Well, call me old fashioned. But some of the new psychiatric techniques just leave me cold. If I can't find a link between A causing B (for example between head bumps and a tendency to not return phone calls), I just don't accept head bump analysis.

The other night I was in just such a situation, this time concerning an exposure to the practice of lipsology. What, you might ask, is lipsology? Well, according to the presenter at a totally enjoyable party my friend Marie hosted last night, lipsology is the discovery of psychological characteristics revealed through lip shapes as viewed on a paper kissed by a person wearing lipstick (or having kissed a person wearing lipstick). The resulting imprints, given names such as "gerbil balls" "angel wings" "mother nature's lines" "peppers" and "zingers" are supposed to indicate a wide variety of information, health, psychological predispositions, even some spiritual interventions ( such as having an angel on your right or left shoulder). Each person got a personal analysis- (I got way more than my share. According to the presenter, I had, by far, the busiest lips around and landed in just about every category!) Some of the analysis of myself and others led to some uproarious responses from the 15 or so of us gathered around the living room. Much more intriguing, however, was the fact that quite a few women considered the analysis seriously- and a couple, after the main presentation, asked for more in-depth information about what their lips revealed.