1973:


2011:


I had such..........delicate features.
Seeing that picture actually breaks my heart, at what is lost.

Heck just shave and put curlers in your hair and you will look the same.

Was this a dare... or did you lose a bet... or what?

Just trying to figure this thread out.

quote Originally posted by Patrick: Was this a dare... or did you lose a bet... or what?

Self-deprecation keeps me grounded.

I just recieved that picture and was stunned at the blocked-out hurt buired just below the innocence in that face.
I had compleatly forgotten that I was ever that person.
And the amazment that I am still here.

That picture is just months before I set about on my 3 decade-long path of self-medication in an attempt to hide from my terminal insecurity with my presence in the world.

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PFFFT That's nothing...

My baby Sitter and my Mom twisted my Hair up to FRO it and put me in BLACKFACE for a CHURCH costume show in the 70's...

I went as Lou Brock of the St Louis Cardinals. He was my Babysitters favorite Player. I still can't get over how she Being Black had no problem covering me in Black goo..

cool,you got a perm or got a Bon Jovi style.

I heard there weren't enough women in Alaska, but damn! I'm sure there were better ways to make money.

quote Originally posted by James Bond 007: cool,you got a perm or got a Bon Jovi style.

I'm still trying to remember.
I know for sure it wasn't for a date.

If I had to guess, I would say I was trying to be something, anything, other then me.

I'm going to call that picture "Running".
It was the very start of my run.

quote Originally posted by Boondawg: 1973:

This explains a lot. But why is your head fizzing? I thought that came later...

Is that 'fairy' dust?

The things that that kid in that picture didn't know huh?

quote Originally posted by CoryFiero: The things that that kid in that picture didn't know huh?

You mean like,“Forty years from now, there will be a diverse group of people, united by a now defunct transverse, mid-engine American sports car, hiding behind a keyboard, making fun of me for this.”

quote Originally posted by williegoat: I heard there weren't enough women in Alaska, but damn! I'm sure there were better ways to make money.

LOL

No, I think it's what he did know, or at least thought, that bothers Boonie. Whatever hurt him, its there in those eyes. Some still is.

Go kiss Mrs. Dawg, and thank her. Thank her for us, too. For taking good care of our friend, even before we met him. It was a difficult job, and she did it well.

Or maybe I need to tell that to Mrs. Zeb.

quote Originally posted by Zeb: No, I think it's what he did know, or at least thought, that bothers Boonie. Whatever hurt him, its there in those eyes. Some still is.

Very perceptive.
The years can bury it, but only buired alive.
With it's gravity very much intact.

I wonder how many of us have been damaged in some deep way and don't know or purposly remember it it.
It's only evedence just glimpses and shadows, curiosities flinting behind the eyes, the ghosts of something unseen, unknown, unremembered.
Specters that sometimes rises, like a smell, giving just the briefest hint of itself, and then like the dense black that it is, back down it goes, to that crushing place where hurt goes to hide from itself.

Maybe we don't go on inspite of it, maybe we go on becouse of it.
Driven by nature to overcome.....

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At least you still have hair...

quote Originally posted by JazzMan: At least you still have hair...

Yeah, mostly in my nose & ears!

Ain't no fricking way I EVER had or will have curlers in my hair. No wonder you started self-medicating.

quote Originally posted by FrugalFiero: Ain't no fricking way I EVER had or will have curlers in my hair. No wonder you started self-medicating.

Not a real big deal. Iv'e done it to give it more body when my hair was REALLY long and pulling it down. It didn't work so i only tried it once. Tried an iron first.. got it caught in my hair and burnt my neck. that hurt like hell.

Well Boonie - you're certainly not very young or very free anymore..But count your blessings.

Larry

edited because I can't spell.

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Putting curlers in your hair isn't anywhere near as gay as what today's youth is doing. Shaving their legs, their arms, their netherregions... And those are just the guys.

quote Originally posted by Boondawg: Yeah, mostly in my nose & ears!

