MetaChat - Trends in change lately?

haircut season definitely--it's all of a sudden hot and muggy.

posted by amberglow 07 June | 18:47

just a silly student of human nature, hoping to be surprised
*eyeing the electric hair mower*

posted by ethylene 07 June | 19:01

Yup. Summer. I've got a date with my scissors myself, even though amberglow said he liked my hair better when it was longer. Comfort before fashion, baby.

posted by dame 07 June | 19:15

long hair is the lazy option. mine grows so fast, it's always a question of maintenance

let that be a warning to anyone attempting drastic hair color, ask yourself if you really wanna put in that time

*cannot bring myslef to pay for a haircut unless it's really worth it*

posted by ethylene 07 June | 19:26

with this weather, it has to be comfort. : (

what color, ethylene?

posted by amberglow 07 June | 19:33

oh, i don't know what i have time to maintain
but i've been hearing of changes from hair to moving to x all over, not just in the summer places

posted by ethylene 07 June | 19:44

there is that odd instance of having a longish chat with a stranger
and having your hair hit the light
and them saying "oh, my god, what happened to your hair?"

i get enough flak walking down the street

posted by ethylene 07 June | 19:47

*mulling how much i need people to care what i look like*

posted by ethylene 07 June | 19:48

that would depend on if you're single, and don't want to be, or not, etc. : >

posted by amberglow 07 June | 20:06

i am so not interested on what would attract around here
i do miss the days when we freaks could pick each other out of a crowd across the continents.

now that kid with all the piercing listens to james taylor and the dead

posted by ethylene 07 June | 20:17

Spooky, I just this minute had a haircut. And it's not even summer here! But in winter I want to wear a nice warm hat, and that requires short hair unless you want to take your hat off and have ridiculous hat-hair all over the place. Ridiculous.

posted by nomis 07 June | 20:18

actually i see it as a fall out of things that occurred in the last two months

some took the change by the horns, some feel the reaction

posted by ethylene 07 June | 20:21

someone say something quickly before i prematurely reactivate a scavenger hunt

posted by ethylene 07 June | 20:52

crap, now i totally missed the gilmore girls
you guys suck

posted by ethylene 07 June | 20:54

Who needs the Gilmore Girls when you have us? We're a lot more entertaining.

Hey I just got a haircut too. Long shaggy layers. Messy. I like it. Didn't know I was so predictable.

posted by iconomy 07 June | 21:07

depends on what your fisting

take that any way you like
*blink ref*

posted by ethylene 07 June | 21:10

ok, i will make vain attempt to be more accessible:
it depends on what you are fisting
a la blink by malcolm gladwell
but it sounds really funny to say fisting
instead of thin slicing information
i always have to handtag my tags now

posted by ethylene 07 June | 21:12

recontextualizing fisting
just for you

posted by ethylene 07 June | 21:14

let me jonmc it up further now to explain i think it's funny to say the gays and the jews because i know so many
and then they sound like the feldman's down the street

posted by ethylene 07 June | 21:16

what about those of us that are both (and dating that nice Feldman boy from down the street--the one that's pre-med)? ; >

posted by amberglow 07 June | 21:20

you're special
you're the gay jew who knows both the jew gossip and the shade talk

so are there still more jews in the nyc area than isreal?

posted by ethylene 07 June | 21:22

i hear that feldman boy is into field hockey players

posted by ethylene 07 June | 21:22

another rude aside: am i the only one who eschews the emoticon?

i find myself exclaiming here and i never exclaim
where is my interrobang key?

posted by ethylene 07 June | 21:32

*cue Twilight Zone music*

posted by mlis 07 June | 21:43

play it heavy on five string bass, please

posted by ethylene 07 June | 21:45

long hair is the lazy option. mine grows so fast, it's always a question of maintenance

...

*cannot bring myslef to pay for a haircut unless it's really worth it*

A woman (I think) after my own mind.

For me, one haircut every six months. And one of those biannuals is performed by my mother during my trip home for the holidays.

posted by mudpuppie 07 June | 21:50

actually, i'm a chick who know hasn't got a "haircut" in years, maybe a decade or more.

people get very attached to your hair. not you, your hair. After having really long hair for along time i knew people would not recognize me with short hair
and the stories are hysterical--
man, i have apologies to make
i'll pay for art
because i vote with my money
because there is so little if nothing else

mudpup: did you find a tattoo idea?

posted by ethylene 07 June | 21:58

what's worse is when people tell you that they love your hair when you've always had a hateful relationship with it -- going back to the days when your mother used to force you to endure the curling iron and the sponge curlers --- the sponge curlers! --- and would spank when you, in rebellion, finally combed the curls out.

and tattoos -- i think we've settle on the compass, although i think futher research is possibly warranted.

posted by mudpuppie 07 June | 22:02

another aside: would everyone really be happier if i conformed to more standarized textual usage and rhetoric? And personal disclosure?
Seriously, is that what you want?

