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11 May 2009

This Is a Hair Thread My hair, should I cut it? I've shot past "Baltar" and "Irish bastard" and am now entering " I work in a Comic book store." and "I will make you read my poetry before I sleep with you ."

post by: The Whelk at: 08:42 | 32 comments

Yes.

(But those are some of the best hair descriptions ever.)

posted by sperose 11 May | 09:01

This depends. Do you actually write poetry?

posted by Ardiril 11 May | 09:12

You should cut it in the next few weeks back to "I might sell insurance" levels before you hit the dreaded "I wrote you a song that has no chorus on my acoustic guitar, let me play it for you."

posted by rmless2 11 May | 09:15

I write. I get paid for it! I write um...

comic books

Maybe I should just accept my fate and invest in some hilarious t-shirts.

posted by The Whelk 11 May | 09:16

Ah but rmless2, if I keep it up I can enjoy the "Doesn't have what you would call a 'job'" or "Is probably holding." stage before slamming into "Dad, the band broke up years ago. Let it go."

posted by The Whelk 11 May | 09:18

Have you considered a cut that doesn't look like you got it cut? Or, you could use the money to buy a half-decent bottle of Scotch.

And duct tape.

posted by Ardiril 11 May | 09:35

Duct tape, by the way, is excellent for removing the cut hairs that get stuck under your collar during a haircut. It is also valuable for holding down cowlicks and holding up trousers. It cannot help with poetry or embarrassing love songs for the acoustic guitar (the scotch might, however), although duct tape can be used to affix earplugs.

posted by crush-onastick 11 May | 09:56

You write comic books? You can have any length of hair or style that you want!

posted by typewriter 11 May | 10:03

How about some sort of hybrid hair style that's long in the back and short on top?

posted by mullacc 11 May | 10:34

I'd only add that you should likely mix it up, if you've had the same haircut for a long time. As a dude, it's pretty easy to get stuck in a rut that way. I like to grow mine out, then cut if off when I get fed up again. I find it liberating. Of course, I've had roughly the same sideburns since I was 16, and the same Imperial (Ray Charles, Frank Zappa, Tom Waits style under lip patch) since I was 23 or so.

But the hair on my head? Yeah, I like to mix that up.

(on preview: We could call it a "mullac"!)

posted by richat 11 May | 10:35

I'd only add that you should likely mix it up, if you've had the same haircut for a long time. As a dude, it's pretty easy to get stuck in a rut that way. I like to grow mine out, then cut if off when I get fed up again. I find it liberating.

Agreed! I do the same. Changing up hair is fun. Right now I'm growing it out until I'm totally sick of it or until the wedding, whichever comes last.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 11 May | 10:50

God, I've been trying to get to "Baltar" for like, a year now, but I'm stuck in "Second-season Sawyer".

posted by steef 11 May | 11:04

If you join Alan Moore's Hairclub for Men, you can look forward to never needing to cut your hair again. Act now, operators are standing by.

posted by doctor_negative 11 May | 11:10

You guys made me laugh!

posted by jason's_planet 11 May | 11:36

Alan Moore's power, like Samson's, resides in his hair. At night, he curls it around himself to make a nest and sleeps the sleep of reason.

posted by The Whelk 11 May | 11:46

Either buzz it down, or do a great duckbill.

posted by King of Prontopia 11 May | 11:53

Dreadlocks dreadlocks dreadlocks!

posted by box 11 May | 12:14

Today my hair looks like Spaulding Grey's. . .

post-East-River

posted by danf 11 May | 12:15

A duckbill would just make me look like my Dad before he got all The Dude in retirement.

Box, there is one time and one time only when dreadlocks on a 6 foot white guy is acceptable. When said guy is actively engaged in pillaging a monestary and hacking peasants with a battle axe.

posted by The Whelk 11 May | 12:24

Yeah, and? Can't you just wear a ponytail during the workweek?

posted by box 11 May | 12:40

This thread is useless without pictures.

posted by deborah 11 May | 13:01

I have only a camera phone. It's not even a smartphone. It's a steady C kinda phone.

posted by The Whelk 11 May | 13:41

If you get a Breakfast Club Ally Sheedy cut, you will never have to wash it.

posted by Ardiril 11 May | 13:49

I would like to favourite box's last comment.

posted by richat 11 May | 13:57

I wish I wrote comic books.

I already have the hair for it.

posted by BitterOldPunk 11 May | 13:57

I vote for cutting. Clean necks are sexy. You just want to bite them.

posted by LoriFLA 11 May | 14:05

The neck, that is.

posted by LoriFLA 11 May | 14:05

The trick is to get it trimmed up in the front (so it's not in your eyes) and in the back (so it's not on your shoulders) and then ask whomever to layer the rest. Then it looks casually GQ shaggy, rather than "I spend more money on illicit drugs than personal hygiene" shaggy.

posted by muddgirl 11 May | 14:13

Go for a crazy, different or unexpected haircut you wouldn't try or normally get if you want to go the haircut route. Since your hairstyle isn't really affected by the job you have and hair grows back, I'd be all about the experimenting. Though I could be saying that because I'm just waiting around to see how long and how big my hair can get before I lop it all off due to to my hair either taking more than a day to air dry or it gets too damn hot. For someone who rarely gets the same haircut twice and is currently contemplating a radical haircut, it's like the hair equivalent of having to sit on my hands to.

posted by kkokkodalk 11 May | 14:56

or it gets too damn hot.

Half the reason why my hair's this long to begin with is the mild weather and silent competition I've been having with myself to see how long I can stand the ever-expanding shaggy mound.

I've always wanted to have natural-looking odd-colored hair. Like say, green hair, but not bright bottle green. Dark green. Mossy. With subtle highlights and variants and maybe even shot through through some gray. Cut rather conservatively. But green.

Matched with a nice suit it could be quite striking and keep me safely away from real jobs for a few more months.

posted by The Whelk 11 May | 15:17

How 'bout cutting your hair, knitting a small basket with it, and storing your weed in it?

posted by MonkeyButter 11 May | 15:25

I can't believe it took me this long to remember this

I am doing this instead of writing my comics

I am a bad person.

posted by The Whelk 11 May | 15:33

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