I’m neglecting the blog because I’m hanging out with my mother and sisters, which means…getting all sentimental and going through the old photo albums. I’ve now got a whole series of photos illustrating the evolution of the beard. I thought you might be amused to see what I looked like in my teens going on twenties.
I used to be adorable before I got all grizzled and homely.
Wait, what?
One pic?
That’s all we get?
You spend a whole afternoon with photo albums *plural* and all we get is the embroidered work shirt?
One word: No fair.
Nary a tentacle on that shirt. I’m shocked!
PZ:
Is your family accepting of your atheism?
Look, Tony!, the atheism is fine. Just don’t flaunt it and for GOD’s sake, don’t say a word about it around grandpa!
Okay, wannabe nerd, where’s your pocket protector?
Whoa, those are dreamboat eyes in that picture!
Also, that shirt is the best shirt.
And they laughed at me when I wore a t-shirt with a chihuahua on it!
Nice, really looks 1970s….
Sigh, at that age, I still had a full head of hair.
The back of that shirt had a giant embroidered roaring tiger on it — so it was even more awesome than you can know.
Yes!
Also, dibs on the band name “Embroidered Roaring Tiger.”
PZ, I don’t know that I’ve ever been happier to read one of your comments than I was to read you describe that shirt just now. I’m in multiple-nerdgasm land.
Also, it was done by hand by my mother.
Holy shit. You are one scary dude. All animals and eyes….
Al Dente @ 5, speaks ultimate truths….
Well done, PZ, I loved this ‘exposure’. Visiting with blood kin kindles so many memories.
Best. Mother. Evahr.
I hope she gets serious thank-yous every May. Damn.
Awww – My daughter’s fiancee looks so much like this picture. Now I know what he will look like when he’s in his mid-fifties.
Oh, I’m sure. Photo or it wasn’t so.
Oh, wow. What’s French for “Remembrance of cuteness past”? Several of us could contribute to an anthology with that title. At least now you have proof that the beard isn’t a remedy for chinlessness.
You have only one pen tucked into your pocket, but at least you have a pen. (I always carried—still carry—two.)
I might question PZ, but his mother???? NEVER!!!
In high school I went for “Isaac Asimov” look as well…
I’ve got these two pictures hanging on the wall in my lounge room. One of them is a picture of my brother and me in about 1950. The other one is a picture of a couple of apes.
http://i940.photobucket.com/albums/ad246/Snagglefritz/Cousins.jpg
Whoa.
So, was there a problem with the predator on the back trying to get to the herbivores in the laundry?
Also, your expression is priceless.
But back again to your mother’s embroidery: Whoa. That’s really amazing.
Wow, I didn’t know you were an early member of Blue Rodeo.
Seriously, does anyone else think he looks like he was a member of a country rock band in this shot?
“Also, it was done by hand by my mother.”
And with once sentence, all potential jokes about the shirt have been sewn shut.
I have a denim shirt, of similar vintage, with a snake wrapped around the left arm.
Embroidered by myself.
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PZ
Your Mom does nice work.
You haven’t changed your hairstyle.
Not much of a beard, thar… obviously an early stage in evolution.
I’m impressed by the shirt. Seriously. Wow.
Waitaminute!
Where are the little angel wings? They’d fit perfectly with the denim. That and a halo. PZ needs angel wings and a halo. To the photoshopmobile!
Aw man, who’da thunk that angelic lookin’ kid would grow up to be the fearsome Tentacled Overlord, Scourge of Creationists, Slayer of Trolls, Loathed of Slimepitters and peabrains everywhere!?
I can’t believe we had to go 19 comments before someone mention Asimov…
Stacy:
I think you left out “Arch nemesis of Vox Day”
The embroidery is stunning – and I want to see the tiger too!
Also, I hate to have to break it to you PZ but you haven’t exactly ceased to be adorable now. Sorry, old chap, but there it is.
That was done by hand? Wow!
Stacy @ 27: I can tell. PZ already has that quizzical tilt to his head that says, “What manner of cretinist horseshit is this?”
Awwwww……
Wait a minute….are those goats that your mother embroidered on the front?
Now we see that the Satanic influence is a family thing.
Come on, one transitional form isn’t a transitional series! We demand a series!
Piling on the astonishment at your mother.
Huh, we have that same clock, but without the text over the pendulum window.
How did you strike fear into the hearts of Creationists looking like that?
I don’t mean to burst any ones bubble, but that shirt is not denim. It is a pseudo-chambray of 50/50 cotton/polyester. I’m aware of this little known needlessness by the fact that I wore these at one time, yet my mother didn’t have the embroidery skills PZ’s mother had.
what instagram filter was that? it looks great!
:P