Bear411 Silliness

[bjarvis]

I was in Crate & Barrel yesterday afternoon when co-trailer trash jearbear65oh calls my cell phone.

"Are you near a computer?" he asked.

"Um, nope. But there's some lovely pie plates to my left if you're interested."

"Maybe another time. When you get a chance, go to Bear411 and look up the profile of bear511."

"Why are you on Bear411 at 2:30 in the afternoon on a Saturday? Go outside and get some exercise. Come back to it at 2 AM like everyone else."

"Never mind why I'm on right now. Just go look as soon as you can." *click*

When Jeff and I returned to his place, we looked up the profile in question:
"Bear511 - San francisco | CALIFORNIA | USA
Hi! My Name is Mark. I am a Bottom.
I Can Speak: -English-"

Fine & unexceptional, except the photo is that of my dear husband, kent4str circa 1996. He's a little greyer now than he was then --10 years with me will do that to a person-- but that's him.

I'm so tempted to mess with Mark... "Great photo! Got any more? No? That's a shame, but hey look, I have photos of at our campsite! At our thanksgiving party! At our wedding!"

kent4str is still trying to decide if he's amused, angry or just annoyed. I'm choosing the amused option, but then again, it's not my photo. I wonder if anyone has ever used one of mine. And I wonder what this Mark actually looks like.

Comments

[trawnapanda.livejournal.com]

I've known Kent since *before* the electric blue hair highlights incident.

whatwhatwhat?? this sounds like A Story. Dish! do tell!

[paigemom.livejournal.com]

Back in college, before Kent was salt-and-pepper grey all over his head, he had dark hair with this funky patch of pale grey right in the middle of his forehead.

Of course, his hair was longer then -- this was the early '80's after all. And it was pretty curly naturally.

So he went to get a haircut, and somehow his hairdresser talked him into dying just the grey patch electric blue. And when I say electric blue I mean PAINFUL TO LOOK AT ELECTRIC BLUE. She also assured him that it would fade in about 2-3 weeks at the most.

That damn patch of hair took almost the whole semester to fade to baby blue. The only reason the blue went away is because he eventually got enough haircuts to cut it all off.

And then there was the time he dyed all the hair on his head deep purple. At home. Kinda matched a zippered, hooded sweatshirt I was fond of wearing at the time. He told me when he did the blue thing that I wasn't one to talk, since *I* wore such a loud purple sweatshirt. Didn't stop me much, though :)

[kent4str.livejournal.com]

Hey! Do I give away all your nasty little secrets from way back when?

Oh, I guess I do. Never mind.

[paigemom.livejournal.com]

ahem. yes.

Unless I give them away first!

hair colour - because we're WORTH it

[trawnapanda.livejournal.com]

I'm certainly not going to laugh at Kent (or was it Skippy?) with blue hair (although my image of "blue hair" is usually one of ladies Of A Certain Age, who frequently have mink coats too). After all, in the Trawna Pride celebrations of 1990, I got talked into spraying my hair pink. (the picture is of me, wrapped in a plastic sheet to keep the colour off the shirt, the hand visible is the perpetrator artiste who applied the pigment.

Unlike Kent, mine came off 'meejutly. Washing my hair that evening was like the shower scene in Psycho without the knife.

(oh my. I had a full head of hair. and my beard was all dark brown. ou sont les cheveux d'antan?)

[paigemom.livejournal.com]

An just *how* much mileage have you gotten from the "zombie in the squirrel costume" story???

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

"Zombie in the squirrel costume"? I thought he was aiming for the baseball/Godspell story.

Dirt! More dirt!

[kent4str.livejournal.com]

Oh, lots. Lots and lots...

[paigemom.livejournal.com]

And lots and lots...

I once had to drink an entire bottle of champagne with John Ford because of you ;)

[kent4str.livejournal.com]

Oh, you've done worse because of me - and with me. And despite me.

[cuyahogarvr.livejournal.com]

Okay, don't tease us and start these topics without DETAILS. Geez, so unfair!

[paigemom.livejournal.com]

Tough :)