my ex marine brother in law was always a little bipolar and the extremes really showed especially on the upside-a really neat nut case. he was very tall and robust. his head was huge, too. i have a large head also but his was really huge. we used to call him dino head, mostly not in his vicinity
. i used to like to put on his cowboy hat (this guy was from chigago) and always noted that it engulfed my nogin all the way to my lips. i dont know where he got that hat, it must have been a custom size 14 at least. his weight fluctuated wildly. during one of his "fatty" stages he came up with this diet from who knows where.
he stayed on it for longer than anyone could expect. i recall him sitting at turkey day dinner and eating iceberg lettuce and water-quite extraordinary in itself. anyway, he lost about a hundred pounds in a couple of months. he looked somewhat strange with that skinny bod and giant head.
later he gained it all backed and in succeeding years succumbed to kidney cancer, increasing bipolarity and death. it was all very tragic that being because he was always such a gift to us and he had so many gifts. i whish he had found the alkaline diet or sears diet instead.
this was an extreme diet undertaken by an extreme personality. i will always remember this story of short term triumph of will, but not reality. there is no lesson here for almost everyone.
one time, i remember him commenting that tom cruise had a big head like it affected his acting or stage persona and it probably did, but
he was a top salesman for medtronic and had an amazing wardrobe. rolex, churches shoes, custom suits and all the trimmings.
he liked to talk about doing a pocketbook biopsy of his customers as he, i guess, misused them
just alittle rambling about rod, otherwise known as rodless 
