Please Happy

1. Cut off your hair into a mullet.**

2. Change your diet to cheese, gelato and chocolate always in or on croissants, waffles or focaccia.

3. Repeat. Smile.

*This method elicited, but was not limited to, the following scenarios:
Getting propositioned on a bridge at sunset in Florence, being asked to have coffee from my flight attendant, getting whistled at by a bicyclist, hearing kissy noises from a construction worker above. None of these things happened pre-mullet, pre-gelato diet. It works. I know.

**The photo does not do the ‘do justice. It’s a mullet. Believe me.

29 April 2008. Florence.

Just wondering why Flamenco dancers have to look so mean while dancing. With the bright colors, sculpted calves and rockin’ tunes, you’d think they’d be smiling. I guess it’s a cultural thing. Enjoy these pics I shot during a dinner performance in Barcelona with Grandma Whaley. We ate paella and drank sangria before watching the glowering stompers.

While in Barcelona with Grandma Whaley – more on that trip later – I noticed an abundance of women with haircuts straight out of the 80s (and some Jackson Hole costume parties).

Traditionally referring to a type of fish, the word mullet is now commonly used to describe a hairstyle that is short in the front and sides and long in the back.

And while people commonly associate the ‘do with trailer parks, country music, pick-up trucks, gun racks and NASCAR, European chicks are taking the look and strutting with it.

Here are some pics.

-Barcelona, April 2008.