Category: Family

Me @ 20

July 1, 2011

I love the above photo. Taken during a period in my life when few photos were taken of me, it shows me relaxing in MMcN’s apartment in about July 1992. It’s interesting in so many ways:

1) I’ve got long hair but no beard
2) I’m skinny!
3) I’m wearing a watch (that I have no memory of today)
4) My backpack is hung on the door behind me (note the ‘Sisters Of Mercy’ I lovingly drew on it)
5) The cigarette smoke indicates there was absolutely someone else there. Who was it?
6) What am I eating? It looks a little bit like a redskin…

It’s strange I only have one such photo like this. What else was on the reel of film? Who owns them now? Who even took them? (I could guess the answer was Elizabeth R.)

I love looking at old photos and wondering what the subjects are thinking, and what they can see outside the frame of the shot. It’s a little unusual when that subject is me.

‘Unboxing’ Some 35-Year-Old Trading Cards

June 30, 2011

I went to a small local toy show the other day with SFL. It was fun, and there was a lot of strange things to buy. Here’s one of the three items I invested in:

The pack cost me $1.50. They were printed in 1976, so they were almost as old as me. And they were still sealed, as this snap shows:

If you read this regularly you’ll not be surprised I like trading cards, especially those of movies or TV shows I have watched. These were a good find then.

A couple of days later I opened the pack. Here’s what 35-year-old gum looks like:

KLS tried a piece and was almost instantly poisoned to death. In the interests of self-preservation, we ditched the rest!

But what about the cards? Here are the five I removed from this aeon’s old pack:

Before I opened it I said to KLS” “I hope I get one with the Eagle on it!”…

When I bought this pack there were two others. Before we left the show I returned to get the other two, with the intention of giving them away as Christmas gifts. To my surprise they were both gone!

When I exclaimed to SFL something like “But who the hell would buy these?” she just grinned at me like I was weird 🙂