high hair.

My friend Liza and I used to think that the higher the hair, the closer to god you were. It's something along the Ann Richards line of "the bigger the arse the bigger the hair" as then you didn't notice the arse. But our whole concept was based on the idea of a new religious cult whose god could be a can of aerolak hair spray. Of course it was taken off the market years ago because it was bad for the environment -- really bad. But we loved it as it was such an important icon to drag queens and big haired 80s girls everywhere. We even made a stencil that said "the higher the hair the closer to god" and spray painted it on street corners all over lower manhattan -- and xeroxed up a little brochure with 1950s photographs of hairdos, beehives etc. which we snuck into the flyer racks of several churches. Right next to the information leaflets on finding god and the meaning of the gospel.

I hadn't thought of it again until Hurricane Charley hit recently. I don't know why.