What In The Hell Was I Thinking?

[RetroLounge]

While looking for something else I found a bunch of old pictures. This one is about 15 years old, and I can't figure out why I thought that thing on my chin looked good. :shrug:



RL

[sundog]

1. post more topless photos

:evilgrin:

[RetroLounge]

2. Your wish is my command.

Here you go... 21 years old, but can't quite remember why I was wearing leather pants and boots, no shirt, with a leather bowtie. Chippendales Dancer? Cruising the bars? Maybe the Strohs in the foreground has something to do with it.



:hi:

RL

edit: added photo

[sundog]

11. woof

rl in leather :thumbsup:

Chippendales Dancer? :rofl:

[RetroLounge]

15. You got enough singles?

I'll dance for you anytime.

RL

p.s. I lost weight, the leather pants fit once again :evilgrin:

[gizmo1979]

19. Are those leather pants?

What were you thinking.

[RetroLounge]

23. Yes. Black Leather.

I was reading too much about Jim Morrison, I guess.

RL

[gizmo1979]

26. Ya think?

[RetroLounge]

28. "No one here gets out alive"

Read that one WAY too many times...

RL

[swag]

48. "His teats have a perky charm, though they are not connected to a dairy."

- Gore Vidal

[RetroLounge]

54. "His teats have a perky charm"

if I had a dollar for everytime I heard that...

:D

RL

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. Hmmmm...looks good to me!

Of course, the look in your eyes, and that chest have me going as well........:evilgrin:

[RetroLounge]

4. Not to mention I was cooking breakfast

:hi:

RL

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. Indeed!

After what sort of *um* night?

:blush:










my bad......

[RetroLounge]

14. I'm sure it was quite a good night, as many were

back then. From what I remember.

But I thought you'd be more impressed with the fact that not only could I cook, but I got out of bed to make her breakfast (her being the person holding the camera).

RL

[bicentennial_baby]

5. hey hey now!

i agree about the chin thing, but otherwise... ;)

[RetroLounge]

6. Thank you!

I have a bunch of pics with REAL BAD haircuts and various facial hair that are too scary for public consumption.

Luckily I could shave...

:hi:

RL

[swimboy]

8. You don't take a bad picture!

We've all done the experimental facial hair thing (well, those of us who can) with mixed results. I like the pictures with Mrs. RL and the one on the cable car was great too. Don't be afraid to share them. It gives us a better total picture of who you are and who you've been!

[RetroLounge]

10. Thanks

I'll dig out a few of the "bad" pics too...

RL

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

9. You were looking good, but the crumbcatcher... not so much.

[RetroLounge]

12. Yeah, it didn't last long.

Glad I took a lot of pics...

RL

[RetroLounge]

13. Okay, you asked, you got them

More :shrug: pics.

Yeah, I was 17 and down vests were very popular. Really.



At 22, I played guitar and keys in a new wave sort of band. This was taken in the studio in Chicago.



age 24. My Clash Phase. Mohawk and all. Actually, not really a phase. No idea who the girls are. We met and partied with them for a few days on Mackinac Island.



Age 29. This one I kind of like. We had a gig and some unknown person put a stuffed beaver on my Amplifier. Became the band mascot...



RL

[RevCheesehead]

34. That last one is adorable.

Do you still have the beaver? (or is that a personal question? :blush:)

You + mohawk = :rofl:

:hi: :loveya:

[RetroLounge]

37. Thanks.

Actually, I had that Beaver for years but it disappeared somewhere along the way.

Me + Mohawk = :headbang:

:hi:

RL

[swimboy]

47. Dude, I remember all these looks

We're the same age. You're lucky you have it all documented! :rofl: I'm laughing with you, not at you!

[bliss_eternal]

16. It was a phase--

You'd be shocked if I showed you pics of my dh's former 'burly man' look. He apparently also thought it looked 'cool.' :shrug:

He has a full beard when we started dating. Then he went through a 'goatee' phase, and various other facial hair incarnations. (sigh)

He was still cute underneath it all--and you don't appear particularly unfortunate in that dept. (lol) so don't stress over it too much!

:hi:

Thanks for sharing the pic. Looks like nice ink on your arm.

[RetroLounge]

21. Ink is the headstock emblem from my guitar

have an M.C. Escher Angel on the other shoulder.

