I don't know if the article's that big
of a deal. I do think the picture's kinda cute, though.
For those of you who haven't seen it
yet, I was profiled yesterday on Brian Cabell's “Word on the
Street” blog. If nothing else, the interview proves that Brian has
run out of interesting and/or important people with whom to speak
because, as we all know, I'm about as interesting as the bottom of
the barrel.
Which, apparently, he's scraping with
this profile.
8-)
When we did the actual interview a
couple of weeks ago he asked that I send him a few pictures that
might show the readers the kind of person I am or have become. Since
I was actually in the process of digitizing a bunch of my parents'
pictures for the website I put together for them I sent him a
few, and the one he used was this one--
Which, I think, is a picture that
explains so perfectly how I grew up that I'm thinking of making it my
new Facebook profile picture. I just don't know if I wanna upset
the gargoyle in the one that I'm currently using.
The one thing I really like about the
picture would be my stuffed Tigger. Like most kids of that age, I
had a stuffed animal that I loved and that I carried everywhere, and
that would be the Tigger doll shown in the picture. I'm not quite
sure why; as far as I know, I was never a big fan of the Pooh
stories, and I think I was just given the doll as a gift. But there
sure was something about it, because I know that for several years it
and I were inseparable..
Like most kids, I outgrew Tigger and,
in all honesty, have no idea whatever happened to the stuffed animal.
But whenever I see a little kid who's attached to a toy—whether it
was my brother and his stuffed Bugs Bunny or his son with all the
empty Talenti jars we give him—I always think back to that stuffed
Tigger, and all the joy it seemed to give the six and seven year old
version of me.
*****
Some of the pictures NOT used in the
profile?
Geeky Jim--
Sleepy teenage Jim--
And adult space nerd Jim--
Sure, I may have gotten older over the
years, but I really haven't changed that much, have I?
(jim@wmqt.com),
forever a dork.
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