tonsorial issues.
© 1996 Jamie Zawinski
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Ellen has cooler hair than me. Shortly after I started wearing braids, she said, ``hey, I think I'll do that too.'' But of course hers never got all tangled and matted like mine did; it was so unfair.
She got a parakeet, and shortly thereafter dyed her hair to match it: yellow and green with spots of red. It was quite impressive. The bird seemed to like it too, given how much time it spent sitting on her head.
She had to go to a wedding with her family last week, so she decided to
dye her hair all one color first, instead of the
pink/ It was from Ellen that I learned the trick to keeping your braids from
coming undone: wrap the ends in little bits of thin wire. She bought various
multicolored spools of small-gage wire for her hair, but I always just used
telephone wire; it was easy to come by.
One day I was sitting in my office waiting for a compile, and I was
re-wrapping the ends of some of my braids. Lou
walked by, and then did something of a double-take, and came back for a
better look.
Some months later, I had a similarly-
I guess she liked that answer, because she repeated the story to a lot of
people. Oh well.
But back to Ellen's hair; what I said earlier about her braids
always being untangled and unmatted isn't strictly
true, because after about a year she
decided to let them grow wild and transform into
dreadlocks, albeit relatively tidy and
perpetually- But recently, the time came for a major pruning, as she and Joe decided
to move to Seoul, Korea and make their living selling jewelry on the streets.
She cut her hair short (the only possible option once one has gone the
dreadlock route) because such
outrageous hair is, they tell me, just way too American for
east- My hair had started down the dreadlock path as well, despite my efforts
to hold it back from the brink, which is why I finally gave up and
unbraided it all. However, it was very nice to never need to comb it; it
was a terribly low-maintenance hair style. One problem with it is that when
one is in a strong
wind,
and one's hair is whipping around... well, those
little metal wires holding the ends together can take out an eye if you're
not careful.
But there was
this guy who sent me email telling me that I looked (by his estimation)
exactly like
Mario van Peebles did in
Highlander 3. It's too bad he took down his page proving this, because
it was pretty funny...
I didn't really know how to answer that. So I said,