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Shaved my head...

 
  

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Jack Fear
14:55 / 05.01.03
...last night. Didn't really set out to--was just doing a maintenance trim on my buzzcut and things went horribly awry around the ears: shaving it all was the only way I could salvage any kind of dignity.

Had to take the beard off, too, because a shaved head with a vandyke is just too nu-metal.

So now it's a miserable couple of weeks of wearing a hat and waiting for things to grow out. My only consolation thus far has been glowering meaningfully into the mirror and shouting, "To me, my X-Men!"
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
15:07 / 05.01.03
"...and in a funny way the shaving of (Jack Fear's) head, has been a liberation from a lot of stupid vanities, really. It has simplified everything for (him), it has opened a lot of doors, maybe."
 
 
Jack Fear
15:21 / 05.01.03
Nah. The buzzcut did that. Because a shaved head may be fashionable in certain circles, but a buzzcut never is, thus removing fashion from the equation completely.

In fact my biggest worry about the shavepate is that it makes me look like just another trendhopping scumfuck.
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
15:29 / 05.01.03
Nah, I don't think so. It's increasingly common for men to shave their heads because they're balding, so common that it's not all that cool. I don't think you should worry so much about looking trendy, in all honesty. Maybe if you kept the little beard, but you didn't, so you're good. How does it look? Do you think you look good with it?

Surely your hair will be up to buzz-cut levels in a week or two, so it's really nothing to worry about.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
15:36 / 05.01.03
I have never met anyone from Barbelith who looks like another trendhopping scumfuck and have now decided that it's an impossibility so I shouldn't worry if I was you, your hair should grow back in no time anyway!
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
15:47 / 05.01.03
my biggest worry about the shavepate is that it makes me look like just another trendhopping scumfuck.

Ahem.
 
 
Jack Fear
15:57 / 05.01.03
Erm.

Present company excepted.
 
 
Jack Fear
16:00 / 05.01.03
VillagePhotos, where I host my pix, appears to be down for the moment: when the site comes back online, you shall all feel my powers of psychic penetration!
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
16:04 / 05.01.03
I have never met anyone from Barbelith who looks like another trendhopping scumfuck

Tries...to...resist. Fails.

You've not met Byron Bitchlaces then?

*runs away giggling*
 
 
Jack Fear
17:26 / 05.01.03
To me, my X-Men!

 
 
Ellis says:
17:32 / 05.01.03
I had my head shaved last night. Weird.

Kept the fuzzy facial hair though, apparently it makes me look "really fucked up".
 
 
Ethan Hawke
18:11 / 05.01.03
Jack, as long as your don't combine your new shaven head with a pair of dark Buddy Holly glasses, you should be okay.

NYC is ~crawling~ with guys with shaved heads and dark-framed glasses, who never, ever smile. Scowling baldies, I call 'em.
 
 
Seth
18:23 / 05.01.03
Chalk hearts melting on a playground wall!
 
 
Persephone
18:44 / 05.01.03
How funny, I've been working on a cartoon of you shaving your head... geez, for months probably. Ever since you wrote that thing about how you cut your own hair every week with the newspapers all spread on the floor. I finally gave up, because it was taking so long and the immediacy was totally lost. But hey look, it's topical again...
 
 
Jack Denfeld
18:48 / 05.01.03
My haircut regiment used to be pretty tight. Shave head. Let hair grow back, and start spiking it, until it got so long the sides wouldnt spike, and then shave head. Did those for a year or 2. Decided early last year I no longer wanted a shaved head or spiky hair, so i guess i kinda have a shaggy hair beatles haircut?
 
 
Jack Fear
18:54 / 05.01.03
How funny, I've been working on a cartoon of you shaving your head...

Okay, now you have to post pictures!
 
 
Cosmicjamas
21:26 / 05.01.03
Oh, expressionless - absolutely - Fish!! Could y'not have kept the beard Jack? Possibly??
 
