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Bloggers are often accused of navel-gazing, but today I’d like to aim higher and tell you about my hair.

I keep it fairly short because my hair is kind of curly. Not like Robert Plant/Leo Sayer curly, but not staight like Jackson Browne/Jim Carey.

It’s kind of in between, on the outskirts of unmanageable, but not out of control. If my hair were an employee, I’d probably be thinking about some kind if performance plan rather than a straight out verbal warning.

In terms of celebrity, I have Tom Hanks hair. About one in twenty-five people have it and it’s not a big deal. I get up, I go to  work, I raise a family, I eat what I like - I lead a full life. Seriously, though - I  have Tom Hanks hair. A little lighter, but Tom Hanks hair.

I keep it fairly short. Not Forrest Gump length, because all short hair looks like Forrest Gump hair. But let it get a bit longer, and - hello! - Turner and Hooch.

Longer still and we’re talking Splash, and, before you know it, you’re looking at Bosom Buddies. And not in a good way.

I’ve had it very long, a la Castaway, and very very short, in the Apollo 13 style.

Don’t get me wrong, I am grateful for the similarity even though it ends there. In fact it’s useful, because I can picture what my hair will look like longer just by running through a mental checklist of his work.

As an aside, I think he is a great actor, but my friend Paul disagrees. He says that Tom Hanks will aways be Forrest Gump, the simple, dorkey, loveable guy next door.

For this reason, he calls all Tom Hanks films by their relative names. So you have Forrest Gump And The Mermaid,  Big Forrest Gump, Forrest Gump In Space, Forrest Gump Goes To The Baseball, Forrest Gump With Aids, Forrest Gump Has Mail and Forrest Gump And The Nazis.

Paul has normal hair. Kevin Costner/Matt Dillon/Al Pacino normal hair.

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