PICTURE POST!
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1986???My little sister back in the day
Love the 80s big hair!
She's got our grandma Devaney's red hair... direct from Dublin
Hair is symbolic for a lot of people, so I'm not surprised that you find people projecting their perspectives onto you and lamenting your baldness. It's awesome that you don't care, though!
It has been my experience (as someone whose hair began receding in his early 20s) that other people seem to have more of an issue with baldness/premature balding than I do.
I made my peace with genetics long ago and haven't given it much thought. It's only when other people seem uncomfortable about it when the topic comes up, and in these cases only because they think I'm] uncomfortable or insecure about it, when really I'm just like, "Bitch please. It's hair."
Then I remember - a lot of these same people imbue much of their self-worth and that of others mostly based on how good they look or how good they perceive themselves to look compared to the societal or cultural ideal. RedFenix, for example, once had just such a reaction to me and I realized it was much bigger a deal for her than it was for me.
Anywho... I guess if you want to look at it from a positive standpoint, I no longer place such importance on looks as opposed to character when assessing someone. And while it does bother me a little that there are people out there (especially potential dates/lovers) who might otherwise be just fine and perfect for me and I for them if I only had a mop full of hair on top, I don't know that I'd really want to associate with them if that one characteristic - completely out of my own control - was a dealbreaker.
Plus, I love being able to tell people "I'm not balding, I just get lots of head."
For me my hair is very closely tied to how I perceive myself, but not in a shallow way at all. It's more about confidence, personal growth, and maturity. I hid behind my hair as a teenager: through all my self-doubt and self-consciousness about my appearance I always had that beautiful, glorious, thick hair. Everyone commented on it. Then, like many young women do, I went out on my own and got the urge to cut it. I lopped 36 inches off in one go (went from that photo I posted to a chin-length bob). When I recently tried to grow it out again I was surprised to find that long hair made me severely depressed. It got just past my shoulders when I woke up one morning and came to the sudden realization that I absolutely hated it. I went to the salon the next day and got about 6 inches chopped, into a pixie cut, and my mood instantly elevated.
When I was a teenager I had nightmares in which people held me down and cut my hair. As an adult, getting it cut off felt like a weight off my shoulders (literally and figuratively).
I guess what I'm trying to say is that people's thoughts and feelings about their hair and other's hair may not always be so shallow as one would expect, but rather deeply rooted in both societal standards and pressures and their own emotions and personal experiences.
Awwww....no one recognizes who I'm with (he's on the right).On Saturday I was at the magnificent Oakland Paramount Theater to see the U.S. premier of Kevin Brownlow's restoration of Abel Gance's 1927 epic Napoleon (5.5 hours long, with three intemissions!) accompanied live by 46 musicians of the Oakland East Bay Symphony.
During the first intermission, as I walked along the mezzanine, I saw a familiar face...
I hadn't seen him in person since I interviewed him on the Paramount lot in mid 1990...almost 22 years ago!
I got nuthin. Looks very familiar, but I'm drawing a blank.
Same here. I've been racking my brain since that photo was first posted but I can't figure out where on earth I've seen that guy before. Since the Paramount lot is mentioned I'm assuming it's probably somebody involved in STAR TREK(TNG specifically?), but I'm clueless. Sorry.
RON D. MOORE!
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Oh, bloody hell.
Thanks, Shameless. I knew he looked awfully familiar, but since he wasn't one of the more recognizable actors in the franchise I couldn't pin him down.
Oh, bloody hell.
Thanks, Shameless. I knew he looked awfully familiar, but since he wasn't one of the more recognizable actors in the franchise I couldn't pin him down.
You are all made of fail.
I am such a bastard.
I've been saying that for the past 9 years.
My little sister back in the day
Ridiculously hot family.
I found my old Pinewood Derby cars. Both of them champions.
A hotdog and a coffin.
The hot dog one looks awesome.
Before I hacked off all my hair. Taken in my freshman dorm room. It had been longer, but I cut off about 6 inches my senior year of high school to even it out:
Lovely as always, but your current short look is much more fitting... You seem to have a stronger "glow" of happy energy in your current pics.
Hello Everyone!
I think that there are about 5 people on this board who know me, so I'd like to introduce myself. Here I am, with One-Eyed Jack, the pirate cat:
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So, I say hello everyone, and the pirate cat says Arrr.
One-Eyed Jack reminds me of my Data. My first cat, whom I had from third through twelfth grade. She used to ride my shoulders like that.
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