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Look not upon me for I am a beast

July 5, 2007

So, I stopped JUST short of completely shaving my head, because I’m a total pussy, and thank God I did.  I won’t torture you with a photograph of the results, but this is a picture of my new silhouette.  Notice the oddly conical shape of the dome, the weird pointy top.  Let’s just say it’s too bad they already remade this movie, I would have been a shoe-in. 

So.  I don’t like my hair when it grows in, and I don’t like my head without any hair on it.  Dilemma.

However, the comments in the previous post make me worry that there is a misunderstanding; I’m not actually doing this to disguise onset baldness.  I, like my dad & both grandfathers, have a thick & unfashionably styled head of hair, albeit in my case, it sits atop a mount rushmore sized forehead that I’ve had since my youth.

On the plus side, I don’t look like a skinhead, as there is still a thick albeit very, very short fuzzy layer of hair on my head.  If G.I. Joe made a plus-size figure for interpid donut eating missions, I could totally be the model for that figure now.

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Countdown to the head shaving

July 5, 2007

In the lifelong battle between me & the hair on my head, I’ve been threatening to use the nuclear option for many years, but I think today’s the day I finally do it.  The twin demons that have restrained me in the past are 1) fear that I will look like a neo-nazi, and 2) self-consciousness about my uniquely shaped noggin.  I’ve come VERY close on occasion, but at the last minute, the barber, sensing my trepidation has left just enough hair to qualify as a scalp covering.  Well no more, do you hear me?!?  This is the day.  Perhaps I’m drunk on the false bravado of knowing that the feds didn’t come get me for the prior post, or perhaps this is all just bluster & I will chicken out yet again, but as of this moment, the intention is to get the full monty.  Say goodbye, rich, lustrous & cowlick ridden locks, these are your final hours haunting my glorious mis-shapen skull!!!

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July 5, 2007