fifteen minutes of fame - 23 years late

[adelaidesean]

It's my birthday today, and how better to celebrate it than by reminding myself of times when I used to have hair?  Well, kind of.

Was I secretly a member of Devo?  It's hard to remember now.

Anyway, this snap has become something of poster for the most excellent and suddenly very popular Awkward Family Photo site, and has therefore popped up in all sorts of places recently.  (The first link of this sequence takes you to the original AFP post, with currently 165 hilarious comments and a clearer version of the pic.)  The thing to note is the calculator watch.

Ah, those were the days!

Comments

[tillianion.livejournal.com]

And now I'm wondering what you mother did, and why your sister isn't rushing to rescue her :)

Boy, dark hair looks weird on you!

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

My family history is full of such questions. :-)

I have a bad hair photo album, full of my efforts from the 80s and 90s. This is just one of them!

[tillianion.livejournal.com]

Funny, I've got bad hair photos from just the other week :) Actually had pretty good hair in the 80s, although still not entirely sure about the Princess Di flick...

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

I had a couple of perms that I've lived to regret. Still, I thought I was smokin' at the time... :-)

[tillianion.livejournal.com]

Ah, my perm stories are sad. I had straight hair until the first one at 15 and it hasn't been straight since :) Good perm, obviously.

Then I had one at 28 to try to control the natural curl, it was burnt to shit, and when I got lice not long afterwards, took to it with scissors. I have a hidden talent at hacking my own hair :)

I actually think my hair's at one of it's best points at the moment. So make sure you compliment me in Adelaide :)

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

Will do! I have no hair at all, so don't feel obliged to return the sentiment. :-)

[tillianion.livejournal.com]

My husband doesn't have hair, and I still have to compliment him :) But then, he is a shy, retiring little flower - not.

[king-espresso.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday, Sean. Have a shitload more of them, too.

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I hope so too!

[tallaudrey.livejournal.com]

Happy burpdee.

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

Huzzah! Thanks!

[karenmiller.livejournal.com]

Happy bippies, boyo!

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

Hippy hoppy! Like your cute icon. :-)

[karenmiller.livejournal.com]

Tres apropos, non? *g*

Unless, of course, the thought of growing decrepit depresses you ...

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

Not really. Ask me when I'm 80. :-)

[derekcfpegritz.livejournal.com]

Do you remember cracking that whip? Were you a blockhead? A New Traditionalist? Did you sacrifice yourself so many others might live? Was it a beautiful world for everyone but you?

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

I used to dream of buying a plastic hairpiece when I was fourteen. What a spudboy!

Be happy or not!

[derekcfpegritz.livejournal.com]

I dreamt of owning a Power Dome when I was seven...and NOW I OWN ONE.

Duty now for the future!

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

*jealous*

We must repeat!

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

Yes, the embarrassment is preserved forever, but it gets funnier with distance.

[mireille21.livejournal.com]

That never was you!

Happy birthday :)

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

It so was! Terrifying, isn't it? :-)

[mireille21.livejournal.com]

*snerk* I'm intrigued why the Courier Mail grab of your family photo has "Star's transvestite cross-dresser act" as a related article link.

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

Ha ha ha! That's brilliant. And no connection at all. Oh no. (Although I do like wearing the odd frock, every now and again...)

[sithmagician.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday dude, try not to strangle anyone :p

(And I used to have a calculator watch also...)

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

Awesome! Wish I still had mine.

I will try to keep my mitts off anyone's throat today. But only just for today. It's about time Adelaide had a strangler (I mean, we've had almost everything else). :-)

[shadowsandice.livejournal.com]

Your birthday is nearly done - I hope it was glorious!

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

It was indeed. Thanks!

[murasaki-1966.livejournal.com]

Apologies for the late birthday wishes, but Iain and I were up in the Blue Mountains celebrating Nick's S,'s Adrian's birthday (and his new Masters in Creative Writing diploma/certificate/whateveryoucallit).

So,

HAppy Birthday, Sean!

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I hope the celebration was suitably awesome!

[murasaki-1966.livejournal.com]

It was, and you were remembered as well (by some of us).

Get any groovy presents?

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

Excellent!

Amanda gave me a leather jacket inspired by Jimmy McNulty from The Wire. I'm a very lucky boy. :-)

[murasaki-1966.livejournal.com]

Photo please.

I must start watching The Wire.

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

No photos yet, but there are bound to be some soon. Con coming up and all. :-)

And yes: you must. It's brilliant! Season four was the most amazing thing I've seen since Deadwood.

[frogworth.livejournal.com]

Uh. The thing is, when I saw that one on the Awkward Family Photos site, I totally though "I recognize that boy", but then thought no further on it!
AWESOME.

Happy by-now-un-birthday!

[frogworth.livejournal.com]

PS Come and see us on my brother's birthday? 23rd of July at the Gov (http://www.fourplay.com.au/archives/2009/07/23/the-governor-hindmarsh-adelaide/).

[ladnews.livejournal.com]

Definitely! I will book tickets tomorrow!

It'll be great to see you play again, at last. And if you want a drink afterwards, I'm buying.