July 26, 2007I look like Levi Leipheimer, and I'm not talking about my legsI shaved my head this morning in protest of the Tour de Farce. Actually, that's only partly true. I did shave my head. But not in protest. I cut my own hair. It's an advantage of having not much. I use a cheap pair of Wahl clippers and use the No. 1 attachment. Zip. Takes about five minutes. I remove the No. 1 to go extra tight on my neck. So, this morning I grab the clippers and take two quick swipes at the right side of my head. And I was almost blinded by the reflected glare from my stark white skull. I'd forgotten to put the No. 1 on. If I actually had any hair on the top of my head I could have gone for the high-and-tight Marine look. You know, shaved sides and back with a little more on top. But that's not physically possible. So I just ripped it all off. Truth is, I'm probably only a few days from where I would have been with the No. 1 cut. It really doesn't look much different, except for that stark white skull thing. And that is hard to miss. I walked downstairs and one my girls looked at me, while shielding her eyes, and asked, "Daddy, did you shave your head?" She didn't really shield her eyes, but she did ask that. And then she said, "You look like Donnie," my head-shaving neighbor. As for the Tour de France, the past couple of days have been a bummer. Not that the ejection of Vino and removal of Rasmussen were surprising. In fact, Vino's popping positive for blood doping was about as shocking as that day's other big news -- that Lindsey Lohan was allegedly driving drunk and had cocaine in her pocket. A couple of pro riders have had some really interesting things to say in their Internet diaries the past couple of days. Check out this column by Bobby Julich and this one by Christian Vande Velde. |
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While growing up in rural Southern Oregon, Mark Taylor developed a passion for the outdoors while he and his younger brother tagged along with their father on fishing, hunting and camping adventures. Graduating from Northwestern University in 1988, Taylor spent four years as an officer in the U.S. Navy based in Norfolk before moving into journalism. After five years writing about the military for a Norfolk-based publishing company, he became the outdoors editor at The Roanoke Times in 1998. He lives in Roanoke with his wife and twin daughters. .....Advertisement.....
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