Hey, remember when I briefly mentioned that we were going to hang our caricatures in our newly painted weight room, like, four months ago? Yeah, we finally got around to it yesterday.
Here’s the weight room (notice the lack of floorboards – classy!). This is the downstairs bedroom, which currently houses this weight thingy, a bunch of handheld weights, a punching bag, three guitars, an amp, and a harmonica that I once spent enough time with to learn how to blow a wheezy rendition of “When the Saints Go Marching In.”
And here’s the caricatures:
They’re oddly sized, so regular frames don’t work. We bought 3 pieces of black posterboard for 59 cents apiece, plus 3 skirt hangers for $3.99, and matted the caricatures, leaving a 1-in. border. (Jason did all the measuring after I botched the first one because I am incapable of matting or anything else that requires precise measurements. Me: I can’t do this! Jason: It’s just measuring. Me: I know – exactly! What if I mess it up? Jason: It’s fifty-nine cents!)
And voila! A closeup of our first caricature from 2003, where the artist tricked us into future purchases by making us all cute and perky, like sun-dappled Hollywood B-listers. Aw, aren’t we cute! We = me and Mark McGrath.
Thanks to that caricature, we got another one in 2005.
Run away, kids! It’s Pin Head and Uni-Eye! Alternate title: Uh…DUH…
Anyway, something is…off. Like Jason’s mouth and my entire head.
But that didn’t stop us from getting another one in 2007. That was the year a stupid swing ride incapacitated me for 8 hours, so the artist obviously chose to emphasize my about-to-spew mouth, along with Jason’s nostrils.
Now we’re due for another caricature this summer. God help us.
