Blowfish Fugue -004- "Existential Hair"

Blowfish Fugue -004- "Existential Hair"

20010328.1334 EST @lanta, GA, USA

     A goof-ball friend of mine once told me a story -- a viewpoint for looking at humanity as Darwinistic expression of the propagation of hair. Consider: Hair is somewhat optional past the typical age during which children are produced. Also, viability as a potential mate is influenced by, if not exactly based on, one's capacity to express these theoretically dead polymerized chains of proteins and sugars in the right places.
     She went on at length about how these undead strands were collectively intelligent, operating in colonies of styles and textures to compete with one another for valuable scalp-space, forging and breaking political alliances, platinum bouffant against afro, suddenly ganging up on dyed strawberry curls. She claimed that somehow the hair was the seat of the invisible soul -- and that eyes and rectums and cochleas and cerebellums and such are mere ancillary support structures for the production and support of one's masterminding hair-colony.
     Chilling. Positively chilling. To think that all these machinations are going on behind our backs... or thereabouts.
     Whatever. ~~It's all over my head.~~
     But it certainly makes you think twice about whatever tripe they try to sell you on the Home Religion Network.

* * * * *     This one I at least have a tie-in/follow-up for. I got a tearful phone-call shortly after reboot from a young lady who claimed that I followed her back to her hair studio for a "trim". She said I got a little out of control and tried to see if the hair-gel she was using was flammable. It turns out that it was -- and she took revenge by picking up a two pairs of shears and going dakini all over my ass. She said I pissed her off further by laughing too hard to be able to defend myself properly.
     That certainly sounds like me all over.
     Anyway, she said that she over-reacted -- it only took her ten minutes to regrow her scalp and then she had a fresh crop to work with. She offered to pay my co-pay once she found out I had an unlimited contract.
     I asked if I could take it in store credit since she was a hair-dresser. She said, "Sure, as long as I get to use you to practice my technique with a propane torch."
     I'll probably take her up on it. It should be good for another entry.

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