Clementine, for the past few months, has been trying to popularize the practice of wearing one’s glasses upside down. If you take them off of her and turn them right side up, she promptly removes them and puts them back on upside down. When asked to explain what it is that she likes about wearing her glasses this way, she doesn’t respond. She just looks at you like you’re insane for wearing yours like you do. (She’s so persuasive that several people we know have tried to wear their glasses her way. Most end up giving it up, however, when the headaches begin.) Well, as I sat here in Portland today, sweating profusely, it occurred to me that my practice of wearing an “August beard” might, at least on the face of it, seem just as ridiculous… Anyway, I decided to put it to a vote. So, whose idea is better, mine or my daughter’s? Which has a better chance of catching on?
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I am much more likely to wear my glasses upside down than to grow a beard, August or otherwise.
I think you’ve got it as upside-down as Clementine – a February beard would make much more sense.
Clementine should grow a beard.
I think the world at large might be ready for an upside down beard. But only in the colder months.
As I am now growing my August beard and it drives me crazy when Mad Jill wears her sunglasses upside down, I must say August beard.
Are those our only choices?
Now we can add “August beards” and “UpsideDown Glasses” to “Blogging” … all three of which have sent Leiberman to the doghouse, Lamont to the Capitol, perhaps, and local politicians crazy.
Let’s add some choices. Clementine’s modern stainless steel kitchen with hanging utensils or her father’s MPT cabin in the woods with fire pit in the background?
I thought for sure that someone would have said, “Upside down or not, we all know that Clementine is your beard.” I’m disappointed in you all.
sorry dude, clementine is totes cuter. if your people sent that pic to Paris Hilton’s people, i’m sure she and her dog would be wearing upside-down glasses in no time
Considering the look of that beard maybe February would be the best month so it would be visible for the shortest period of time — or how about a leap day beard?
She’s your kid, all right. Literally sees the world in a different way.
The August beard is only part of the story. You also have to do “Hairless in January.”
you win, only because of the shirt you’re wearing. clementine will have to change.
How aare you already leaving comments on my blog – didn’t I just leave you in the bar like five minutes ago?