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Mr. Belvedere and I, circa 1990. I was never an awfully cute kid, but this was a particularly off day. I look special.  And traumatized. OH WAIT maybe it’s because (you can’t tell from the photo) Mr. Belvedere was in a WHEELCHAIR and that really fucked me up.  My grimace is the snapshot of a three year old’s crushed dreams.  It’s the end of innocence.  As far as I was concerned, he was a swanky TV butler in real life too, but this reality squashed the illusion.  Mr. Belvedere, with his man-fupa and (North Face?) cardigan, just seemed like some other’s kid’s grandpa.  Imagine the face I woulda made if he DIDN’T have a british accent. FUN FACT: the man in the tapered-leg tracksuit is Robert Wagner. for reals

Mr. Belvedere and I, circa 1990. I was never an awfully cute kid, but this was a particularly off day. I look special.  And traumatized. OH WAIT maybe it’s because (you can’t tell from the photo) Mr. Belvedere was in a WHEELCHAIR and that really fucked me up.  My grimace is the snapshot of a three year old’s crushed dreams.  It’s the end of innocence.  As far as I was concerned, he was a swanky TV butler in real life too, but this reality squashed the illusion.  Mr. Belvedere, with his man-fupa and (North Face?) cardigan, just seemed like some other’s kid’s grandpa.  Imagine the face I woulda made if he DIDN’T have a british accent.

FUN FACT: the man in the tapered-leg tracksuit is Robert Wagner. for reals