Friday, January 25, 2008

let's do some more...






















how many explanations can we come up with for this!? is it "have your picture taken with your favorite girl" day at the speakeasy brothel? norman, in the back, is cool. he's an old-timer, he's not ashamed. warren wants to be wanda's numero uno. and he's not afraid to cut a few people if he has to. rick is undercover and sure that photos with whores are not allowed. should have ducked, rick.



oh my god i wore that striped silk shirt in some of my senior photos. i can prove it! not that i should really want to. but i can. i had long since given up the baby mullet though. i think grade five was the one and only year of the mull. a fact i can also prove with a school photo. but it is likely that i won't.

by the way, does the other guy's head actually flair out above his ears? is that normal?





ummm....??

i got a bulk/forward email today. i have fairly high standards for this kind of thing and i always make sure that it will be worthwhile to spend my time looking at it before i open it. i checked, it was. but one must seek some kind of confirmation that the "hilarious" or "Unbelievable!!" email is actually hilarious or difficult to believe. sometimes one gets duped by opening some bullshit with an asymmetrical angel crafted out of type-symbols that are usually reserved for pretend swearing. granted, the angel is there to bring luck in love and fortune, but i remain a skeptic and i would really prefer to NOT scroll for 4 minutes in order to find the misguided blessing.



today's message did not disappoint. it was a collection of actual family portraits from olan mills. i don't know how the author acquired said photos, but i don' t care. they were damn funny. and came complete with commentary. a few in particular caused some curiosity for me...



















what the fuck kind of weirdness is this? i really need an explanation. so if the aging backstreet boy or young powder is out there somewhere, please come along and tell us what the fuck you were thinking. of course, in the meantime, i can spend a great deal of time inventing explanations for this freakshow. they would be fascinating, i am sure. and they would be exceedingly disturbing. so, for now, i am just going to assume that this photo was taken because one of the two chaps in this pose lost a bet of some kind. but why punish the girl?

additionally... all of the olan mills portraits i had to pose for were snapped in the small stuffy multi-use room at my childhood church. i would be eternally delighted if this were a family portrait for church.