Pit stains and celebrities
Jun 14th, 2008 by dino-ray
Earlier this week, I went to a screening of The Rocker starring Rainn Wilson (a.k.a. Dwight Schrute from “The Office”), Emma Stone (a.k.a. Jules from “Superbad”), Josh Gad (a.k.a. that funny dude from “Back to You”), Christina Applegate (a.k.a. reinvented comedienne from “Married With Children”) and this one young man that few people know about (but soon will) musician and now actor, Teddy Geiger.
I had the chance to interview the young man, but first I had to make an uphill Stockton Street trek to the Ritz Carlton, the site of the interview.
The day was quite hot and I was wearing jeans and my small scale gingham Polo Ralph Lauren button-up shirt. I thought it would cooperate with the weather and for a while it seemed like it did.
I did my interview with Geiger. He was very nice and I, as usual, was very giggly and annoying. I did my traditional “take a picture with a famous person” post interview ritual. I didn’t look at the picture after it was taken, because I didn’t feel the need to. I shook hands with him, wished him luck at his performance at the Great American Music Hall that evening.
I walked out lit a cigarette and confronted the city heat with the satisfaction of another celebrity interview under my belt.
Later that night when I got home, I finally looked at the picture and I saw this:
There they were. Pit stains. Staring me in the face. I look so gross. I wonder if Teddy even noticed. Maybe that’s why he is standing far away from me. Why didn’t anyone tell me? I feel so mortified and disgusted. This is totally one of the moments when I would write into one of those women’s magazines and tell them this story in hopes that I would get a high embarrassment rating to validate my life.
…and yes, I was wearing deodorant. Apparently, it wasn’t strong enough to block the perspiration under my pits on that uber-hot day in SF.
Well, like the perfectionist I am, I thought I would change history and Photoshop the pit stains out of the picture, hoping to erase this degrading moment from my life…
Wow - it looks like I didn’t sweat AT ALL.
Unfortunately, no matter how hard I Photoshop, I will probably be forever known to Teddy Geiger as that “Filipino boy who giggled and sweated a lot.”