Bøger af Mimi Pond

The Customer is Always Wrong is the continuing saga of a young naive artist working in a restaurant of drunks, junkies, thieves, and creeps.

From glorious tresses to embarrassing messes, bouffants to comb-overs, and rugs to plugs, here's a hilarious look at hair that will leave yours standing on end! With her razor-sharp wit, Mimi Pond offers hair-raising glimpses of barbershop and beauty parlor disasters, presents profiles of hairdressers from heaven and hell, and recaps famous hair moments in film and television. She chronicles the major hair trends of the twentieth century and their impact on history providing insight into how hair has built financial empires and ruined political campaigns. To top it off, she provides tips and snippets of information on such topics as: Hair and religion: The higher the hair, the closer to God Breaking up is hard to do: Good excuses when you change hairdressers Curl up and die: Weaves, cellophaning, green hair, oxidation, and other hair-coloring mysteries Hair as a political statement, or fifty ways to bug your mother The myth of the blonde and where it began

Over Easy is a brilliant portrayal of a familiar coming-of-age story; equal parts time capsule of late 1970s life in California-with its deadheads, punks, disco rollers, casual sex, and drug use-and bildungsroman of a young woman who grows from a naive, sexually inexperienced art-school dropout into a self-aware, self-confident artist.