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Day: November 15, 2016

How old aren’t you?

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Posted in categories: Personal

I am not 45. OK, I *am* 45, but I don’t particularly care to act it. I act either 60, or 20, depending on circumstances. And I suspect it was ever thus. I mean, do 45 year olds draw this? Dimitra in the lab by Nick Nicholas on Gallery of Awesomery Or write this? Nick […]

How are men with goatees perceived, and how do they think they are perceived?

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Posted in categories: Culture

The goatee, of which I am a proud if unkempt bearer, is a GenX thing. I adopted it in 1995, when they were everywhere, and I have stubbornly held on to it since—although by default it is nowadays surrounded by 9 pm stubble. 1995 2009 2016 “Disaffected Gen-X’er” and “goatee” go together in the Googles, […]