prematurely grey

I was just checking out the KXAN website to see if I could find a picture of that Mexican flag Jim Swift showed in his report on the immigration rally. No flag, but there’s a pretty fantastic shot of Jim himself on the “Out on the Porch” page:

People in Austin know that Jim usually wears his hair back in a ponytail, so just seeing it down comes as something of a shock. Honestly, Jim is the Everyman of Austin–that’s his role on the news and Central Casting could not have sent us a better candidate.

What’s really of concern here at prematurely grey is the type of power associated with no white in the hair/Santa’s Ringer in the beard contrast. Frankly, given my obsession with hair superpowers, that I find this combo shocking is shocking. I’m not sure if I’ve just been so focused on female superpowers that I haven’t had the time to think about men’s (except George Clooney’s) or if I’m just plain sexist (more likely).

Anyway, it would have been great to have a picture of the Mexicanization of the American flag, but Jim’s hair is probably more powerful. At the very least, it seems to give him access to everyone who’s ever owned a store and lost their lease.

Anyway, there were two things I learned on the KXAN website other than Jim Swift has a magic beard:

1. New Yorkers are likely to suffer more mental distress.
2. Dave Chappelle walked away from television.

Thank God they have a website so I didn’t have to wait until the 7 a.m. edition of Firstcast tomorrow morning.