Captain's Phlog                                   2020.01.22
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"Billy felt that he had spoken soaringly. He was baffled
when he saw the Tralfamadorians close their little hands on
their eyes. He knew from past experience what this meant: He
was being stupid."
                                        -Slaughterhouse-Five

Last week I cut my own hair for the first time. Having just
come from a barber two days earlier, it was just a trim. I
figured that the best time to have a go at it was when it
was pretty near perfect already. I feel it went well though
I was left with a slightly unruly look that Im not really
used to - having rocked a side part for most of half a
century (we wont discuss the mullet). I took this drastic
measure because reasons.

I go to barbers, not stylists. I dont know why except that's
just what I'd always done. My grampa did so why mess with
perfection? In fact I've used the same barber for nearly two
decades. He was also the owner of a hobby shop I managed in
the '90s. Last year he started wintering in Florida and I
had to make other arrangements for a couple of cuts. I went
to the closest barber - one floor up from my current
workplace once - and I went to my wife's lifelong beautician
once. This time I tried the other barber in town. Now I'm
going solo.

There's a thing about barber shops. They're inherently
conservative and stalwart bastions of the patriarchy. I
ain't no snowflake but I can not abide stupid people. As you
probably already noticed from my posts I'm an
Anarcho-Communist. Guess what? Barbers and their customers
skew right-wing-dumbfuck! Now I'm not playing favorites,
theres plenty of stupid in the liberal caucus as well. I
just have yet to discover the place where they get their
hair cut so I haven't needed to avoid it yet. These people
don't 'trigger' me. I've never felt triggered actually. I
just can't stand listening to stupid and guess what you get
with a maga hat in the corner and a cork board showcasing a
collection of police department patches? Yes. Pure 'murican
values by God! (just ignore the titty calendar by the sink)

Stupid people disappoint me because we can be so much more
and I just close my hand over my eye. So it goes. 

Thus ends my tail.