You Got It, Now You Know

My hair has grown out for the last year, which means when I wake up in the morning or from a nap, there's a nest on top of my head. One morning, I looked in the mirror and decided to call storm chasers: Hello, fearless IMAX guys? My hair is on the rampage. Last week, Pete and I began playing a new game called How Crazy Is My Hair? Here are the rules: my hair does whatever the hell it feels like, and Pete assesses the insanity. "Pete, how crazy is my hair? Is it Son of Sam-Crazy or Ed Gein-Crazy?" If I'm feeling movie madness: "Is it Errol Flynn-Crazy or Joan Crawford-Crazy?" And there's always politics: "If my hair is crazier than Giuliani, I'm getting a restraining order against my head."

It's just a game. Or is it?

At 7:17 a.m., I dropped off Pete at his house and drove to work with the camera in the car. I should carry one all the time, really. Two blocks from the bridge over the Raritan, I fell in line two cars behind... behind... Flying Spaghetti Monster, that's a truck full of portapotties. I pressed the ON button on the camera, aimed, zoomed, zoomed some more and took this crappy picture just as the light turned green. The truck turned right. I held my breath as it rounded the corner, then I drove straight over the bridge into town. That's New Brunswick in the distance, in all its self-loathing glory; in fact, those are several of the same buildings pictured above from a different angle. No truck drivers were harmed in the making of this post. The same cannot be said of my head.