I finally shaved on Thursday because I was going to the theater
My facial hair got out of control this week.
On Tuesday I was a lovable, scruffy scamp.
On Wednesday I was a sea urchin fresh out of the sea.
This image works if you've ever handled a sea urchin fresh out of the sea. It's 8 am on a Friday; I'm amazed I can write anything at all.
So did I shave on Wednesday?
Pssh. Does a sea urchin shave?
Seriously, enough with the sea urchins.
No, I watched the sometimes good, mostly amateurish, always interminable 4-hour epic Gettysburg. If you ever want to feel good about your own facial hair, watch a movie about the Civil War. The beards on those dudes were out of control. I wondered if the producers searched far and wide for costumers who had secret beard fetishes and whispered to them, "It's OK. This is a safe place. Now go make your wildest beard fantasies a reality."
Watching the interminable 4-hour epic Gettysburg (I'm pretty sure that was the full name on the posters) one is struck by the realization that the war went on so long because it was fought by proud, stubborn men who would not, could not listen to reason. The beards were their visual shorthand for getting that idea across, sort of like me wearing a tuxedo is visual shorthand for "I am lonely and crave human contact."
Seriously, I want to slip Tom Berenger a roofie and take a razor to his face. And then apply Nair over the shaved parts. He looks like an upside-down Don King.
Fig. 1: If the South won the war, slavery would be legal and everyone would have to have stupid beards. It said that on Confederate money.
3 Comments:
i totally forgot jeff daniels was in that movie! probably because he was hiding behind that glorious 'stache.
i do remember that a dude's head explodes within the first half hour though. gross.
I don't remember a head exploding in the beginning of Gettysburg, but I do remember a head exploding in the beginning of Glory. But the mustaches and beards aren't totally insane in Glory, nor is Jeff Daniels in it.
There must be some sort of Civil War movie database that tracks this stuff.
Wow, those men really have thick beards! Maybe in those days, men were really busy, they forgot all about shaving.
Shaving used to be a hated task for me, but I realized that it also gives me more time for myself to relax.
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