Patron saint of scruffy
Dec. 9th, 2016 08:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cosmolinguistJust caught sight of myself in the mirror and thought, as always lately, damn I'm scruffy because my hair is in that horrible sticks-out-everywhere stage of growing out...
...and then I scratched my head, and something about the way I looked as I was doing this made me think no I'm not, I'm Columbo!
Nearly all of my recent visits to Brighouse have featured watching an episode or two withmiss_s_b, and this had been so much fun -- I hadn't seen Columbo since my dad watched it when I was young enough to think it was excruciatingly boring, but now I get it and it brings all kinds of joy, especially watching it with Jennie -- but I never expected it'd be good for my self-image too!
You couldn't even say that he doesn't care about his appearance, because he does -- he knows people will underestimate him if he dresses like that and has a slouchy posture and drives a terrible car, and seems to love using this to his advantage -- but you also get the impression that this is just him being himself, he'd do the same even if it did him no good. Truly an inspiration.
...and then I scratched my head, and something about the way I looked as I was doing this made me think no I'm not, I'm Columbo!
Nearly all of my recent visits to Brighouse have featured watching an episode or two with
miss_s_b, and this had been so much fun -- I hadn't seen Columbo since my dad watched it when I was young enough to think it was excruciatingly boring, but now I get it and it brings all kinds of joy, especially watching it with Jennie -- but I never expected it'd be good for my self-image too!You couldn't even say that he doesn't care about his appearance, because he does -- he knows people will underestimate him if he dresses like that and has a slouchy posture and drives a terrible car, and seems to love using this to his advantage -- but you also get the impression that this is just him being himself, he'd do the same even if it did him no good. Truly an inspiration.
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Date: 2016-12-10 10:10 pm (UTC)shurely "Just one more thing. Am I Columbo?"
Possibly with a "ma'am" in there, it's been a while and I forget the detail of his patter.