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One of the fun things about Spike Jonze sightings is that you can usually tell exactly where he is in a project by his degree of unkempt facial hair. Here, at his book signing for Heads Off and We Shoot at the Family store in Los Angeles last night, you can clearly see he has been relaxed of late and free to attend to his grooming. I think it may have been during the filming of Adaptation (or perhaps when he was neck deep in his own private Idaho with production on Where The Wild Things Are) that his sense of style could’ve been termed “homeless person chic”. Now, however, with WTWTA far behind him, he’s more on par with your dapper New York detective that just walked out of the late ’70s and into the early ’80s with his mustache still intact. “I’m sorry, ma’am, but I’m going to need a bit more description about this boy that attempted to eat you. Was he wearing anything out of the ordinary … a wolf costume, perhaps?” Incidentally, when Rick Kosick commented in the news post mentioning the book signing that he “might just have to walk over and check this out” he wasn’t kidding! I was standing in line next to a French-Canadian when he walked right by us, briefly shot a curious look into the store, and continued on his merry way down Fairfax Blvd. It was a true L.A. moment.