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.
Crip Dyke, Right Reverend Feminist FuckToy of Death & Her Handmaiden says
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.
Tony! The Fucking Queer Shoop! says
Nary a tentacle on that shirt. I’m shocked!
Tony! The Fucking Queer Shoop! says
PZ:
Is your family accepting of your atheism?
Crip Dyke, Right Reverend Feminist FuckToy of Death & Her Handmaiden says
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!
Al Dente says
Okay, wannabe nerd, where’s your pocket protector?
carlie says
Whoa, those are dreamboat eyes in that picture!
Also, that shirt is the best shirt.
Hank_Says says
And they laughed at me when I wore a t-shirt with a chihuahua on it!
mikeyb says
Nice, really looks 1970s….
Nerd of Redhead, Dances OM Trolls says
Sigh, at that age, I still had a full head of hair.
PZ Myers says
The back of that shirt had a giant embroidered roaring tiger on it — so it was even more awesome than you can know.
Crip Dyke, Right Reverend Feminist FuckToy of Death & Her Handmaiden says
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.
PZ Myers says
Also, it was done by hand by my mother.
plainenglish says
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.
Crip Dyke, Right Reverend Feminist FuckToy of Death & Her Handmaiden says
Best. Mother. Evahr.
I hope she gets serious thank-yous every May. Damn.
magistramarla says
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.
Kamaka says
Oh, I’m sure. Photo or it wasn’t so.
Zeno says
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.)
Nerd of Redhead, Dances OM Trolls says
I might question PZ, but his mother???? NEVER!!!
walteramos says
In high school I went for “Isaac Asimov” look as well…
grumpyoldfart says
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
F [i'm not here, i'm gone] says
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.
timgueguen says
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?
williamgeorge says
“Also, it was done by hand by my mother.”
And with once sentence, all potential jokes about the shirt have been sewn shut.
chigau (違う) says
I have a denim shirt, of similar vintage, with a snake wrapped around the left arm.
Embroidered by myself.
.
PZ
Your Mom does nice work.
You haven’t changed your hairstyle.
rq says
Not much of a beard, thar… obviously an early stage in evolution.
I’m impressed by the shirt. Seriously. Wow.
Tony! The Fucking Queer Shoop! says
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!
Stacy says
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!?
satcomguy says
I can’t believe we had to go 19 comments before someone mention Asimov…
Tony! The Fucking Queer Shoop! says
Stacy:
I think you left out “Arch nemesis of Vox Day”
opposablethumbs says
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.
carlie says
That was done by hand? Wow!
petemoulton says
Stacy @ 27: I can tell. PZ already has that quizzical tilt to his head that says, “What manner of cretinist horseshit is this?”
Jackie the wacky says
Awwwww……
Kevin Alexander says
Wait a minute….are those goats that your mother embroidered on the front?
Now we see that the Satanic influence is a family thing.
David Marjanović says
Come on, one transitional form isn’t a transitional series! We demand a series!
Piling on the astonishment at your mother.
John Horstman says
Huh, we have that same clock, but without the text over the pendulum window.
craigmcgillivary says
How did you strike fear into the hearts of Creationists looking like that?
ebotebo says
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.
brianpansky says
what instagram filter was that? it looks great!
:P