Disgusting things used to clean up BP's disgusting mess

Photo by Inhabitat

Alert Reader Dustin shares this from Inhabitat:

Matter of Trust, a San Franscisco non-profit devoted to “mimick[ing] how Mother Nature integrates enduring cycles and provides access to necessities in abundance” is asking pet owners and groomers to gather up their tufts of Fido’s fur that would normally be picked off of clothing and throw away to send them in to be made into oil-busting mats.

Also:

In addition to dog and cat hair, thousands of pounds of human hair and pantyhose (other components that are used to make the oil-sucking hairmats and booms) have been sent into the non-profit from all around the world.

RFT declares us one of 'St. Louis' must-read contributors to the blogosphere'!

Be sure to pick up a copy of the Riverfront Times -- or stop by their website -- this week. Girl, You Lost Your Weave was included in a roundup of the staff's 13 favorite local blogs. Yay!

Girl, You Lost Your Weave's Gabe Hartwig, photographed at his satellite office, the Gelateria Tavolini (Photo by Emily Good/RFT)

Thanks to RFT music editor Annie Zaleski for writing about us. And thanks to the rest of the RFT staff for pointing out some blogs we didn't know about.

We're in the news again

Our friend Debra Bass, fashion editor at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, wrote a little something about us in her blog today:

What the heck is going on? People spend good money to get this hair attached to their heads, you’d think that they wouldn’t be so willy nilly in disregarding it. Does it just shed like fall leaves? Or are we missing random cat fights in which hair is being torn from skulls. No matter, if you’ve noticed the trend or just need to look at it for yourself, head to girlyoulostyourweave.com. 

Thanks, Debra!

Girl, someone stole your weave

Wig party! Kim Kolciak of Bravo's "Real Housewives of Atlanta," only tangentially related to this post. (Photo by Bravo)

Anyone who's ever seen any episode of any "Real Housewives" knows: Weaves ain't cheap. I've never purchased one, but I imagine weave retailers (or — ick! — resellers) keep a pretty close eye on 'em in the store.

But every once in a while, somebody steals your weave.

The Beaumont (Texas) Enterprise reports:

A businesswoman was caught in a hairy situation Sunday afternoon as two young women punched her while stealing hair extensions.

Orange police Officer J.E. Baggett reported a 56-year-old woman working at the Strickland Drive Washateria was selling four hair weaves to two women. But the customers grabbed the fake hair and tried to leave without paying for them.

The saleswoman struggled to keep the hair and the other two women punched her, Baggett reported. The two women ran out with one 10-inch Ikon hair weave worth $20, and a 12-inch Ikon hair weave worth $25.