:hi:

RL

[bliss_eternal]

43. That sounds cool--

I like seeing creative tats, and hearing the stories behind them. There are always interesting stories to go along with them,...well, I should say usually.

[RetroLounge]

45. Yeah, I want a few more

but can't decide on what to get, so I wait...

RL

[uppityperson]

17. I like the chin thing, sort of

it needs a couple diamonds carved into it. or something. nicely trimmed though. How long did the chin fur last?

[RetroLounge]

18. Too long, I'm sure.

I would shave it then grow it back right away in some different form, goatee, fu-manchu, pencil-stach...

RL

[uppityperson]

22. hey, boys gotta have fun?

I like the leather on the couch chip-n-dale one. woowoo. except you are such a baby there.

I'm getting old. sigh.

[RetroLounge]

24. "I'm getting old. sigh."

Yeah, don't I know it. That pic was taken 23 years ago!

YIKES!

RL

[bliss_eternal]

46. I'm sure you are aging well...

all Democrats do--it's the lack of evil coursing through our veins. Our pure goodness keeps us looking youthful! ;)

[RetroLounge]

51. I'll buy that!

"Our pure goodness keeps us looking youthful"

Kind of cries out to be a sig-line!

:hi:

RL

[Maestro]

20. Totally tubular RL.

We grew up in the same time period I'd say.

Here I am with some sort of Elvis Costello hair cut....


Oh and here I am topless from the same time period...late 80's I think.

[RetroLounge]

30. Yeah, looks like the 80's to me.

After his first album came out, I totally wanted to play guitar and sing like Elvis Costello.

:hi:

RL

[bigwillq]

25. Not the best look

for you dude!
I'm sure you know that now!
:hi:

[RetroLounge]

27. Oh, hell yeah!

but at the time, well, you know...

RL

[bigwillq]

29. But I will say

A good-looking man you are in any decade! :hi:

[RetroLounge]

33. Thanks!

The decades are piling up too damn fast!

:hi:

RL

[bigwillq]

40. I hear ya!

I'm just a few short years from 30! :scared:

[KittyWampus]

31. maybe going for a "retro beat poet" look?

[RetroLounge]

32. "I saw the best minds of my generation..."

:rofl:

RL

[KittyWampus]

36. starved, laughing hysterically over that THING on your chin...

[RetroLounge]

38. Howling with Laughter!

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:
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RL

[hippywife]

35. Hey! I like that pic.

Has that rode hard and put away wet look, if ya know what I mean. And I think you do!

;-)

[RetroLounge]

39. Very accurate description, actually.

:evilgrin:

I was hanging with a 20yr old patchouilli-wearing hippy girl at the time.

:hi:

RL

[hippywife]

41. You can almost still smell the pheremones

wafting thru the place! LOL

[RetroLounge]

42. and it was a small place too!

2 rooms. Nothing wafted too far...

:D

RL

[tigereye]

44. yeah, I think it's cute!

you look like the kind of guy I would have been hopelessly infatuated wtih back in my punk/ new wave/living in the clubs days. ;) Loved those guys in bands!

[RetroLounge]

55. "Loved those guys in bands"

and I loved being in them!

:hi:

RL

[tigereye]

56. alas, being a woman in a band

didn't seem to have quite the same allure! ;)

[RetroLounge]

57. Okay, I just re-read my post

I hope it was clear that the "them" I "loved being in" referred to the bands :D

:hi:

RL

[tigereye]

59. snort

no worries...

[Sacajawea]

49. It's the young Abe Lincoln look.

:rofl:

[Arugula Latte]

50. That or he's about to go to a barn raising w/ other Amish folk ...

[RetroLounge]

53. Can't beat a good old barn raising for fun...

:rofl:

RL

[RetroLounge]

52. Young Abe!

That's it!

Now where was that tophat, I got a Civil War to conduct...

:D

RL

[ScreamingMeemie]

58. With eyes and a smile like that....who cares?

:hi:

[RetroLounge]

61. You are so nice to say so.

:blush:

RL

[Deep13]

60. That's a nasty looking smallpox vaccine scar. nt

[RetroLounge]

62. .

:rofl:

[hunter]

63. There's a 25 year old skinny dipping picture of me out there...

...but I don't EVER tell ANYONE how to find it...

[RetroLounge]

64. So then how can we find it?

:shrug:

RL

[hunter]

65. Like I said...

.