Miso Stupid

Occasionally there will be times in your life where you will realize that you are getting older. These happen now-and-then starting probably about when you graduate grade school and are often little things like noticing the trees in your neighborhood growing taller, finding a grey hair, or the classic of catching yourself say something your parents said that you had hated. But many of these changes are gradual and don’t really come as a shock.

I didn’t realize it until two incidents that occurred recently, but a much more moving sign of getting older seems to involve not yourself, rather other people around you. Particularly people you haven’t seen in a while and then suddenly come in contact with with. Two such incidents occurred to me recently and it was quite honestly a little scary.

The first of which was a friend whom I probably hadn’t seen for about three years. I randomly came across him while going out one night in the city and while I easily recognized him I was surprised by how much older he looked. It was probably a combination of the time passed and maybe some poor ageing on his part but it was an eye opener for sure that reflected back on me. That’s not the face of the guy I remember, “Am I also that much older looking then I was just a few years ago?”.

The second incident just occurred tonight, this time involving a chance meeting with someone whom I know, but not personally. I was watching a Tivo’d episode of The Office entitled “Money” and in the commercials immediately following the part where Michael shouts out “I declare bankruptcy!” (which is totally hilarious, my roommate almost fell off his chair upon hearing it, literally) there is a commercial for that new Bee Movie by Dreamworks. They call these little plugs for the movie “Bee Movie TV Juniors” and they are totally gay, like a bunch of old guys trying to still be funny (I’m guessing Seinfeld wrote them or something). Anyway, in this particularly lame one Jerry runs into this guy in the hallway who’s complaining about his obviously fictitious qusi-homosexual scenes in the movie with Jerry. I’m looking at this guy and he looks familiar, like William Shatner’s younger brother or something, and then I suddenly realize who it is; It’s Ferris Bueller, aka Matthew Broderick! Holly shit, that poor bastard went to crap in a hurry!

I had just watch that movie Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, which was one of my favorite movies as a kid and Ferris is kind of always the role I picture him as and when I saw this grey-haired, old man-child face and bloated body guy in this commercial I was frightened! It’s like a piece of my childhood died at that moment. Maybe that was just a bad shot of him because I swear I have seen other pictures of him where he’s older but doesn’t look so friggin’ bad, but it doesn’t really matter, the damage is done and I feel old now. I had even thought about being his buddy Cameron from the movie for Halloween but figured nobody would know who the hell I was. Cameron’s dad’s Ferrari 250 GT Spyder is totally hot BTW, even if it is just a replica. Also hot was Cameron’s 80’s chic house. I totally want that phone he’s got! If anyone can identify which phone it is, let me know.