Inner
Photographer Russ Dillingham clearly doesn’t like me very much. Every time I turn around, there’s a new image of me hanging on the newsroom wall. Or my keyboard. Or the bulletin board at the front of the room designated for exceptional work and sexually questionable reporters. And while this might trouble and embarrass me, I like it quite a lot. Russ has an eye for psychology and somehow, he has cast me in roles that I might have assumed for real had fortune smiled upon me. Here is some of his work. Please stop eyeballing my breasts.

Again, Russ has created a snapshot of one of my inner personalities. I AM a large, African American basketball star somewhere deep down in the weird webs of DNA. Were it not for the fact that I’m a total cracker who can’t dunk and hates hoops, I might be in the NBA today. I was built for baseball. And for worming, skunk-like, into trash cans.
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My inner Arab troubles me. I
could dig living in the desert, but all the politics and camel spiders would freak me out. Have you ever seen those bastards? They’re as big as your head and they run run upright. Fleeing and screaming from spiders is just not the way to impress my thirty wives and eleven concubines.

Ah, my inner Kerrigan. Beneath all the poverty, hair and male genitalia, I really am an overly-coddled princess at heart. Once misfortune comes my way, I will handle it with a notable lack of dignity and then crumble under the weight of adversity. I will also sniff at menial promotional appearances because I consider them beneath me. Then I’ll just go home and play with my breasts a while. I mean, look at ‘em!
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You’ve heard the stories about my Willie but never thought they were true. But here it is, my Willie in finger-pickin’, butt-smoking action. You’ve always wanted to get your hands on my Willie and here is your chance.
Everything about Willie is dirty and there’s no sense pretending otherwise.
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Behold, my inner monkey! A lap-groping, self-spanking monkey of limited intelligence who flings feces at strangers. In a survey of 100 of my closest friends, 97 did not realize this photo had been doctored.
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December 15th, 2007 at 11:56 am
I think you look stunning in the dress, but man oh man you’ve gotta do something about the manhands!
December 16th, 2007 at 2:01 am
Nice Willie, you’ve got there.
December 16th, 2007 at 11:53 am
You never showed me Willie! He definitely beats out the dancer in you.
December 16th, 2007 at 3:14 pm
Ah. Christine seems drawn to my Willie.
December 16th, 2007 at 5:09 pm
OMG! I didn’t know your Willie smoked!
December 16th, 2007 at 6:38 pm
The monkey picture (and the feces flinging comment) reminds me of something that happened while my daughter and I were on a field trip during her time in kindergarten. The funny thing is, the photo looks exactly like the leader who screamed the loudest, threw the most feces at us and hoarded the most food.
December 16th, 2007 at 6:57 pm
Yeah, that was me. Sorry about that. I was trying to give up monkey smokes.
December 17th, 2007 at 3:58 pm
What’s with the Al Davis chartreuse teeth in the dancing photo? Tell me Russ doctored your jibs. If not, look for Crest White Strips in your stocking.
December 17th, 2007 at 4:00 pm
Oops. The anonymous wise ass is me.
July 30th, 2008 at 11:47 am
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