In response to our quips about his days with teenage-focused publications, Nick Gillespie, editor-in-chief of Reason mag, wrote in to let us know that he’s got nothing to be embarrassed about.

“I have always been proud of my time spent writing teen-mag stories with exclamation-pointed titles such as “the lazy, hazy, crazy days of Patrick Swayze!” and “Debbie Gibson does disco!”, which is one reason such info is in every bio I’ve ever had (such as this one:
http://reason.com/staff/show/129.html) and features prominently in Q & A’s such as this one: http://www.mediabistro.com/articles/cache/a894.asp.

Fine. But some commenters on our item earlier this week could not have cared less about Gillespie’s past work endeavors — they just wanted to know more about his interesting hairdo. He clarifies: “And BTW, the hair is real, but i have two glass eyes.”

Now that’s hot!