Side Salad

RETURN OF THE MULLET

Those who read Side Salad at its former home may be familiar with The Mullet Project , which was born after a TV network sent a press kit with a wig inside to promote a new TV show.

One bad idea led to another and... well, photos had to be taken.

Like the one above of Jay. Something about wearing a mullet makes a guy want to throw the horns. And drive fast in an El Camino with a Jack Daniels Slurpee between his legs. Or so I've heard.

Kim's photo, however, shows the fashionable side of mullethood. Hers looks good enough and well coiffed enough to be natural, leading the viewer to think that this is anything but a human form of coonskin cap. The stylish hand model gestures certainly elevate the form.



Same goes for Kiely, really. Without some sort of lewd hand gesture or distorted/contorted facial expressions, there are few reference points to suggest that this is an authentic mullet. This might be what a Mullethead would look like if he or she shopped at Banana Republic. Which all mullet experts know would never happen.



Now we're getting somewhere.

In one, simple, elegant selection of a hat, Rommie has framed the hair with context.

I think I saw this hairstyle singing in the chorus behind Billy Joel on "Goodnight, Saigon" during the Nylon Curtain Tour. Or maybe on an outdoors show, "Fishing For Mullets." Or not.



This is where things go slightly askew.

I've begged my desk neighbor Karla to don the wig for the better part of two weeks. No dice.

That was until she got a few Halloween masks in the mail.

Confident that her identity would be concealed behind the masks, she finally felt comfortable putting it on her head.

The result? The world's first Weremullet.

Come to think of it, she does look a little like this:



Well done, Karla. Well done indeed.