Modern Guru The Story of Toupee
I don’t really know how to put this - and believe me, it’s as alarming to me as I’m sure it is to you - but I honestly think more and more men dye their hair blue. The Modern Guru of the Sydney Morning Herald (4 January 2003 p 11), Moya Sayer-Jones, once met a wise Italian barber, Frederico Pinelli, who told her that every strand on a man’s head contains a story:
‘For the man, his hair is his past, his history. The penis and the hair, they are one, the same as the tree and its roots. So when the hair falls like the leaves in autumn or it changes the colour, the man, he must first weep for the life that has passed. And then he must decide: to die or to dye? Or get himself a very good toupee.’

A Free-loading Free-For-All

In the same issue of the SMH the Modern Guru describes hosts who have a gift for organising social activities which are attended by so called friends who have a great time. However, if those hosts do not do the inviting, nobody does. The Guru explains why reciprocation does not take place:

‘You do not mean those snitchy innuendos about your friends being freeloaders. You are just very good hosts, and the truth is, bad hosts flock to good hosts like moths to a flame. It’s not as if these people are having dos and not inviting you. They are not. They are doing nothing. They are sitting at home, with their party clothes in plastic wraps, waiting to get a call from someone who has been blessed with the gift of hosting.’