 
Linus Dunce
17:21 / 06.01.03
Jack, don't worry, you're lookin' good! I think you were right to take off the beard as well, though. Some people shouldn't shave their heads because the shape of their skulls wouldn't suit, but yours is just right.
 
 
grant
20:40 / 06.01.03
Viva change.
 
 
No star here laces
20:46 / 06.01.03
Fuck you bengali, at least I don't look like a mix-and-match trend-hopping scumfuck.

Nerrrrrr.

*flounce*
 
 
Saveloy
22:58 / 06.01.03
Look at the size of that thing! You didn't shave your head at all, did you, Jack? You inflated it till the hair was no longer visible, ya big cheat!
 
 
Alex's Grandma
16:01 / 10.01.04
What's wrong with being a trend-hopping scumfuck anyway ? I mean you've got to be something...
Anyway I've got a hot date ( I think ) in London on Monday. Does anyone have any thoughts on where to go ? Apart, pretty clearly, from Hell, Away To Fuck, and that kind of thing - No doubt I'll manage those all by myself
 
 
Hieronymus
17:10 / 10.01.04
Can't wait to shave mine for spring.

And keeping my beard :-P
 
 
gingerbop
17:49 / 10.01.04
I had a buzzcut yesterday. Much fun.
 
 
Pants Payroll
19:13 / 10.01.04
Last year I had an old testament prophet look happening with long hair and beard, and when I felt it had sort of run its course for me i thought about shaving both off but was confronted with the same dilemma (trend-fuck, hopping, etc.). I sidestepped this by shaving the beard and front half of my head, leaving the back long in a manchurian sort of style like Chow-Yun Fat in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, or your klingon of choice (as one person saw it). Liked it so much I still have it (since last may).
 
 
Madman in the ruins.
19:22 / 10.01.04
Last year I had an old testament prophet look happening with long hair and beard, and when I felt it had sort of run its course for me i thought about shaving both off but was confronted with the same dilemma (trend-fuck, hopping, etc.). I sidestepped this by shaving the beard and front half of my head, leaving the back long in a manchurian sort of style like Chow-Yun Fat in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, or your klingon of choice (as one person saw it). Liked it so much I still have it (since last may).

A Mullett then?

I had the whole, Shaved except for a litte bit at the back which I wore in a pliat for a couple of years, due to the fact that my hair is too thin (unlike the rest of me) I shave the lot, low maiteancace, hygenic but in thie weather, Damm its cold.
 
 
Pants Payroll
20:04 / 10.01.04
John Odin: A mullet then?

No. See, this is not a mullet.
This is a mullet.
 
 
gingerbop
20:20 / 10.01.04
But apparently female-mullets are in. Or so says a mag in my dentists waiting room. Who decides that tradgedies like that are in vogue?

I dont find it terribly cold- but then its not shaved as such. And it does look better after you've worn a hat if it's short. Koala-style.
 
 
sleazenation
09:22 / 11.01.04
gingerbop - its not that mullets on girls are in its just that the subeditors on style mags are evil and will occasionally put in items just for a laugh...
 
 
Madman in the ruins.
09:25 / 11.01.04
Ahhh i've had both hairstlyes.

(shoot me now)
 
 
Madman in the ruins.
09:25 / 11.01.04
Ahhh i've had both hairstlyes.

(shoot me now)

I've seen a few Femmullets lately, but I live in the Northwest which is a bit of a culturall and fashon wasteland. People still think Burberry Baseball caps are cool.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
10:26 / 11.01.04
Skinner! Jack Fear looks like Skinner!

(Scurries off to write slash)
 
 
Scrambled Password Bogus Email
15:45 / 11.01.04
It's in the air. I have been under the clippers this weekend.
 
 
Cat Chant
10:47 / 12.01.04
(Scurries off to write slash)

Tease.
 
 
deja_vroom
10:51 / 12.01.04
Ever since you wrote that thing about how you cut your own hair every week with the newspapers all spread on the floor

Jack, you too? Brother!
 
  

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