Laugh-out-loud excellent, Emerson. The use of "economist" really sets the expectations right where they need to be.
Holy crap, this is the best concept ever.
Wow, Emerson hits it out of the park.
Some of those are a huge stretch (Larry Flynt? I don't see it), but some are fucking hilarious. I'm guessing that the spiked-up hairdo is itself now soley the style-property of 40yo lesbians?
Richard Butler really does look like an old lesbian. After him Bruce Cockburn is most convincing.
soul-ey, for new-age 40something lesbians
actually, i've seen that hairdo on a few hetro women lately, fwiw.
I've met Jon Voigt, and it's true; he's got old lesbian written all over him.
7: as opposed to Richard Milton Teagle Simmons who, as far as anyone can tell just is an old lesbian.
Kyle MacLachlan, I've noticed this about him before.
Bruce Cockburn I won't give you. I won't give you anything about Bruce Cockburn except high praise. Suck it.
Got a problem with old lesbians, parsimon?
Wonderful link. I think my favorite has to be Kim Jong Il.
What an honor, to look like an old lesbian. Parsimon is banned.
Cockburn I won't give you.
Parsimon is not parsimonious with the lube.
Emerson, you hastard! Gintis is a hero of mine. How can I ever take seriously his ideas after that? You were probably in a Trot cell with him in the Seventies.
I leave it to the exceptionally clever commentariat to figure out some meaning for "hastard" that does not make it look like a typo for "bastard".
Emerson has a ta-ard, Emerson has a ta-ard. Whatcha gonna do with your tard, Emerson? Huh? Huh?
17: Clearly you were complaining about the rapidity of his taking the first post.
Bruce Cockburn and Ani DiFranko are converging on being the same person. They both are famous for poetic, lefty lyrics. They both should be famous for being kick as guitar players, but this is too frequently lost on their audience.
And they both look like old lesbians.
Got a problem with old lesbians, parsimon?
No, no. There seems to a theme with the pageboy hairstyle. Or the 80s spiked thing. Looks like Laurie Anderson.
I just like Bruce Cockburn. I am pleased by that picture of him. Funny earring, that.
actually, i've seen that hairdo on a few hetro women lately
B?
some meaning for "hastard" that does not make it look like a typo for "bastard"
Bruce Cockburn and Ani DiFranko are converging on being the same person.
I like Ani DiFranco, but I'm not seeing this. Well, I don't know what she looks like lately. But she's so freakin' prolific that I can't suss out her powerful stuff from just the stuff she seems to crank out endlessly.
Funny, but they got less funny as I went through, I think because the cumulative effect is that they started looking like . . . old men.
That said, 1 or more of these 4 things seem to be the determinants:
- "delicate" features, e.g., thin noses (esp. that bump just below your eyes; it tends to be bigger on men) and non-square jaws; and/or
- skin that's become slacker with age, because it tends to make faces less square; and/or
- oversized glasses; and/or
- inappropriate haircuts (not because they're "inappropriate" for men, but because they look stupid, e.g., Kyle McLachlan & Mo Rocca, although Wes Anderson is workin' it).
It was a bit of a stretch, but you know, she's getting older, she has played for both teams at one point or another...
I have read one book Gintis contributed to (Moral Sentiments and Material Interests) and admired it a lot. I don't actually hate all economists. He was rather too harsh in his Amazon review of post-autistic economics, but I was a bit disappointed by the book too.
His physical appearance is very striking indeed, but I intended no implied criticism of his books. Seriously.
Ani Di Franco, like Zappa and Prince, is a good businessperson who, because of that, has maintained control of her own career. Signing over the business end is what kills musicians.
I would also like to note that the older butch lesbians I've known are waaaay more attractive than those guys.
The Dead were pretty good business people too, I think.
I think Wes Anderson actually looks like a heterosexual woman.
36 + much of this thread:
see, Lou Reed was right.
29: You need to add Ian MacKay to that list.
the older butch lesbians
Thank you. Lesbians are not all butch, and I dislike the stereotype. These things are obvious, but it bugs me.
