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You are here: Home / John Cole Presents "This Fucking Old House" / Supersized Head Gets Minor Trim

Supersized Head Gets Minor Trim

by John Cole|  June 7, 20239:25 pm| 64 Comments

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Supersized Head Gets Minor Trim

Got my wig busted today, and I think it looks good.

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  1. 1.

    WaterGirl

    June 7, 2023 at 8:20 pm

    It does look good!

  2. 2.

    cmorenc

    June 7, 2023 at 8:20 pm

    Handsome fellow in that photo.  Got appointment to trim my own shaggy locks tomorrow.

  3. 3.

    Alison Rose

    June 7, 2023 at 8:22 pm

    You gonna smile at the ceremony, JC?

  4. 4.

    WaterGirl

    June 7, 2023 at 9:27 pm

    Most excellent title, Cole!

  5. 5.

    WaterGirl

    June 7, 2023 at 9:28 pm

    Just in case anyone wants to see “before” and “after” side-by-side (sort of):

    Before

    Supersized Head Gets Minor Trim

  6. 6.

    SiubhanDuinne

    June 7, 2023 at 9:29 pm

    Nice trim, John. Your looks are beginning to live up to your gorgeous speaking voice.

  7. 7.

    WaterGirl

    June 7, 2023 at 9:29 pm

    @WaterGirl: I prefer the blue shirt, but the purple was better for your coloring.

  8. 8.

    MazeDancer

    June 7, 2023 at 9:32 pm

    Nicely done. You look great,

  9. 9.

    Jay C

    June 7, 2023 at 9:33 pm

    Nice do, there, John: reminds me I’ve gotta get my post-pandemic trim evened out.

  10. 10.

    coin operated

    June 7, 2023 at 9:48 pm

    Very nice Cole.  Your stylist did a good job.

  11. 11.

    schrodingers_cat

    June 7, 2023 at 9:49 pm

    I liked the before, grumpy Santa look. The after reminded me of Calvin (of Calvin and Hobbes) with his hair combed for a Christmas photo

    Both have its charm, FWIW.

  12. 12.

    Princess

    June 7, 2023 at 9:51 pm

    Nice!

  13. 13.

    SpaceUnit

    June 7, 2023 at 9:51 pm

    A complete and total transformation.  Nobody will recognize you.

  14. 14.

    HinTN

    June 7, 2023 at 9:54 pm

    @schrodingers_cat: My whiskey almost came out my nose. Well played!

  15. 15.

    Pennsylvanian

    June 7, 2023 at 9:58 pm

    Upgraded from potential unibomber to harmless do-gooder. Priceless.

  16. 16.

    Keith P.

    June 7, 2023 at 10:01 pm

    @Pennsylvanian: Or from doomsday prepper to tactical podcast host.

  17. 17.

    Steve in the ATL

    June 7, 2023 at 10:02 pm

    @cmorenc: Handsome fellow in that photo

    Go home, cmorenc–you’re drunk!

  18. 18.

    Steve in the ATL

    June 7, 2023 at 10:03 pm

    @Pennsylvanian: unabomber

    /domestic terrorist pedant

  19. 19.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    June 7, 2023 at 10:03 pm

    I’d sit down and have a soda with you. I too have a bit of a big head (7-5/8″ hat) but I can still swim upright.

  20. 20.

    geg6

    June 7, 2023 at 10:15 pm

    You look good, Cole.  Much better even if I am mostly anti-facial hair.  It looks well groomed now.  I’d marry you.  And eventually get you to drop the beard.

  21. 21.

    HeleninEire

    June 7, 2023 at 10:16 pm

    Beautiful.

  22. 22.

    schrodingers_cat

    June 7, 2023 at 10:17 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: Have you started coloring any of your Rosanes books.

    I have a WIP in The Fragile World.

  23. 23.

    David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch

    June 7, 2023 at 10:30 pm

    Here’s a photo of Cole when he was younger (pic)

  24. 24.

    Suzanne

    June 7, 2023 at 10:33 pm

    Hair looks good.

    I think it’s just weird lighting between those pictures, but in the first one, your skin looks super-red, and in the second one, you look really pale. If you really are either of those things (under normal light), a dermatologist can help you out!

  25. 25.

    Jackie

    June 7, 2023 at 10:47 pm

    It looks great, John! Money well spent!👍🏻

  26. 26.

    Alison Rose

    June 7, 2023 at 10:47 pm

    @Suzanne: Dang, if you think he looks pale in the second photo, I wonder what that makes me. Compared to my nigh-translucent skin, John looks like he’s been chasing that rolling Gloucester cheese around the surface of the sun.

    Naturally melanin-deficient plus not having been in the sun in close to two years has an impact, I guess.

  27. 27.

    Pennsylvanian

    June 7, 2023 at 10:51 pm

    @Keith P.:

     

    @David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch: No hoodie?

