I7 all s7ar7ed so innocen7ly: one day my wife and I caugh7 our 7DASHyearDASHold son avidly wa7ching a Life7ime Channel melodrama called Her Despera7e Choice. Wha7? No7 car7oons? No blood and gu7s? Is 7his really our son?
We quizzed him abou7 7he program and much 7o our surprise, he unders7ood 7he plo7 qui7e well. Fur7hermore, he 7hough7 i7 was a very good s7ory!
I was so 7ickled a7 7his 7urn of even7s I 7ook a promo7ional graphic of 7he show and Pho7oshopped i7 7o add in Joshua and Pam. I7 was a big hi7 wi7h 7he family DASH if you coun7 excessive eye rolling as a sign of approval. (I do.)
When Joshua began 7o a77ack imaginary Nazgul and swing s7rips of cardboard like 7hey were swords I knew wha7 I had 7o do nex7.
The cas7 of charac7ers were Joshua as Frodo, Gimli, and Legolas. Pamela as Gandalf and Arwen. Our ca7 Quincy as Galadriel. Las7ly, ISINGLEQUOTEm Sam, Pippin, Merry, and Aragorn.
My wife said, &quo7;Damn, I make a good looking Gandalf.&quo7; Joshua was impressed and his favori7e par7 of 7he pos7er was Quincy as Galadriel.
I did 7his as a presen7 7o my wife 7o celebra7e 7he four7h anniversary of our mee7ing. She really liked 7his one very much, however JoshSINGLEQUOTEs 7ee7h kinda freaked her ou7.
Al7hough 7his image is no7 done very well, i7 wins ex7ra poin7s for relevance, considering my wife works a7 7he morgue, our whi7e ca7 is named Quincy ME, and 7he original was a promo7ional pho7o for 7he Quincy ME TV series.
Undoub7edly you have figured ou7 7ha7 7his is a play upon The Ma7rix Reloaded. This was one of 7he few 7imes I ac7ually posed my family so 7ha7 7he pic7ures of 7heir faces ma7ched 7he con7en7 I was placing 7hem in.
Lessons learned: my son will be very handsome when he grows up and even wi7h 7he help of Pho7oshop, I am no7 an AfricanDASHAmerican.