*must kill a moth and hope it's a dead relative*

mudpup: i could do a mock up of variations, free of charge if you like
if you tell me your location, i could reccommend someone

posted by ethylene 07 June | 22:05

my mom forced me to have perms and cut the color out of my hair in my sleep at 13

manic panic was suppose to send me free nail polish for that story, dammit

posted by ethylene 07 June | 22:07

Mathematical Patterns In African American Hairstyles

posted by mlis 07 June | 22:12

so are there still more jews in the nyc area than isreal?
According to asparagirl, yup. (safety in numbers) : >

would everyone really be happier if i conformed to more standarized textual usage and rhetoric? And personal disclosure?
Seriously, is that what you want?
who wants? why? do you?

posted by amberglow 07 June | 22:15

ethylene: variations of.... tattoos?

mockups appreciated. near sacramento. email in profile.

posted by mudpuppie 07 June | 22:16

that was just an aside to those aside
who can respond at will

now i'm just wondering what i can get my pet librarian to quantify

posted by ethylene 07 June | 22:18

you hurt my head, ethylene.

and i mean that in the present perfect progressive sense.

posted by mudpuppie 07 June | 22:21

mudpuppie:
well, it's not suppose to hurt
or so i was told

i don't know anyone out there working right now
but i do have a few tips on placement and first tats and such, esp. with people and sobriety.

the old gauntlet in the beginning seemed to be made of CA members

posted by ethylene 07 June | 22:26

Preposterous Headdresses and Feathered Ladies:
Hair, Wigs, Barbers, and Hairdressers

posted by mlis 07 June | 22:28

those are so fun! my next wig

posted by amberglow 07 June | 22:45

would everyone really be happier if i conformed to more standarized textual usage and rhetoric? And personal disclosure?
Seriously, is that what you want?

ethylene: dear lord yes! granted, english text, as a purveyor of thought, is a crude means of communication. but until the rest of us learn telepathy, (~relatively) standardized textual usage and rhetoric will have to suffice if you wish for your audience to hear/feel/grok you. not that i'd want to cramp anyone's style, but i thought this would all be fairly self-evident. else, you may as well be honking, beeping, and gibbering.

posted by Wedge 07 June | 22:52

well now yer all just tempting me to shave my head
you're paying for my mom's 19th nervous breakdown

and still at fault for me missing my favorite fake tv korean

wedge: exactly

posted by ethylene 07 June | 22:55

but how much does the honking beep you?
Enough to not want to see the sites?

posted by ethylene 07 June | 23:19

meanwhile i find out anne bancroft is dead from a phone call from someone who will not stop looking at kitten war

*shakes fist at mc*

posted by ethylene 08 June | 00:10

I just cut off 8 inches.

Of hair.

posted by loquacious 08 June | 00:14

it was like a three pronged web attack:
2 emails, 3 websites and a phone
i think something in my neck exploded

posted by ethylene 08 June | 00:18

now the people coming to take me away (from the computer) are nearly here
and i got 66% on the gayometer
please, stop sending the gay o meter
*waves aloha*

posted by ethylene 08 June | 00:39

Short hair = hairdo.

Long hair = braid and go.

I cut mine when it's too long ie: sitting on it.

ethylene.. in today's fashion world, you can have it any way you want. There are temporary tattoos (up to one month so you can be hotstuff at Burning Man), temporary hair colours, temporary skin colours; temporary almost anything you want, even long hair, but good extensions are time-consuming and expensive.

Long hair is the new black. Be cool; let it grow. Free yourelf from style and become hip.

posted by reflecked 08 June | 07:09

Man, you people with your long hair so have straight hair, don't you? I don't even know how to begin attacking your ignorance of the ways of the (real) curls. If you have curly hair, you can only comb it in the shower when there is conditioner in. That means you can never be as low-maintenance as you want, because your hair can only go progressively more up. Showers take at least half an hour.

However, you can cut your hair yourself because it doesn't need to be even: the curls never dry the same way twice. But no matter what, you look kinda cute, because it's just some curls sitting messily on your head. Maybe a little product to combat the frizz and you're good. Showers take minutes and there is no such thing as bedhead.

For the curls long hair demands style, while short just is. Down with the hegemony of the straight haired!

posted by dame 08 June | 11:43

nope. My hair is really curly; that's why keeping it long helps.. the length pulls the curl straighter. Cutting means pulling hair out to one side with arm straight and cutting off everything that hangs over the edge of the hand.

But yeah.. down with the straighthairs! Long n' curly is the way to cool.

posted by reflecked 08 June | 14:44

How on earth does it being long help? It certainly isn't wash'n'go. Ours must be different, because length never even helped that much; it was a bit striaghter at the roots, but not really worth mentioning. And the weight. And the heat. Ack. I just cut off all mine (jabbing at head with scissors) and now I am so light, so free.

posted by dame 08 June | 15:37

You that are whining about curly hair should be fucking grateful that you have hair, is all I can say. One thing I will say, though is why does it cost me the same to get less than half a head of hair cut as it would if I had a full head of hair? It really sucks that I pay the same as everyone else when a haircut takes all of 3 minutes.

would everyone really be happier if i conformed to more standarized textual usage and rhetoric? And personal disclosure? Seriously, is that what you want?

Communicate in any way you want - if we don't understand, does it really matter? If, by some chance, you want us to have the faintest idea of what you are saying, though, you may like to try forming the occasional coherent sentence. Otherwise, just be yourself.

posted by dg 09 June | 01:14

did i make the bald man cry?

Communicate in any way you want - if we don't understand, does it really matter? If, by some chance, you want us to have the faintest idea of what you are saying, though, you may like to try forming the occasional coherent sentence. Otherwise, just be yourself.

by us you mean you and wedge?
on the communication point, it works quite well
frighteningly

*offer to sell you hair for weave, it's primo stuff*

posted by ethylene 09 June | 01:21

you are not my target audience, mr. crankypants

posted by ethylene 09 June | 01:43

No shit?

posted by dg 09 June | 01:50

shit

posted by ethylene 09 June | 01:53

Dame.. heh .. ours are different. All i know is that short, I have a moptop of wild curls, and long, I have waves with curls on the ends. Wash and go is what I do; braid in the shower, and I'm off.

dg.. You are paying for a hairdo. Bald men are sexy, btw.

posted by reflecked 09 June | 06:05

wait, i have to pee
it's not the hair, it's the head

posted by ethylene 09 June | 06:15

07 June 2005