I got a package! Day 3
Hey,
I got a package from my mom with smaller packages inside here are the rules.
Smaller-sized package today, let's see what we got...
The Item:
It's a folding compact mirror, with a built-in spiky hairbrush. Those tines push in and out for easy storage when you close the compact. I'd seen them in use by some of the actresses in the play I was just in.
But Mom...I don't have any hair. Let's see what's in today's envelope...
The Message:
"Open to see what I'm thinking about right now!"
You're thinking I should grow out my hair? Oh, no the mirror, you're thinking about me. That's sweet.
Actually, a lot of you have probably never seen me with hair. It's really for the best. My hair was very fine and there wasn't much you could do with it. It would've taken ages to grow out into a pony tail and I'm pretty sure it would've looked awful (especially as male pattern baldness set in). It mostly made me look really boy-ish. True, the last pictures I have of me with hair are from my early 20's so I'm sure I look young no matter what, but bald is clearly a better look for me.
That's sort of what prompted me to shave my head in the first place. I knew the odds were pretty good that I'd go bald as I got older and I figured the best thing to do would be to shave my head now so I could see what my bare scalp looked like. I didn't want to get trapped in the lunacy of a comb-over and I didn't really like the monk's tonsure look that my dad had going. My roommate at the time said "Tom, and I'm not just saying this because I want to see a goatee on every man in America, you should grow a goatee to balance out the no-hair on top."
Pretty much the best sartorial advice I've ever been given by anyone. Although the period where I had both hair and goatee? I looked like a punk from shop class. But once it came in I shaved my head (first post-shave shower? AMAAAAAAAZING!) it all really came together. Now I regularly buzz my head once every other week or so and head scritches are the best.
later
Tom
I got a package from my mom with smaller packages inside here are the rules.
Smaller-sized package today, let's see what we got...
The Item:
It's a folding compact mirror, with a built-in spiky hairbrush. Those tines push in and out for easy storage when you close the compact. I'd seen them in use by some of the actresses in the play I was just in.
But Mom...I don't have any hair. Let's see what's in today's envelope...
The Message:
"Open to see what I'm thinking about right now!"
You're thinking I should grow out my hair? Oh, no the mirror, you're thinking about me. That's sweet.
Actually, a lot of you have probably never seen me with hair. It's really for the best. My hair was very fine and there wasn't much you could do with it. It would've taken ages to grow out into a pony tail and I'm pretty sure it would've looked awful (especially as male pattern baldness set in). It mostly made me look really boy-ish. True, the last pictures I have of me with hair are from my early 20's so I'm sure I look young no matter what, but bald is clearly a better look for me.
That's sort of what prompted me to shave my head in the first place. I knew the odds were pretty good that I'd go bald as I got older and I figured the best thing to do would be to shave my head now so I could see what my bare scalp looked like. I didn't want to get trapped in the lunacy of a comb-over and I didn't really like the monk's tonsure look that my dad had going. My roommate at the time said "Tom, and I'm not just saying this because I want to see a goatee on every man in America, you should grow a goatee to balance out the no-hair on top."
Pretty much the best sartorial advice I've ever been given by anyone. Although the period where I had both hair and goatee? I looked like a punk from shop class. But once it came in I shaved my head (first post-shave shower? AMAAAAAAAZING!) it all really came together. Now I regularly buzz my head once every other week or so and head scritches are the best.
later
Tom