$400 Haircuts and The Important Southern Hair
Manolo says, the Manolo has written the article for the Pajamas Media about the necessity of the $400 haircuts, the article in which he makes mention of the Important Southern Hair. Here is the beginning.
Manolo says, as one of the internet’s foremost authorities on the political coiffure, the Manolo has been asked to opine on the matter of the John Edwards $400 haircuts.
First allow the Manolo to begin with effusive praise for John Edwards’ hair.
This is the beautiful and silkily wonderful hair, the sort of marvelous, bouncy, glossy mop favored by the 1970s pop idol Bobby Sherman. And it is by far and away the John Edwards’ greatest political asset.
“But Manolo,” say the Manolo’s internet friends, “is not $400 very costly for the hair cutting?”
Perhaps many of the Manolo’s internet friends who still go to the Super-Duper Cuts, or the Floyd the Barber, do not know that the truly high quality, super fantastic hair cut now costs at least $100.
You must go read the entire article.
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Comments
Meander 17 years ago
I consider the Manolo’s ongoing association with the Pajamas Media to be dubious at best, since everything the Manolo writes is so much better than anything they have to say.
That being said, I agree wholeheartedly with the Manolo on this: $400 is hardly enough for the Important Southern Hair, and Edwards should be paying for it out of his own pocket, not the campaign’s.
Lily Bart 17 years ago
Manolo, you’re right. Mr. Edwards does indeed have Bobby Sherman hair. Your knowledge and resourcfulness constantly amazes me.
Rosie 17 years ago
But Manolo, when one is forced to live in backwater Indiana (such as I), one must settle for the $50 sort-of-fantastic at the local Aveda salon. Sigh.
annie 17 years ago
A lot of that Southern Hair looks artificial to me, like it just landed there.
SerenityNow 17 years ago
@Rosie:
The SerenityNow is fortunate enough to have a friend who is a stylist to the Important Southern Hair of the K Street Big-Wigs. Yet, The SerenityNow, she is a poor girl. However, the stylist friend was most encouraging of the Aveda Salon, and the Aveda institute, because these stylists have strong training and use the high quality products. The SerenityNow has been happy with the Aveda Institute haircuts, at a savings of many of the American Dollars, and thinks that many of the stylists trained there go on to great things.
Meg Q 17 years ago
John Edwards has finally convinced me that there are two Americas: One where a man regularly pays what he pays for a trim, and one where men like my father – or even Bill Gates – go down to Lyle at the barbershop and pay between $10 and $25. And, may I say, my father, along with many of the men who go to the same barbershop, has Important Southern Male Hair.
Jimmy Johnson. Now that is a head of hair!
desertwind 17 years ago
Oh, gawwwd. That awe-ful Southern Politician Hair.
But is it not truly super fantastic when the the son of the mill-worker can afford the $400 haircut? Especially when the son of the mill-worker is starting to go a teensy-weensy bit bald?
You’re so right, Manolo. The son of the mill-worker should sing out: I pay $400 for a haircut and ain’t I grand?
He should not put that grand haircut on the campaign expense account.
gemdiva 17 years ago
Ahhhh. The Gemdiva now sees the problem clearly. The American people have been electing men to public office based on what’s on top of their head and not what is inside it. Thanks to the Manolo for clearing that up.
VeddyVeddyBadAng 17 years ago
His hair is SO PRETTY! But I would think a really good cut wouldn’t require quite so much futzing before going on camera…
And hey, can we please stop harping on how “horrible nasty mean dubious” Pajamas Media is? It’s getting a little tiring, to tell the truth.
Julia 17 years ago
Although John Edwards may sometimes get the $400 hair cut, I know it is not always so. I lived on Capitol Hill for a year, and went to the salon where he and many other politicians would go to get coiffed when in town, and I can assure you that it cost nowhere near $400! Still, interesting observations on the all-important Southern hair, as usual!
Annalucia 17 years ago
The Annalucia must agree with the Annie, who comments on the artificial appearance of the hair in several of the photos. Particulary that of pictures #3 and #4 in the topmost row; it reminds the Annalucia of the “molded hair” seen on the dolls of her childhood.
The second gentleman in the top row appears to be an alternative version of the late Boris Yeltsin – that is, Mr. Yeltsin as he might have looked had he not so often hit the bottle.
Sara 17 years ago
Rosie, if you don’t like “backwater” Indiana, I for one would be happy to chip in to your escape fund. If you don’t want to be here, we don’t want you here.
And I must echo VeddyVeddyBadAng in saying enough! with the harping on Pajamas Media! This is not the forum for it!
Chris 17 years ago
If the haircut is as important as Manolo says it is, then Edwards’ campaign should be paying for it, not he out of pocket. In general, though, I have to agree with MegQ, who draws attention to John Edwards’ stupendous hypocrisy, due to his entire schtick being the equation “person with money = person who is dishonest (somehow).”
Rosie 17 years ago
Luckily for the Sara, the Rosie will only be in the backwater for another year. Then, the Rosie will set off, diploma in hand, for bigger and better things.
And indeed the Rosie does not dislike the state of Indiana, for they offer the great things of car racing and of course, the corn. But the Rosie, she misses the big city. Of course, the Rosie is more than willing to take any money one might throw her way, being the poor collegiate.
And John Edwards, he is the sexiness.
Martha 17 years ago
Ah, the Rosie, we will welcome you.
And I must agree with you on John Edwards. Those of you who find him fluffy should read his wife Elizabeth’s memoir–he was once so style-deprived that he wore, on their first date, both a sweater vest AND a bowtie. Which I believe she made him burn shortly after…
And on a more serious note, to read of the loss of their son Wade, how they survived it, and what they chose to do in the world to remember him–well, you may still not want to vote for him. But I doubt that you will question his depth.
La BellaDonna 17 years ago
Yes. The John Edwards, he should definitely pay for the haircuts out of his own pocket.
Then he can try to get the business deduction for them on his taxes.
La BellaDonna, she chortles. She has a friend who has the most beautiful head of hair, and La BellaDonna, she envisioned this man with the blow dryer and the many hair products, spending countless hours before the mirror to achieve the wonderful effect – hair that the Southern man would be proud to have! No. This friend, more often than not, washed his hair with whatever was handy, sometimes in the sink, ripped a comb through it, and was done. Not even the conditioner! Ayyyyy!