Neanderpundit

I wear a beard, mostly because of the eye-watering ugly it hides.
I shave parts of may face to avoid the Eric Clapton look, and for the most part that’s not a big deal.

Except when i don’t shave for a while.

See there’s this one hair follicle that’s clearly a horrid radiation enhanced mutant, which grows a single hair about as big around as a pencil lead. When I don’t shave for a long period of time, it gets long and thick and every time I pull on a shirt or a sweater, it gets caught on this hair, and since the hair is so thick, causes a remarkable amount of pain.

Over the holidays I rarely shaved once. I had no reason to do so, so my beard got pretty wild, and that included the Wild Hair. No big deal, right? shave, and you’re fine. Except for the wild hair. If I try to shave it off, once it has exited the skin, it dulls the razor, and then I cut a hunk of meat out of my face that I could fry.

So you have to pull it. Tweezers won’t touch it, so it’s time to get the needlenose pliers. Standing in front of the bathroom mirror trying to grip this errant mutant with pliers, is a cause of some amusement for the ogwife and oglet. Anyway, I get a good grip and yank, and the bastard pops out along with a large portion of flesh and a few feet of my small intestine (at least that’s the way it feels) and I’m bereft of the SOB again.

At least it’s on my face. Imagine if this was an ass hair? Now you know what they mean when they say “wild hair up your ass”

Me, I cannot imagine a more horrible job than coal mining. I have a serious fear of enclosed spaces, and I can tell you, I would not crawl down into one of those holes.

One of 13 lived.

Acidman talks about his coal mining roots from time to time, and I’m sure he knows like no other what it’s like to sit at a minehead and wait for news from down the hole.

Good lord.

First and most appropriate, Adam at Sophistipundit reviews Who Let the Blogs Out, an interesting look at blogging and the wherefores. Adam also brings us “The Skeptical environmentalist” by Bjorn Lomborg, which I found quite interesting myself. Early Riser counsels us to First: break all the rules

Deputyheadmistress’ daughter “The head Girl” at the Common Room brings us ‘The twenty four days before christmas’ and ‘seeing salvation’ in her post “Two different, but marvelous books” both of which look like excellent reads.

Following the religious theme, A Random Yak at Random Yak (Love the blog name, btw) reviews the brief and tasty autobiography of C.S. Lewis, “Jack’s Life” If you’re a lewis fan, you should read this.

At Multiple Mentality, Josh Cohen reviews (among other books) “The Big U”. The line that got me was

“Casimir Radon, a junior in his late twenties, just wants to engage in intellectual pursuits. He is a physics geek (sometimes genius), and his ultimate hopes are to build a mass driver (railgun), avenge his cat, and get it on with Sarah.”

It’s on my reading list now.

That’s the ones for December. There are other older ones. Anyone else who wants to host this, please drop a line to Digestedreaders@gmail.com