Stephon Alexander: Cosmologist meets Cosmetologist

The other day while doing a calculation at a Cafe and frustratingly twisting my fledgling dreads, I noticed this tall guy with long dreads. I approached him and said, "Excuse me, your dreads are cool, how do I get mine like that?"
He responded, "The only person that can do it is Rhonda, she manages this spot in the Lakeside district of Oakland called Nappy or Not"
I was down.

So here I am sitting in Rhonda's salon while Rhonda is applying a 'secret' locking technique to my hair. Her fingers move like a Spanish guitarist. I'm having a blast here in Nappy or Not. It feels like back home in the Bronx; folk telling jokes, good soul music in the background and lots of gossip-good stuff that is.

I tried to withhold my professional status-shamefully, I told a half-truth, that I'm a musician. But eventually it came out that I do cosmology. The ladies in the salon were all over it. It turns out that Rhonda is into metaphysical things-after all she is a cosmetologist-I think of it as a subfield in Observational Cosmology. They actually require a liscence to do their jobs, unlike cosmologists.

If you're ever in the Bay area and want to get the 'baddest' hairdo on the west coast and a good time, you gotta come hang with Rhonda and the crew at Nappy or Not (E18th St & Park Blvd.)

Holla.