Word: headbanded
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...need names to be recognized. It’s their unique decor that wins them a kind of superstardom. What is it like to be a person everyone knows, if not by name then by favored accessory? FM gathered two such specimens, known to many as Headband Boy and Shorts...
...perpetual bad haircut, D.A. “Headband Boy” Wallach ’07 sported a headband every day last year until a good barber changed his ways this past summer. Michael E. “Shorts Kid” Coulter ’08 is blazing his own trail of celebrity: the Portland, Oregon, native decided to wear shorts until the first snowfall…and just never stopped. At what turned out to be a surprisingly therapeutic roundtable discussion, the two sounded off about their signature looks, notoriety, and what it’s like...
...what’s it like to be known for something other than your name? D.A., did people know you because of your headband last year...
...Wallach: Yeah, last year people certainly knew me—that is, people who didn’t know me personally—by the headband. But I didn’t like that because I like to be judged on the content of my character and on the quality of my artistic and intellectual productions, and I felt like being known by the headband was degrading, insulting, irresponsible, all of these things...
...think the shorts are maybe more, uh, advantageous than the headband, because the shorts look like you’re resilient to the weather. With the headband, people thought I was trying to be a jock…[and] my general demeanor, nerdy interests, musical interests worked against that image as well. So I think I made a lot of enemies and had a lot of people judge me before I got to actually meet them and give them a little of what I really have to offer...