Man, I'm surprised sometimes by how much it bugs me. Free hair for everybody!
Man, that site is so, so awesome.
No way is Ani diFranco ever going to be interchangeable with Bruce Cockburn, sorry. Could be I've just inherited my lesbian friends' slightly scary collective worship of her, but it seems to me she's way too gracile of form and feature.
The early stuff, when she was angry, was good. Now that she's happy, it sucks.
I loathe the music of Ani DiFranco
Even "Plastic Castle?" That's a good song!
parismon: I really don't see why that one specifically bugged you, the implication was in the direction that these men looked like they could be older lesbians, not that all older lesbians would look like these men.
"Plastic Castle?"
Happy phase. Bad. Basically everything after Dilate is happy phase.
DiFranco's early stuff is good if you like that angry stuff. I do/did. Her later stuff is just, well, it just sounds like more Ani DiFranco. That Labs loathes it is unsurprising, but that's because he's judgmental and all.
DS at 44:
she's way too gracile of form and feature
"gracile"?
50: I think that's the right word. Meaning slender, graceful, delicate etc? Does this word not mean what I think it means?
48:
parismon: I really don't see why that one specifically bugged you, the implication was in the direction
Oh, it's just because the linked site had captions for the photos that were dismissive and somewhat insulting, suggesting that these guys were pussies.
50: nobody can maintain that sort of output and be consistently good. She's like most of the other prolific singer songwriters this way, some good stuff and lots of drek.
48: ah, i see. I didn't actually read the site.
"gracile"
I've never heard it before. A very quick google shows that it's mostly a medical term.
Happy phase. Bad.
Like lipstick is a sign of her declining mind?
Oh, who's judgmental now?
Huh? I dunno, who?
Anyway, I annoy you all with my two favourite lines from Bruce Cockburn, because I like him that way:
And if mankind must have an enemy
Let it be his warlike pride
actually, i've seen that hairdo on a few hetro women lately
B?
No, alas. I'm not thin enough for that haircut to look awesome on me. Though there's a picture at PK's 1st birthday (when I was super skinny) where I have the short spiky hair and it's just horrifyingly hot, but alas, the picture's of me helping blow out the candle on his cake, which strongly suggests that I'm a breeder.
The head teacher at PK's school kind of has the old lesbian look.
I would love to wear my hair short and spiky, but with my hair, it would be a little 'fro.
Like lipstick is a sign of her declining mind?
Well, we know all about lipstick, don't we?
And if mankind must have an enemy
Let it be his warlike pride
My personal fave: "If I had a rocket launcher / I'd make somebody pay."
60: it would be a little 'fro.
And therefore, awesome.
Little 'fros are great! I envy both curly and straight hair. (Mine is of the genre of wavy that I like to call "lumpy".) I am currently wearing my hear shortish and cowlicky. Truly, I am a sex machine!
60: I'm in the same boat. I keep experimenting with shorter and more radical cuts, in that I've long since realized that shoulder-length blonde curls make me look old-womanish/little-girlish and way too straight. Someday, I will let go of the last vestiges of "what looks good on my face" and will give in to the butchy punk 'do that my soul demands.
My personal fave: "If I had a rocket launcher / I'd make somebody pay"
Me too!
Although it competes with:
"In the flash of this moment/You're the best of what we are/Don't let them stop you now/Nicaragua"
Heartbreaking to remember what was destroyed, but nice to be reminded of what's possible.
I have slowly been shortening the length of my hair, but my hairdresser, who is otherwise awesome, is loathe to give me anything shorter than a chin-length bob because he really likes the long ringlets I get. But with longer hair I look like an undergrad.
I am in love with my hairdresser. She's sort of a lazy genius. She just bitches about her undergrad classes while half-heartedly grabbing a chunk here or there and razoring it off. Last time I went, I interrupted her to ask, "Uh, do I have bangs now?" She's all, "Yeah, I guess, sorta. Anyway..." Love her.
