I’m sure this phenomenon is by no means unique to the Greater Sacramento region, but nothing makes me feel more like Ward Cleaver than shaggy haircuts on the young men, aged 8-12. I get the feeling that the parents of these boys with the shaggy hair (what’s next, slingshots in the back pocket? hooch? marbles!!!??) think it looks very appropriate, a classic hairstyle, even. Wake up. Your kids are walking all over you. This new shaggy cut, the rebirth of the coif made famous by Shaun Cassidy (pictured) and his ilk of the 70s, is no better than the rat-tail was, but at least with the rat-tail, everybody knew what was going on–if your kid had one, everybody but you thought it was ugly, unless their kids also had rat-tails.
Watch out for them, Sacramento. If you see a group of young men, and one of them has a shaggy haircut, I guarantee that’s the one who will cause the trouble. Would you trust that he had not spit on your pizza while delivering it? Would you let him anywhere near your daughters? Would you trust him to give correct insurance information when he rear ends you in his 4Runner (if not now, soon enough)?
Some great hairstyle research to be done at Gene’s Barber Shop.
The Sac Rag 
I was at supercuts or some other chain barber shop like it the other day. A woman brought her preeteen boy into the shop and said to the haircutter, “Keep it long over his ears…you know, like all the kids are wearing it.” And the haircutter said, “Oh yes, but let me just trim the back a little bit, so he doesn’t look like he has a mullet.”
As a shaggy moptop myself, I welcome this style. In fact, I predict that our next president will have hair like G. Ford.
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jeff, as an older dude you can rock the shag top. if you were 12 i would want to kick you in the pants and tell you to get a job.
it’s that “you know, like all the other kids are wearing it” that bothers me…
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LOL – Funny as hell – and the truth!
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So long as guys don’t start sporting the mustaches a’la the days of Shaun Cassidy. The “lucky” guys were able to sprout ‘staches that put the Brawny paper towel guy to shame, while others had mere wisps floating above their upper lips (and when there’s a whitehead or two poking through the sparse growth PLUS orthodonture? Forget about it.)
Thank you CoolDMZ for posting the Shaun Cassidy photo that took me back to 1977-1978. We used to play him on the jukebox at the pizza place all the time. (He was my “boyfriend” until I saw his costar Parker Stevenson on the Hardy Boys, then it was so long to Shaun.)
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your right cooldemilitarizedzone. we need to bring the bart starr and john U back to kids these days. real team players. following the rules. haircuts i can set my watch to. we need to crop (no, not a pun) all choice from teens and pre-teens. let them know they are unfit to make any decisions about aesthetics until they can at least help pay the mortgage, pay for the lights or do 100 pull-ups, which ever comes first. i say, normal hair for normal children. it’s science fact. no short haired, right minded people have ever done anything wrong. ever. ever ever. the only longhaired man i want around me is my picture of jesus on that partly cloudy day they took his picture in heaven, wearing those baggy clothes and grizzly adams beard. no other long haired freaky kids in this country. your twelve – start acting like a man.
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doubt it. no seed of my loins would ever be typing ‘OMG’ or ‘LOL’. that’s not english in my household. that’s devil speak in my shaking shack. and i’m not to sure about women in the blogosphere either. i’m pretty sure it wouldn’t pass mustard in the Heinsohn house.
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hey gordo, you’re right, i totally forgot that only long hairs are allowed to have opinions.
(really, a hilarious comment. it’ll be fun having you as part of the family. of commenters. am i warm?)
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OMG, has the spirit of my late father housed itself into Gordon P. Heinsohn Jr.? Dad, is that YOU?!
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“am i warm?” – maybe you should see a doctor bro. one minute you’re with me the next ”yer ‘gainst’ me. i don’t get it. i’m a man who’s had the same haircut all my life. and my sons, because my gun only shoots ‘XY’, will have there hair cut short all their lives to learn disciple, honesty and faithfulness. from the haircut. that’s the point. and if that don’t work, i’ll turn them over to some other inistitution to act in loco parentis. thus doing my part. don’t thank me. you already have brother.
signing off –
GPH Jr.
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ha…ha?
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