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10 Facts about Anderson Cooper’s Hair (Plus a Super-Extra Bonus Grooming Link for Guys)
I learn some surprising things managing this blog. Like: Many people spend time online researching men’s haircuts. I think these people are mainly guys looking for a new look, although they could be search-engine-savvy hairstylists hoping to replicate certain cuts in their salon. This blog strayed into Men’s Hairstyles SEO when I posted on El Fotografo’s search for the Anderson Cooper haircut in a Lima salon, a quest that resulted in his getting scalped last month. As my post describes, EF secretly decided to go for The Silver Fox look after misinterpreting a remark I made while watching the CNN “Planet in Peril: Battle Lines” segment on La Oroya. As EF later…
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The Haircut (El Fotografo gets sheared)
El Fotógrafo has an erratic relationship with his hair. He goes for weeks without doing much of anything to it, letting it sprout in extravagent clumps, and then one day, he will be struck by a severe urge to cut his hair Now. This can be hazardous because EF has a cowlick. It’s not something a person can trim on his own, but EF doesn’t see it that way. I’ve found him in the bathroom with a pair of not-very-sharp scissors hacking at his temples, silver and black hairs falling into the sink. He’ll step back and admire his handiwork in the mirror, raking his fingers through the cropped cowlick. He doesn’t…
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Reaction to CNN’s “Planet in Peril: Battle Lines” on Toxic La Oroya Mines
It was with a mixture of anger, grief and hope that I watched CNN’s broadcast of “Planet in Peril: Battle Lines” last Thursday night. Fifteen minutes of the show focused on the toxic contamination of the Doe Run Peru smelting planet in La Oroya, which is one of the 10 most polluted places on earth, along with Chernobyl. Peruvian baby breathing in toxic fumes from Doe Run Peru smelting plant; 98% of children in La Oroya suffer from extreme lead poisoning. Some U.S. critics are quibbling that the show was “stunt journalism” interspersed with flimsy reporting, a charge they base largely on reporter/producer Anderson Cooper’s segment on swimming with great white…