Little 'fros are great! I envy both curly and straight hair.
People always expect more of you when you have naturally curly hair, you know.
I intended to use that character from Peanuts as an example of a natural endowment that one doesn't deserve tomorrow in section, but it turns out that she's relatively uncommon and the only reason I know about her is that my mom (naturally curly hair possessor) has a strip featuring her saying the above framed.
I think any dude who gets too much work done around the eyes ends up on the list. They should crown Bruce Jenner their king. Also, Marc Jacobs? You're next.
The Kyle MacLachlan joke was performed most notably by Kyle MacLachlan on SNL. He sang "The Cattle Song", lifted up his cowboy hat to reveal a spiky do, and said, "I'm k.d. lang."
it turns out that she's relatively uncommon
Not really, but kids today aren't familiar with Peanuts the same way we were. Which I continually have to explain to people who think it was nuts for me to give PK the name I did.
because he really likes the long ringlets I get. But with longer hair I look like an undergrad.
You would reject the long ringlets why?
Why are people worrying about looking like an undergrad or, let's see, old-womanish/little-girlish with their curly hair?
Sigh.
it was nuts for me to give PK the name I did
Whether Peanuts is well-known or not, it's still going to be tough going through life as a boy named Peppermint Patty.
72: Because I'm not an old woman or a little girl. Seems obvious. And it's not "people"; it's AWB.
an example of a natural endowment that one doesn't deserve
You could just use Labs.
Why are people worrying about looking like an undergrad or, let's see, old-womanish/little-girlish with their curly hair?
Sometimes one has a craving to look chic, or polished, or professional, or something along those lines.
Or one's age, indeed, as AWB much more incisively said.
All I know is that I'd love to have AWB's or Cala's hair, and that all you curly-heads are ingrates.
Straight hair is seen as more "professional" looking. And thus, older.
This is because of racism. White people = straight hair.
I don't know, I think hip-hop has paved the way for a child named Snoopy.
73, oh come on. "Pigpen" is adorable!
Yeah, in academia, older scholars of both genders are happy to find reasons to infantilize graduate students upon first meeting them.
Asian food has paved the way for a child named Snow Pea.
82b is totally right. I have mentioned before that a friend of mine noticed that commercials for de-frizzing products reach their height during popular Republican administrations, while curl-friendly products signal Democratic ascendancy.
87: But surely frizz and curl are different things! Also, hair-straightening products spiked in popularity under Clinton, so technically it's all his fault.
Eh, my best friend spent most of high school and part of college trying to straighten her kinky hair--and not incidentally looking pretty geeky--until she fell in with a group of women of color who laughed at her and told her to go to a place that knew how to do black hair, already. Since then she's worn it natural and curly and looks *much* more grownup and pulled together and gorgeous.
Perhaps if G/intis had the spiky hair as well. I mean, I've talked to him on the phone. How could I have done that if I had seen that photograph?
88: They tend to be related, no? The day I meet a woman with curly and unfrizzy hair is the day I learn envy.
92: ??? Product, surely. Try a salon that does black hair.
I do think naming a boy "The Little Red-Headed Girl" was going a bit overboard in the culture wars.
And it's not "people"; it's AWB.
Relax -- no, I just meant "people" to capture those of us with teh naturally curly hair (me too) who fight it.
We fight it because it looks so unsophisticated and so on, as noted. And I put in a vote for hippie power.
25, you forgot little pinchy lips. Maybe some of these guys need lip plumper alongside their eyelifts.
I submit that, in the right photos, Paul McCartney has that old lesbian vibe.
I mean naturally unfrizzy and curly, without product. I use Aveda's "Be Curly" lotion, as it's the only thing I've found that really kills frizz while not making anything crispy or crunchy at all.
Here's someone who manages the feat without having short hair.
I mean naturally unfrizzy and curly, without product.
But straight hair also tends to develop frizz without product, doesn't it? IANAHD, but I've seen plenty of that.
97: Ah, I see.
The flip side, you know, is that straight hair tends to lie flat and look sorta stringy and greasy half the time.
