Fucking seven days after I post the below photo, the #2 sexiest boy in the East Bay voluntarily dissolves his longhair status and shows up for work with that hair gone. Fucking 3 girls in my dept. inc. myself were ASHEN when we learnt it & saw. But through the day we moved from shock and grief, to numb acceptance, to “Well shit, I kinda can’t believe it but he’s still that hot." Still and all. A thing of beauty is lost forever and all should mourn. It reminds us to be thankful for ones like the #1, who when asked when/if he will cut his off*, cocks his head rather severely and half-closes his eyes before answering “Never," with all the seriousness of the crypt.

There’s an element of social recklessness to posting this sort of thing** about Aleks. But I’m tasked with vanquishing the infuriating cautiousness I somehow picked up over the past several years, so fuck it.

*Most recently asked of him by a local natural foods grocery security guard, a middle-aged woman with a known hard-on for this particular blue-eyed thing. She asked it - not for the first time - after stating “Ooo you pretty as a Chistmas tree ornament, you so pretty, I want to put you on my tree.” (His response was to inhale sharply through his mouth, throw his right arm behind his back, over his shoulder, as though it were being dislocated by a poltergeist, and muttering ”Of all the things to say”. He being the most godlessest and all.)

**”[T]his sort of thing” mostly meaning “things I’m too high to filter before publicly releasing”