Mar 25, 2008 01:19
I can't grow sideburns for the life of me. It's a great fat guy trick. When your head is nice and big and huge, sideburns are a great way to take up valuable facial real estate and create the illusion of a smaller head. It's like a well-placed set of bookends make a couple of books look like a small library.
This would be great, except the hair on my left cheek grows differently than my right. The sideburn on the right is a nice little sideburn in training. It matches the rest of my hair in color, texture, and thickness. The left side, however, just gives up midway through. It looks just like the right until halfway down, and then starts getting long and stringy and thin. So either I trim them both back to match and have these really short, useless sidestumps, or I shave them off altogether and accept that I will never be hip.
...accepted.
I love Alton Brown, but for that matter, I love anyone who'd open a cooking show with a three minute homage to Rod Serling's Night Gallery.