Celebrity Hair Days
Why simply have a bad hair day?
I have celebrity hair days.
I have baby fine hair and it loves to snarl. When I was little, my mom always kept my hair short. It was easier and less stressful for her. I grew accustomed to people thinking that I was the oldest son. Once my hair hits my shoulders, it’s okay - but any longer than that just doesn’t work. Sigh…. I always wanted long hair.
But then, I always wanted long legs, too.
Some things just aren’t meant to be.
I woke up this morning with Don King hair.
That’s my reward for going to bed with my hair wet.
Image courtesy of Boxing’s Finest
Often, when I’m outside working and I catch a glimpse of my reflection,
the first person I think of is
Gallagher.
No, I don’t have the mustache, but with my hair smashed under a cap - this is pretty close to my “style”. And no, I’m not bald on top. Yet.
May 5th, 2005 at 7:43 pm
I frequently get Don King hair myself
May 6th, 2005 at 7:06 am
My hair looks okay about three days a year! The rest of the time it is a fine fly away mess but then I look at the folks who are taking chemo and have no hair at all and I decide mine isn’t so bad after all!
May 6th, 2005 at 7:07 am
Whoops, I forgot to sign that. bonnie
May 6th, 2005 at 1:51 pm
i’ve gone 6 months now into my Long Hair experiment and it looks good. i was always worried it wouldn’t look good or would have a long phase where it looked terrible. my fears were misplaced! me and my thick curly hair are very happy together.
i did learn, though. all those guys with long hair who flick it in a vain way - they TRULY are vain. because mine is long now, and no shoulder flicking or running my fingers through it is required. shame on them!
May 6th, 2005 at 11:22 pm
I love the idea! From now on my bad hair days are going to be called celebrity hair days!
May 7th, 2005 at 12:28 am
What I can’t figure out is why my hair always looks it’s best right before I go to bed. It’s in my way all day long, then come evening and my jammies are on, it looks beautiful! But of course it doesn’t last, because when I wake up, it’s all over the place!
May 7th, 2005 at 8:46 am
Pet peeve: When I get out of bed of a morning I have Don King hair. After a quick shampoo in the shower I blow-dry and then apply “Bedhead” to scrunch my hair. Why do I have to go through all that to make my hair look like it shoulda looked when I got out of bed? And THEN, I go outside and the wind blows it all to hell.
May 7th, 2005 at 11:04 am
Neal Kirkness would greet me years ago by saying;
“Good Morning Eric, comb your hair with an eggbeater?”
Everybody can have a bad hair day!
May 7th, 2005 at 11:48 am
Hey Eric, be careful. I don’t have bad hair days; but then I don’t have hair, except what I’m now trying to grow on my chin, but that’s another story. In my day we called it Einstein hair, but Don King has him beat big time.
And, hey, Moos, I’ve been wondering for some time and now’s a good time to ask: How’d they catch Sally Rand clothed and without her balloons?
May 7th, 2005 at 2:18 pm
L - Glad to see that I’m not alone! I’d much rather have Don King’s hair than Donald Trump’s hair, though…
Bonnie - Come on now, I’ve seen you more than 3 times (And I was only drinking one of those times!) & your hair always looked great to me, albeit blonde.
Pinhut - We want photo proof - so you have rock star hair now?
Rachel - Your hair looks lovely in your blog photo. What celebrity do you resemble - on off hair days?
Christine - Maybe you’re “working the wrong shift”. Your blog photo looks great, too.
Chenoah - “Bedhead” - do they make “Hathead”, too?! Ahhh - the great equalizer - the wind - I take it that Texas is as bad as MT & WY…
Eric - So, was it a whisk or an electric eggbeater? Get your head out of the Hobart mixer, will you…
Chuck - I am so happy to see/hear from you. How was tax season? How are you?
Re: Sally Rand
Do you suppose that photo was taken during her brief marriage to Turk Greenough?
May 7th, 2005 at 4:18 pm
My hair is fine and straight. To bring out any kind of shape I have to spritz, blow, curl, and plaster. It stays for a whole five minutes until I step outside and receive Chenoah’s wind, which takes my long hair up into the air and twists it like a licorice stick. BTW, I think that wind gets stronger once it crosses the border.
I’m actually kind of grateful for the gray hair - I finely have a little natural body.
May 7th, 2005 at 7:07 pm
Back when I was young and foolish (as opposed to now when I’m OLD and foolish), my hair was so wavy that if I parted it, it would go straight up at the top of my head. So I did what any white boy would do with such a problem–I made it an Afro (this was the mid-70’s after all). My hair has straightened up since then (and is also getting gray in places), and I get a self-inflicted haircut every three months (the sheep shears are set for one-half inch).
Women were always complimenting me on my curly hair, to which I would always reply, “If I could give it to you, I would. To me, it’s just a pain in the posterior.”
It never got as bad as Don King (if it had, I believe that suicide would’ve been the only option), but it came close. In the basement of my Dad’s house is a portrait of myself from those days. Every time I see it, I cringe. (But then don’t we all cringe of pictures of us when we were younger. As Glen Frey of the Eagles once said, “This is not memories–this is EVIDENCE.”)
Kirk (a/k/a “Sheba’s Person”)