First, I need to offer a heartfelt apology to Ed McMahon.
Sir, I had no idea that you were still alive. And I’m hoping well.
Kudos to you, Mr. McMahon. You have obviously discovered the key to long life because I feel certain you must be at least 107 years old.
Well, maybe not that old, but at least as old as Jane Seymour.
At any rate, I did not mean to spread false rumors regarding your death on the internet. So, if you’d please come bring me a large check from Publisher’s Clearing House, it would be greatly appreciated.
In other news, in the last podcast Sophie and I did I mentioned that I like to get a good sizzle out of my hair by using a product called STAY.
And when I say sizzle, I’m don’t mean it as an adjective. I’m not trying to find a clever way to say PIZAZZ or something. I literally mean that I like to hear my hair fry when it meets the heat of the curling iron.
I am from Texas. It’s part of my heritage.
At this moment, any readers who live north of the Mason-Dixon line are gasping in horror.
While your sisters in the South are nodding their heads and saying AMEN, PREACH IT SISTER.
Anyway, I mentioned that STAY helps my hair hold up beautifully in most all situations. I also mentioned that it comes in a generic bottle and I purchase it directly from my hairdresser. I have long felt certain that it is some sort of contraband hair substance.
But if loving it is wrong, I don’t want to be right.
So, a reader named Susan emailed me to ask about acquiring some STAY for herself. I looked on the bottle, gave her the only identifying information I could find, and suggested she do a Google search.
Because Google will supply you with more information than any doctorate program in the country. Or even the world.
Look what Susan found.
She found it at the well-known Payne’s Beauty Supply, which is only slightly less popular than say, Sephora.
Twenty dollars says you can’t find STAY at Sephora.
Probably due to FDA regulations.
And the sheer ugliness of the packaging.
I’m just saying the folks at “Straight Request” (also known as a back alley somewhere in Mexico) must be pretty confident in the quality of their product if this is the bottle they’re going to offer the public. It basically says IN YOUR FACE PHYTODEFRISANT (with your fancy French inflections), I AM SECURE IN WHO I AM AND MY HAIRCARE ABILITIES.
You can’t put a price on that kind of haircare confidence.
Well, actually you can, it’s $8.95 plus shipping.
It will give you lots of pizazz. And sizzle.
However, you may be embarrassed to display it on your bathroom shelf.