evilbeth asked
Yeah, that picture was taken about a month ago, just after I got my first trim in two years. You probably know how some people are: they forget to change the oil in the car; forget to return that Erol’s rental of Bad Lieutenant from 1995; forget to pay the water bill; forget to pay the IRS; forget to cut their hair or shave; forget you have a vacation trip coming up and you’re due to be in Venezuela in seven hours; forget to eat; forget that despite the fact that they hit every search profile known to the law it won’t be a problem to bring cigar-house cured marijuana direct from Barbados to the Customs officers in Florida. Heh. Dog couldn’t stand the smell of my socks. Woooo!
I was recently trained to bathe and launder my clothes, however. I’m particularly proud of that. And I’ve never forgotten that the best way to dismantle a Norden bombsight is to shoot your service .45 through the gyroscopes just before you bail out over Germany. I’ve never had to use that particular discipline, however.
I happen to have the only job in America I know of where long hair does not implicitly imply drug abuse, rock-stardom, or pornography. Instead, it implies commitment, responsibility, and a demand for respect. The fact that I in actuality aspire to the former and have serious issues with two of the three of the latter is not generally noticed immediately by my American Indian clients. Some of them actually understand that I can be all of the above without conflict. We should all be so thoughtful. I don’t think I am.
Long hair on a guy is also an excellent “asshole filter.” I never meet 'em anymore, because they see me coming first. It may prove harmful in these less enlightened times, but I’m rather attached to the locks. So long as I can figure out how not to swallow 'em when I’m sleeping, I think I’m gonna try to keep 'em for as long as I can. Plus, I love the women who like guys with long hair. You can deal with it? First point in your favor, in my book.
Picture is on the way. Now everyone can revel in my southern American plainess. I hope you are not overawed, ladies, in your quests to be the first to break the streak and bring me back to the land of the living. 'Cause that’s what it’s all about, isn’t it? We’re all driven, or at least tempted, by the biological truth: faking it or not, we all want to pretend as if we are trying to make things better, to create opportunity, and to share intimacy with our fellow humans, aren’t we?
I happen to do it by being an ass.