What Does a Seahawk Taste Like?
This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Jones Soda. All opinions are 100% mine.
I have always liked Jones Soda for several reasons. The bottles give me that old fashioned feel and the flavors are innovative. There was old fashioned vanilla cream soda and a lot of funky fruit flavors. Sometimes, however, I worry about the folks at Jones, after the Tofurky and Gravy Thanksgiving offering.
Now, Jones has combined affinity products with original flavors to create the Seattle Seahawks soda. I am sure that no matter what it tastes like, fans will be stocking the shelves. Truth be told, I am sitting with my hands covering my eyes. Like a little kid, I am peeping out between my fingers as I am frightened but strangely intrigued by what the new beverages could taste like. I was very relieved to find that the flavors available were Cream Soda, Green Apple and Berry Lemonade. What a relief. I was figuring it would be Locker Room Luau, Pigskin, Beer, and Ben Gay (or Icy Hot).
The Limited Edition-ness of the soda extends to the packaging and labeling. They come in special commemorative four packs featuring intriguing art work. Now, you can drink it all, or you can hide it away just in case it is going to be worth big bucks some day. You just never know. My brother may still have a bunch of Arizone Iced Tea and Absolute bottles that he is saving for posterity from a number of years ago. Why not add more breakables to the back of the closet? Mom was plenty happy one night when she heard a thundering crash after he moved out.
The four packs are available for a very limited time on the Jones websites. If you are a fan of exotic non alcoholic libations or are a football fan, buy them now before they disappear. Then get another one for your great-great grandchildren.
Missing Any Hair?
Yesterday afternoon, I was perusing some books that I haven’t looked at in awhile, though I have lugged them with me from house to house. There are a few books that I just will never give up, as they are from a time when I was a sound designer for the theater and I have fond memories.
The following is from an instructional book on Theatrical Makeup. Richard Corson’s Stage Makeup has a line drawing reference that includes the hairstyles of ladies and men throughout the years to help the makeup crew finish off the look for historical plays and film. Do you notice anything amiss with this?
A few of you may have pointed a finger at the gentleman from 1962 with his faux handlebar mustache. That could have been considered something that was just plain wrong, though it was actually not an error. Just picture him with a natty tweed jacket and a pipe to transform him into everyone’s favorite college professor. He could also be a sitcom eccentric uncle.
While this illustration is not meant to be exhaustive of all the possible hairstyles that someone could have had throughout history, there is one glaring omission. It appears, according to this, that there was only one hairstyle for men during the entire 1940s! It was a slightly parted down the middle style full of pomade. I definitely recall the style from a variety of early 40s films. But wait…aren’t they leaving out one hugely iconic hairstyle?
During WWII, the short cuts of the enlistees was everywhere. Of course, on the stage of war, but back home, too. In fact, my grandfather has maintained this hairstyle since he was a private in the Army. There were a couple of dicey years in the 70s where it was about 1 1/2 longer and his sideburns were 7 millimeters longer, as that was the decade of letting it all grow out. Maybe it wasn’t the times, but because his grandchildren, like me, drove him crazy, and he was too busy to go to the barber.
Since the illustrations end with an entire page of styles from 1989, which is entertainment all its own, perhaps the author decided that the 40s were not a banner decade for hair. Perhaps, it was felt that it was just “more of the same” and the decade was just a holdover from the 1930s. I would like to think that it just didn’t have its heydey with reenactors until the 90s, as surely there was much more to talk about than what the chart lets on.
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