Halfway down the Danube: My seventeenth minute of fame

October 19, 2005

My seventeenth minute of fame

Last week my friend Mike Loew at the Onion called and asked me, "Carlos, you have a nice suit, right?" This is the result.

I'm the corpse in the lower right.

I'm meant to be the corpse of New Mexico governor Bill Richardson, who I guess I resemble a bit, maybe hungover with a good haircut a dozen years from now:

the late governor of New Mexico, Bill Richardson

We did not rent out the Ohio statehouse for the photo. I actually spent an hour face down on the hardwood floors of the Onion's Soho offices, thinking "what's my motivation?" until the left side of my lips fell asleep, pressed between the floor and my teeth.

Comedy is hard.

I'm also the veteran cop in this photo (the guy on the left), with some very slight, almost imperceptible Photoshopping:

I have no idea whose face this originally was

I stuck out my gut to get that "I spend a lot of time at the doughnut shop" look, while Chad Nackers, the Onion's Jesus body-double, took the shots. Then they darkened the skin on the hands a bit, pasted in the face, et cetera.

The tie isn't mine either.

Posted by coyu at October 19, 2005 04:23 AM

Comments

Totally unrelated to the post, I'm afraid, but I thought Doug might be interested in this recent proliferation... :)

Posted by: Raoul Djukanovic at October 19, 2005 05:04 PM

We really have to put contact e-mails on the blog.

Posted by: Carlos at October 19, 2005 09:38 PM

"hungover with a good haircut" vs Stone Sober with a bad haircut -it is a pick 'em

Congrats my necrose friend on your photo shoot

"corpse of New Mexico governor Bill Richardson" - another Halloween constume idea stolen - Bastards

Posted by: Francis Burdett at October 20, 2005 02:09 AM

It's true: Bill Richardson could be your uncle, or much-older brother.

I would have known it was you, BTW. The hair.

Doug M.

Posted by: Doug M. at October 20, 2005 11:56 AM

You know, I asked Carrie about that, and she said no, don't be silly. But she's seen the homologous series of my relatives. My actual brother, the names "Lou Diamond Phillips" and (less often but more annoyingly) "Tom Cruise" pop up.

Posted by: Carlos at October 20, 2005 02:31 PM

Your brother does not look like Tom Cruise. Your brother wants to *be* Tom Cruise, except for the loony views. Lou Diamond Phillips, he does look a little bit like him. You do have the same hair as Bill Richardson, and it is a striking enough head of hair that I could see how people could make the connection.

Posted by: Carrie at October 25, 2005 07:29 PM