WDYLL 2020

on the same night as that photo, i realized my hair was falling out in clumps! first hair loss i've had, i think, that i've noticed at least. i think it's stress. my plan is to keep growing the top out and make my hair into a greasy, inpenetrable fortress. the inside will be bare and rotten, but no one will be able to see over the lip of the volcano, let alone willing to put their hands down into that greasetrap and expose the helmetless-darth-vaderesque pale skin underneath. then i will be comfortable!

Some solid hairchitecture there, kudos

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scantily clad

thank you. the shower last night was an important one. i've also been wearing a bandaid across my face for the last week. i need a new pair of glasses. my current glasses are in rebellion against their host, for good reason

I've been doing it for years.

that's an excellent quiff Karl

i posted this in the moab thread but i was so happy on this day, 1.5 weeks ago, idk here it is again to prove that it happened

https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/130197767_10158854575837720_1653654345574395223_n.jpg?_nc_cat=104&ccb=2&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=R13OgEPJ3kcAX9LFkKK&_nc_ht=scontent-lax3-1.xx&oh=9f142e795a7619be1cf0d2e2fc5cfb87&oe=5FFF09E4

man, Joaquin Phoenix didn't glam up after winning that Oscar, eh

*blushes*

What's the best way to post photos here?

1. https://imgur.com/upload
2. upload the photo
3. Get Share Links (hover over the upper-right of the image, click the "..." menu, like this:

https://i.imgur.com/orVgyds.png

4. copy the BBCode link. this one:

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5. paste that link directly into this box and submit yr dang post

Radiating good vibes! xp

your plants (and your chill) look stupendous karl

I love this early '80s atmosphere, Karl. Are you smoking Winstons indoors and blowing the smoke into a macrame planter?

yeah, duh, I forgot I have an imgur account. Thanks.

6. "this box" means this box

https://i.imgur.com/KIKMmeE.png

7. if nothing else, just make sure that what you post on ilx resembles this:

https://i.imgur.com/bzbugB7.png

thank you map, and it sounds sooooooo nice to be in moab right now! or a couple weeks ago, i guess! what were you doing there? you look like you're doing sound work?

xp i don't smoke...

*breaks 4th wall*

cigarettes! ha! but yeah, now that you mention it, we are basically living in the early 80s, which happens to be when i was born. maybe it's comfortable to retreat to something that seems familiar but new (as in used). i just purchased a Nakamichi CR-2A cassette deck. fuck the world, i'm gonna make some tapes

Last week, happy to be at work again (alone, office door shut).

https://i.imgur.com/8FPfYzX.jpg?1

Last Thursday in my office. You can check out my reversed book titles!

https://i.imgur.com/vdjtpTy.jpg

Asking to have exotic pets photoshopped onto your arm

looking great alfred!

handsomer even than stalin

After Photobucket turned extortionist, I'd post photos here (meaning all threads) using Tripod. (Please, don't make fun of me, it hurts my feelings.) That doesn't work anymore for reasons that puzzle me. I'll give Imgur a try.

you know alfred, if you want to make the book titles easier to read you could use a little modern technology to edit the image first! here ya go:

https://i.imgur.com/3KbNCYN.jpg

Alfred looks great! I'll admit to being curious about your choice in masks though.

Simple surgical masks. Simple masks for simple people.

I must say, Alfred, that you become more handsome every year.

i think it's stress.

yeah after spending a very rough two weeks in the hospital this summer about a week after I came home and mentally settled into the idea of my life being radically different going forward my hair started just falling out like pine needles whenever I touched it. so I decided to buzz it down pretty short and when I looked in the mirror it was like "uh oh"

months later it hasn't fully come back, though it mostly has, but man! not what I needed at the time!

After chemo and radiation, when my hair thinned but never went totally away, it all came back thicker, which I don't mind on my head....but jesus, eeverywhere else, too?

Alfred looks great! I'll admit to being curious about your choice in masks though.

― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, December 14, 2020 3:25 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

I must say, Alfred, that you become more handsome every year.

― "Bi" Dong A Ban He Try (the table is the table), Monday, December 14, 2020

Thanks, gents. Pandemic's got me walking like Wordsworth in the Lake District.

This is TMI but I started losing hair to stress when I was 15 and that is primarily why I have short hair now!
It's very real, don't let anyone gaslight you into thinking you are imagining it like they did to me.

More photos of Alfred in front of walls of books please.

This was a few months back, when you could go out with a shirt flapping open in the breeze... when you could go out at all, in fact. A park in Orpington, daughter taking the snap.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50291394871_3a271176f7_b.jpg

Man at H&M

(i have the same t-shirt)

The Wakefield branch of H&M in fact!

(I don't normally keep track of where I buy t-shirts, but that one was an emergency purchase as sweltering July '18 heat + no a/c on the train meant contents of overnight bag were no longer sufficient).

Lovely photo.

(wondering now what happens in wakefield. matt lives there now, has a wakefield postcode anyway. oh, sculpture park.)

Just used a camera for the first time, hope I did it right

https://i.imgur.com/Ig2N2Vf.jpg

More photos of Alfred in front of walls of books please.

― The Battle of Taylor Swift's "Evermore" (PBKR)

Your wish, etc!

https://i.imgur.com/GneBV4m.jpg

Everyone looks amazingly well for the end of 2020 I have to say!

Alfred I quite like that grey jacket you have on in your earlier post

Alfred and MJ significantly upping the game here in our quarantine year.

Alfred I quite like that grey jacket you have on in your earlier post

― loose Orwellian mobs (rob),

Thanks! I wore it not for formality's sake but b/c last Tuesday was unusually cool for South Florida (a bone-chilling high of 62 in the afternoon).

Old Lunch you captured the moment! Haha

It's a fairly accurate portrait of my 2020 psyche, it's true.

More photos of Alfred in front of walls of books please.

― The Battle of Taylor Swift's "Evermore" (PBKR)

Your wish, etc!

Thanks! Oscar Wilde, John Cheever & Virginia Woolf almost too on the nose?

especially if you notice Wilde's face.

https://i.imgur.com/j8PCGyk.jpg

I caught a meerkat out on the golf course last August.

saw a Make America Great Again sticker on a Cadilac