RE: Sinister: morality police
This list is getting very 'Jerry Springer'. Does this Ahren bloke have a mullet haircut and mustache per-chance?
---------- From: jessica[SMTP:tinystar@worldy.com] Reply To: jessica Sent: 24 November 1998 16:50 To: sinister@majordomo.net Subject: Sinister: morality police
i've been getting generally good reaction to the ahren kiss, except for one extremely moral soul who threatened me with an ass-whupping and pointed out that ahren has a girlfriend. true, true, but i will explain: he broke up with her about a month ago because she's too clingy and never goes out and is an all-around wet blanket. well, she kept calling him and sobbing and showing up at his house begging him to take her back, that if he took her back that she would be different, blahblah............
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This list is getting very 'Jerry Springer'. Does this Ahren bloke have a mullet haircut and mustache per-chance?
What is a mullet haircut? I asked myself that very same question after reading John's message, so I investigated (http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Hills/6906/). It appears a mullet haircut is what I've always know to be referred to as "hockey hair" or a "butt-rocker" haircut. A good tie-in with the recent dicussions of American trailer parks. My question is the following: Does listening to country music, watching pro wrestling, and driving Camaros lead one to get a mullet haircut, or is it that people with mullet haircuts are naturally draw to these pursuits? It's sort of a chicken-and-the-egg discussion. Any opinions would be appreciated. Clint (who was rather surprised by the dearth of mullet haircuts at the B&S shows) PS: You can hit the delete key now. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
clint stauffer wrote:
This list is getting very 'Jerry Springer'. Does this Ahren bloke have a mullet haircut and mustache per-chance?
What is a mullet haircut? I asked myself that very same question after reading John's message, so I investigated (http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Hills/6906/). It appears a mullet haircut is what I've always know to be referred to as "hockey hair" or a "butt-rocker" haircut. A good tie-in with the recent dicussions of American trailer parks. My question is the following: Does listening to country music, watching pro wrestling, and driving Camaros lead one to get a mullet haircut, or is it that people with mullet haircuts are naturally draw to these pursuits? It's sort of a chicken-and-the-egg discussion. Any opinions would be appreciated.
Having lived amongst the mullet-headed for a summer (Oshawa Ontario provides invaluable field study opportunities for those interested in this species), I can offer the following: the hair does not occur as a result of the watching wrasslin' or waiting anxiously for the new Aerosmith record. NOr does one drive a bitchin' camaro because of the haircut. All these things seem to occur simultaneously - because the individual, for some reason, thinks - hey, this looks really good, and chicks'll dig me. Other popular items are acid-wash jeans, t-shirts with slogans on them (I'm with stupid comes to mind, but that's a little more cerebral than most) and of course the obligatory moustache. Other offences to good taste I witnessed - a neon purple pick-up truck lowered so it drove about four inches off the ground with purple running lights and a chain around the license plate. I dunno what it is - maybe they just don't get cable tv or are trapped in a space/time loop which has trapped them forever in 1985. It's the Wedding Singer to the nth degree. Scary scary. -- Frank Yang "Homer, you've got it set on 'whore'." In my CD player: Mark Eitzel - West +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, clint stauffer wrote:
What is a mullet haircut? I asked myself that very same question after reading John's message, so I investigated (http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Hills/6906/). It appears a mullet haircut is what I've always know to be referred to as "hockey hair" or a "butt-rocker" haircut. A good tie-in with the recent dicussions of American trailer parks. My question is the following: Does listening to country music, watching pro wrestling, and driving Camaros lead one to get a mullet haircut, or is it that people with mullet haircuts are naturally draw to these pursuits?
Hiya Clint, you yank! You forgot John Cougar Mellencamp, Nascar racing, and Coors light! Yes, us Americans really do have a culture! But seriously, thanks to whoever did this site, for addressing one of the biggest fashion mysteries I have ever known, namely, why do people wear these stupid haircuts? I, myself, had a friend who was studying to be an architect! And he had a mullet! Now would you let this man design your house? He's probably do mullet bushes or something. And yet, the whole subject of mullets, white trash, and bad taste in general brings a larger problem to the surface for me, that is, who is in charge of defining bad taste? I ask this as someone who was indoctrinated into the study of art history during its flirtation with "poststructuralism," when you were taught to feel guilty if you asserted that you actually liked a Flemish painting better than a work by an untaught American folk artist, or a work depicting dogs playing pool on a piece of velvet (excuse the kitschy, trendy examples) because, after all, the divisions between "high" and "low" culture, have supposedly been obscured in the postmodern era. And yet, when you dare to assert that something reveals bad taste, you get a whole host of people calling you a snob and suddenly you don't feel so liberal anymore. This is a true dilemma for me, because I like to think of myself as a liberal and a fairly open, cosmopolitan person. Yet, I believe that there are certain distinctions. How can these be justified? How can you not sound like a snob? BTW - did David Bowie have an orange mullet? Ciao, Heather
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clint stauffer -
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Heather Marie Propes -
John Stuart