B-Day

[gfish]

Today was B-Day! After not shaving for a year and 6 days, I finally got rid of my facial growth:



The beard was fun, but not really me in the end. And it was a pain to take care of. But it was a nice souvenir of the Mackenzie while it lasted, I gave it an honest go, and I can hold my head high.

To make a bit of an event out of it, I went to this charmingly old school barbershop at Hastings and Nanaimo and had it removed with a straight razor. They did the hot towels and lather and aftershave and powder and everything. Pretty fun, actually. I guess I can see the appeal of the whole spa thing.

Comments

Fuck you, Hi... er, wait.

[tithonium.livejournal.com]

OH THANK GOD.

Re: Fuck you, Hi... er, wait.

[loree.livejournal.com]

Seconded. :)

[tithonium.livejournal.com]

Also, that sounds fun. I should get a professional shave one of these decades.
Maybe I'll start doing that when I turn 50 and take up smoking a pipe

[jhitchin.livejournal.com]

If you've gotta shave it all off, you may as well do it in the most pleasurable way possible. The next time I have to shave for a show, I'm going to The Art of Shaving store in Bellevue Square and do it right for once.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, that sounds like fun. Pricey, but not exorbitant...

I'm thinking Real Soon Now I'm gonna get somebody to do me a quasi-reverse-mohawk and get rid of all that stray fuzz right on top....

[randomdreams.livejournal.com]

Dude. You look spooky with a beard, like a viking on shore leave.

[gfish.livejournal.com]

That's not the best picture of it, just last minute documentation. I had just showered, so my hair isn't as frizzy as it usually is. I also hadn't bothered to trim the beard this week, since I knew it was getting the axe.

[grinninfoole.livejournal.com]

Yeah, beards are just not for some people. I tried mine back in college, but I got rid of it after four months, because it just looked terrible. It was really bushy and wiry, and didn't get along with face and hair at all.

[pathdancer.livejournal.com]

Oh gads, now I won't have a prayer of recognizing you!!!

But then, you haven't seen ME in over 5 years, so if we DO bump into each other again, maybe it won't matter?
:)

[maribou]

While the beard did look much better in March than it does in that picture, I did have a moment, seeing the newly clean-shaven you, of thinking, "OH! *There* you are!!"

So, uh, I tend to concur with your conclusion that it isn't really you, in the end:)

PS Is it just me or do you look really tired in both those pictures?

[cow.livejournal.com]

> I did have a moment, seeing the newly clean-shaven you, of thinking, "OH! *There* you are!!"

We had lunch after he got it shaved off, and I have to admit that I had the same reaction. And thought about it for a few seconds, and realized, it was like seeing Fish circa 2005 again. :D

It's weird how, apparently, my mental image of Fish never got the beard update.

[k-crow.livejournal.com]

IAWTC.

[k-crow.livejournal.com]

*grin* I do think you look a lot better without the beard. =)

[vixyish.livejournal.com]

You might wanna clarify your subject line; *I* got the D-Day joke, but Tony asked me this morning whether I'd called to wish you a happy birthday. ;)

(He's probably not the only one who read it that way.)

[gfish.livejournal.com]

It was shaved on B-Day! At B-Hour! :)

[darlingfreak.livejournal.com]

Woo hoo.... sexy. ;-)

[callibr8]

I do think you look younger without the facial hair. And, belatedly, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

[olafthunderfoot.livejournal.com]

happy late birfday!