Hip Like Me

Years in the Life
of a “Person of Hair”

by Geoffrey D. Falk (MySpace)

I am an odd hybrid: Half intellectual, and half bar-fly.

Think Jeff Goldblum, but if instead of getting trapped in that teleportation device with a common housefly, he had gotten stuck in there with a pint of honey-brown ale and a copy of one of Steven Pinker’s 600-page tomes on how the mind works or the origins of human language....

Hip Like Me is the story of Geoffrey Falk’s experiences over a decade of being subjected to various forms of “hairism” and real discrimination for being a long-haired, irreligious software developer and aspiring musician in a short-hair world. Written in the diary-like structure of John Howard Griffin’s classic Black Like Me, it touches irreverently on a wide range of very controversial topics, from the nature of racism to multiculturalism to immigration policy to affirmative action to the parodied need for “Hippie Studies” faculties in our universities.

Get ready for a long, strange trip, with a good dose of laugh-out-loud humor and occasional language worthy of South Park thrown in.

Hip Like Me is a humorous look at discrimination in its many forms.

—Midwest Book Review (*****)

Contents
Intro
Prologue	1
May 15	13
May 17	15
May 27	16
May 29	17
June 5	23
June 7	29
June 8	29
June 13	34
June 20	39
June 22	39
June 27	40
July 2	41
July 11	46
July 18	48
July 20	48
July 23	52
July 24	57
August 10	61
August 11	61
August 14	64
August 17	77
August 19	78
August 20	79
August 27	83
August 28	86
August 29	88
September 5	88
September 9	94
September 12	96
September 18	102
September 25	104
October 27	108
October 28	110
November 19	113
November 23	117
November 29	118
December 12	120
December 17	124
December 19	124
December 31	126
January 11	130
February 3	131
March 3	131
March 19	132
March 31	134
April 11	139
April 18	140
April 29 - May 4	142
Epilogue	169
References	199
Trademarks	279
About the Author	281