Okay, so the puppy dog tails aren’t relavent at all but I wanted a cutesy title for this article.
So I live in a strange neighborhood whereupon; you see characters you’d never see in a nice normal part of the filthy city. And when you explain to seemingly “normal” (or rather people who don’t navigate the freakdom of society); they don’t understand or believe you. And you can’t really take a picture cuz that’s weird and if they have some weird oddity; it’s kind of obvious you have an interest in their strange oddity to mock or conversate about with others. (all of which are somewhat uncomfortable…especially if you’re not sure the person is away of their strange ailment).
Okay, let’s cut to the chase…about three years ago; (right after my car got stolen; *tear*)…I was on the subway going from North Hollywood to downtown LA. I see a man on there who looks oddly famliar, a tall man…eureka; he lives in my building…oh great, now I can make him walk me home in my scary neighborhood.
I head over and say hello…he seems pleasantly surprised that anyone has struck up a conversation with him. We chat it up…he is a little off but nice enough. I don’t get a rapist vibe or anything off him.
I do however, notice this oddity that I’ve not even previously seen on another human. He has a patch of hair on his cheek..everything else is shaved but this weird patch of hair on his left cheek. Not like; Oops, I missed a spot shaving (although at the time; I dismissed it as such…)…it was long cheek beard* hairs in a random spot on his cheek and no other facial hair.
So months go by and I don’t spend too much time thinking about ol cheek beard*, just the casual hello in the hallway or on the streets. Hello cheek beard*, nice to see your up keeping that strange patch of hair on your cheek…Have a nice day.
More time passes; then one day I’m sitting outside at a restaurant with a few other folks having a happy hour snack and ol cheek beard comes sauntering on up…(he totally creepy saunters and loitters and walks real slow until you say hello)…
Hi Cheek beard, these are my friends…wow that cheek beard is really growing…well, goodbye now. He sulks around waiting for a proper goodbye and then trapses away (he does a lot of hunched over trapsing as well…as any creepy person does)…
The patrons I was fellowshipping with notice the CHEEK BEARD…ALAS! Finally, someone notices this weird oddity I’ve known about all along. Except now cheek beard has two cheek beards on each cheek…and they are LONG…like he’s been fostering their growth.
Of course; you can’t exactly ask cheek beard about his beards cuz that would be odd. So now other people know about cheek beard and are aware it’s not a figment of my imagination. Someone even went as far to call it eye beard (it’s just enough below the eye to go either way).
These buddies deduct that goatees haven’t become cool enough to move onto cheek territory…it’s grown out enough now to not constitute “missing a spot” shaving…and there are speculations made as to whether he owns a razor or a tweezer…(although tweezing a cheek beard is a bit optimistic considering one foul swoop of a razor would pretty much take care of it)…
Then I mention that perhaps he is putting rogaine on those two particular spots on his cheeks…like girls have blush on the apples of their cheeks; cheek beard’s own form of blush?
Then my last philosophy pertaining to the cheek beard is that; perhaps he is doing a vast sociology experiment using his cheek beard as the specimen of study.
I have seriously googled this weird cheek beard phenomena and there is nothing…I wanted to take a pic but that would be too akward to ask him to pose for a pic with his cheek beard in tact.
Maybe he’s just way ahead of his time and in a thousand years; cheek beards will be all the rage…
* Cheek Beard = a random patch of hair just under the eye on the apple of the cheek…not normally a place where beard hair is grown.

