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- From: jon@zeus.med.utah.edu (Jonathan Byrd)
- Subject: vanity unfair
- Sender: news@math.utah.edu
- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 00:10:51 GMT
- Organization: University of Utah
- Message-ID: <JON.92Nov23171051@zeus.med.utah.edu>
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- i hate being photographed. whenever someone points a camera at me, i
- throw my hands in front of my face, and turn away.
-
- every photograph of me that i have ever seen makes me look stupid.
- not that i'm handsome or anything, but when i look in the mirror, i
- don't look nearly as stupid as i do in photographs. i can't figure it
- out.
-
- when i was in college, a photographer from a local newspaper came to
- the bar where my band was playing, and photographed us all night. i
- paid no attention to him, and concentrated on my playing. two weeks
- later, the photographer came up after our show, and we all sat in a
- booth, drinking beer and looking at the photos together. i was
- surprised to find that the majority of the pictures were of me. it
- seems that i unconsciously make silly faces when i play my guitar. he
- had shots of me wearing a wide variety of expressions, all of them
- stupid. i laughed along with everyone else, while my face burned
- redder and redder.
-
- last weekend was my second wedding anniversary. although michelle and
- i agreed that we would skip gifts and just have a nice dinner
- together, she gave me a large gift-wrapped box. i opened it, and saw
- a beautifully framed photograph of a kayaker doing a spectacular
- acrobatic maneuver in a whitewater rapid. his 12-foot boat was
- standing vertically, almost completely airborne. rivulets of water
- trailed off his sprayskirt, down into the deep green of the river. i
- gazed at this glorious photograph for about three seconds before i
- realized that the kayaker was me.
-
- it's the only picture of me i have ever had that i can bear to look at.
-
- --
- jonathan byrd
- jon@apollo.med.utah.edu
-