http://beerismycopilot.com/personal/sunburns-aloe-how-i-subjected-myself-to-an-enormous-amount-of-pain/ Home is where the beer is Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:17:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://beerismycopilot.com/personal/sunburns-aloe-how-i-subjected-myself-to-an-enormous-amount-of-pain/comment-page-1/#comment-17 moe Tue, 03 Oct 2006 23:45:52 +0000 http://beerismycopilot.com/2006/09/25/sunburns-aloe-how-i-subjected-myself-to-an-enormous-amount-of-pain/#comment-17 This post is a perfect example of why you should actually write on your blog. This post is a perfect example of why you should actually write on your blog.

]]> http://beerismycopilot.com/personal/sunburns-aloe-how-i-subjected-myself-to-an-enormous-amount-of-pain/comment-page-1/#comment-14 themwg Tue, 03 Oct 2006 12:49:46 +0000 http://beerismycopilot.com/2006/09/25/sunburns-aloe-how-i-subjected-myself-to-an-enormous-amount-of-pain/#comment-14 What's most intirguing to me about this story is not the whole horrible sunburn thing, but that you shaved your head and went to the zoo. Zoos are these place where we confine nature to look and marvel at it in a safe way. we say, "hey nature, we big-brained monkeys have tamed your ass". It also has the affect of distancing ourselves from nature, as if we are not also animals but instead godlike overseers. Its pretty much us vs. all of them. So I think its extra cool (or poignant) that you would shave off your animal hair and go look at a bunch of poor hairy monkeys. "I don't need your silly hair, monkey, for I am man.". The beautiful irony is then, of course, that your hair, were it still on your head, would've helped your sorry dome. You should've visited the naked mole rats to see that if you intead to get rid of all your hair you should probably be living deep in the sand. What’s most intirguing to me about this story is not the whole horrible sunburn thing, but that you shaved your head and went to the zoo. Zoos are these place where we confine nature to look and marvel at it in a safe way. we say, “hey nature, we big-brained monkeys have tamed your ass”. It also has the affect of distancing ourselves from nature, as if we are not also animals but instead godlike overseers. Its pretty much us vs. all of them. So I think its extra cool (or poignant) that you would shave off your animal hair and go look at a bunch of poor hairy monkeys. “I don’t need your silly hair, monkey, for I am man.”. The beautiful irony is then, of course, that your hair, were it still on your head, would’ve helped your sorry dome. You should’ve visited the naked mole rats to see that if you intead to get rid of all your hair you should probably be living deep in the sand.

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