I love the curliness of my hair, actually, but that, combined with the shape of my face, means I can't get a kickass dykey/punky haircut without looking like a poser.
99: In straight hair it's just called static electricity.
That's it. We all have to use product. Or else.
101: Bleah. I want long hair, but I always just end up hauling it back into a bun all the time and eventually decide there's no real point.
AWB -- I have curly hair too. Have you tried Devachan? I think it's on Crosby a block or so below Spring? It is a curly-only joint. They swear that if you follow their system -- throwing out your shampoo, using only a small amount of conditioner for daily hair cleaning -- you'll be restored to shiny ringlets. I made it one week without shampoo and reverted.
85: Yeah, in academia, older scholars of both genders are happy to find reasons to infantilize graduate students upon first meeting them.
I'm just imaging graduate-student uniforms derived from Catholic school uniforms. Grad student could also lick large lollipos throughout the class.
And patent-leather shoes.
106: I tried that system on my HD's advice, but I really couldn't stick with it. My head felt itchy all the time. I'm trying to stop being so soap-centric, as I know it's giving me dry skin and hair with the weather change, but it's a hard addiction to break. I like feeling clean!
Of course, the Russian Bath method of cleaning does not have to involve soap, and leaves me feeling absurdly clean, but I can only fit that in once every couple of weeks or so.
107, it's a shame we've devolved away from the compulsory academic robes that look like colorful nighties.
My sister has always hated her very curly hair, because it's not versatile. A lot of styles can't be done without straightening it first.
My curly hair makes it easy to look like an anarchist bomb-thrower, which isn't always the effect I want.
105: I'm sure it would be hell to actually have. It's just a very simple chain of association, greasy = punk rock = sexy.
OTOH, the frizzy fullness of curly hair makes a lot of truly bizarre hairstyles possible. When mine was very long, I could do an impressive Gibson girl thing for plays.
I only shampoo about once a month, but I rinse about twice a week in the hottest water I can stand. My sister (briefly a hairdresser ages ago) had terrible problems with her hair until she took my advice (but only after someone else gave her the same advice).
Relationships, hair care: I know everything about everything, but people just laugh at me.
Most of the examples at that blog aren't very good. The front page is really the highlights.
The picture of Wes Anderson reminds me of a kid I used to know who had the same hair that Wes does. He would sometimes wear big billowy white dress shirts while otherwise being dressed casually, and looked quite odd without the accompanying cravat. Someone once said to him "You know, Ken, you look kind of like a lesbian in that shirt."
graduate-student uniforms derived from Catholic school uniforms, lollipops
There's a recurring Telemundo skit that has adults dressed as children in a classroom with a teacher. There's a leering gordo comedian, chicas calientas-- I don't understand the aesthetic, but it's funny in small doses. I forget if it's on Blablazo grande or Sabado Gigante.
I know everything about everything, but people just laugh at me
How did things work out for Cassandra?
You would reject the long ringlets why?
Why are people worrying about looking like an undergrad or, let's see, old-womanish/little-girlish with their curly hair?
I have very thick hair. The long ringlets take, on average, about four hours to air-dry, and they don't respond well to a blow-dryer (well, they respond well, if by well you mean volume-riffic)
I don't mind looking young, and I think I look good with longer hair, but looking a little more professional helps me not look like a complete airhead.
AWB, I am very angry with Aveda, because they recently discontinued my beloved Elixir.
I am also sad that St. Ives discontinued their shampoos, because their clarifying shampoo was the best cheap shampoo I knew of. (Drugstore shampoos have gotten shockingly expensive.)
I still broke down and bought some Aveda Sap Moss shampoo, and Kiehl's intensive conditioner is excellent, but you need to leave it on with a shower cap.
ANy recommendations for a cheapish clarifying shampoo, other than Aveda.
I'm also mournign the loss of L'Oreal's fortivive straightening serum which was nearly identical to the Kerastase version.