    FSM bless John Cole and all jackals, cats, dogs, ducks, chicks, chickens, and all creatures great and small. And show love and favor on Jolene and John.

  28. 28.

    Grover Gardner

    June 7, 2023 at 11:02 pm

    Looks good, John!  Lacking an open thread, however, I’d like to propose a new meme–“Oregon Man”!  There are so many incidents like this here in SoOr.

    https://www.kgw.com/article/news/crime/williams-southern-oregon-booby-trap-fbi-bomb-technician/283-9c813221-75b6-403e-bbb0-920cea5590ec

  29. 29.

    prostratedragon

    June 7, 2023 at 11:08 pm

    Looks nice,  sir. Pay no attention to the cat who.might or.might not be here😘😄

  30. 30.

    rikyrah

    June 7, 2023 at 11:11 pm

    Looking good, Cole🤗

  31. 31.

    Pennsylvanian

    June 7, 2023 at 11:18 pm

    @Keith P.:

     

    @David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch: No hoodie?

    FSM bless John Cole and all jackals, cats, dogs, ducks, chicks, chickens, and all creatures great and small. And show love and favor to Joelle (please correct me if needed) and John.

    I never hear better or more persuasive stuff than I do here, and I’m about 20 years on at this vile and dangerous blog. Damn, 20 years. I’m representin’ GenX. It is not an easy commission. 

    Blessings on all of your camels, cats, ducks, chickens, dogs, geese and all creatures, great and small, now and forever. 

  32. 32.

    different-church-lady

    June 7, 2023 at 11:22 pm

    Agreed.

  33. 33.

    Jackie

    June 7, 2023 at 11:23 pm

    Since this is a lighthearted thread…

    Today is what would have been my parents 70th wedding anniversary. My Dad had a quasi-dirty minded sense of humor and never stopped telling people that he and Mom got married on the 7th of June and I was born on the 14th. Pregnant pause before my poor mom would jump in saying TWO YEARS LATER!  Dad would just grin while the audience sighed in relief.

    Dad also, when the subject was apropos, loved to say “back in the day” many 7 or 8 pound premature babies were born six or seven months after the wedding.

    I miss my Dad – gone at age 99.5 years five years ago.

  34. 34.

    Amir Khalid

    June 7, 2023 at 11:34 pm

    @Jackie:

    He sounds like a funny guy.

  35. 35.

    Hungry Joe

    June 7, 2023 at 11:36 pm

    One of the most liberating things I’ve ever done was to shave my head after finally admitting that Male Pattern Baldness had won the day. Every morning I splash water on my face, comb my beard for about four seconds, and go on about my day. Once every 7-10 days, shave my head; takes about two minutes to do it right. FREEDOM!

  36. 36.

    Eric S.

    June 7, 2023 at 11:41 pm

    @Pennsylvanian: I’m roughly 20 years in myself. Also Gen-x.

    You look good, John.

  37. 37.

    Jackie

    June 7, 2023 at 11:48 pm

    @Amir Khalid: He had a wonderful sense of humor. Until the year he died, every time I took him to Mom’s grave to deliver flowers, he’d stop and look around. That was my cue to ask him what he was looking for. “I’m looking for Trump’s grave so I can pee on it.”

    Each time TFG is indicted I will take flowers to Dad with a small American flag and celebrate with him.

  38. 38.

    mrmoshpotato

    June 7, 2023 at 11:49 pm

    wig busted

    Hehe!  I call it getting sheared.  Looks good.

  39. 39.

    Amir Khalid

    June 7, 2023 at 11:53 pm

    @Hungry Joe:

    I’ve been considering that myself — shaving my head, that is — for some time. Or maybe letting the scalp hair grow out a bit more while keeping the whiskers closely cropped. Or something.

  40. 40.

    cain

    June 7, 2023 at 11:59 pm

    @Jackie: ​
     
    Your dad was definitely a winner ! Please add a flower on my behalf when you visit next.

  41. 41.

    Jackie

    June 8, 2023 at 12:04 am

    @cain: ♥️ That will be Father’s Day😊

  42. 42.

    Jackie

    June 8, 2023 at 12:17 am

    @Jackie: ETA or Indictment Day – which ever comes first!

  43. 43.

    karen marie

    June 8, 2023 at 12:32 am

    If you want to check the air quality, here’s a nice dot gov site for you. I checked my old neighborhood in Boston (the West Fenway) and was shocked that today it was fine. I saw photos that Tom Levenson posted earlier today on Mastodon and the sky looked pretty bad, so I don’t know.

    Looks like Cole’s barber trimmed his moustache, put “product” in his hair, combed it, and sent him on his way. 🤣

  44. 44.

    sralloway

    June 8, 2023 at 12:40 am

    It’s a great look. For me, 20 years since my last haircut and my face hair hit 50 on last Memorial Day (Different iterations but always some style). The beard is four buttons deep now and I hear a lot of ZZTop references. But the kids all call me Santa (as well as many adults).

