Poor Finn can't go to the groomer right now

[conuly]

so we've been slowly trimming him with scissors. He now looks like people love him again! Alas, it also looks like the people who love him are untrained amateurs armed only with scissors and unsure as to how to approach his scruffy back end (he doesn't like that, even more than he doesn't like being trimmed at all), but since it IS like that I guess it's okay that it looks like that.

Every day he gets slightly better looking.

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Comments

[monanotlisa]

Y'know, I would let you trim me. I am more willing than Finn, I promise! And I fear The Mullet (tm)...

[conuly]

You probably wouldn't growl at me.

[greghousesgf]

So many people who were in show business as kids seem to have terrible personal problems, from Judy Garland to Michael Jackson. When I was a kid I used to be really envious of kids who were in movies or TV until I found out what their lives were really like. I have a hard enough time meeting with anyone's approval and I'm not even well known or anything.
I keep hearing about high school kids complaining about missing their proms or graduation ceremonies but I graduated without a ceremony two months early because my family moved and I already had more than enough credits and even if I hadn't moved there was no way I would have gone to the prom anyway. It didn't matter.

[conuly]

Of course, we hardly ever hear about the kids who were in show business as kids and then grew up to be perfectly normal adults.

It didn't matter.

It didn't matter to you, and I suspect it would not have mattered to me either - I didn't go to my prom, and I only went to my graduation because my grandmother flew in from California. But other people are different.

[greghousesgf]

Jodie Foster seems like a perfectly normal adult, although she was notoriously harrassed by a crazy person but that certainly doesn't make her crazy.
I couldn't have gone to the prom even if I had wanted to, and even if my family hadn't moved. It may have changed since then but at that time and place you weren't allowed to go to the prom without a date and I didn't date any more at that age than now.

[cellio]

But hey, people love him, and he can survive a suboptimal haircut. :-)

[conuly]

I just don't want it to get matted.

[mordorbot]

I look like that too, so...