Misc. inanityself-indulgence

The tragedy of hair loss...

By August 4, 2008No Comments

..my own, that is.

This is a truly self-indulgent post, but I ima­gine some of my audi­ence might get a jolt out of the pic­ture below the fold, par­tic­u­larly if they pre­pare for it by tak­ing in the por­trait of my goofy mug in the below “Just My Opinion” post…

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Indeed, here I am in the winter of 1979, with my pal Liz, in the offices of the William Paterson College news­pa­per The Beacon. I had developed genu­ine expert­ise in pre­ten­tious pos­ing by my early twen­ties, as you see. But jeez. How did I get my hair to do that? My Lovely Wife is beside her­self (Liz, who I recon­nec­ted with via Facebook, just unearthed the shot). She wants to know if I used con­di­tion­er, what the hell it looked like after I got out of the shower, and so on. No idea, have I. 

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  • bill says:

    I’ve been try­ing to think of some­thing to say about that pic­ture for a while now, but I think I’m speechless.

  • Joel says:

    Would “up your nose with a rub­ber hose” be inappropriate?

  • Davin says:

    Not every­one knows that after a fight with Richard, Karen Carpenter briefly replaced him with Billy Joel. Recordings have yet to surface.

  • don lewis says:

    Hey! It’s Sideshow Bob’s long lost broth­er, Sideshow Kenny!

  • barbara says:

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  • Mike says:

    Willy P, huh? I grew up in Wayne, small world…

  • Owain Wilson says:

    Why, it’s Paul Stanley the day before he joined KISS.
    This pic­ture is of par­tic­u­lar interest to me. My fath­er and my broth­ers went bald in their twen­ties. I am 32 and yet to lose a single hair from my fab­ulously glossy and head of blond hair. I escaped the curse.
    And no, my par­ents did not take the wrong baby home from the hospital.

  • Dan says:

    So, for giggles, I try to find you on Facebook, and what comes up? A gen­tle­man with a sim­il­ar name, who has a pho­to­graph of marijuana as his pro­file pic­ture. Don’t worry, not try­ing to Facebook-stalk you, just vaguely curious. 🙂

  • Herman Scobie says:

    Bald guys are more virile.

  • My daugh­ter is a little girl from Akron who is suf­fer­ing with Alopecia Universalis I can tell you that we are so impressed with the res­ults we must have more.& With con­sist­ent, reg­u­lar treat­ment we found that hair star­ted to grow in patches. We were not sure that the res­ults were from your product so we stopped for sev­er­al months. Beverlee lost whatever growth she had with no poten­tial for re-growth on its own. We then com­mit­ted ourselves to using your product and once again after six weeks of treat­ment her scalp star­ted sprout­ing hair.
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  • koppelman says:

    leo say­er has always been under appre­ci­ated. it’s good to see someone fol­lowed his lead, if only for a few years.

  • Glenn Kenny says:

    Dan—that’s not me. I have a per­fectly legit Facebook pro­file under my own name exactly as spelt here and all over this web­site, and I havn’t touched the weed in years. I’m so out of it that about 10 years ago, involved in a love tri­angle with a woman whose oth­er entan­gle­ment was with a ded­ic­ated herb­al­ist, I almost broke it off with her when she men­tioned the oth­er man was cel­eb­rat­ing 4/20, and I took it to mean he was com­mem­or­at­ing Hitler’s birth­day. So there you have it.

  • Rachel says:

    Speaking of Hitler, wer­en’t you in the Dictators?
    (This is Doug, Mr. Kenny, using Rachel’s account!)

  • Dan says:

    Oh, I know, I ser­i­ously doubt a work­ing writ­ing pro­fes­sion­al would have a weed photo on his Facebook. 🙂 Just found it amus­ing, and also thought I’d pass it along in case there’s ever a case of mis­taken identity.

  • Aaron Hillis says:

    This is the most amaz­ing photo ever. New Facebook icon, hello!

  • rubina says:

    gk, this is my new screensaver, although i’m slightly dis­ap­poin­ted spi­coli isn’t in the shot.

  • Kim Voynar says:

    Glenn! Wow. That pic is awe­some. You should use that for all your fest cre­den­tials hence­forth, just to enjoy the secur­ity people gaz­ing back-and-forth in con­sterna­tion between the photo and the cur­rent you. You can just look at them with a dis­dain­ful “what, you gonna say some­thing about my bald­ing?!” stare.
    Love the “Welcome Back Kotter” ref­er­ence above, too. I can just hear you say­ing, “Yo, Mister Kot-TER!”

  • Rachel says:

    Or: Kick out the jams, MUTHERFATHER!!!
    (It’s Doug again…)

  • Shermanator says:

    Well, you know I am not shocked; amused, but not shocked. Tell Lovely Wife it prob­ably took quite some time for that to dry unless you were blow-drying which might account for the volume…BTW: there is a link to this on Salon (!?) PS: Happy Birthday–Beth

  • Liz says:

    Apparently, using the phrase “hair loss” brings the spam­mers out in droves. Droves, I tell you!
    That pic­ture is amazing.

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  • Great Eagle says:

    Do you grow your own hair? Exelent info.
    Great Eagle

  • Kevin says:

    There are many ways for Natural Hair Regrowth how­ever alo­pe­cia is some­what hered­it­ary and I really admire your cour­age and your art­icle has surely helped many

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