  45. 45.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 8, 2023 at 12:48 am

    @karen marie: Looks like Cole’s barber trimmed his moustache, put “product” in his hair, combed it, and sent him on his way.

    It’s a process.  I have grown my hair out from stupidly short a couple of times.  Once I was done with training and in my unit in the army, I grew it to the max allowed by the regs.   My ex preferred my hair short, so one of my first post=separation decisions was to grow it back to the way I want it.  Both times, it took a good six months and several haircuts to get it right.

  46. 46.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    June 8, 2023 at 12:50 am

    @Hungry Joe:

    I prefer to look like Riff Raff. It scares the children away…

  47. 47.

    Jim Appleton

    June 8, 2023 at 1:00 am

    Second time in a few days noting that this ostensibly political blog is fixated on trivia while epic, historic, long deserved developments are encircling TFG, with grand jury indictments very clearly about to happen.

    Not a big Ari Melber fan, but he put it all out very well showing how Meadows can be the fulcrum.

  48. 48.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 8, 2023 at 1:03 am

    @Jim Appleton: Did you read any of the earlier posts on the blog?  The ones about the very topic you mention?  Or the ones about the war crimes in Ukraine?  Or did you just look at this one?

  49. 49.

    Steeplejack

    June 8, 2023 at 1:11 am

    @Jim Appleton:

    Have you heard about this thing called multitasking?

  50. 50.

    Kelly

    June 8, 2023 at 1:21 am

    @Hungry Joe: I made a similar decision to go with a buzz cut after my hair thinned and the gray hair developed weird cowlicks. I trim hair and beard to a 1/2 inch about once a week. Out on the back porch to minimize the cleanup. My hair was so thin I have to wear a hat anyway.

  51. 51.

    Westyny

    June 8, 2023 at 1:22 am

    I, too, try to stretch out my time between visits to the barber to 3 months.  I turn myself in next week, when I hope the air is better.

  52. 52.

    Debbie (Aussie)

    June 8, 2023 at 1:49 am

    @WaterGirl:

    Purple suits John.

    nice trim and tidy

  53. 53.

    Sister Golden Bear

    June 8, 2023 at 1:51 am

    Dapper blogfather.

  54. 54.

    Debbie (Aussie)

    June 8, 2023 at 1:57 am

    @Jackie:

    we have a similar situation in our family. Mum & Dad celebrated 62 years together on the 25th of March, I was born on the 11th of March 🙂 I am so very lucky to still have them both, alive and very well. (Healthier than me, in fact)

  55. 55.

    CaseyL

    June 8, 2023 at 4:09 am

    Looking good, John!

    “Shedding for the Wedding!”

  56. 56.

    sab

    June 8, 2023 at 4:37 am

    @Debbie (Aussie): “Healthier than me” is a serious factor in my families elder care. My dad’s doctor told me that he would probably outlive me. He is healthy ( although demented) at 98 and I already had a life-threatening cardiac event in my 50s. Ten years later I am still not up to anywhere near where I used to be. My siblings are oblivious and assume I will be handling dad’s affairs for the duration. So I have labelled all the records and left clear notes so that my husband and stepkids know what to keep and what to dump on my siblings if I drop dead unexpectedly.

  57. 57.

    Matt McIrvin

    June 8, 2023 at 5:50 am

    @karen marie: We were in a worse situation in MA a couple of days ago, I think. Right now NY is getting the worst of it.

  58. 58.

    MomSense

    June 8, 2023 at 6:36 am

    @Matt McIrvin:
    Miraculously we’ve been spared most of  the smoke in Maine.

    I used to tell my kids when they were young that I would never tell them what to do when it came to hair or clothes, but they would have to wait until they turned 18 for tattoos or piercings.  Hair grows.  It can be changed.
    I like the new do, John.  It’s a subtle change and looks good on you.

  59. 59.

    WaterGirl

    June 8, 2023 at 7:51 am

    @Jackie: I would have liked your dad.

  60. 60.

    WaterGirl

    June 8, 2023 at 7:56 am

    @Debbie (Aussie): It’s horrifying to think that we ever called children “illegitimate”.  Just awful.

  61. 61.

    Sis

    June 8, 2023 at 9:53 am

    You’re right, except I’d substitute “great” for “good.”

  62. 62.

    FlyingToaster

    June 8, 2023 at 12:09 pm

    @karen marie:

    There’s also some pretty serious microclimate stuff here in Boston, where the smoke was pooling in the valleys and getting blown off the top of the hill.

    Today they’re saying everyone north of the Pike should be okay, but the South Coast is still going to suck.

    Up here in the inner burbs my eyes are still burning when I go outside, but the sky is merely gray with clouds rather than orange like Tuesday.

  63. 63.

    Joelle

    June 8, 2023 at 1:52 pm

    The ladykiller swoon inducing gaze…meeeeeeow!

  64. 64.

    buggrit

    June 8, 2023 at 2:10 pm

    Hey, you look nice!

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