August 07, 2004

Back In The Day...

I've made jokes in many of my reviews about how, as a young Naked, I used to be kind of sketchy. I had the hair, I had the Ozzy Osborne and Guns 'N' Roses fixation…par for the course in Scarborough.

I'm thinking about this because I've been listening to the '80's hair metal channel on Internet radio all day at work. Somewhere between "Sweet Child O' Mine", and Tesla's "Love Song" it occurred to be that I've changed a lot since those binge-drinking, head-banging, smoky days of my youth.

Don't believe me? Ok, here I am today.

Not a bad looking guy, you may be thinking. And you'd be right…at least that's what my mother keeps telling me.

Now here's me, circa 1991. I swear to Christ this is a real picture. It's from an old ID I had…I got Butcher to scan this for me at work the other day, thusly ruining the productivity of two people rather than one.

You can practically smell the pot smoke wafting off of me just looking at the picture, can't you?

I swear, it's an ID photo…not a mug shot.

I showed this picture to the Big Big Bossman, and he couldn't look away. He just kept looking at it, and looking at me, and shaking his head. Finally, he said "I never would have recognized you in a million years." What I think he WANTED to say was "If I'd ever seen this picture, I wouldn't have HIRED you in a million years."

I just thought I'd share that with everyone. Now, if you'll excuse me, I've got to go listen to some Poison MP3s.

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