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and this is why I shaved

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Toronto, 2012.08.18

I shaved off my entire mustache and beard because I'd gone halfway and everyone around me told me to finish the job.

Halfway?


yes, halfway

My attempt at the Mungo Jerry sideburns I was writing about a few weeks ago. I've since noticed a few fellows walking around with this sort of look these past few days. Maybe....

rand()m quote

It has always seemed strange to me...The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

—John Steinbeck, Cannery Row