Partying like it’s 1982

You know how some people look better when they’re younger and some look better when they’re older after they’ve grown into their bodies, gotten sensible haircuts and no longer treat fashion as alien science? This photo of me going out for my grad ceremony in June 1982 clearly demonstrates I am in the latter group.

I did my best to fix the photo in Lightroom (it had a lot of noise thanks to the 1890s camera technology used) but there is no image manipulation program that can fix the hair, glasses or all of those dismembered heads on the wall behind me.

Stylin' for Grad 1982
Stylin’ for Grad 1982

Hair, big big hair

One of my 1982 high school grad photos. The photographer told me to look serious. As you can see, I took his request to heart. There is so much to admire here — the cold “when the hell do I get out of here?” look in my eyes, the mountain of hair that echoes the recently passed 70s, the coolio aviator-style glasses and the thin smudge of hair pretending to be a mustache.

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More photos being added to the scary School Photos gallery.