Blogagaard Recieves Stellar Haircut

The lady who cuts my hair is named Donna. She is of simple folk, and what we do together is simply beautiful when it is done well: the haircut. I walk in shaggy, a possible future mudflap creeping down the back of my neck. I walk out well-trimmed, my head and soul lighter. I reenter humanity a new Dave, a Dave who just got his haircut and withstood twenty minutes of dull conversation without cracking.

Yet getting a haircut always makes me consider the cyclical nature of life itself. Sure, this is a fine haircut right now, but in a month my hair will getting long again, and a month after that I will need to return to Donna, that Siren of the Scissors. If I don't go bald, this will be an endless cycle of cutting, of Donna sowing what my hair folicles have reaped, until one one of falls to the ground, face first into a pile of all that hair which has gone before us, both of us totally exhausted by the whole routine. What is the point of it all?

To have hair, only to lose it?

(Bloggaaard would like to extend his appologies to Brady, Mikey, and Clurg, who may have felt left out by this post. Be strong, my folicly challenged bretheren)

17 comments:

Something dirty said...

You could go somewhere else, too. Donna would forget, although she would pull out a lock of your hair from a drawer somewhere, since she undoubtedly keeps at least a lock from each cut. She would stroke the lock of hair, and sigh deeply, before turning to the next customer.

David Oppegaard said...

My hair is fine, S.D., but not that fine.

Geoff Herbach said...

The Inspektor has such a hard time leaving a stylist he began to shave his head.

I cut my own hair, or my wife does. I shave it. I want a flobie.

Clurg said...

I got scared when I realized that I live on the mullet of Alabama. (Seriously, just look at a map. Mobile County is the mullet flying away from the neck of Baldwin County.)

Hmm...haircuts. I remember being a kid and enjoying a next door neighbor's daughter giving me haircuts. There were a lot of "fly-bys" if you know what I mean.

That's about the last thing I thought I would talk about today.

I just shave it nowadays. I currently am sporting the Micheal Berryman look. I mean, hell. I'm going bald anyway, why not scare some folks, too?

Clurg said...

Thanks for the concern, Oppegaard.

I know you had to clean up the "Torrance."

Something dirty said...

The smiley face picture on Jerry the Turtle is of CN's husband mid-haircut. She cut it herself, taking him from mullet-land, to almost employable future engineer.

David Oppegaard said...

Good move by CN.

Has anyone seen the musical "Hair"? What the hell is that all about? I have seen "Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street", two maybe three times.

Lucas said...

It must be different for girls. I love getting my haircut now that I've found a great stylist (which is what they are calling themselves nowdays). It's a time of pampering and relaxation and when she gets out the hair dryer and paddle brush and smoothes my hair so it's all straight and shiney, what could be better? I agree with SD in that perhaps the problem, David, is not your constantly growing hair, but the environment in which you choose to address it. Men so often go to the barber or just some 12 dollar chop shop when a good salon can offer you a pre-wash scalp massage, pleasant smelling shampoos and a stylist who will be more entertaining than poor Donna. It's getting more acceptable for men to care for their hair and skin on a more serious level and the results of such care can be very relaxing. And David, you are worth it!

Anonymous said...

My hair isn't worthy of a salon, since it doesn't think my head a worthy place to stay.

So begone hair! I banish you to wherever it is you have gone!

L said...

The Inspektor refuses to comment as he once frequented an establishment that gave him a scalp massage and made him feel pretty. It hurts too much to bring up those memories of long, flowing hair.

Last night, he stood in the bathroom and shaved his own head.

Anonymous said...

Nice work The Inspektor. I hereby call for a hair boycott! No more shall it make demands of me!

I shall begin this boycott by shaving Mr. Oppegaard's hair in his sleep, so that he may know the feel of a gentle breeze on his freshly shorn scalp.

Voix said...

David -- blogger party, Saturday. Post it!

Clurg said...

That's right. Let's shave his head. Then he may get all the Private Pyle comments that I get.

We can shave his head and then hit me with bars of soap hidden in socks.

Now that's a blogger happy hour.

David Oppegaard said...

Okay, Okay, I'll post it Michelle. Some of us have to fake working, you know.

Clurg and Mike, you will never shave once strand of these fine head of hair. I feel like a supermodel!

Something dirty said...

I mostly like getting my haircut. I just can't find a good stylist who's also incredibly inexpensive. Sometimes I go to one of the local beauty schools, with mixed results. I think it's been 4-6 months since my last cut! damn

David Oppegaard said...

SD, I will cut your hair for free. I have a rusty scissors here somewhere.

Something dirty said...

I am so there!

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