I'm with you on your internet apathy. I swore of instant messaging programs years ago because I didn't like the pressure of having to sustain 12 meaningless conversations at once. I pretty much stopped updating my Live Journal when I realized everybody else in the world cared about reading my life story almost as little as I cared about writing it. My e-mail client is a vast ocean of junk and pornography, so the chances of someone writing me, me bothering to sift through that virtual haystack to find their needle, and then me replying to it are virtually nil. I spend 9 hours a day at work fucking around on-line and reading forums, and can hardly muster up the willpower to reply even to conversations I'm interested in. I'm the Eeyore of the internet. Oh bother.
I have a weird thing with beards and haircuts. When I had long hair, I also had a beard. When I started shaving my dome, the beard had to go. Why? Because I have some mental hang up that says: a beard implies that one prefers to make as little effort as possible with regards to personal appearance, whereas short hair gives the opposite impression by requiring constant, regular maintenance. Long hair reinforces the implications of the beard, whereas little to no facial hair complements the regular upkeep of less hair. You can't mix and match these combinations, the results would be disastrous. To do so would be to wreak havoc on the aesthetic senses of all who perceive you.
See, now in this instance, you have summed things up quite succinctly. Be proud.
At least, be proud about the internet thing. I somewhat disagree on the beards. While I am growing my shaggy mane out a bit, and accompanying it with beardism, I have a very soft spot in my heart for people with shaved heads AND beard. I think it stems from the Hot Water Music crew, which do that on occasion. Long hair minus beard, though, might have too many connections to hairmetal/glam to be respectable.
I have a weird thing with beards and haircuts. When I had long hair, I also had a beard. When I started shaving my dome, the beard had to go. Why? Because I have some mental hang up that says: a beard implies that one prefers to make as little effort as possible with regards to personal appearance, whereas short hair gives the opposite impression by requiring constant, regular maintenance. Long hair reinforces the implications of the beard, whereas little to no facial hair complements the regular upkeep of less hair. You can't mix and match these combinations, the results would be disastrous. To do so would be to wreak havoc on the aesthetic senses of all who perceive you.
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At least, be proud about the internet thing. I somewhat disagree on the beards. While I am growing my shaggy mane out a bit, and accompanying it with beardism, I have a very soft spot in my heart for people with shaved heads AND beard. I think it stems from the Hot Water Music crew, which do that on occasion. Long hair minus beard, though, might have too many connections to hairmetal/glam to be respectable.
I haven't done much research on the matter.
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