The Greatest Swordsman in the Periphery

[infanttyrone]

My hair was starting to get kind of tangly, so before my shower this morning I broke out the clippers and reinstated some discipline on my high & tight. (It wouldn't pass muster in the actual service, since it's kind of shaggy around the front & sides.) This is the haircut I've been giving myself for years now, but I've got to be a lot more

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[ltmurnau]

Oh yeah yeah, sure the girls go for that look.
When I was a teenager, I wanted to have some kind of asymmetrical haircut - y'know, long on one side. This was the 80s, so anime styles hadn't made it over to North America just yet. I never did do it, because I was in the Army at the time. And when I travelled to Berlin in 1988 and '89, and saw all the Berlin housewives with coloured hair and asymmetrical haircuts (and leather pants) on the U-bahn, I gave up on the idea.
Since then I've always cut my own hair, because I'm too cheap to pay for more than the clippers and anyone can give themselves an OK-looking short job.
I've grown to like the Freshly Released Mental Patient look; you can too!

[infanttyrone]

I had one of those lopsided haircuts for a long time. It was black, but I really wanted it to be sky blue, so I could look like Max Sterling from Robotech. When I see pictures of myself like that now, I want to invent a time machine, travel back, hold myself down and shave my own head.

[lux_et_amor]

what neighborhood do you live/ hang out in?
i just got to my mom's place in beverly and i'm in town (chicago) for the weekend. tomorrow i'll be spending the night downtown-ish. perhaps i may see you from across the street and wave.

but then i suppose i'd have to know what you- or master yupa- looks like.

[infanttyrone]

I live and work in Wicker Park, although I don't hang out here since it's mostly ballcap-wearing bros now. It's unlikely that I'll be downtown, as I've just been invited to a party on Saturday in the forbidden zone (the neighborhood where my ex lives.)

[lux_et_amor]

i didn't really think i'd be walking down the street and see you. :-P

[lux_et_amor]

and i'll most likely be hanging out near edgewater or roscoe village

By crakey!

[infanttyrone]

You've clearly never seen me in my bike gear! Patched and re-patched jeans, black hoodie and army surplus jacket, ancient jury-rigged bike-- if I had an eye patch and spikes in my helmet I'd be ready for Thunderdome.

[bluebellrock]

You shouldn't write a post this specific and not include photos. That's like something I would do.

[infanttyrone]

I was going to make a lot of the names into links, but I couldn't find good images of any of the principal players. And I'm maintaining my own "no photos on the internet" rule.

[bluebellrock]

I'm maintaining my "only one photo on the internet which has now been buried in the archives" rule myself.

[infanttyrone]

Well, you look very...orange in that picture. Nice whiskers!