Comments on carefully selected garbage: Barberism Begins at Home

Colby, look for Puglisi in Foggy Bottom.

2009-01-05T17:13:00.000-05:00

Colby, look for Puglisi in Foggy Bottom.

I am moving to DC in the Spring. I will definitely...

2009-01-05T15:43:00.000-05:00

I am moving to DC in the Spring. I will definitely have to check this place out. Thanks for sharing.

I'm lucky. I've been getting my hair cut in the sa...

2008-12-31T22:28:00.000-05:00

I'm lucky. I've been getting my hair cut in the same two shops since I was a boy, by the same people. I go to one, and if the lines to long, I go to the other. There's no rivalry between them, because after all, its only haircuts.

The pneumatic chair, half of the days news paper, jars of Marvy Barbicide, Pinaud, and faded newspaper pullouts of the Boston Red Sox set the tone.

I don't even have to tell them what I want, I just sit down and it comes out perfect everytime. The only time I speak up is to say something like "My friends getting married this weekend, so make it extra nice."

The best part is watching a newcomer salon type kid stroll in with a complicated explanation and seeing them nod then proceed to give him one of the three haircuts you described earlier.

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2008-12-23T05:30:00.000-05:00

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You could set your watch that guy's hair. I mean sharp!

I had the same problem here in SoCal: the local pl...

2008-12-22T23:25:00.000-05:00

I had the same problem here in SoCal: the local place even had "barber" in its name, but still wanted to style my hair for thirty bucks. I finally found two different places a few miles apart, both of which are run by Vietnamese and which give me almost exactly the haircut I'm looking for. And for just eight bucks.

I learned from my barber in the tiny Virginia town I lived in for five years that my preferred hair style is called an "ivy league," where it's short, but left slightly longer on top than the back or sides--sort of a like a crew cut that's had three weeks to grow out a bit. Only took me thirty years to learn what my hair cut's called.

But I miss my first barber, Ray the Barber. Learned to cut hair on an aircraft carrier and never got any better. One style, poorly executed. Still my first choice.