It's one thing to have a reputation for being easy and then there's being too easy: lip balm, really? (I'm saving the bacon story for lunch time.)

The Register, a UK tech gossip and news website, used to have a publish fee list for them writing a glowing article about whatever you wanted. Unfortunately, I can't find it after the latest redesign.

Bacon flavored lip balm? Just use lard.

the story missed bacon art, as featured in a seriouseats post:
http://www.seriouseats.com/2009/03/bacon-eggs-eggs-made-from-bacon.html

Don't forget to check out the play-by-play on making the Bacon Explosion.

Well, bacon lip balm today means that BBQ Ribs lip balm will be out by the holiday shopping season

My lady wears Cheetos lip balm – or she wears nothing at all.

RtSO, agreed. Disgusting. My very first editor took me aside early on and explained the foundational principle undergirding all of journalistic ethics: "Son, don't sell yourself short. Never accept anything worth less than $20."
He believed that if your allegiance could be purchased with a cup of coffee, you belonged not in the newsroom, but in the arts.

Whin I need lip balm, I lick one of those pastel candy easter eggs and apply generously. Very stylish indeed.

Francis Bacon, mmm... Francis Bacon, was fired from a government post for taking bribes. He said that he took the bribes but it didn't affect his decisions. Mmmm... Francis Bacon.

Most library staff can be convinced to swear fealty for a free pen. Doesn't even have to work.

Lissa, what you need are these. Really make 'em think before they trifle with a Librarian.

Most library staff can be convinced to swear fealty for a free pen. Doesn't even have to work.

Servers, too.

I've had enough sobriety for the winter. I need some wine to drown out all but one of the voices in my head so that I can write tomorrow's post. I'm heading over to Amicci's for the end of happy hour and beyond. I'll be the guy in the corner with the laptop muttering about penguins.

RiE, I haven't seen vendors giving out temp tattoos at library conferences, but I'm sure it is only a matter of time.

I used to work for some libraries that belonged to the Wayne Oakland Library Federation.

I have a tattoo of a wolf.

Owl, Amicci's will be overjoyed to see you again! Enjoy the penguins.

Medical people get fed - daily in some departments. Grateful patients, ingratiating drug reps, etc. food food food (not that I'm complaining except I work in a non clinical area and we get almost nothing!).

I have a bee tattoo. Next up - the Pink Floyd prism from Dark Side of The Moon. But placement has me befuddled...

I was at a happy hour in DC last night and I heard no fewer (or is it no less?) than five people talking about that bacon story. My arteries hardened a little each time someone explained the bacon explosion.

Joyce,
Anywhere but the lower back. I am tired of hearing of "Panama City License Plates". Even network TV sitcoms are using that term.

Then again, that spot would probably do a graphic like that its justice.

Ha ha - Rob, I've heard that. I've heard 'em called "tramp stamp" too which is pretty unbecoming for a "woman of a certain age!" Anyway, I have about 6 months til I have to decide (because I'll be paying off my credit cards til then - at least!)

A few months ago, I was waiting at the bar to get a drink, and struck up a conversation with a woman standing next to me. I soon found out she had gone out on a blind date the night before, gotten ridiculously drunk, and somehow they decided to go get tatoos. She ended up getting a tatoo on her lower back - the tatoo was of a rubber stamp that read "Tramp Stamp".

It was still puffy and pink, so it certainly was not a rub-on, temporary tatoo. By far the most hilarious tatoo I've ever seen (as long as it wasn't on someone who I'd regularly be seeing the tatoo).

She wasn't too happy with hit though...