Vermont 2005
ChicagoEye inspired me to take a photo of myself this morning before my shower, something I rarely do. Taking self-portraits, that is. This is pretty much what I look like with my hair grown out after 4 weeks--I've taken a liking to cutting it very short since learning that my skull isn't as conehead-shaped as it feels.
I like the grizzled look not-shaving gives my face. When I'm walking to breakfast and stop at the intersection of 12th and Lamar, women in cars stopped at the intersection lock their doors the moment I make my final approach, fearing I might commit a daytime carjacking. And I'm thinking, "Are you kidding me? In flip-flops?" Years earlier women reacted the same when my hair was long and down my back.
When my beard's longer I look like Gabby Hayes and completely harmless. Avuncular even, which isn't terribly attractive to babes. Neither, for that matter, is 'grizzled'. Or 'harmless'. Babes seem to like 'bad' boys, and my bad boy days are behind me. When all is said and done I'm just a middle-aged eccentric; and being middle aged and eccentric won't get you laid either.
UPDATE: Some women, I've recently learned, actually do go for "middle aged" and "eccentric". I'm totally jazzed that I've found one of them.
Vermont 2005
ChicagoEye inspired me to take a photo of myself this morning before my shower, something I rarely do. Taking self-portraits, that is. This is pretty much what I look like with my hair grown out after 4 weeks--I've taken a liking to cutting it very short since learning that my skull isn't as conehead-shaped as it feels.
I like the grizzled look not-shaving gives my face. When I'm walking to breakfast and stop at the intersection of 12th and Lamar, women in cars stopped at the intersection lock their doors the moment I make my final approach, fearing I might commit a daytime carjacking. And I'm thinking, "Are you kidding me? In flip-flops?" Years earlier women reacted the same when my hair was long and down my back.
When my beard's longer I look like Gabby Hayes and completely harmless. Avuncular even, which isn't terribly attractive to babes. Neither, for that matter, is 'grizzled'. Or 'harmless'. Babes seem to like 'bad' boys, and my bad boy days are behind me. When all is said and done I'm just a middle-aged eccentric; and being middle aged and eccentric won't get you laid either.
UPDATE: Some women, I've recently learned, actually do go for "middle aged" and "eccentric". I'm totally jazzed that I've found one of them.