Sharing old pictures of yourself on the Internet is apparently the new low-rise jeans, and God knows I can’t stand to not be trendy. So here’s a few pictures my folks gave me when I visited them a few weeks ago.
Both of them are from 1983. This first one is confusing to me because I don’t recognize myself--and not just because I’m surprised to see myself with a full head of hair. I don’t remember that jacket, that rock, nothing. But the look? It is, as the kids say, pure bershon.
My mother says that I always looked bershon. (Well, she didn’t exactly use that word because she’s not one of the kids, but her meaning was the same.) She says that I hated having my picture taken and made my feelings known about it. I can confirm this; I remember resenting the camera. But it wasn’t because I was too cool for school. It was because I hated the feeling of my soul being sucked out of my body.
This next picture more closely resembles my mental picture of myself at that age--a scrawny runt who looked like he’d get the crap kicked out of him by a stiff wind.
But I’m less interesting here than my friend Wendy, with whom I’m sharing a birthday in this picture because our families are on a ski trip together. She’s currently in the foreign service in Afghanistan, and she just got her orders for next year--Argentina! Buenos Aires in ‘08. Me, that is. I’m hoping she’ll be in a good mood and/or not involved in international espionage and therefore can show me around the city.
Hmm, maybe I shouldn’t have taken all the cake for myself.
That first picture is not actually you, but your evil twin, about whom we do not speak. If you want to know who is your evil twin, study the smile/smirk carefully.
What no horribly embarrassing photos with red suspenders or you holding a giant 8 and 7 while wearing daisy dukes? I think you can do better Greg.
I overheard my kids looking at our sixth grade yearbook recently. They said, ‘I hope grandma made dad cut his hair that way.’
I wonder if I have any adolescent pics of you as Doc the dwarf from the Snow White play. I will have a look-see.
I’ll be in BA in ‘08 as well.
The first doesn’t look like you but I can see a little of you in the second. Are you checking out the cake or the girl?
those photos rock, bershon or not.
have fun in argentina - i hear the shopping is wonderful, but you have to stay in the safe areas.
i love the top photo. mr aplenty complete with lots of attitude! YEAH!
I just realized you said both of these were from the same year. You look so much older in the first one. You also said “So here’s a few pictures...”
Greg: Two = “a couple”
(How can you not remember that rock)??
I got some really old bad pictures I hope never see the internet.
In that second picture you look like the kid from “Flight of the Navigator” (Disney movie).