Happy New Year! 2009 everything will be just fine.

The writings on the wall...

I shot this picture with my cell phone camera just after getting a nice good cut here in Point Richmond...they say NO two barber poles are the same, and I beleive that.

Interesting...the internet say's the darndest things!

While searching for images related to Barberin, I came across the one below...but the blog that it is from is the interesting part. John Kricfalusi or John K as he is commonly known...was the creator of the 90's cartoon Ren and Stimpy which came out of Spumco, which was a cartoon animation studio.

Well John K has his own blog which is filled with cartoon and animation insight, history and info. He also offers advice and damn helpful lessons and such...pretty cool hands on way to disseminate and connect with a vast audience.

click here to view john k's blog

I just got a Woody.

I am not sure I really get this...but I like it.

Shave a pig, make a wig, sell the wig and buy some snuff...hmmm...okay.

click here to see more of this comic book artists interesting work

Not a bad strategy, distract the kid with a comic...then cut his ear off.

Get Shorty

So after re-reading that article below, I decided to learn more about the place where Shorty Maniace cuts it up, the F.S.C. It turns out to be much more than a your local neighborhood barber shop, it is a mighty fine establishment.

click here to learn a little more about the F.S.C.

Why do you think they are called the Knicks?

This online NY Times article was sent over to me today, thanks...good looking out.

click here to read the article

click here to view the slideshow

Guess who's back...

3 months ago when I purchased the domain, I set up this image as a placeholder for the site...not many people saw this, as I was not running around telling people to go to a site, which was not up yet. The post it note is no joke...those things haunt me.

Someone asked me why it reads 2009, I simply replied, patience is a virtue and all good things take time...oh and I probably won't get anything going until then which seems about right.

It's alive!

Today lightning sparked life to the official Barber Shop Clothing website.

Click here to check it out!

This was my first time designing a site, and although I am happy with the simplicity and layout I am working on an updated site to launch in Spring, along with my first line of goods.

Hustler Barber Shop?

Now I am all for hand painted murals...

But the picture of a guy alone smoking a cigar in a bathtub drinking champagne and watching TV...holding electric clippers in one hand and a comb in the other...for some reason does not connotate a hustler to me.

Let it be.

Stuart Davis is one of my favorite artists...

Stuart Davis (1894-1964)
Barber Shop Chord, 1931
Lithograph
Signed in pencil.
Edition: 25
13 3/4 x 18 3/4 inches
Cole and Myers 14

Norman Rockwell kept it high and tight...

bric-a-brac barber style

It's actually a pretty cool little sculpture, dig the sleeping dalmation.

Lord High Executioner executioned in a barbers chair.

If you like to read, click here for the story.

no sir, it aint like mine...the bomb squad get's buzzed and faded

Bombsquad "It aint Like Mine" from Joshua Dixon on Vimeo.

Who needs a haircut?

The Unabomber really needed a haircut, why do you think he wore the hood and glasses, embarrassment.

Could a nice visit to the local barber shop have prevented Ted Kaczynski from becoming the Unabomber?

Let's think about this for a second, looking good is the beginning to feeling good, as proven by the end exchange between Eddie Murphy and Dan Akroyd in the 1983 movie Trading Places.

So Theodore grew up as a smart child, moving through school in the 50's and 60's and eventually receiving a degree from Harvard and a PhD in math from the University of Michigan.

I am willing to bet his hair was cut frequently during this time, it was when he starting teaching at UC Berkeley when he started to cross over into the Una-world, those damn free radical liberals.

Let's face it, when they found him in his remote cabin he looked like a mess...now Michael Landon never looked that bad and he lived in a little house on a prairie.

If I looked as scruffy as Ted became, I may hide out too...and start thinking weird anti social thoughts...on occasion I have been known to do this, and I quickly run out to the barber for a trim and a shave...and the world is a lot better afterwards, trust me.

Now you may think I am being shallow or naive for connecting physical looks with a persons mental state, and especially that of a psychotic murderer, although am I really? I admit I am not a specialist, nor do I hold a PhD in Mathemetics or any such prestigious title of that nature, yet I personally think I may be onto something.

Take a look at a timeline of pictures, he looks perfectly normal as a kid with a bird on his shoulder sitting next to his brother, who would have guessed he would have gone full goose bozo and did what he did?

So do the world a favor go get a haricut and start looking good...but more importantly FEEL good.

diagram of a tryptophan overdose

Mohawks, brohawks or fauxhawks pick your poison.

I don't talk much...I just cut the hair.

C.R.E.A.M.

Too good not to post.

Is it getting thin?

Heads will roll...

Bull City Barber College

I would love to see the full clip of this...

Bull City Barber Shop from Sven Ryelsdorn on Vimeo.

Claymation is meant to look like this...haircuts are not.

Barber Shop from Robert Loughlin on Vimeo.

Yes we can, yes we did, and yes he does...

Oh yes he does, President Elect Barack Obama backs the barber shop...here he is visiting Major League in Philly before he beat out Hillary in the primary, and way before his triumphant and historical victory of last night.

Sneak Peek at Official B.S. Site

Who needs a haircut?

Donald Trump was built for this prize. I guess being worth 2 billion dollars does not get you a good barber. I guess the world talking about how bad his hair looks for years does not sink in...Donald time to tell your Barber he is fired.

Tortoise and the what???

Someone asked me what the Tortoise and the Hare reference meant in the previosu post:

The Aesopian tale proved the hare's cockiness was his downfall, while the tortoise surefooted, steady endurance made him the winner. In their second meeting, during a boxing match, the tortoise's endurance proved him a winner once more.

I might have to run this one as a shirt...