Wednesday, May 30, 2007

May is Mullet Month?

Hockey hair returns for overtime

VANCOUVER -- It may be the most reviled hairstyle on earth, but a cadre of shaggy-haired Vancouverites is determined to help the mullet make a comeback.Friends Ben Besler and Caleb Weitzel, both 29, have declared May "mullet month" in Vancouver. They've teamed up with 26-year-old hairstylist Vanessa Greenidge of Knotty Boy salon in East Vancouver. She is offering a $25 special on mullet haircuts all month and challenging other hairstylists to do the same.

I'm not sure which is worse, the idea of a Mullet Month (complete with Mullet festivities? A Mullet Parade? Mullet-shearing contests? Chocolate mullet sculptures?) or the highway robbery of charging $25 for a mullet. It's not even a full haircut. You could give yourself a mullet for free. I'm all for capitalism and free enterprise but that's just taking advantage of people silly enough to want a mullet. Then again, this is a world where people will pay cash money to see Paris Hilton's blacklighted coochie so maybe Mullet Price Gouging isn't such a big deal.

Off to go rock back and forth in the corner some more...

2 comments:

Laura said...

I, for one, would love to see mullet olympics... oh wait, that's called NASCAR

Heathen said...

A few months ago I was told about a game that I hadn't heard of before called "Mullet Bingo" (it is usually played at state fairs). It consists of taking pictures of people with different types of mullets (the waterfall, the rattail, etc.). The winner is the first person to find examples of all the different types of mullets listed.