Pierre Bernanose engages in barber shop talk with Sad Mag for Issue 6, which launches Thursday, February 10th at the Anza Club. Check out a sneak peek of this article by Jeff Lawrence.

I attended university in Paris and we locked the dean in his office. He was trapped in his office and couldn’t get out for close to a week and a half. I got caught – they sent the army, so I was expelled from university. My mother was very, very upset, so because of this I came to Canada. I studied to become a barber in 1973, in Edmonton. It was an eight-month course. I was trying to figure out what I could do without going to school for four years. I thought, “Barber, huh? That sounds pretty good.”

– Pierre Bernanose, as told to Jeff Lawrence.

Photographs: Grant Harder