Wednesday, August 24, 2016

Baldness

My hairline has receded quite a bit, but I find that easy to ignore.  Is there anything more pitiful than a combover to make the most of what's left of your hair?  I guess there's wearing a hairpiece.

Someone pointed out that Russia's leaders have alternated between men who didn't have much hair and men who did:  Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Gorbachev, Yeltsin, Putin.  I read somewhere that one cure for hiccups is to think of seven bald celebrities!

I like Mussorgsky's orchestral piece "Night on Bald Mountain." I've also seen the title translated "Night on Bare Mountain," but that doesn't seem as effective.

I read somewhere that Queen Elizabeth I was bald and had to wear wigs!  So was Margaret Dumont, the straight woman in all those Marx Brothers movies.

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