I usually iron my hair. A couple of times I've just let it tried naturally and gone sort of curly. I got some compliments from my coworkers one day, but I tried this another day and my horrid boss told me that I looked disheveled and should go brush my hair. I also got in trouble for having part of my apron fall on my shoulder. I'm not sure whether I looked particularly bad on that day or whether my boss was just being a jerk. I think that it was a bit of both.
leering gordo comedian
That sure does sound like Don Francisco, whose stupid face adorns practically every flat surface I see in public these days, because his annual telethon is coming up next week, which means he has to advertise every product there is from McDonalds to cellphones to toilet paper.
120: Ah, that is the guy from Sabado Gigante. I didn't know he was from Chile.
120: That's the guy on Telemundo I imagined lw was talking about.
I use fairly cheap drugstore shampoo, but I keep two or three different kinds around so that I'm always getting that clarifying effect that switching shampoos gives.
Sabado Gigante is on Univision, not Telemundo.
I also never straighten my hair. It doesn't work, so fuck the uptight WASPs, I say.
I don't do anything to my hair other than getting it cut around once a year, and washing it once, maybe twice a week. Some mornings I brush it, others I just run my fingers through it to make it dry off my face.
I don't actually recommend this process to anyone, but no one throws rocks at me or anything for being unkempt.
And apparently, Don Francisco is the son of Polish Jews.
Sometimes, if I know I'm spending the day at home alone, I'll straighten my hair for the lulz. But it looks hilariously bad and dorky.
A roommate tried to flat-iron my hair before a dance in college. She felt so horrible at how bad it looked.
Ha, so BG, Cala, and I are all short and have curly hair. We can form a support group.
Oh, how I loved Aveda's Elixir. They also discontinued their Almond and Cherry Bark Conditioner, too. Have you tried Kiehls Silk Groom as a sub for the Elixir?
119: I don't think that Aveda is cheap. I was thinking of Neutrogena, which isn't actually that cheap anymore.
I'll straighten my hair for the lulz. But it looks hilariously bad and dorky.
See?
OTOH, the frizzy fullness of curly hair makes a lot of truly bizarre hairstyles possible.
Perhaps I will bring my demented-anarchist look to DCon.
See what? I don't anyone here has claimed that they like their own curly hair straightened. I think this is because straightened curly hair is different from the lank, straight locks we sometimes envy because we could at least choose to look tough/butchy/adult/whatever if we had them.
Someday, I swear, I will find a brilliant hairdresser who can cut my hair in some brilliant way that accommodates all my weird wave-lumps and cowlicks, making everything look intentional and adorable and easy. It must be possible.
See? Straight hair looks dorky and bad. Was my point.
I should look into the Kiehl's silk groom. I use their moisturizer. I don't like their face wash much, and I tried their regular shampoo once. Bumble and Bumble's seaweed stuff is supposed to be pretty good, but I think it's much too expensive for what it is.
The L'Oreal straightening serum was so nice, because it had, in addition to silicone, hemp seed oil.
oudemia, join the unfogged flickr pool. Cala's got curly hair. Mine is really more wavy.
I love getting my hair blown out! Like today, after I got my hair cut! Right now I look like Louise Brooks. Tomorrow it's back to The Little Matchstick Girl.
Favorite style? I once had my hair Marcelled. I was going for Zelda Fitzgerald, and Marcelling works better on curly hair than some attempt at a gamine bob.
Straight hair is great if your hair does it, and much less of a pain in the ass. Straightened curly hair is straight like the bristles of a wire brush are straight.
116: I think rfts and I have seen this flipping through channels on occasion. We dubbed it "Professor Bangshisclass" and spent a few minutes coming up with translations for the dialogue, as neither of us speaks Spanish.
I don't anyone here has claimed that they like their own curly hair straightened
I didn't claim that, but I do. My hair is quite thin, but there's a lot of it, and it's medium-curly. Very odd combination. So worn curly, it looks like I'm a person who has naturally straight hair with a perm, because it's not thick, and it never falls right. But straight it gets all kinds of exciting volume because it's not really straight, so some of the curl comes through in volume form.
