WHO NEEDS PARIS HILTON WHEN SCI-FI WOMEN PACK RAY GUNS?:
Grace Park (above) plays Boomer, a Cylon clone who has infiltrated the Colonial fleet.
One part of me felt like a kid in a candy store. The other part of me felt as embarrassed as a preacher buying condoms at the gas station.
I stood in line, copy of the Battlestar Galactica Season 1 DVD set in one hand, hair pomade and a bottle of nice smelling bodywash in the other.
I'm not sure which is more humbling - feeling like some metrosexual poseur for buying overpriced pomade and bodywash or feeling like a complete sci-fi dork for blowing my entertainment budget for the week on a television show.
Then I noticed this group of high school girls staring at me...and giggling.
Actually, I think they noticed my sudden awkwardness at being caught in the middle of a totally dyslexic shopping trip, my weird little secret universe exposed to the world.
When I was in high school, I was a two-time letter winner in track. I could leg-press 1900 pounds. I played in a couple of bands, did the whole "rebel-without-a-clue" thing, got into fights, threw wild parties, and was captain of my school's forensics and academic teams. As much as I fought it, I ended up being considered one of the "popular" kiddies. Then I went to college, drank and snorted and smoked myself into near chemical retardation. I had a hard time understanding concepts like "commitment," "long-term relationship," and "some girls are too dangerous to fool around with." I hit my early 20s and got a job as a sportscaster. And then, I switched careers and became a librarian.
Dammit. I can't believe I allowed myself to get caught buying Ax Bodywash and hair pomade. Can't they put this stuff in brown paper wrappers???
4 comments:
Well, look at it this way, dude.
At least you weren't buying condoms at the same time.
Peace,
G
omg! I was just reading this in my ENG 112 class and almost burst out laughing! I watched battlestar galactica last semester with my boyfriends roommates while he was at work. you're right too...the girl in the photo is so much more hotter than paris hilton.
G:
Hey, just part of getting old, I guess. At least they didn't catch me with a Viagra prescription and Grecian Formula hair coloring ;-)
Anon:
ENG 112? You blew off your first-year class to read a blog?!? I guess I should lecture you about academic responsibility, but hey, I think that's just keen. Thanks for the BSG props...Grace Park is pretty frigging hot.
Yeah ... her and Jamie-Lynn DiScala (Sopranos).
Drea-ea-ea-ea-eam, dream, dream, dream, Drea-ea-ea-ea-eam ...
Dammit. Why does that song always come into my head whilst fantasizing ... ?
;-)
Although I must say it is a pretty great song ... Everly Brothers rocked.
Post a Comment