My Lightning Quick Modeling Career
Here’s something I had completely forgotten about. It’s a clipping from a Safeway flyer that I sent off to mom several bazillion years ago. Shortly after we moved to the ‘big city’ I was stopped mid-grocery shop by a camera toting fellow who asked me if I’d mind posing for a couple of photos for a pharmacy ad. So I did what he told me to do (taking directions very well, if I remember correctly) and this is the final result. No hollywood agents ever called. No royalties poured in.
I like mom’s little explanatory blurb. Like I was always being photographed wherever I went. Perhaps I was chosen based on the expensive ski jacket, or maybe the wild frizzy perm. Or just the fact of being completely ordinary, and in the right place at the right time. At any rate I was too stunned by this strange request to figure out how to refuse it. And I worked cheap.
About
(Umbrella - by Existrance/deviant art)
This is where I come to talk to myself by dredging up an old photograph or a memory and beating it to death with my keyboard. One day all this blather will be treasured by my progeny. Deluded as that notion might be, it’s what keeps me here. Just to clarify things a little, no part of my past or present life was ever spent actually living on a sidewalk. Life in the fast lane would have been a big fat lie; life on a skinny railing high above the railroad tracks with an umbrella at dawn – damn. Didn’t think of that one fast enough. But it’s sometimes how life feels. Precariously tense, but insanely fun.
