I spotted an endangered species over the weekend, at Costco of all places. A guy in line near me stood about 6'5'' tall, 250 lbs easy, dressed in acidwash jeans and a size-60 XXXL hockey jersey — you know the type, designed to fit over enormous shoulder pads and so on. But this guy filled it. He looked like the sort of person who has to go through doors sideways.
And yet wasn’t his size that caught my eye. It was his haircut: short and wavy on top, long and wiry in back, and squared off below the base of his neck. He had a geniune “Kentucky waterfall,” or like my buddy Andrew says, “Business in the front, party in the back.”
Wait, it gets better. His hair color was dark brown, but on both sides of his head, from the shaved-short temple, over the top of the ear, all the way down each side to the bottom of the mane, the hair was peroxide blonde — striped, in stereo!
I searched the classifications at MulletsGalore.com but was unable find such an amazing, awesome example of what I’ve come to call the Skunk Mullet. I just wish I had grabbed one of the digital cameras off the rack. Of course, had this creature seen me photographing his hair, he’d have flattened me. Or posed… ya never know I guess.
In an attempt to find graphic documentation of a fashion that, by all rights, should have died out 15 years ago, I did a Google search for “striped mullet,” but this turned up something else entirely.