I use DevaCurl No-Poo for shampoo (yes, it mostly just smells nice) and their ArcAngell gel to make my hair behave and metric assloads of V05 for conditioner, because it's much cheaper per assload than anything else and seems to work pretty well.
I've seen convincingly straightened hair -- a woman I worked with had wildly curly frizzy hair, and came in one day with hair that looked pretty much exactly like mine. I don't know that she made a profit on the deal, I like wild curls, but her hair didn't look straightened, it looked straight.
Straight hair looks dorky and bad.
Crazy talk. It's the hair that accounts for about 3/4 of my HotAsianChick™ fetish.
When my mom was in college, she did her hair by putting two huge curlers on the top and then slowly, tightly wrapping the rest of her hair around her head with bobby pins, making about five revolutions, tightening at each pass. It's one of the most effective straightening techniques I've ever seen, outside of ceramic-ironing. She did it to me a few times in high school, and it looked kinda neat, but if there was any moisture in the air at all, it all turned to puffy crap by afternoon. I'd rather not worry about it. The nice thing about curly hair is that it usually looks better as the day wears on.
I'm intimidated by product. I just don't know what to use. (I also don't want to waste money experimenting).
138: I so so envy you. I would pay a lot of money to have my hair Marcelled. I tried it for my wedding and, meh.
145: My sister uses orange-juice cans.
143: I think I could manage it, were there no humidity and I had six hours to spend.
I hate getting my hair blown out. It ends up looking like Astronaut Wife helmet hair. That and everyone always thinks it would be "fun" to flip it out 60s style instead of curling it under.
I always lie and say I'm going to the gym or something after a haircut in the hope that they won't bother. One of my old hairdressers (imagine Ogged's mom) would get all mad and chew me out in her thickly accented English "No gym. Tonight you go dancing and find yourself a husband."
150: The woman on the right is Marcelled.
My mom would most certainly not recommend that anyone go cavorting, thank you very much.
150: Picture Betty Boop. Or a siren in an early 30s movie. The hair is parted on the side and then set in a series of close waves. That makes no sense. I will Google a pic. Or find my prom pic.
151: Yuck. My hairdresser likes to spend our time together lecturing me on the fact that men are scum. I keep agreeing with her, in the hopes that one day, she'll be all "And that's why I'm taking you home with me," but it hasn't worked yet.
153 - I don't think she pictured me going cavorting. I truly believe she imagined me going to some chaste sockhop and sipping lemonade.
I love the marcelled look. Had I but world enough and time, I would learn how to do proper pincurls in my hair and achieve adorable 1930s styles thereby. I even own setting lotion, but all the times I'd have to do it wrong before I got it right, and the prospect of my arms falling off (my hair, it is very thick in the sense of many many hairs on the head) mean that I never will.
My hairdresser is a heavyset dirty old man who does my hair while cracking jokes about how sexy I look, I should go put on a black thong and call my husband, that would get him home from work quick.
Oh, I bet I could get my hair to Marcel if no one minded the ends turning into ringlets....
I have yet to meet a straight male hairdresser who didn't openly admit to perving on his clients.
I don't mind it, really, but mostly because I'm just so amused by it. It's like 50 years of misogyny rolled into one haircut, mostly so I don't assume he's a gay heavyset dirty old man, I think.
The people at Great Clips don't say a word to me and I don't say a word to them.
There must be a principle by which the expense of a haircut could be placed along a bell curve w/r/t the amount of flattering conversation you get, peaking at around $40. Above and below that, you're mostly getting a haircut for your money, not a friendly experience.
160: Ooh! My guy! Straight, Greek 30-something married hipster. Non-pervy and kind of serious.
Ugh, I have way too much hair for hairdryers to mean anything but "tragedy." Back before I started cutting my hair myself I just told my stylist that she was not allowed to dry my hair for me. Then I realized that when "haircut" essentially means "cut random chunks out until it looks good" I quit going altogether; now it gives me something to do every six weeks. Punk life forever.
