I want to know what happened to the
poor beavers.

And do you think think your dearth
of old fat people is due to the fact
that fat people don't live to be old?
I'm sure there are fat old people in
Texas. I'm pretty sure I saw some, in
my great-grandmother's nursing home.

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

Maybe I just need to go to Mall Wart to see the fat oldsters. That seems like too great a sacrifice, though. I hate going to the mall.

[pivyca.livejournal.com]

Hey Shan,

I remember a while back in the bellydance journal we were talking about 3/4 shimmy and you were interested in some video clips (I think it was you). The link someone l;osted today of rachel Brice (http://homepage.mac.com/tijjster/iMovieTheater5.html) has some good ones, although on my 'puter the frames seem to run a wee but slow. Look during the second song clip, especially the clips where it loks like she's demonstrating (i.e., out of costume). It's blendedin (for lack of a better word) with lots of other moves, so it's hard to catch sometimes and it goes so fast, but you can kinda see just how ab-driven her 3/4 shimmy really is.
I know this is kinda random, sorry. :)

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

Wow! You have a good memory! Thanks for the video clip. I'd seen it before, but it's neat to have a particular thing to look for. I'm going to go do my 3/4 shimmies in the mirror and see if it looks like the same muscles are engaging. It looks like she's incorporating her obliques into almost everything. I think I'm using my psoas and glutes, but I want to get visual feedback to see if my obliques are in on the action, too.

And thanks again for the link, because the main page is also giving me some excellent anecdotal information for a research project I'm working on.