Art Imitates Me

WAYNE’S WORDS
Volume 4 Number 05
Art Imitates Me

OK, OK! I know I have not done this in a long time. Actually, I am pretty sure that I am the only one who knows that. I mean, this blog has, what, 3 readers (including myself). I have no real excuse for my lack of blogging – I just didn’t do it.

Maybe it is because I had started Facebooking? I dunno. I don’t even do that much. Maybe it is just that there is not much to share right now. No wisdom, no insights, no humor.

I thought of a good blog a few weeks ago involving the Motor Vehicle Division of New Mexico, but then I realized it was only painful and not much different than anyone else’s experience.

Friends and I have talked about the fact that I am often the back on which stars and writers make their money, because so many characters we see are a lot like me - usually the likeable losers in movies and such. We all know, for instance, that I am Duckie from Pretty in Pink. Coincidentally, my son is pretty sure I am Dr. Alan Harper from 2 and a half Men. I was also once told that I was a lot like Colonel Brandon from Sense and Sensibility. Of course, according to John Willoughby, “Brandon is the sort of man everyone speaks well of, but no one remembers to talk to.” Hmmm. Don’t know if it was a compliment.

The other day, one of my “work-wives” showed me a comic and said “OMG – it’s you!” She was right.

I started reading Sally Forth mainly because it was on the comics’ page. One day in 2008 the Comic really hit home, so I welcomed the most recent comparison with open arms.

This is the 2008 Sally Forth “Wayne Moment.”

It may or may not be widely known that I don’t eat a lot of lunches out or with people. I usually eat leftovers (mine or those of others) at the office or at home. Anyway, when I showed this to my (then) significant other, she laughed a lot. Now, I think it was at me – not with me.

What follows now are the most recent Sally Forth “Wayne Moments.”

I am in Ad Sales, while the above strip may not be factual, I am sure that we Admen are seen this way.

OK….. This one is dead on.

Just substitute Jessie’s Girl for The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald and - presto!

This is more about my most recent Driver’s License photo. It looks like they took it from twenty feet away and twenty years in the future!

My Mom and I have always joked that I was switched at birth and was actually from a wealthy family. I feel you, Ted. I feel you. LOL.

It is just plain me. Why do you think I have this blog?! Sad, I know.

There is actually more to come - soon. I just had to get out of the anti-writing funk I was in. For the past couple of months I barely even wanted to write my name, much less some unread blog.

Until Next Time,

Wayne