Scott Ludlam Talking About / To His Hair Is Just What This Country Asked For

Alright guys, in the battle of Greens Senator Scott Ludlam vs his hair, his hair is bloody winning, and this is just unacceptable.

Basically, he announced the other day that he’s taking part in the World’s Greatest Shave this year, but with a twist.

You see, Ludlam’s hair is no ordinary hair. It has this weird (but totally understandable) internet fanbase, it’s own Twitter account (@scottludlamhair), and a name, Gary, bequeathed upon it by The Guardian‘s First Dog On The Moon in 2013 and sticking around ever since.

Full cartoon: here.

And he’s trying to raise $5,000 for the Leukaemia Foundation. So, in order to capitalise on everyone with a weird thing for his hair (*tugs collar*), Ludlam is offering people the option to donate to either make him shave his hair, or save it.

“I like the idea of turning this cult around my hair – which isn’t that spectacular – into doing something for good,” Ludderz told PEDESTRIAN.TV, either blatantly misunderstanding the meaning of ‘spectacular’ or finding himself in the unusual position of getting through 46 years of life without a mirror.

He won’t confirm who he’s hoping will – Save Gary vs Shave Gary – but he is tweeting at his own hair’s parody account:



“Oh, I couldn’t possibly comment,”
he said when we pressed the v. important issue. “Look… I’d be happy not to, but the idea is that you shave your head, so I’m being a little bit cheeky by offering the opportunity not to.”

But if he does end up having to shave the thing, he’ll be rocking a hat for two months.
“I bet I have a really awkwardly shaped head.”
And although Ludderz postulated the idea of shaving it in the Senate Chamber and seeing if he got kicked out, that is sadly not to be: D-Day is March 12 – a Saturday.
But unless we right an inexplicable wrong, that’s not gonna happen. Because right now, donations to ‘Save Gary’ are sitting at almost $1,000 higher than donations to ‘Shave Gary’.
NOT. OKAY.
Possibly with help from his dad:
This is clearly unacceptable, and there are three main reasons why Ludderz absolutely, 100% needs to shave Gary:
  1. It’s called Gary. It’s named after Spongebob‘s snail. This is a mercy killing.
  2. The Leukaemia Foundation is doing some really really fantastic things, helping the 34 Australians who are diagnosed on the daily with leukaemia, lymphoma, myeloma or another blood cancer on the daily; they deserve the extra publicity from the gleaming scalp of a Senator bobbing around Question Time.
  3. “I bet I have a really awkwardly shaped head.”
Do it. Do it for glory.
Donate to the right side of the battle HERE and Shave Gary, Save The World.
Image: Source.

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