Thursday, November 18, 2004 
Me, Me, Me
Me, Me, MeMy lovely Aunt Ellen just emailed me this old photo she found of my uncle, my stepbrother and me (I have cropped out the guys to protect their privacy, early-nineties haircuts, and dated eyewear). It was taken in 1993, and although we were all together for my grandmother’s funeral, it was the beginning of the cold, dreary Chicago winter, and I was devastated to have lost her before I could present her with a great-grandchild, I am happy to note that although the sunshiny blonde has since deepened to a coarser, darker, red-tinged, dirty blonde, I no longer feel compelled to tease my bangs to get my hair so high.
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11.18.04 at 11:17 AM |
OMG you had the “claw” hairdoo? At least you’re not wearing something in day-glo paint splatter….and your t-shirt doesn’t have gigantic letters that read, “FRANKIE SAYS RELAX”.
11.18.04 at 11:19 AM |
OMG, Mindy, I had much of the same hair during the 90’s. I was always THE GIRL WITH THE LONGISH BOB. Must dredge up some of mine. Eeek!
Oh, dear LORD, have just remembered that mine hair is still in a bloody bob. Am hopeless.
11.18.04 at 11:20 AM |
Good God - what a hottie!
Rowr!
11.18.04 at 11:23 AM |
You look like a cross between Christie Brinkley and Mariel Hemingway ... secret word is ‘evidence’ ...
11.18.04 at 11:24 AM |
Lee, please don’t stop being my friend, but I DID have one of those black and white Frankie sweatshirts! The letters were like ten inches tall.
And Kimber, I have the bob again, too. It’s my long neck and my jaw. Everyone wants to pin a bob on me because of my jaw.
(My word? “Trouble.” Fucking Captcha.)
11.18.04 at 12:33 PM |
Nice cardi. You are so brave to publish this photo. I am going off to burn mine now, just in case Mr McMuffin gets ideas.
11.18.04 at 12:55 PM |
Oh, and I must say I like how you said “this old photo” and then slip in that it was 1993.
That’s like Duran Duran being called ‘classic rock.’
11.18.04 at 01:23 PM |
Nice hairdo! I poofed my bangs back then, too.
Is Ellen really your aunt?
11.18.04 at 05:02 PM |
I was going to confirm the existance of the “RELAX” shirt but Mindy beat me to it. She was sooo cool! I was also a witnes to the hair-do (and I have many other photos; said with evil laugh…) I had the same one!
11.18.04 at 05:16 PM |
I graduated from high school in 1993. I seem to remember a lot of high hair back then. At least you look good, high hair and all!
11.18.04 at 06:04 PM |
Fabulous, dahlin girl.
11.18.04 at 11:00 PM |
You haven’t changed a bit… except the hairdo. I’m sure you wore that cardigan when you were over.
11.19.04 at 02:11 AM |
Mindy had this beautiful thick, straight, cool blonde hair that always hung perfectly.
I had cowlicks.
11.19.04 at 05:38 AM |
Cool blonde is all fine and dandy, and no argument that Mindy was a stunner then (as now)—but I just want to put in here that I adore the red tint to the current, ravishingly ripened Mindy. Secret word is ‘fire’—for the firey blonde who superseded the cool one.
11.19.04 at 06:35 AM |
Chicago chicks are the best :-) Nice photo, Minds—I’m a BIG fan of your aunt’s photo work—you’re lucky to have her. Great photo…
11.19.04 at 07:34 AM |
Man, that sweat is HOTT, Mindy!
11.19.04 at 07:52 AM |
Zeno! I did NOT wear that cardigan in Belgium!! Oh the shame. No, I was much more practical, say, in white linen at a BBQ where water balloons were a feature.
11.19.04 at 08:15 AM |
Oh yes, I remember that…. would make a good post chez moi!!
11.19.04 at 09:29 AM |
...yes the extremely thin white linen! My god girl… *I* could hardly keep *my* eyes averted!!
11.19.04 at 09:32 AM |
Yes I think it would make a good post. On the photoblog…
11.19.04 at 10:06 AM |
$5 and you can have your own set Ben!
11.19.04 at 10:08 AM |
*clicking through photo album* I’m sure I’ve got a good one here somewhere Ben.
11.19.04 at 10:12 AM |
I was just writing to Zeno to chastise him and Amber:
Me: “You are both going to hell!!”
Zeno: “But I’m going to hell five dollars richer!”
My word is “inside.”
11.19.04 at 10:16 AM |
Now I’m waiting for the “White Linen Mindy in Grilled Cheese” auction on Ebay…
*meanwhile, just in case, I’ve just stuck a fiver on the scanner and I’ll be sending it to zeno momentarily*
(and my word is “common”. That may describe the Virgin Mary Kate, but not our Mindy!)
11.20.04 at 01:06 AM |
HA HA HAHA! So you had the back-combed fringe thing as well? (Okay, “teased bangs” in American; “back-combed fringe” in Scottish.) Did you have the gallons of hairspray that went with it, so your hair was actually all hard and brittle? I did!
*shudder*
11.21.04 at 10:49 AM |
Pfft, zeno’s a man, he wouldn’t notice if you’d worn that cardigan every day of your trip to Belgium. I seem to be following jilbur around today agreeing with her but my first thought was Mariel Hemingway too.
Aah, the secret word for this photo is class. Perfect.