Assorted Bits

My absolute fave word for the day:
Prismatic
adjective
spectral in color; brilliant: prismatic colors.

He noted the prismatic colors in all the dewdrops upon a million blades of grass.
~ Ambrose Bierce, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

Or, in Valley Girl-speak:

OH, Tori – that new outfit's just, like, TOTALLY prismatic!

dictionary.com tells me that:
    Prîsma is a derivative of príein “to saw, trephine (skulls), grind or gnash (teeth), cut off (syllables).

HOW in fucks name did the word get from sawed skulls to brilliant color? Was this originally an adjective used to describe the beautiful hues of brain and blood gushing out from a freshly sliced cranio? (EWWWW) It’s a puzzler, in’nt?
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Is this just me? I enjoy picking out clothes for the man in my life – Ten. He wears paisley and tribal patterns, tie dye and funky hippy colors and patterns. FUN! I liked buying for The Amazing Bob too. He was more into simple, plain, unpatterned colors BUT we went wild on the Ts that he wore underneath. Stealth fashion? Oh yeah.

It seems most women (I’m guessing) just advise their sweeties. Me? If I’m mega keen on seeing Ten in a particular outfit, I’m gonna buy it for him. Luckily his tastes don’t run to Ermenegildo Zegna bespoke-ware and Aubercy Diamond-studded moccasins.

Are men just sentient Ken dolls? Yeah, sometimes. //shrugs//

 I only mention it but Ken, WAY back in my Barbie days, never had hip duds. Black pants with white shirts. That was it! Zzzzzzzzzzzz. Granted, only Black Barbie got cool threads. Did Black Ken get to wear paisley or dashikis? Was there a Black Ken?
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A master’s student at the London art/design college Central Saint Martins has come up with a BRILL replacement for all the ocean killing plastic which house our toiletries. Mi Zhou has created packaging which becomes a usable product once product which melts away, dissolves on use – SOAP! Is that motherfucking brill or what?

This, naturally, brings me to the wonders of hemp, possibly the most eco cool plant on earth. You can make hempcrete (for insulating infill) and hemp-plastic, a nice, soft toilet paper, the longest lasting lip balm I’ve ever had, trash bags and, in another ten years, LEGOs!

Hemp breathes in 4x the carbon dioxide (CO2) of trees during it's quick 12-14 week growing cycle. Trees take 20 years to mature vs 4 months for Industrial Hemp! (source)

Oh and bamboo, too. While I'm on topic PLANT A TREE or three. You know you want to.