Hello and a happy new year to you all. Two thousand and ten has arrived and I enter it with a sense of hope and renewed vim. No vigour, just vim. Over Christmas I decided that I would embark on a mission that I had not attempted since my early 20’s. It was an experiment that I hoped would bring the lost years rushing back. Sadly, it has had exactly the opposite effect. What was this exciting new research and development? The growth of all the hair above my neck.
Growing your hair is an unusual process, facial and cranial grooming go out the window, razors are dis-guarded, and wives shoot you questionable looks when you remove your hat. What I remember about my
twenty six year old hair was its curly golden beauty, what I see in the mirror now is something similar to Tom Hanks in the final few scenes of Philadelphia. My beard now is a wonderful thick tricoloured affair that accentuates my Irishness, and may I say manliness. The hair however is a lost cause, like Tom Hanks trying to rescue Wilson on his way off that godforsaken Island.
In summing up I have decided to abandon the top half of the head, the hair will be back to number zero but the beard shall be cultivated, combed, trimmed, waxed and balmed for the foreseeable future. Then when it is thick and full I shall be as heroic as Tom……………………..well you know the rest.
on Jan 5th, 2010 at 9:35 pm
I must have photos. I must seen a cranium-shorn, full-chinned Red
on Jan 5th, 2010 at 10:09 pm
Apparently Irish blogging is dead. Did you not read the memorandum?
on Jan 6th, 2010 at 12:06 am
hair….sigh….it’s just a memory to me….except for my chest which is thick like a forest….
on Jan 6th, 2010 at 12:50 am
“no pop no style, i’m strictly roots”
i’ll believe it when i see it red!
on Jan 6th, 2010 at 1:27 am
Dear tricolouRed Leeroy I also opted for December to grow a beard. I had to wait for this Movember lark to finish.
I’ll blog about my beard as soon as blogging is cool again.
on Jan 6th, 2010 at 10:37 am
yay for beards! and baldyness! i think it’s a winning combo. what are the three colours in your beard? my fiancé has a big brown one with a tint of ginge about the ‘tache and few grey strays, but i’m not allowed to mention those ones.
on Jan 6th, 2010 at 10:45 am
First of all. I love you all. - can I say that ??
Waxy - but what about anonymity ?
Radge - I did catch the memo but I choose to believe that it is not dead, Irish people are just lazy.
Manuel - I have 4 hairs on the chest. Just 4. (oh and happy new year)
Rert - is that you ?
John - Cool is a state of beard.
Rosie - I got some black, blond and red, I look like a Luc Besson DVD.
on Jan 6th, 2010 at 1:07 pm
I’m toying with a shmig. Once puberty hits it’ll be woman-glue.
on Jan 6th, 2010 at 2:20 pm
2010 resolutions: no more facial hair, go immac! No more marriages of convenience.
on Jan 6th, 2010 at 6:51 pm
Good man, bearding is the new blogging. That said, I recently caught sight of a group called Fleet Foxes (or summat similar) who seem to be on a CSNY trip and they were the beardiest musicalists I’ve seen since The Dubliners circa 1968. So I’m not too sure of ’statement’ beards right now.
on Jan 6th, 2010 at 7:41 pm
Radge - do it - then post pictures
Coco - But I like marriages of convenience
Conan - Hmm, statement beards, that is worrying, but I am comfortable with it being a red Leeroy beard rather than it relating to Irish blogging or snow or anything………………..eh current.
on Jan 7th, 2010 at 3:05 am
Beards are in. I think I did that, maybe. been trend-setting for a few years now. mostly beards.
on Jan 7th, 2010 at 10:22 am
What a coincidence. I was surfing for porn on one side and reading you blog on the other (I’m actually working from home due to the snow situation) and found this site http://www.beards.org . Legends!!
on Jan 7th, 2010 at 1:00 pm
This cowld weather is making me consider something beard-like as well. If only because strapping two ferrets to my face for warmth is making people stare.
Good look with the beard anyway Leeroy I hope you have many happy moments together once the itching stops annoying you and merely starts annoying the wife instead.
on Jan 7th, 2010 at 1:01 pm
Jesus Christ such a typo. For shame! For shame!
on Jan 7th, 2010 at 2:34 pm
Yesterday morning when i finally dragged my cold ass out of bed and made my way into the shower, i unthinkingly reached for the pink razor (i am a lady afterall) and went about defuzzing the legs and oxters….. shower over I stepped out into the freezing cold bathroom and cursed my proper prior planning (or wishful thinking) and desperately pulled at the plughole to try to recapture some of the hair to superglue back on my body for warmth!