Jeffrey Rowland's OVERCOMPENSATING
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06 April 2005

Late

Overcompensating will be late today because I have to go get a haircut. No, you don't understand. I have to get a haircut. I look like some kind of musician who got injured a year ago and never fully recovered. Like a drummer without a girlfriend. It's quite bad.

And everybody will make fun of my haircut, they always do. You'll see it in Esquire and Tiger Beat: "Rowland Get's Dumb-Ass Haircut."

Then the stabbing will begin.

9 Comments:

Travis Rosenbaum said...

There is a way out; if you can do the stabbing with your hair, perhaps with a spike fashioned out of your own stray clippings and elmer's wood glue, not only would you be an effective foe against vampire hairdressers, but all errors in style judgement will be forgiven.

In fact, make your new hairstyle a large tapered elmer's-wood-glue-spike--in case your newly crafted weapon gets knocked out of your hand--you can always headbutt your foes like a deranged punk-rockin'-billygoat.

Somewhere, there is a comic book series being formed around this very concept. I can feel it.

6/4/05 15:58  
Perry said...

Talk of the Nation is the most bad-ass talk-show ever. And you've said you listen to it. Logic tell us that you, therefore, are also bad-ass. This determination is also supported by your bad-ass web-comicals. Keep it up, you've touched many lives in positive, heart-warming ways. (I'm sure its ruined some peoples' days, too, so, it's not all bad.)

:)

6/4/05 16:07  
Anonymous said...

Your fans require photos of the sooncoming haircut!

6/4/05 16:18  
Simon said...

Heh. That "stabbing will begin" comment is sooooo Warren Ellis :D

6/4/05 16:55  
Pope George Ringo said...

In the early 80s some punk was fired from a Rolls-Royce factory because his mohawk had been augmented by black fibreglass, which had hardened into four-five big spikes. The factory didn't want to fire him, saying they'd tolerated the piercings and chains already because he was a good worker, but he had to wear a hardhat in his workplace and it wouldn't fit; plus if he turned around fast he could put your eye out. I tried to find a pic but the story's too old...but the reporter asked him how he slept and he heaved a sigh and said "Well, face down obviously."

6/4/05 18:01  
Paige said...

Oh my god, Travis Rosenbaum, you better believe I made that comic. His name was Mortimer Kahn, and he had short term memory loss, and he had a sidekick named Maxwell House ("good to the last drop, bitch!") Right now I am in complete awe of you saying how you felt that comic was in the making. His hair was totally bitchin'. My friend drew an ink drawing of him, but I don't know where it is.

Also: I just got a haircut, and it was so bad, I went back to the hair place and asked for them to fix it, and they ended up doign EXACTLY THE SAME THING AS BEFORE. Not cool. I look super-bad. Bad as in bad not as in good.

6/4/05 18:31  
leigh said...

i'm with you Jeff. i think i have a diagnosable haircut paranoia. i always have long-ish hair, and it's not because i like long hair. i just hate going to the hairdresser, and will procrastinate like no tomorrow. i've recently taken to chopping at the bits with kitchen scissors so it at least stays above my collar.
try it. even if you get carried away, people will just think you're an "artist"

6/4/05 21:28  
Anonymous said...

you should totally get a fauxhawk like omgstfu!!!11one

7/4/05 02:21  
Anonymous said...

you should totally get a fauxhawk like omgstfu!!!11one

7/4/05 02:21  

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