You know what? This has been something rattling around in my brain for YEARS With all the technology and learning present in today's Medical Science, how the HECK nobody has sat down and found what causes such extreme har growth at a time we are losing it on our scalps, and used it to cure baldness, I just don't know OK, so it might be somewhat coarse and tough hair..but heck, surely ANY hair at all is better than NONE...eh...Mike??
Nick

quote Originally posted by fierofetish: You know what? This has been something rattling around in my brain for YEARS With all the technology and learning present in today's Medical Science, how the HECK nobody has sat down and found what causes such extreme har growth at a time we are losing it on our scalps, and used it to cure baldness, I just don't know OK, so it might be somewhat coarse and tough hair..but heck, surely ANY hair at all is better than NONE...eh...Mike?? Nick

But how would you "blow your head" when your thoughts get all stuffed up?
Or put Speedstick on your mohawk?

The first question Boonie, I rsther think might be more within your experience to answer As for the 2nd one ...maybe Bobadoofunk could help you out?? Hehehe!!
Nick

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quote Originally posted by Boondawg: Very perceptive. The years can bury it, but only buired alive. With it's gravity very much intact. I wonder how many of us have been damaged in some deep way and don't know or purposly remember it it. It's only evedence just glimpses and shadows, curiosities flinting behind the eyes, the ghosts of something unseen, unknown, unremembered. Specters that sometimes rises, like a smell, giving just the briefest hint of itself, and then like the dense black that it is, back down it goes, to that crushing place where hurt goes to hide from itself. Maybe we don't go on inspite of it, maybe we go on becouse of it. Driven by nature to overcome.....

Some people bury it alive, some people kill it and bury, some kill it and keep it with them and there are those that actively keep it alive and drag it with them so they will never forget...

quote Originally posted by Cliff Pennock: Putting curlers in your hair isn't anywhere near as gay as what today's youth is doing. Shaving their legs, their arms, their netherregions... And those are just the guys.

Now I'm a young guy (20), and I know guys who do that. Shaving- no, not for me... But I am a fan of having a clean and neat appearance, I don't see whats gay about that. I don't know about you, but all the chicks I know whether it be my age- or the last over 30yr old I was with preferred little to no hair. I wouldn't want to be a hypocrite cause if clothes started flying off and I see a tumbleweed on a chick, I'm sure as hell going from wood to a wet noodle lol. Good thing that hasn't happened yet and I pray it doesn't, sorry for derailing the thread.

As far as the OPs initial post, I cringed lol.

quote Originally posted by nitroheadz28: I wouldn't want to be a hypocrite cause if clothes started flying off and I see a tumbleweed on a chick, I'm sure as hell going from wood to a wet noodle lol.

Gay

quote Originally posted by nitroheadz28: I wouldn't want to be a hypocrite cause if clothes started flying off and I see a tumbleweed on a chick, I'm sure as hell going from wood to a wet noodle lol.

I'm an explorer.
Jungle don't confront me none.

Bald looks like ground zero of a nuclear accident.
I like my destruction hidden.

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The beauty of Youth

quote Originally posted by Boondawg: I'm an explorer. Jungle don't confront me none. Bald looks like ground zero of a nuclear accident. I like my destruction hidden.

Well no one was saying bald, we've got airfields with landing strips, etc. But overgrown like the Amazon? Dayuuuuum

Edit to say that I'm all for multitasking, but the last thing I want to be doing is flossing while I'm exploring lol.

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quote Originally posted by Nurb432: Iv'e done it to give it more body when my hair was REALLY long and pulling it down. It didn't work so i only tried it once. Tried an iron first.. got it caught in my hair and burnt my neck. that hurt like hell.

LOL As one who had really long hair for a number of years, I'm probably fortunate I'm too young to have missed the curly-perm era in the 70s. I did however wish I had a way to get the waviness out of it.