{"id":987,"date":"2005-06-10T19:24:22","date_gmt":"2005-06-10T17:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/?p=987"},"modified":"2005-07-23T16:16:28","modified_gmt":"2005-07-23T07:16:28","slug":"dr-dave-shows-his-bare-buttocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/06\/10\/dr-dave-shows-his-bare-buttocks\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Dave Shows his Bare Buttocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.souzouzone.jp\/blog\/\">Tokyo&#8217;s shock rocker extraordinaire<\/a> has recently been spreading noxious <s>germs<\/s> <s>memes<\/s> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.souzouzone.jp\/blog\/archives\/009116.html\">batons<\/a>, and kindly asked for my participation in the process.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, I will have to decline, seeing how:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>I have already posted enough list\/sample\/endless ranting around the theme of music, digital version thereof included, to fill a few medium-sized encyclopedia. I am sure all the answers to the questionnaire are already <a href=\"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/category\/music\/\">there<\/a>, in one form or another.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/03\/13\/the-one-time-only-internet-meme-readings\/\">I like kittens<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><!--private--><\/p>\n<p>However, not one to stay on a grumpy note, I went extra miles to participate in another of her cool ventures and add my contribution to her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/groups\/whenlittle\/\">neat flickr group idea<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Yes, it&#8217;s a picture of myself. And I&#8217;m naked. So what? other people have <a href=\"http:\/\/embruns.net\/logbook\/2005\/01\/15.html#001916\">done it before<\/a>. There&#8217;s no shame. <\/p>\n<p>What can I say, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dr_dave\/18544672\/\">I was a sexy mutherfucka in my youth<\/a>&#8230; Can you sense that raw sensuality oozing from my bare muscular buttocks? <\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Digging through hundreds of mostly empty dusty photo-albums for such priceless memories of my wild and exotic youth in the savannah made me realize a few things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My mum is a poster child for the kodak years: infinitely more enthusiasm than photographic skills.<\/li>\n<li>Particularly interesting, was her strong conviction that taking 15 shots of the same scene in quick succession with the <em>exact same<\/em> settings, was an infallible way to insure at least one non-blurry shot.<\/li>\n<li>Had digital photography existed 30 years ago, I&#8217;d be currently sitting on a multi-million dollar inheritance, merely from the money saved in roll purchases and processing fees.<\/li>\n<li>When given the chance to snap pictures of her kids: 1) running around with lemurs on gorgeous white sand African beaches, or 2) hidden under 20 layers on clothes, on the yearly Autumn trip to dreary England beaches&#8230; which one do you think my mother picked?<\/li>\n<li>Looking at thankfully rare shots of my highly traumatizing teenage years, only one question comes to mind: <em>How didn&#8217;t I get beaten up more often?<\/em><br \/>\n Seeing myself in that vintage Apple t-shirt, coke-bottle glasses and unspeakable mulletoid hairdo, even <em>I<\/em> feel an irrepressible urge to punch that face.<\/li>\n<li>On that Disneyland picture where my brother and I are sandwiched between a bunch of furry Star Wars cast, the wooky&#8217;s hands are very suspiciously positioned on our waist: have we been repressing memories of that painful time ever since? Need to talk to little brother&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>When you manage to bring four generations and countless members together for a once-a-decade family celebration on a remote island of the Indian ocean, perhaps extra attention could be given to the final group shot. Sure it&#8217;s kind of fun to have a picture where <em>every single participant<\/em> looks in a different direction, but I&#8217;m not sure it is the sort of message you wanna give to future generations.<\/li>\n<li>Mum: I&#8217;m sure it never occurred to you that my siblings and I may one day resent your habit of accumulating photographic evidences of us, dressed in matching outfits of various dignity and virility (I&#8217;m thinking particularly of these oh-so-cute matching pseudo-vahine costumes, but the damn mini-tux with color-coded bow ties were hardly any better)&#8230; If not for the consequences on our fragile psyche at the time, perhaps you could have taken in account the high potential for lawsuits when we&#8217;d reach legal age&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Ironically, the best photographers of the family seem to have been the ones under 5 year of age, whenever they managed to grab hold of the magical clicky-clicky box. Which might explain why we have so many candid shots of the feline and canine population of our successive households. Usually giving their best, &#8220;WTF-was-this-light, oh-my-god-I-think-I&#8217;m-blind&#8221; startled look.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tokyo&#8217;s shock rocker extraordinaire has recently been spreading noxious germs memes batons, and kindly asked for my participation in the process. Unfortunately, I will have to decline, seeing how: I have already posted enough list\/sample\/endless ranting around the theme of music, digital version thereof included, to fill a few medium-sized encyclopedia. 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