A fan contacted
me on Twitter (thank you @KillahCam52) to say that he was watching me on Def Comedy Jam. It inspired me reach
back into my archives and dig out this photo taken during the taping oh so many
moons ago.
Photo
Facts
What: Taping
of Def Comedy All Star Jam
When: November
1995
Where: Academy
Theatre, NYC
What’s
up with the Hair: Pre Sisterlocks
By 1995 I’d been
natural for a while alternating between braids and my signature DIY (Do It
Yourself) two-strand twists. In this photo I’d recently had a drastic hair cut.
The scissor happy hairstylist at a salon in Harlem convinced me that I had the
worst split ends in Christendom and that I desperately needed a trim. A trim
turned into a chop and I was exceedingly unhappy. I complained bitterly for
months afterwards that thought I looked like a boy. Ridiculous, I know. But that’s how I felt.
