Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Consume less!



(Me talking to myself): Stop shopping when you're hungry! And if you buy a head of cauliflower, eat a head of cauliflower!

Hey! You look like that guy!


Among the people I have been said to resemble, Kirk Cameron has to be the unkindest cut of all. I am getting pretty long in the tooth to still be hearing that one, but someone at work hit me with it the other day when my hair was a little too lively. During my high school teaching years, many students took to calling me Tom Hanks, but their brains were still forming and visual pattern recognition must come fairly late. There were several occasions in college when women of a certain age would stop me on the street and ask if I was related to Joseph Cotten - I eventually picked up his autobiography and some of his early photos did present an eerie resemblance. That's him above when he was filming The Third Man with his buddy Orson Welles. Don't bother with his autobiography by the way - he's a little too pleased with himself. I've heard lots of other names too - some plausible, some ludicrous - that make me wonder what it is about me that "looks like that guy." I'm not insulted so much as curious. I can think of very few people I know who bear even a whiff of resemblance to someone else I've ever seen. I think it has to be the rubbery quality of my face. The Kirk Cameron thing though? Keep that to yourself.

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

All the wrong reasons - by Jeff Scher

Remember "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" from the Beatles' Yellow Submarine? This is like that without the repetitiveness. I wish my dreams looked this way...