Miasmatic Review

I'm not a hippie.

When I was in High school, I had longer hair. I wouldn�t call it long, but it was past the collar of my shirt, ala mullet style. When I went to college I let it get down to the middle of my back. During the summer after my freshmen year I had to get my hair cut for a job I took. The long hair was a safety hazard in welding cages�. Something about bursting into flames. So I had it cut, shaved the sides and went with a big fuzzy Mohawk. There is one picture still in existence of me with this hair cut. Some days when my wife is being particularly snarky she�ll pull it out to show people. That hair cut lasted for about six months, and when I was home, I�d leave the hair down, not fanned out. I got tired of dealing with it, so I cut it down and went with shorter, easier to style hair. I�ve had short hair ever since. Usually never longer than two inches in length.

Since the end of March, I�ve decided not to cut my hair. I�m going to let it grow. Let it grow long and luxurious, as only a guy who doesn�t care about his hair can. Those ladies out there that spend hundreds of dollars each month to make their hair �perfect� know exactly what I�m talking about. I do nothing with my hair and it has all the body and slight wave they wish they had. Right now, it�s too short to tell what it�s going to look like, but it�s long enough to be annoying. It�s about three inches long. Considering when I started letting it grow it was about a quarter inch long, not a bad growth rate.

Why am I growing it out? Well, this is why I told you the background of some of my goofier haircuts. I�m trying to grow out a mullet. But not just any kind of mullet, I�m growing a very specific style of mullet. I want a 1756�s height of fashion mullet. Yea, that�s right, my facial hair isn�t the only thing that get�s altered for my re-enacting lifestyle!

I�m a long ways to go before it gets long enough, probably about another three inches or so at least. Until then, it just looks like I�m rocking a 70�s pr0n star part. And that I have grey wings on the side of my head. The grey hair really stands out around my temples. There is grey hair in other places, but it�s thickest there. So for all of you �long haired hippies� I�ve made fun of over the years, the next time you see me remember. I�m not a long haired hippie; I�m a man of means from 1756!