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Proof I’m Old

09 Wednesday Apr 2014

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bar method, birthday, old, Old Town Pasadena, parking, Pasadena

photo 1 (32)3-5 times a week I drive into old Pasadena, park in one of the public parking garages and walk to the Bar Method Studio for class.  I have timed it perfectly so I’m parked there for less than 90 minutes, which means my car’s stay in the lot is free.   Every time I enter the garage I look at the cost for parking and shake my head.  Not because of the cost but because of my memory of the cost.

Years ago if you would have asked me how much it cost to park at one of the public garages in old town Pasadena my answer would have been $5.  If there were a couple people in the car the cost was $2.50 each.  4 people, $1.25 each.  Unless, of course, you didn’t make the driver pay since he/she was already paying for gas.  Wherever the many came from it was going to have to equal $5.  If this is true then tell me how I’m managing to get out of there for free now?  Well …. because it is a $5 flat rate after 10:00 PM.  Apparently that is all the cost information I required at the time.  That  means, at one point of my life, I only went to Pasadena after 10:00 PM.   Now if I’m not brushing my teeth at that time it’s because I’ve already been asleep for a good 1/2 an hour.

That’s how I know I’m old.

(Please enjoy a few pics from my 40th birthday celebration … more proof I’m old.)

(Wanna know how to make those classy headbands in those pics?  Check out this blog post.)

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The Anti-Photoshop

30 Tuesday Jul 2013

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A weekend or so ago I went to a college friends birthday party.  I saw lots of folks from my theatre days and was catching up with my friend David when he asked if, during my new-found free time, I was submitting my headshot for acting jobs.  I replied I wasn’t but thought it was a pretty good idea.  Why not?  Then, after some quick thinking, I admitted to him my headshots were about 10 years old (in reality I think it is much closer to 15). Since David is brilliant he suggested, since they were the old school black and white headshots (people now use color), I could just draw in wrinkle lines with a pencil to update them.  BTW this statement can only be made by a gay male friend.  A hetro guy friend would be hit in the gut and a female friend would be slapped in the face.

When I told some girlfriends this story they gasped in horror and dubbed it the “anti-photoshop.”

photo (16)Since I love you so much I went and dug through the boxes in my garage, found my old headshots and “updated” them as David suggested.  If you would like to hire this woman for the next must see TV sitcom, a national soda commercial, and/or your community theatre’s production of a Tennessee Williams play please give me a shout!

In different yet related news if anyone wants to wallpaper a room with vintage Wendy photos I’ve got a zillion I can ship off to you.

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