March 15, 2004
Afro
I borrowed Adam and Tricia’s scanner, after failing to solve the scan line problem with mine, and as you can see, they are still visible, but less so. I’m not sure what I’m complaining about, because the scanned, monitored pics are infinitely clearer than the poorly exposed, faded originals.
Ginger pressured me to post my afro pic, taken on the Cambridge Common in 1971. I don’t know what happened to the grass (maybe all the fertilizer was used in growing my hair), but the Hertz moving truck suggests the beginning of the school year.
The next photo is, I assume, from Brian and Ginger’s wedding party. But why, if that is her, was Patti there?
Shinydome sent me this Shoe cartoon which is funny and wonderfully illustrated, and if you back into macnelly.com, you’ll find the history of Shoe. The Globe doesn’t carry the strip, and I assumed when Jeff died, the strip did too, but nay, nay.
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I procrastinated assembling a photo album for Flo to take to Arizona, but Saturday, with carefully selected pics from birthday parties, vacations, and Susan’s archive, Diane and I arrived at Chris’s. I figured the easiest method was to use her iPhoto to upload to Kodak to publish a book of ten pages to send directly to Flo and her sister Doris in Sun Lakes. I used an online company in the past to create the book format, and she had loved it.
However, when we arrived - and after Chris totally ignored me to wrap a warm hug around Diane - she opened iDVD on her Mac and played a movie, with Moon River as an accompaniment, of essentially the same photos I had chosen. Totally independently. There it was, my “job”, all done. Not an album, but better - a DVD playable on a computer or your friendly television.
Diane and Chris edited it slightly, added more photos, and therefore a different, longer sound track, and I’m mailing it this morning. A guaranteed tear jerker. It just is. Diane tells me we’ll now have to buy Flo a DVD player for her TV. After we left, Chris went back to the blog, pulled more Miller-oriented pics and made one for my mother. What a friend. Even if she doesn’t hug me anymore.
See, I didn't know Diane was coming and it was such a lovely surprise I didn't mean to bump you out of the way it just sort of happened. But then I immediately hugged you too (of course a gentleman would have let the lady go down the stairs first thus not putting me in the position of bumping you out of the way at all, but so be it!). It was a fun morning and I hope Flo and everyone else who views it enjoys it as much as we did. Oceans of Hugs, Chris
Posted by chris.I absolutely love your Afro on the Cambridge Common, and did not know my hippie self would be there, too. I think it's called youth.
As for Patti, she and Flo and Di were all at Brian's and my engagement party in Ridgewood. Today I received the original New York Times I.Q. test that everyone in my family took one day, because Barbara is in Florida cleaning out last minute odds and ends. From the day we took it, forward, it was considered a flawed test because Ginger scored highest. Ridiculous!
Can't say I find the 'Fro all that becoming, but then, I don't have the wistfulness for the rationalizations of the times. I WOULD like Wolfman to reflect on this pinnacle (?) incarnation of the 'do, perhaps ponder ("aloud" -- at least, publicly) whether it was just a practicality (that otherwise would've been a ponytail on a different genome), or a statement or alignment of some sort. In the comparatively brief span in which I've known him, Mike has exhibited various acute sensibilities, even guardedness or self-consciousnesses, but I've never known him to be vain or affect a posture -- much less style -- not of his own devices.
Posted by adam.So who was that last commenter? Obviously, the "adam" is a ploy, because the one name Adam never shows up as is himself................
Posted by not me.If I remember correctly, Diane prohibited me from seeing the town barber more that once every three months. We might have been saving for our trip to Bermuda.
Posted by Michael.So Diane was just frugal, or found (finds.......?) that attractive?
Posted by still fumbling.Hey, lay off or I'll post that one of you with your hair yanked out by the sawzall!
Posted by Michael.All good here.
Posted by close cropped.Posted by Michael at March 15, 2004 07:14 AM
See, I didn't know Diane was coming and it was such a lovely surprise I didn't mean to bump you out of the way it just sort of happened. But then I immediately hugged you too (of course a gentleman would have let the lady go down the stairs first thus not putting me in the position of bumping you out of the way at all, but so be it!). It was a fun morning and I hope Flo and everyone else who views it enjoys it as much as we did. Oceans of Hugs, Chris
Posted by: chrisat March 15, 2004 09:37 AMI absolutely love your Afro on the Cambridge Common, and did not know my hippie self would be there, too. I think it's called youth.
As for Patti, she and Flo and Di were all at Brian's and my engagement party in Ridgewood. Today I received the original New York Times I.Q. test that everyone in my family took one day, because Barbara is in Florida cleaning out last minute odds and ends. From the day we took it, forward, it was considered a flawed test because Ginger scored highest. Ridiculous!
Can't say I find the 'Fro all that becoming, but then, I don't have the wistfulness for the rationalizations of the times. I WOULD like Wolfman to reflect on this pinnacle (?) incarnation of the 'do, perhaps ponder ("aloud" -- at least, publicly) whether it was just a practicality (that otherwise would've been a ponytail on a different genome), or a statement or alignment of some sort. In the comparatively brief span in which I've known him, Mike has exhibited various acute sensibilities, even guardedness or self-consciousnesses, but I've never known him to be vain or affect a posture -- much less style -- not of his own devices.
Posted by: adamat March 15, 2004 09:42 PMSo who was that last commenter? Obviously, the "adam" is a ploy, because the one name Adam never shows up as is himself................
Posted by: not meat March 15, 2004 09:46 PMIf I remember correctly, Diane prohibited me from seeing the town barber more that once every three months. We might have been saving for our trip to Bermuda.
Posted by: Michaelat March 16, 2004 06:34 AMSo Diane was just frugal, or found (finds.......?) that attractive?
Posted by: still fumblingat March 16, 2004 07:02 AMHey, lay off or I'll post that one of you with your hair yanked out by the sawzall!
Posted by: Michaelat March 16, 2004 07:15 AMAll good here.
Posted by: close croppedat March 16, 2004 08:06 AM