Know it’s a bad picture. The old man did that intentionally. Make positive identification more difficult. Only publish photo here because I am fairly confident nobody reads this stuff.
My Homies at The Brothers Barber Shoppe
Would you believe I am so upset about the recent election results, the old man joined a black gang for protection. Funny thing, the brothers thought they were protecting him.
Little did they know.
Admittedly, he had to admit he stuck out when they all got together. But that’s the whole point of the Crazy Prospector’s theory of self-defense. Nobody wants to kill somebody addled in the head. Evil spirits would not like that. True in all cultures, if you investigate.
Segue alert! Dannie’s red NIKE shirt sports the iconic slogan “Just Do It.” I was asked by Dan Weiden of Weiden & Kennedy what I thought about his new tagline. Too humble to mention, something of a marketing savant myself.
Told him I didn’t like it.
The old man was still running long distances back in those days. Fairly fast still, too. Just do it, my ass. Who the hell are you to be telling me to just do it? If you have to be told…
Many years later, the old man had a tag line wished somebody had shared with him when he was a young athlete.
“Keep It Dry.”
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The old man had been to every barbershop in west county. Hard to rock your inner Samuel Jackson when a bunch of fat old white men are agreeing with Fox News which seems to play on a loop. Interrupted by ads from ambulance chasers seeking mesothelioma sufferers.
He was once so upset about a haircut, he stopped getting them.
Wild Dog on the road, months after a bad haircut in Vermont. During his David Crosby period.
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Where were we… whatever. The old man only looked white. Heartened to finally find a shop where he felt comfortable.
Be himself. Whoever that was.
A lady in a wheelchair took the picture. Place is owned by a Muslim barber. African-American barber, Puerto-Rican barber.
These were his people.
We listen to R & B and nobody talks politics.