We have Sparky and K and J at the beach. We are pleased.

for a white woman it would have all sorts of social signifiers that I think I get away without.

I think that's true. Very few of the white women I know in the hair fetish community feel like they can just shave or buzz their heads the way they prefer. Aside from family/social pressure against it, most think it's a look that would be deemed unacceptable and unprofessional at work.

Yeah, most white women/girls I know would simply balk at having hair that short. But I do see it more on older women now, or a slightly longer variation thereof.

This was said at work today: "Once we get the elephants on stage, we'll be focusing lights to them."

Without the lights, no one would notice the elephants.

I have a white friend who wore her hair about half an inch long for a few years in her late 30s. She's bi and worked in a college town where the social signifiers like super short hair weren't terribly important anyway. I thought she looked great! It really brought out her eyes and cheekbones. But apparently the upkeep got old (trimming it weekly) so she's growing her hair out now.

I agree, for white women anything shorter than a pixie cut feels "alternative" in some way (or possibly "cancer patient".)

I got a high-and-tight when I was at Fort Benning, but that was because there was only a barber on base who didn't know how to do a pixie cut. I'd never gotten the courage to buzz it, and I won't now, with my hair so thin.

Homeowners: as I'm searching through listings for apartments, I'm starting to get the idea that to get what I want, I'll need to actually get a house with a mortgage. There's a house that looks like that would be less than I'm paying now on rent, with more space (and if it's mine, I can do whatever I want, and have extra cash for higher heating bills and repairs).

But, that's scary!

That aside, I wouldn't be signing myself up for mysterious and unknown-to-me homeowner expenses --ooh, property tax, damn.

I had your haircut for a while in my twenties, ita. But I was very deliberately also aiming for androgyny.

So Emmett and I have to carry our old couch down three flights of stairs, and then the new couch back up those three flights of stairs.

What's the over/under on how many times we yell "Pivot! Piv-OTT!" at each other today?

My bet is on "Left! No, other left!"