Ball Games and Butt Cuts

"Finally, Major League Baseball teams start catering to their core crowd: purveyors of the hairstyle known as the Kentucky Waterfall, the 10-90, the Sho-Lo, the Shlong, the Missouri Compromise – the Mullet. The Chicago White Sox are presenting “Mullet Night and Fireworks presented by Great Clips.” Foregoing the usual policy of “business in front, party in the back,” the Sox hope to turn mulletude into an all-out rager. Let your Mississippi Mudflap flow like the majestic wing of Pegasus at US Cellular Field on Friday night. You can even get it trimmed for free (or make a donation to charity) by one of several Great Clips stylists at stations around the park – it’s a significant discount from the $15 (including tip) you usually pay for mullet maintenance."

The Mohawk Becomes, Well, Cute

NY Times: "Perhaps it was the wave of stylish men in New York and Los Angeles in the late 1990's who gelled their hair into luminous crests known as fauxhawks who paved the way for more extreme versions as a popular summer look. Or perhaps the Mohawk has re-entered the vocabulary of stylists who operate far from the barbershops near St. Marks Place, the city's historic thoroughfare for alternative style, thanks to the well-documented and ever-evolving Mohawk of one man, Maddox Jolie, 4. Maddox, the adopted son of Angelina Jolie, is a regular face in the pages of Star and Us Weekly, and in the way of so many trends born in the pages of celebrity magazines, he has done for Mohawks what Harry Potter did for round spectacles. He made them trendy, starting a cut-to-the-scalp movement among Hollywood offspring that now includes the children of Jennifer Connelly and Paul Bettany: their sons Kai, 8, and Stellan, 1. Et tu, Natalie Portman? "

Rockin' in the free world

Rockin' in the free world Originally uploaded by riley27. Tickets are bought, and now it's all over except the waiting. If young and nelson jam together like in this picture, my ears will cry with happiness. Rock-n-roll - the number one reason why i'm grateful to be back in the U.S. of A. Willie Nelson John Mellencamp Neil Young Dave Matthews Arlo Guthrie Buddy Guy Congressman Collin Peterson and the Second Amendments Drew Davis Band Emmylou Harris James McMurtry Jimmy Sturr & His Orchestra John Mayer Kate Voegele Kathleen Edwards Kenny Chesney Los Lonely Boys Shannon Brown Supersuckers Susan Tedeschi Widespread Panic Wilco

A Lipstick President

New York Times - Maureen Dowd: "The president is working up a sweat, keeping that perfectly toned body perfectly toned. I slide past stone-faced men with earpieces and ask the president how it's going. 'Good,' she says, grinning. 'People ask me if there could really be a woman president and I say, Of course, it's the 21st century.' Geena Davis was shooting a rowing scene at the Potomac Boat House on Monday morning for her new ABC show, 'Commander-in-Chief,' about the first woman president. Luckily, the first woman president is tall, a shade taller than W., so she's eyeball to eyeball with generals and ambassadors. And she's a redhead. Redheads, a recent study showed, have a higher tolerance for pain. In the show's premiere, a lot of pain is dished up for Ms. Davis's character, Mackenzie Allen, the vice president of a conservative president who keels over before the first hour is over. Nobody wants the vice president, a political independent, to be Madame President. Not the president, who tells her before he dies to resign so his ally, the archconservative speaker of the House played by Donald Sutherland, can get the job. Not the president's chief of staff. Not her sulky, sexy conservative teenage daughter. Even her supportive (and faithful) politico husband gets skittish after East Wing staffers begin calling him 'the first lady' and arrange his meetings with the White House chef."