I looked like this two years ago
A: Check this out, man. This is what I looked like two years ago. 
me: No way.
A: I'm not kidding! I was ripped two years ago and now I'm a fat ass.
D: Because of the adenovirus?
A: Er...yeah! (a few days ago A and B found out that Ad-36 is linked to obesity.)
me: I still don't believe that's you. The face is too blurry. (NB: face cropped out in the above pic obviously.)
A: It is! Look, I'm even wearing the same shorts.
me: [types furiously] OK, this was me two years ago. 
A: OOOOoooh. My penis hurts.
posted by xenobiologista @ 00:33
3 Comments:
Heheh... you're going to get alot more hits on your blog posting pictures like that and telling people you look like Grace Park.
Grace Park was probably the best thing about the reimagining of Battlestar Galactica when SciFi did the pilot miniseries. Casting her as 'Boomer' got alot of flak from the BSG purists, but I thought it was great. I emailed Ronald Moore, SciFi channel, and Sky One when it was released. Got an email back from their PR folks saying 'thanks.'
With Grace Park playing opposite of Benjamin Bratt in "The Cleaner", now I'm watching A&E to get my Grace Park fix. =)
BTW... did I ever tell you what I'd get as my vanity plates if I bought a Porsche Carrera?
TIA
Tia (Porsche) Carrera ...simply the best name for a Porsche, ever. In honor of Tia Carrere. Vicky tells me she'd either castrate me or force me to sleep in the garage with my car if I did that.
You know...I don't think I KNOW anybody who's watched the original 1970s BSG actually. Maybe I'm just a young whipper-snapper but I can't imagine the show without its female characters - Roslin, Starbuck, Boomer, Cally, Duala, and certainly not without that blonde bitch Number Eight.
From io9 (I'm pleased to see that Gawker Media now has a blog devoted to SF) - Sackhoff and Helfer on their characters' fistfight at the end of Season 1:
"Sackhoff: They always said that if the ratings dropped then they'd do that fight again , but with Jello.
Tricia Helfer: Thank you for keeping the ratings up."
It must be purely an aspect of when you were born and the company you keep.
I was born on Tuesday, November 7th, 1972... Richard Milhouse Nixon was just being re-elected as President of the United States. In another 2 years, he'd give his "I am not a crook" speech and "peace out" on Air Force One. In another 6 years, poor Jimmy Carter would be blamed for a gas crisis that pales before the one that George W. Bush created and went blameless for.
In the midst of the 1970s, we got BattleStar Galactica, 2001, Star Wars, and Buck Rogers. I remember watching BattleStar Galactica and "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century". I wanted Boxy as my own robot pet. When I grew up, I wanted to *BE* Commander Adama (Lorne Greene).
When my Dad told me, "you know, Lorne Greene was on Ponderosa", I laughed. Like you, I had never seen Ponderosa. For my Dad, he thought it embarrassing that Lorne Greene had gone from being a Cartwright to a Commander.
I love the re-imagining, but don't knock the original. For all its cheesy goodness, there are parables in the original that Ronald Moore could still learn from and "borrow" for his new series. The cigar-chomping Starbuck is pretty much stock in both series... only the genitalia has changed.
And Erin Gray on "Buck Rogers" ...*rowr* !!! Twiki was one lucky robot, and she was one lucky pilot.
Maybe SciFi will "re-imagine" Buck Rogers next? God, I hope they do better than Tin Man, which was utter shite except for Azkadellia. Frank L. Baum would have sued them for destroying his characters and his fiction. Harlan Ellison should have gnawed on SciFi for foisting that on us.
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