in like flynn

had to put on my jacket. too cold. which reminds me... this is the look the fat guy in albuquerque,nm liked. collar up. i kind of like it too.

warning - the following is what happens when you stay up writing until 4:52am. after having written all day everyday for the last 2 weeks. you forget what you were writing about. you go off on tangents you really shouldn't go off on. but then again this whole website and trip is me going off on tangents i shouldn't go off on.

for some reason, i remind myself of errol flynn in this picture. or some other dashing swashbuckling type. not that i consider myself at all dashing. a little swashbuckling. but nothing close to in like flynn*. rick (my step-dad) used to watch errol flynn movies all the time when i was growing up. captain blood. the dawn patrol. the master of ballantrae. the adventures of robin hood (best version ever by the way. errol flynn looks so much better in tights than kevin costner. seriously), dodge city, etc. etc... there's more, but what's the point? as a kid, many a night was spent passed out on the living floor with an errol flynn movie in the vcr (and rick passed out in his chair). think that's how flynn... got in... my head. i imagine if i saw one of his movies now, i'd start recalling parts of it as if remembering a dream.

what else can i say about errol flynn?

well, the only other male i was strangely attracted to as a kid was - dirk benedict. aka face from the a-team aka starbuck from battlestar galactica (remember when i watched battlestar galactica at a truck stop in fargo? that ruled!). there's a striking similarity between their appearances of yesteryear. the sleazy moustaches... the ties...i don't know who i liked more growing up? probably dirk, cuz he was and is such a bad actor. i'm a sucker for cornballs. you know how corniness can sometimes be really endearing? how someone who's goofy and nice, can be attractive? yes, i'm talking about me here. i guess you warm up to these people out of a slight sense of pity. i don't mind. but i wonder, if errol and dirk were to have a face-off now, which one would win my heart? which one?

*The phrase "In like Flynn" originated as a coarse reference to Errol Flynn's powers as a seducer. In November, 1942, Flynn was charged with statutory rape, arrested and brought to trial, then acquitted. He was charged with having sexual intercourse with two girls under the age of 18. (He was 33 at the time). It was Flynn's belief that the Los Angeles district attorney had made him a scapegoat for Hollywood in order to discipline the film community. Jerry Giesler (Flynn's ace lawyer) considered Flynn an excellent witness and thought that his "gentlemanly demeanor throughout the trial had been an important factor". A new phrase was added to the English language: "In like Flynn".