Things you will learn by watching Man vs Wild:

• You can’t just leave a snake’s head lying about after you cut it off. You must bury it or burn it.
• Goat testicles are not a usual item on Bear Gryll’s menu.
• If you watch for more than five minutes, you will find Bear happily popping an insect into his mouth.

Despite allegations that he actually has a bit of a cush time, it’s still entertaining.

In other news, I miss Deadliest Catch.

My hands either smell like Frankincense and Myrrh or Dragon’s Blood. My nose is far too overwhelmed to tell the difference. I was removing labels from some bottles of incense oil for Cha and I can’t get the stuff off of my hands. Three hand washings and some dousings of rubbing alcohol later and I’ve come to the conclusion that I will not be crocheting tonight. I have no desire to have my nearly done scarf smell like a head shop.

I think Bear is about to crawl inside a dead camel. Tauntauns everywhere cheer.
Wait a minute… don’t drink that! Ewww…

I should be sleeping because I have to go to the flea market tomorrow, but damn I love Stalag 17.

I will regret this when I’m making the trip half asleep with my ipod trying to kill me by playing the Dirty Three, Mazzy Star and Ryan Adams with the occasional Doctor Who audiobook thrown in.

Picnic in Arkham > Nyarlathotep

Lab description: Brooding, yet electric: the scent of buried secrets, roiling nightmares, the essence of the Crawling Chaos, the Father of Knives and Locusts, the Hunter in the Dark. This is the blackest of ritual incense charged with flashes of ozone.

Freebie from the lab.

On me: Lemons? Citrusy and aquatic. Not what I expected from the description. As someone on the BPAL forums said, “The Crawling Dark should not smell lemony fresh!” A clean and fresh smell. I like it so far, though I don’t think I need a big bottle.

Illyria > Tamora

Lab description: Amber, heliotrope, golden sandalwood, peach blossom and vanilla bean.

On me: Very sweet upon first application. Very fruity, almost sugary scent. I can almost taste it. A few minutes later and the fruity sweetness started to fade into the background a bit. I love it at this stage, but it soon turns to a mixture of sweet incense and the dreaded baby powder. Still kind of like it though.