Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for October 08, 2011

Sausalito? I recommend the East Village.

The houseboat would have to be anchored at Tiburon, Angel Island, or Alcatraz. Don’t know about the East River.

Don’t start a new East Coast/West Coast feud, guys …

She’s a mechanic who can’t keep her own hair in 35-10 and she wants to start a fashion line? The “WTF” meter just pegged… I’m having Tank Girl “Liquid Silver” flashbacks.

Sounds like a win-win. Sausalito gains a high net worth individual and the Army loses a substandard soldier.

I like Half Noon Bay

Army Regulation 67-1, para 1-8c(3)(a) (for female hair) states: Hair will not fall over the eyebrows or extend below the bottom edge of the collar at any time during normal activity or when standing in formation. Long hair that falls naturally below the bottom edge of the collar, to include braids, will be neatly and inconspicuously fastened or pinned, so no free-hanging hair is visible. This includes styles worn with the physical fitness uniform/improved physical fitness uniform (PFU/IPFU).

So she can’t be bothered to comply with standards, and her supervisor isn’t calling her on it. Pffft.

@ randgrthr, sandfan, and MajArkay,Maybe she is a substandard soldier but a fine mechanic which is why her supervisor overlooks her hair.

LOVE the 79th St. Marina … the whole West Side between 59th and and 110th. Especially like anywhere in the 70s between the park and the Hudson.

If Roz is planning to tap the Bay Area gay market for her million-dollar business, she and her partner will have to explore other sites than the Golden Gate with its park and bridge.They could move their houseboat to the north end of the bay near Vallejo, a city that has gone bankrupt: no police, no garbage collection. Only Vallejo’s pensioners (who collect just 40% of what they’re due) would be able to sample Roz’s new line.

Don’t gay people wear more or less the same things straight people wear? This question is coming from someone who does most of his shopping at Eddie Bauer and Target.

Come to Sausalito. The weather’s nicer. Why deal with NYC winters, especially in a houseboat?

“Don’t gay people wear more or less the same things straight people wear?”

More or less. Sometimes much more, sometimes much less. Google the Castro Street Fair. Also, there’s a good market for Gay/Lesbian specialty clothes, like tee shirts reading “I’m not a lesbian, but my girlfriend is.”

By the way, it’s Fleet Week in San Francisco, and with the end of DADT I wonder whether the bars in certain neighborhoods will do significatly better business than in years past. I’d imagine that no uniformed man on Castro or uniformed woman on Valencia will have to pay for a drink all weekend.

Also by the way, Wednesday night is Karaoke Night at my favorite Irish pub, and this week a bunch of uniformed Marines came in and spent some quality time, but I couldn’t talk ANY of them into going onstage and doing a song. It wasn’t against regulations or anything, they just didn’t have the nerve, even when I suggested that the honor of the Corps was at stake. I mean, these guys aren’t afraid to charge headlong into machinegun fire, but the thought of belting out “Don’t Stop Believing” in front of a bunch of friendly drunks gives them butterflies in the stomach? Sigh.

Maj: When I got back from ‘Nam, my top insisted I had to “lose” my mustache. I pointed out it was regulation, and he was jealous because I had more hair in the ’stach then he had on his head. I kept it. It’s part of the reason I find the “high and white” cuts of the jarheads “strange”. When my son was traveling the world wit the SEAL teams, they’d get used to beards and long hair, and coming back stateside, the “regulars” would get bent. No real problem with her short ponytail, unless it gets long enough to get caught in a tail rotor or transmission drive shaft, etc.

Gotta’ have a pretty good sized houseboat to run a fashion business, unless of course, just doing the design from there. She could locate in North Beach.

House Boats agree, Sausalito is the place to be. Same thing for the Fleet and CVN-70, the Bin Laden Carrier.

First Steven Jobs and now Al Davis, the Bay Area will never stop mourning. Must have been Davis’s Brooklyn back ground that defined him. Too bad he didn’t grow up like DiMaggio, a play ground legend in North Beach.

Forbes reported this on July 7.

I tended to be a bit of a dufflebag myself when I was in… almost got ECD Airman of the Quarter once, but couldn’t do an about face in high heels, LOL!!! And they were always yelling at me for wearing BDUs instead of dress blues. So I’m not throwing stones at Roz for her military bearing or lack thereof, but to see it in someone who says she wants to start a fashion line is…. bizzare, at best. Women who affect the dufflebag look in the military are usually trying to get away from some form of sexual harassment. They don’t want to look good in the uniform. Guys won’t make as many wisecracks (or worse) and that way they can focus on getting the job done.

I also think the hair regs for women are incredibly stupid and unrealistic given that for the bulk of the existence of the US Military, women were not allowed in combat. If you need to have hair short or up to prevent it from being in the way in a combat situation, enforce that regulation on combat troops only, or STFU.