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15 awesome bald dudes to make you feel better about losing your hair

by Henry Goldman • September 25, 2012

At the moment when a twenty-something man realizes that he will not live the rest of his life with his full head of hair, he will generally go into an immediate state of mourning for his hair before it is even gone. At least, that’s what happened to me, when, at 24, I noticed that my hairline was receding, slowly depleting the dense mass of my glorious jewfro. Young men have lots of time-tested responses to going bald. Some shave their heads clean as if they were some sort of professional athlete. Others adopt a trademark piece of headgear, say a ballcap or a fedora, which they don at all occasions. Many allow themselves to be bullied by self-esteem-assaulting commercials for dubious “medical” treatments for their condition. Some join weird online communities about coping with hair loss. And plenty just feel shitty all the time about their follicle-challenged crowns.

If you find yourself a present or future bald guy, you can take any of these approaches, if you’re so inclined. But you can also just keep on living your life and being who you are, without worrying about your loss of hair. Which is the recommended approach. To that end, we present this list of awesome bald guys who OWNED their baldness, whose lives would have been no less awesome had they had kept their hair for the duration, to provide inspiration on how you should be living your life.

Bill Murray In the late 70s, as Murray was beginning his ascent into the upper echelons of America’s collective heart, his hairline was already receding. Go back and watch Stripes or Ghostbusters or Groundhog Day – Murray always gets the girl, not because he has a perfect head of hair, but because he’s charming, funny and awesome. Even in middle age, when he played the aging Casanova character in Broken Flowers, it was believable – what he lacked in looks he made up for in sweet Fred Perry jumpsuits.… KEEP READING!

Things on the Internet

Kitty Pryde kind of has her shit together

by Henry Goldman • September 4, 2012

Kitty Pryde got slightly internet famous for a couple songs that were more interesting than they were actually good. That’s not to say they were bad. They we’re just interesting. Like, “Oh yeah, teens who grew up on the internet during the ’00s got a whole lot of weird influences and can make shit really easily.” Unlike another white female, child of the 00′s/the internet rapper who got famous on pure surprise value, though, Kitty actually seems self-aware. Today, FADER has her guide to living with her parents, which makes her seem like a sensible 19-year-old. If we all could have been so lucky.

Role Models

Why can’t you be more like this guy: David Simon, American writer

by Henry Goldman • April 25, 2012

I found out this morning that one of the most exemplary writers and journalists of our time has decided to open up his laptop and produce a thoughtful (though infrequently updated) weblog, titled “The Audacity of Despair.” The writer I’m referring to is, of course, David Simon, who is best known as the creator and show-runner of The Wire, a show that has already entered the cultural canon as one of the best American works of fiction (in any medium) of the last 100 years. That’s not hyperbole or opinion. That is fact.

However, there are handful of other things you may not know about David Simon, which, I think, make him a phenomenal role model for us aspiring grown-ups. They are as follows.

He’s OVER The Wire, or at least people who obsess over it now. He recently told the NY Times that he views people who obsess about it “with contempt.” He made the best show ever, but has moved.… KEEP READING!

In the News

If you want to make creative things, but don’t know how to get it together

by Henry Goldman • February 28, 2012

…. a good place to start would be Jesse Thorn’s Make Your Thing, a lecture he’s been giving for a couple years now. If you’re not familiar with Jesse Thorn, he started out as a lowly podcaster, producing The Sound of Young America, a interview-show with culturemakers, from his bedroom. Now, TSOYA has morphed into Bullseye, a nationally distributed public radio show, and Jesse sits on top of a vast podcasting empire, housed at maximumfun.org.

Jesse has now done the public the service of publishing the body of his Make Your Thing lecture. If you’ve ever had an idea, and needed help turning it into a thing, read it. The advice most directly has to do with building an online thing, like podcast networks, but could be transferred to making offline things to, like a food truck. If yr an adult ever becomes a thing, I’ll partly have Jesse Thorn to thank.

Role Models

Anthony Shadid is my role model

by David Larson • February 21, 2012

I don’t have too many heroes, and in fact most of the ones I do have either died of drug overdoses, self inflicted gunshots or, in one case, assassination by the CIA.

Anthony Shadid may have been the only wholesome hero I ever had. He died last week in Syria, covering the ongoing unrest under the oppressive Bashar al-Assad regime. He is survived by his wife and two children. He was just 43.

… KEEP READING!

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