No head towels, please

Those 'turbie' twist towels for your head, to keep your wet hair out of the way.

Now, towels are useful. A nice fluffy, soft towel can be a great thing. Maybe when you first moved into a place all on your own, someone gave you a nice, practical gift of towels. But.. would you give someone a used towel as a gift? Is *one* towel, specifically one towel useful only for the head, an appropriate thank you gift? The reason I ask is because I stumbled across this gem while at work this evening:

I use my Turbie Twist in the shower as a shower cap and it is great! I have also been known to take two with me when I go visit and I usually leave one with my hostess. It's a great way to say thank you for having me in your home.

Just so you know, if you come stay at my house, please don't give me a used head towel. We're cool. If you really want me to have some towels, send me a gift card for my birthday. Or if you want to say thanks for letting me stay here, just buy me a cup of coffee.

LJ Idol voting time!

It's yet again voting time for LJ Idol. If you like my entry, then please vote for me. I'm in group RM, the second poll on the page. You can find it here.

There's more than a hundred other entries you can read if you are so inclined. After some thought, I want to present a few of my favorites from this week. Go out and vote for them as well! These entries are all different, and each one offers a passionate viewpoint eloquently presented.

Hideforshame has written something that could have been directed by Scorsese. It is a powerful piece that plays out in different ways every day in every place. It is just so damn thoughtful it makes me want to weep.

Kittenboo states the obvious, in all caps in case you missed it. I've followed that story in the news since it broke and it just seems stranger and sadder every day. In case you miss the point = no eight year old needs a damned gun. Really.

Technophile puts a name to that behavior I can't stand - the woe-off. Seriously, I can't stand people who need to prove something by making it seem their lives are so much harder and worse than everyone else so they are so superior because no one else could ever suffer the way they do. The woe-off is inherently absurd.

RM lives a life far from ordinary. She asks everyone to dream bigger, not smaller. It's possible to live an enormous life in a small space. I've seen her apartment and it's tiny.

Monkeysugarmamma misses Thanksgiving. Me too, strangely enough. I don't like Christmas decorations going up in October. It's ridiculous, and messes with my internal progression of months.

Walkertxkitty kindly asks that you keep your damned kids from jumping on her service dog. This post made me cringe in horror. One might think a person has enough trouble just dealing with the day if they have significant disabilities and need assistance with their daily activities. But dealing with the entitlement and stupidity of others sounds exhausting. I am such a cranky person, I would be threatening to mace these people.

Pinkslit wants to know why the hell people keep saying 'that's so gay.' I'm so glad someone wrote about this. Oh, you say, I just use it ironically. Oh we're just being silly, we aren't trying to be mean. Really? So do you call your friends with mental disabilities retards? Call your Hispanic fellows wetbacks? Do you say 'That's so Jewish!' too? Think about the words coming out of you damned mouth for a few seconds, think about how they might sound and why you are using them. Think about if that is the kind of person you want to be.

Anyhow, enough from me. The internet has roiled today with woe-offs and all kinds of nonsense so I'm going to eat some lime sherbet and hang out with Mike and Pumpkin kitty.