Oh, Jesse, I think that's a laura lippman book.
That is likely! And thank you!
Xander, don't speak Latin in front of the books!
Giles ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
Natter 65: Speed Limit Enforced by Aircraft
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Jan 12, 2010 6:07:06 pm PST #1123 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
sarameg - Jan 12, 2010 6:39:02 pm PST #1124 of 30001
I am a homeowner: it's 11:30 at night, I just discovered a leaky window so I caulked it. I'm not sure whether to be jubilant or weirded out.
§ ita § - Jan 12, 2010 7:17:29 pm PST #1125 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Jesus. I'd love to wimp out and not cut my own hair this time round, but I'll be damned if I know how to find a black barber. Google sends me to some crap dead end websites. Back in the day I owned the domain name blackhairjoints.com with the idea of consolidating that information, but I never got it off the ground.
I can find one place, and it's not that nearby. There has to be somewhere vaguely local.
DavidS - Jan 12, 2010 7:24:09 pm PST #1126 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Wouldn't Yelp be of use in finding a black barber?
I am guessing you could find some old ones down by the train station downtown. (I bet my cohort, Kim, would know.)
I can steer you to some good ones in SF.
I'll give you the advice I got my from ex with curly hair on how to find a curly hair specialist: "Find somebody with hair like yours that has a decent haircut and ask them where they get it done."
§ ita § - Jan 12, 2010 7:29:36 pm PST #1127 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Yelp's search for "black barber" or "african american barber" gets really random results that don't have icons of black men next to the testimonials. They sound like random white barbers.
If it's not nearby I might as well cut my own hair. Downtown isn't near. And I don't know any black men in my neighbourhood.
DavidS - Jan 12, 2010 7:32:06 pm PST #1128 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
§ ita § - Jan 12, 2010 7:39:48 pm PST #1129 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Mmm. That might work, thanks. If I haven't snapped and shaved myself by this weekend, and the headache's not too bad, I'll consider it.
Why aren't there more black people in Santa Monica? The Yelp results made it look like there were hits in Culver City which would have rocked. But those reviews didn't look ethnic enough.
DavidS - Jan 12, 2010 7:41:33 pm PST #1130 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Did you see the video he linked to in his testimonial?
Baron Davis getting his beard trimmed by the one woman barber there. She looked good with a straight razor.
DavidS - Jan 12, 2010 7:42:59 pm PST #1131 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Yikes, the picture from the Haiti earthquake on the from of the NYTimes website took me a second to register. Then I realized the whole National Palace had fallen apart like an under egged cake.
megan walker - Jan 12, 2010 7:47:25 pm PST #1132 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I know. It breaks my heart. The country was in such bad shape already that we generally don't cover it in our books, even though it is the only French-speaking country in this hemisphere.