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There can never be too many Cookes in the kitchen, Alistair.

After puking out excuse after excuse as to why it wasn't necessary for me to have a high school senior portrait made, I finally relented and allowed my parents to set up an appointment.

I was told to bring in three outfits and a prop.

Me: A prop?

Photographer: Yeah! Like, if you play basketball, bring a basketball! If you're a cheerleader, bring your poms!

Me: If I'm a band geek, I should bring my French horn?

Photographer: That would be great!

Me: What if I spend my free time pretending to be the host of Masterpiece Theater?

Photographer: I think we can work something out.

 

Thus it was, and so it went.

Posted by: fluidpudding on 5/9/2008 4:07:00 PM , 29 comments
Submitted by You can call me, 'Sir' at 5/9/2008 4:08:49 PM
    Wow. Hair.
Submitted by FP at 5/9/2008 4:15:03 PM
    Sir--It was big and asymmetrical. Also, I was a tricky Southern Baptist Violent Femmes fan. Those two sentences may (or may not) be related.
Submitted by Carroll at 5/9/2008 4:25:29 PM
    Oh my!

    ....(thinking, thinking)....

    (Nope, completely speechless!)
Submitted by Stephanie at 5/9/2008 4:41:30 PM
    At least you had a French horn.
    I was the band geek who played the Xylophone, but you can't bring a Xylophone to your senior photo shoot. And thus, I had a senior picture taken with me lounging on the floor, clutching my mallets longingly.
    Also, I had a similar hairstyle.
    I wonder if it was the Baptist, or the band in us?

Submitted by Alli at 5/9/2008 5:08:44 PM
    You are a blister in the sun!
Submitted by Jaynee at 5/9/2008 5:22:54 PM
    Gives new meaning to "buckethead." LOVE IT!
Submitted by Kathy at 5/9/2008 6:14:03 PM
    Mine had a graffiti background, and I was wearing Hammer pants -- I swear. (Thank god picture cuts off right at the waist.)
Submitted by sonrie at 5/9/2008 6:24:29 PM
    OH, so funny! That was a great laugh.
Submitted by Jan at 5/9/2008 7:04:28 PM
    I thought this was a photo of your new "do."
Submitted by jan at 5/9/2008 7:06:15 PM
    Southern Baptist?? I was once one of those. Once. Long ago. Long, long ago.
Submitted by Barbara at 5/9/2008 7:48:30 PM
    Please tell me that is frosted gray-blue eyeshadow. Oh, '88, how we miss ye!
Submitted by Mocha at 5/9/2008 8:00:37 PM
    I have no words and that's a feat for me so kudos, Mrs. Pudding! I bow to thee.
Submitted by Eddie at 5/9/2008 8:11:44 PM
Submitted by Velma at 5/9/2008 9:31:04 PM
    Mem-reeeeeeeeeeeze! Like the photographer's stooooodio! That my friends talked me iiiiiiinnnnntooooo! With the big wicker chaiiiiiirrrrr!

    Sorry. I only saw "Cats" once, but it was obviously enough to cause brain damage.
Submitted by allison at 5/9/2008 9:54:34 PM
    Isn't it funny how in 1988 that hairstyle was totally accepted by both popular kids and edgy Violent Femmes fans?

    My senior picture was taken on a humid Pennsylvania August day, so it's all white girl 'fro and a dress I made myself. Two words: "dropped" and "waist".
Submitted by Belinda at 5/9/2008 11:26:14 PM
    Uh, that may be the best senior portrait EVER.
Submitted by Summer at 5/10/2008 12:20:28 AM
    Woah.

    You look like a bank teller.

Submitted by Summer at 5/10/2008 12:23:01 AM
    (I meant that in the nicest possible way. One of my senior photos was taken in a Bank Teller Dress, too. Only I had the long, half-grown-out perm thing going on, which was, as you can imagine, very attractive.)
Submitted by Mizmell at 5/10/2008 7:50:36 AM
    You look entirely too serious for a high school senior...

    Btw: I found this site that does a bacon recipe everyday and immediately thought of you. Maybe some new and exciting bacon recipe is waiting for you:
    http://baconshow.blogspot.com/
Submitted by gorillabuns at 5/10/2008 8:08:44 AM
    "Thank god high school is almost over...."
Submitted by Sarah, Goon Squad Sarah at 5/10/2008 8:43:38 AM
    You should have told him you were a part time dominatrix.

    Your senior portraits would be all over the internet.

    (Even more than now.)
Submitted by sarah at 5/10/2008 8:45:54 AM
    Since I lived in a small town in Saskatchewan, I had the exact same hairdo three years later. And a white wicker chair. And an off-the shoulder dress. And a shorter string of fake pearls. Otherwise, we could swap photos, and no one would notice.
Submitted by Lisa V at 5/10/2008 9:34:15 AM
    I look like a high bank teller in mine. And I look a lot older than 17. What was with dressing like a grown-up in the 80's?

    My daughter has her senior portraits taken next summer. The other day I reminded her it was a year away, and she better start growing out the haircut she hates now. Otherwise for the rest of her life she will look at that picture hanging in my house and go "God I hate that haircut."
Submitted by haus at 5/10/2008 10:29:16 AM
    yup.

    here's mine

    I'm sporting fluffy bangs, but I'm not wearing the fake pearls in that one.
Submitted by Meg at 5/11/2008 1:31:26 AM
    Wow. I don't want to say anything, but I have to.

    This is amazing.

    I'm speechless. I don't know what I'm feeling right now. I think awe. At your self-disclosure.
Submitted by Karen T-H at 5/11/2008 8:41:41 PM
    Sulky?
    Pissed off?
    Trying not to ralph?

    I've looked at it several times now, but still can't decide which of your progeny looks more like you. They certainly have your eyes!
Submitted by mp at 5/12/2008 2:41:52 PM
    Oh man...
    I'm so sorry you had to do that..

    Nice hair..
Submitted by Alesia at 5/14/2008 12:50:40 PM
    The higher the hair, the closer to god.
Submitted by Susan at 5/15/2008 1:59:05 PM
    Ha! Looks very similar to my senior portrait. Only it was 87' for me and I look like I was crying. Or maybe it was the fact that I still had braces on and I was pissed about it?!
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