What did you use to look like? Old photos.

mullet - check
mesh hastings high school football practice jersey - check
blue and black bike shorts - check
zebra print vans - check
impossible to tell but this might have been a time where i was wearing a pewter dragon claw holding a prism - jury still out, but odds are high

also i think i see a friendship bracelet there on the foreground wrist

stylin' in my Waldsee hat

omg friendship bracelets, I really should have been selling those things (every time I see them in a mall store or a street vendor I think about how obsessed I was with making them)

Never gonna happen #1:

Summer 1988. Hi J, yeah - I'll meet you at the pub. I'll have been playing tennis all morning so I won't change or anything, but that won't be embarrassing or anything, will it?

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3032/2763919846_ccc3ec685e.jpg

Never gonna happen #2:

Late summer 1988. Oceanographic lab, 3rd year of degree, terrible jumper. Boy, I really hope S doesn't have a boyfriend or something by the time I see her again at Xmas. Oh.

http://farm1.staticflickr.com/53/128594573_4a40702724.jpg

Summer of 1984. I am reading Death Ship by B. Traven. I am 29 y.o.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8358/8347152877_8c31a1cdfd_z.jpg

much too non-embarrassing, gtfo

There was never a camera around when I was drunk. Because why? Because this all happened back when you had to take film to a developer and it was expensive so you didn't waste film on being wasted. But I'll try to dig up something for ya mook.

Aimless = super-suave.

Though I was wasting film on being wasted all the way into the mid-2000s.

Aimless! My goodness!!

aimless i love u

aimless that's a great great shot

Aimless!

why can't i be 29 and wear awesome shoes and books with a face full of life? i've got the 29 years old part down, that's all

Aimless, that's such a great picture!

take it to 80s hot, mookie otm

It is tremendous.

For mookieproof, I present the following semi-embarrassing photo of me in 1970, aged 15 y.o. Here I am comically threatening my brother who is taking the pic. We carefully staged all of our pics on this trip.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8499/8350220005_fcaa0e26e6_z.jpg

OK so Aimless looks great in all photos

Not to mention that I stand higher in VG's estimation than does brocolli! Maybe higher than cauliflower, too!

I looooove how nature photos erase time. That photo could've been taken earlier today!

mohawk or dreadlock?

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u120/kingkonggodzilla/RebelDougOnPhone_zpsddeccd32.jpg

whoops. shit. didn't see that realname at the bottom. gonna get a mod to zap that.

aimless you are MUCH higher than cauliflower and broccoli

Being held by my cousin, 1970, North Carolina. Probably about 6-7 months old.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/gypsyfrocksbedlam/1970DurhamNCWendyholdingJessebampw_zps33642993.jpg

this thread is great

http://i.imgur.com/rklcS.jpg

Now that I am a man, I have put away childish things. Excepting the occasional ironic revisitation

You are all so cute!!

http://i.imgur.com/aANkG1G.jpg

Still one of my closest friends. People always thought we were or should be dating (I was one of those people at the time), but alas.

It just occurred to me that having a Santa visit a high school cafeteria might be strange.

New Years Eve 1990: Punk was hours from breaking. Some of us could sense it.

http://i.imgur.com/eRvXVG9.jpg

haha

Awesome

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2512/3984139731_120160fdb0.jpg

Here's me (pictured left) from a zombie walk 3 or 4 years ago.

1994 with bestie
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2470/5739073802_f2a5580e0b_m.jpg

2013 with bestie
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8093/8442635593_ce5fc20d2e_m.jpg

Yay!

Adorable.

NYE 2003 on a rooftop in times square

http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/2663/katenyenyc.jpg

same event with my whole goofball family wearing 2004 glasses

http://imageshack.us/a/img580/5991/nyenyc.jpg

87 or 88, hard to tell
definitely 7th grade hiding my braces

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8250/8541386284_a041db4d68_n.jpg

so many braces you can't even see my teeth anymore

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8371/8541386348_8700b7761d_n.jpg

Christmas, first grade. Have never worn as many synthetic fibres since.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/552899_10151054661724439_1477700670_n.jpg

I am not in this 1947 photo, but my brother-in-law is (lower left). It is such a cool picture I couldn't resist posting it and this seemed like the best thread for it.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8507/8555596187_9fdfec1160_c.jpg

are the top-left couple holding hands? i love them

aimless that is the cutest!!!

They all are pretty amazing.

Little me:

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8234/8595675577_ae9ab45101.jpg

C. 1998

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8101/8595675583_2e7bdf711a.jpg

C. 2000

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8252/8596778012_fb1838c2af.jpg

Me and Je55e... holy shit 10 years ago??!?!?

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8102/8596778028_35de5ca523.jpg

(I was trying to find pictures of my cat when I first got her and fell into a nostalgia hole. Also LOL at my overalls phase.)

fun busters <3

That shirt had a picture of G. Gordon Liddy with a "no circle" on his face! I have no idea what the hell it meant.

Hahaha! That's great.