Well, dear readers, whatever happened to dandruff? Yes, you heard it here, dear readers, whatever happened to dandruff. Dandruff was very prevalent in decades past – there were specific dandruff products, you could stand next to people and see dandruff on their coats and shirts and sweaters, there was even a line in Alfred Hitchock’s North by Northwest where Cary Grant as Roger O. Thornhill says, “Bulletin – Kaplan has dandruff.” So, how come no one ever mentions dandruff anymore? Dandruff has fallen off the face of the earth. Are shampoos simply better today? Do people keep their scalps moisturized better? According to Wikipedia, dandruff still affects a lot of people, but I, for one, have heard no mention of the dreaded dandruff for decades. There are no dandruff commercials (there certainly were in days of old), I see no evidence of dandruff when I’m with people and I hear no one ever speak the word dandruff. Dandruff has simply gone the way of the dodo bird. A little known fact is that the dodo bird had dandruff. I think it’s time for dandruff to make a comeback, don’t you? I feel we could use some dandruff commercials, and some You Tube dandruff videos, along with a nice dandruff ditty from Flaherty and Ahrens. I think dandruff has been given the short end of the stick, frankly. I also think Flaherty and Ahrens have been given the short end of the stick, but that’s another story. I do know for a fact that neither Flaherty nor Ahrens had dandruff. What the HELL am I talking about? Did I just spend an entire paragraph talking about dandruff? I did. Now perhaps I should write some notes, and hopefully the notes will not have dandruff.
Yesterday, I got up at nine and then just decided that was too damn early and fell back asleep and then got up at eleven. That was a very nice night’s beauty sleep. I did the four-mile jog, and then decided to take a look at the Gardenia commentary that I wrote a few days ago. As always, I made lots of little fixes and I’m quite happy with it now. Then I had a Cobb Salad for lunch, with a tiny bit of oil and a whole lot of red wine vinegar – it was very good and I also had a toasted sesame bagel and cream cheese with it. Then I listened to one of the three commentary tracks on the Nudie blu-ray – I hadn’t heard it since we did it – it’s the track we did on the documentary – at that time we were the first to ever do a commentary track on a DVD documentary, and I must say it’s really amusing. The authoring place had to remove just a few lines to make it time out correctly – some time differential when transferring the standard-def audio commentaries – I don’t really understand that stuff, but it all worked out fine.
I wasn’t really up for watching a motion picture, nor was I down for watching a motion picture, so I simply did not watch a motion picture. Instead, I pondered dandruff. Go know. Other than that, I just relaxed.
Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because I must get a good night’s beauty sleep, for tomorrow is quite a busy little day for the likes of me.
Today, as stated, will be quite a busy day. I must arise, I must do the four-mile jog, the helper will be by to deal with some invoices, I must do plentiful errands and whatnot, including banking, paying obscene numbers of Kritzerland bills, hopefully picking up a bunch of overdue packages, I must give our web series hard drive to our editor, I must approve our final opening title animation, I must make sure that all packaging is going to the printers – for Nudie Musical and the next Kritzerland release, I must eat something light but amusing, and I must attend a stumble-through of the Gardenia show.
Tomorrow, I have lots o’ stuff to do in the early part of the day, then we do our sound check and then it’s our one-year anniversary show, which I’m very excited about. We’ll be doing a CD giveaway and have some fun surprises in store. Hoping to see some of our West Coast dear readers and lurkers in attendance. The rest of the week if filled with meetings, meals, seeing rough cuts of two episodes of the web series (that will tell me whether we’re going to have to take the sound to my engineer’s for finessing – I’m hoping we won’t have to, but he’s agreed to help if we do). We also have to get Melody over there to fix her lyric flub and add one line of patter to one of her set-ups.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, do the four-mile jog, I must see the helper, I must do errands and whatnot, I must pick up overdue packages, I must approve animation, I must make sure that everything gets to the printers, and I must attend a stumble-through. Today’s topic of discussion: What, like dandruff, has fallen off the face of the earth – those things from your childhood that had products to help conditions that are basically not talked about now? And what were your favorite commercials for said products. That would, of course, include stuff like Brylcream (a little dab’ll do you) and that sort of thing. Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, where I shall think no further about The Case of the Disappearing Dandruff.