G.R.i.D. (Get Rich in Dallas)

Maybe it’s just me but as my thirty-something becomes late thirties, I tend to feel less risky about things. Maturity? Dunno. But at the same time, I spent a lot of my younger years not doing too much that was all that exciting. A desire to please kept me fairly conservative. I still have some of that but I do have my uninhibited moments every so often. And as my late thirties officially begin this year (36 come August), my hair is leaving me as fast as my youth. As the top of my scalp is seeing more sun lately, I think I may still have time and follicular fortitude to consider a mohawk.

But now the question is…what kind? You tell me.

The safest route would be the fauxhawk. This is where I still have a decent amount of hair on the head and I can fashion a hawk out of what remains a la Richard, the should-be winner of this past season Top Chef. I like this do. It’s safe and versatile but I have a problem with it too. It’s a little non-committal. And maybe even too safe and perhaps a bit too trendy. I see it everywhere and it seems to not make the statement that an actual mohawk does, whatever that may be. I feel like it says “I kind of have balls but my parents won’t notice when it’s flat”. (below)

I know for sure I don’t want the landing strip aka buzzhawk. (below)

In regards to the following posting from today:

If we haven’t already had too much fun this month! Let’s cap it off with some more…im old today…28 to be exact…and to celebrate I’m going to do what I do best…see how many miller lites I can drink! hope to see everyone tonight!

Dear Myspace Master for Alexandre’s,

I’d like to mention that the fact you regard 28 as old does not bode well for those of us who are beyond that age. As my 35th birthday approaches in the summer, I look at your statement only to possibly wonder if I am at a dinosaur’s age and debating whether my party should now be at Luby’s instead of the Monkey Bar or Club Dada where I was originally thinking of. Besides, I dare not want to be considered a middle-aged wannabe hip old guy. I just didn’t think I had made it there just yet.

So thank you for my holiday weekend deflation as I will change all my plans from the Slip Inn and TMC to polka dancing at the Czech Club after I’ve clipped coupons for my Ensure cans.

By the way, happy birthday and I will passive-aggressively revel in the slight flaw that you didn’t capitalize or add the apostrophe here - im old today.

Thank you,

Old blogger guy

Oh geez. If only I could have his looks and career with his problems. And why this is his latest beef I don’t know. Is he basically trying to sneak in a personal ad in the media without paying for it? Cheap. And bitter. Maybe that’s what his problem is. Not that no one wants him cause he’s fortysomething. But maybe because he’s a bitter fortysomething.

Rupert Everett Says “Being Gay Is A Young Man’s Game”

September 22, 2006 6:30 a.m. EST

London, England (BANG) - For the most part, Rupert Everett says being gay after the age of 40 generally means you’re history.

The 47-year-old actor, who is openly homosexual, says he is single because young gay men aren’t interested in dating someone older than them. But that’s not true, if they won’t take him, we will!

Everett told Britain’s Daily Telegraph magazine, “Unfortunately, I am single, yes, but I’m too exhausted for anything else and being gay is a young man’s game. Now no one wants me. Being gay and being a woman has one big thing in common, which is that we both become invisible after the age of 42. Who wants a gay 50- year-old? No one let me tell you. I could set myself on fire in a gay bar, and people would just light their cigarettes from me.”

The actor - who has just written his autobiography “Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins” - admits he wants to grow old gracefully, but he would like to find a boyfriend first.

He added, “I don’t want to be carried out of a club wearing a tie-dye T-shirt and a cap on the wrong way around when I am 70, but I would like to settle down a bit, maybe with a partner. In some ways I do feel more settled, but now I want to take part in things.”

He could always take up music. His backing vocals here aren’t so bad.

Your Birthdate: August 30

You have the type of personality that people either love or hate. You’re opinionated, dramatic, intense, and very outspoken. And some people can’t get enough of you - they’re totally addicted. Others, well, they wish you were a little more reserved. Your strength: Your flair Your weakness: If you think it, you say it Your power color: Scarlet red Your power symbol: Inverted triangle Your power month: March

My left arm is fairly numb and has been for a big chunk of my day. But I figured that it’s because I lean on it a lot as opposed to WebMD’s hint that I’m suffering from a stroke.

 I just hope it’s not neuropathy which a friend of mine has in his feet! N-pathy is that feeling of numbness that seems to NEVER go away and it’s a creepy feeling. As if you just don’t have that control over your body to get the blood going the right way.

Maybe if I just sleep on it…sigh.

  

Do people over 30 ‘hang out‘ or is it called something else?