My friend Manish Vij just started a new brown themed weblog, aptly titled UltraBrown. Anyway, this entry is hilarious. Talk about seeing the world only through your own lens! When I was in San Francisco once someone came up to me in a shop at Ghirardelli Square and asked "where I was from." You see, I had bleached my hair blonde at that point, so she was wondering where the land of brown-skined blondes was! (there are dark-skinned blondes among the Aboriginals of Australia)
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We should run a poll to see how many gnxp readers / posters have had weird hair. In 8th & 9th grade, I had purple, rose red, bleached w/ purple bangs, and then a Taxi Driver mohawk.
What happened to the rule of not linking to brown girls?
i didn't say i couldn't link. just don't post pictures on gnxp. i don't believe in objectifying chix.