Blowouts and Flat Tops

To my chagrin, after several failed attempts, I will not be consuming any alcohol or pizza as previously stated in my earlier blog entry. Fate has handed me a heavy blow and I must accept it. However, since I've been busy running around the base, I had the privilege of sighting a Jersey "Blow-Out" donned by a member of the Navy. I'm not sure what role the Navy is playing in the war in Afghanistan, but if I were a terrorist, that blow-out would stick out like a sore thumb.

After witnessing that dreadful hair-don't I decided it was time to visit the Spa and Massage parlor. I figured that shorter hair would allow me to go longer without shampooing and washing. The parlor is run by Koreans and they were organized and swift so the wait wasn't as long as it appeared to be. They were pumping some Metallica and Evanescence through their computer speakers in an attempt to provide some semblance of normality. I don't think it worked. It's hard to forget you're in a war zone with service members in their uniforms and their weapons close at hand.

I told the hair stylist (I am using this title liberally) that I wanted it short around the ears and just trimmed up top. A simple request that should yield a positive result. I was wrong. Something I said must have translated to "Give me the Dolph Lundgren look from Rocky IV, please." Anyways, I never realized that the Dolph Lundgren Flat-Top and the Jersey Blow-Out are inbred cousins of one another. The only real difference is that the Jersey Blow-Out uses product that Dolph Lundgren probably could only dream of in the 80's.

-Danny