Tried to engage Mr. Grossman after he put on a free hour long session for the locals at the high school my children were attending in Mascoutah, IL. I had given his family members, who were hawking his books on the connection between school shootings and video games, a copy of an essay I wrote about threat assessment…

I picked up on the Lonesome Rhodes thing back in 2016, around the same time as Elvis began his work. My take is a lot less incendiary, but may offer some insight: http://www.desolationpress.com/lonesome/lonesome.html

Any discussion of facial hair cannot be complete without some mention of Frank Zappa. His site uses the silhouette as a logo.