Tuesday, November 29, 2005

Fade To White



I was out with a friend today, and we saw a aged lady talking to a postal carrier. She was quite tiny, white-haired, and extremely pale. He said that she looked "bleached by time," and I told him about pigment loss as we age... and other fossil facts.





He turned to me and said, "So. Are we on our way to being ghosts?




In the meantime, on your way to that fade to white.....


12 Comments:

Blogger Phil said...

"I could whip your a-- Unique Alias...9 ball in the corner pocket."

9:02 AM  
Blogger Washington Cube said...

ROFL. You read my mind, Phil. ;)

9:03 AM  
Blogger A Unique Alias said...

hahaha. I was wondering who that hottie was down there in that last pic . . .

9:12 AM  
Blogger asianpixie said...

I hope that's me in the future...still able to beat whippersnappers at pool. Then I will leave the place on my motorcycle.

10:45 AM  
Blogger Miss Penny Lane said...

Do we really lose pigment?

I wanna known when to go to Atomic to watch AUA kick some arse!!

WC--what is ROFL? I am SO outta the loop on anacronyms this week. It is killing me.

1:30 PM  
Blogger Phil said...

Old-school, MPL - rolling on the floor laughing.

2:14 PM  
Blogger Washington Cube said...

We lose pigment in our hair, certainly, and our entire bodies change: skin suffers loss of elasticity, bone density (hence the x-ray of the broken hip), etc. I had to laugh at Phil's answers today. First of all, when I saw that pool shot, my first thought was "Unique Alias getting whupped." When Phil explained ROFL as "old school," that was just icing on the cake.

2:44 PM  
Blogger Phil said...

IOTC, in other words.

4:25 PM  
Blogger Chairborne Stranger said...

Your posts are always so artistic-I could never tie all those things together into what you write. Amazing.

5:27 PM  
Blogger Washington Cube said...

T: Hope the kitty gets well soon.

Chair: Thank you for the kind words. As a woman who loves stilettos, I enjoy your blog, too. :)

5:51 PM  
Blogger alwswrite said...

that's a beautiful phrase, "bleached by time." come to think of it, my grandma gets blonder and blonder as the years go by...

10:06 PM  
Blogger Washington Cube said...

The man who uttered that is always coming up with things you want to remember, he has such a unique mind.

10:35 PM  

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