Saturday, April 05, 2008

hand in, handout

There are plenty of hair salons for women. Since my makeover, I get my hair cut at such a place every month. There's at least one local salon just for children. Mike Huff, the co-owner of Kidz Fun Kutz is now opening a hair salon for men, admittedly inspired by Hooters. He has taken some heat in the blogosphere for hiring only pretty women. In my opinion, the all-female staff members who I see at Garde Bien are just as attractive as the women at Gentlemen's Top Cuts.

Mike said that he chose a location on Middlebrook Pike because the rent was more affordable than on Kingston Pike. The site has a high traffic count and is not far from Knoxville's population center at Cedar Bluff. Gentlemen's Top Cuts will be the first business to open in a mini-mall that will also be home to Nixon's Deli, a nail salon and Domino's Pizza. A fifth storefront is still available.

With the salon due to open Wednesday, there's still lots of work to be done. Yet construction was temporarily halted so some bloggers could get a preview of the services to be offered. I was invited because of a post I wrote back in December. The guys who write SayUncle, Modern Redneck and Reality Me were also there. Publicist Zane Hagy told me that he is having great success getting bloggers to spread the word about his various clients.

Doug of Reality Me preceded me by several years as a member of Einstein Simplified. Today he channeled Steve Carell in "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" as he had some personal waxing done. He made sure we could all hear him scream although I suspect it may have been exaggerated for our benefit.

Like the other bloggers, I was offered a free haircut. I declined because I already have an appointment at Garde Bien scheduled for next week and because I didn't want to cheat on Stacey, my regular stylist. Zane said that my son could take advantage of the freebie instead. While Carrie cut my son's hair, I got a manicure from Michele. She cut my fingernails and then had me dip my hands in hot paraffin. After that she bagged my hands like evidence and told me to wait a few minutes. When Michele peeled off the wax, I could only think of Dr. Bill Bass. He had described the process of degloving in our interview about the book "Flesh and Bone." The skin sloughs off the hands of a corpse. It can later be retrieved, mixed with water and Downy and used to get the fingerprints of the deceased.

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3 Comments:

Blogger bean said...

frank, on behalf of all your readers, thanks once again for going the extra mile for your blog.

seriously, enduring a free manicure from a beautiful woman? is there no sacrifice too great?

4/06/2008  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

A MANicure, eh? So that's like when they cure you from being a man!!?!!??!??!?!?! Say it aint so, Frankie Eyeballs, say it aint so!

4/09/2008  
Blogger Frank Murphy said...

I looked in on GTC yesterday and discovered that they haven't opened yet. The receptionist gave me a $5 coupon just for stopping by. She said that KUB had finally hooked up their utilities and that they should be open soon.

The construction workers said that a Mexican grocery store will be built in the strip mall. They were not sure if it would be in addition to or instead of a nail salon. New light up signs have been installed for Gentlemen's Top Cuts and Domino's. The Nixon's Deli sign has been in place for some time.

4/13/2008  

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