164: Awesome! I am glad to be wrong.
now it gives me something to do every six weeks. Punk life forever.
You don't live in Palo Alto. You would burn up and disintegrate when you tried to penetrate the atmosphere.
157: I envy your fortitude and abilities! Even if I could hold my arms above my head that long, I just do not have the mad hair skillz.
I remember having girlfriends in high school who liked to do weird shit to each other's hair and makeup for fun. It wasn't to be pretty; it was much more to see how unlike our friends we could make themselves look. Kind of a hoot, really.
My mom always had really curly hair, and my dad has perfectly straight hair: most of us kids have something in the middle. One of my sisters did get dad's hair, and I totally envy it. My hair looks good when it's short or long, but most of the time it's in the middle and just looks like I need a haircut.
Mom did used to straighten her hair, but she gave up once she had kids.
What a pretty towel-princess you are, mrh!
My mother has curly hair that gets big soft curls. She straightens it. My dad's hair is wavy. One of my sisters has fine hair that will barely hold a curl, one has straight hair that will hold a curl easily, and one has thick wavy hair that she straightens. I apparently stole all the curls for the whole family.
What a pretty towel-princess you are, mrh!
The amazing part? I'm still that adorable.
167: Actually, that's a common misconception: what really happens to offenders like me is that the locals shoot lasers out of their eyes, which produces the same effect. I have survived only by being a cheerfully smug, self-satisfied prick. Obviously this is difficult work for someone as naturally sweet as I.
My dad had curly black hair and my mother wavy ash blond. Oldest brother has slightly wavy chestnut hair and hazel eyes. Middle brother had perfect black corkscrew curls (until he bowed to necessity and starting shaving what was left of them) and green eyes. I have black eyes and black hair in curls that are nowhere near as nice as Middle Brother's. It's bullshit frankly that he got all the pretty girl accessories.
Oh, also, ogged, thanks. Every time I think about being a "real" Palo Altan, I have a minor panic attack.
I wouldn't go so far as to call the yuppie hordes real Palo Altans. A lot of real Palo Altans are hippie sympathizers who settled there decades ago and wonder what the hell is going on, but thanks for the 1000% home appreciation...
I actually know a number of that type--but they're also the ones who don't contribute to the roiling Palo Altan atmosphere that attempts to fry people who don't pay for hair cuts & that has become at least the most aggressive, if not authentic, face of Palo Alto. Since it's what I see when I walk through downtown every morning, it's difficult for me not to think of that as "real."
No doubt Unfogged meanies like bitchphd are going to say "get a room" any minute, so I'll leave the topic with this: I lived there from 1999 through 2004, which means that I was there at the height of the first internet boom, and also during the bust. This second boom is, in terms of conspicuous consumption and cocooned obliviousness, even worse than the first, and it makes it a very strange place to live. But, much like high school, it's a tiny, strange, insular world that disappears without a trace when you step out into the real world.
disappears without a trace when you step out into the real world
I'll shut up now, too, but seriously: so glad to be leaving the Bay Area soon.
I usually iron my hair. A couple of times I've just let it tried naturally and gone sort of curly. I got some compliments from my coworkers one day, but I tried this another day and my horrid boss told me that I looked disheveled and should go brush my hair.
What? The Allston Whole Foods cosmetics and vitamins department employs a woman with knee-length grey dreds. That sets the bar pretty low, button-up-wise.
119: I am very angry with Aveda, because they recently discontinued my beloved Elixir.
BG, my Aveda contact said that some new pomade they came out with this year could be a replacement. But I'm not really sure she understood the question, as it had to be filtered through her completely bald significant other.
182: It wasn't for me, it was for ... uh ... a friend.
I've learned to live with my medium curly hair, just as it has decided to leave me for good. Now I'll never get that mohawk that I postponed while I still had living grandparents. Sigh.
I love people who dream big. Since 1984 I've thought Bruce Cockburn looked like a lesbian, but do I think to start a website? No I do not.
