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Outtake from the book. Photographed with a Nikon D300, 60mm micro lens
This weekend, in between anniversary dinners and Father's Day breakfasts-in-bed and lunches, I've been furiously working on getting all of the text and images together for the BLaD. As I type this, I'm saving everything to CDs, to turn into the creative designers tomorrow. Can I hear a BOO-YAH?
Today, we had my dad over for Father's Day lunch, and he and my mom brought Marcus and me a bottle of champagne, to celebrate our seventh anniversary. "You can drink that at a later time, whenever," said my dad, giving me the gift bag.
"Oh, wow," I said. "Champagne! Oh no, we're opening this today."
"No, really, you don't have to," he said. "Drink it by yourselves."
"No really, we're going to," I insisted. "I need an image of champagne for the book. I was just telling Marcus that yesterday. This gift couldn't be more timely.
My father was silent. And then:
"That is the saddest rationalization I've ever heard for claiming the need for a drink," he said.
Dude, whatever works.
Song: I heard it through the grapevine, by Marvin Gaye (off The Big Chill soundtrack)
Sunday, June 21, 2009 at 11:35PM
Reader Comments (15)
That's great! BOO-YAH!!
Works for me! ;-)
HAHAHA!! I think I love your dad. That's very funny. That shot is great. I love the gold of the fine "champonya" (ala Christopher Walken as The Continental on SNL) with the black background. Beautiful.
First of all, BOO-YAH!
I'm really enjoying reading about your writing/publishing process. Keep it comin'!
I am loving your blog and thanks for the reference to my fav movie of ALL time! Those were the day! Happy Anniversary!
As far as I'm concerned there is never any rationalization required for champagne!
that's great.
plus, better to drink it now, than to 'save it for a later' that keeps getting put off... now is always the best time.
congrats on getter 'er done!
So excited for you! And I love the contrast in the photo.
:O)
BOO-YEAH! Great work!