Big Beard

[zachwolff]

So it's been almost a year since I've shaved, or trimmed my beard at all, and it's a big out-of-control beard. The other day I was walking down the street and a guy passed on a bike and shouted at me, "Why don't you shave, you fucking clown!" I about fell over laughing.

Comments

[nevre]

What sort of fucking clown posts about his big scraggely beard and then doesnt include a picture for the rest of the world to laugh at too?

*smiles*
Wink wink, nudge nudge.

[lilvee]

yea, we demand a picture! Weirdy beardy..

[anonymous]

"But even where hedonistic and antinomian consumption practices have taken deep hold, there remains a tendency for those practices of consumption that are closest to the body to acquire uniformity through habituation: food, dress, hairstyling. I stress the force of habituation, as it has frequently been lost sight of in favour of the forces of imitation or opposition. These latter forces can often be very important, but they always encounter the social intertia of bodily techniques. This, even among monks, vegetarians, food faddists, and counterconsumers of every sort, it is extremely difficult to maintain an anarchic consumption regime. The techniques of the body, however peculiar and innovative, and antisocial, need to become social disciplines (Asad 1987), parts of some habitus, free of artifice or external coercion, in order to take on their full power. The core of consumption practices being the body, the habituation that requires bodily disciplines to be successful entails consumption patterns that will always tend to