My wife is a Jedi Master. Her ability to manipulate me with her Jedi mind tricks is notorious and frankly, a little annoying. While I have no actual memory of her forced persuasion, I’m told it goes something like this.
Me: ”I’m going to buy a couple of these cool shirts with the airbrushed wolves howling at the moon okay Sweetie?”
Wife: “These aren’t the shirts you’re looking for.” [Waves hand mysteriously in front of me]
Me: “These aren’t the shirts I’m looking for.”
Wife: “Move along.”
Shameful right? Well if you think that’s bad you should see how arguments with her go. No, really, you should see how arguments with her go and when you do please tell me about them; they’re all a blur for me except for the part at the end where I wind up taking her position.
As if all that isn’t bad enough, she’s taken on an apprentice. My daughter is now her official padawan and she’s already causing a great disturbance in the force. If her current ability to befuddle me grows any more, she may wind up being stronger than her Jedi mother. What will I do then? I’m tempted to take it up what I consider to be unethical behavior with the Jedi High Council but I’m a little embarrassed by the argument I’d be forced to make:
“Um, Your Jedinesses, I’d like to file a complaint about my wife and daughter using their Jedi powers on me; it’s not fair because I’m a creature of disorganized mental faculties.”
No, I think I just have to grin stupidly and bear it. Maybe it’s not all bad; we do get a magical number of free appetizers everywhere we go.
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You made me smile, Chris, but I would not worry, we are only “men”…
very strong image with great emphasis on shape
Nice Chris. Beautiful picture. I know how you feel about Jedi Masters in the house…
I just love this image, so beautiful. Plus, I laughed out loud. There’s no hope for you. But free jalapeno poppers for the whole family!
You’ve been playing around with studio lighting a bit lately and i really like it! Great image. If i had a dollar for everytime my kids skate away from a tense moment because of a smile or flattery…
strong indeed young padawon !
nice shot! that’s just the power they have over us..
fantastic portrait
(now i realized that my wife is a jedi master, too, she normally says: you don’t need that new photo equipment at all)
first of all i love this portrait. just beautiful. then, lol at your conversation. ours goes like this. hubby puts on a shirt. i say, “are you going to wear that?”, he says, “no, i was just trying it on.” you guys need to trust us.
What a fantastic image. So much strength in the perfect symmetry. And your husband/wife dialogue made me laugh. So typical…
A masterpiece, Christopher – i love this utterly, sensuous & wet & graphic & painterly. Artsy for sure, a beauty.
LOL – just to add, the look. You know it I am sure. Anytime we are about to do anything that may seem questionable to our wives, they glare at us with a look that stops us in our tracks. Terrifying, really.
Perfection this image, of form and portraiture.
You could of course become a Sith and utilise the dark side of “the force”, but I’m not sure it’s worth entering a state of war over a shirt!
You could very subtly try to establish which shirts pass the Jediness test and amaze them with your wonderfully perceptive taste…something very evident in your superb image.
Good luck!
Regrettably, the scenario you outline is all too familiar. But I must say you are the Jedi Master of cool monochromes and blog stories!!!
Very strong portrait. Fantastic light.
Chris, you better hope the Jedi master doesn’t see the write up of the image
I quite like the geometry of this shot
Does you wife give Jedi lessons? Would love to learn that trick
Christopher, two women, you must loose.
Excellent contrasts, and the shape of the hairs works perfect.
A very good BW shot! Good Christopher!
Nice day to you!
Lovely and sensuous along with beautiful softness. Excellent portrait!
A great image and accompanying words.
Ah, you say “Her ability to manipulate me with her Jedi mind tricks is notorious and frankly, a little annoying,” but you know you really love it, Chris.
Very beautiful photo!
Well that’s a man AND woman…. Beautiful image.
Absolument magnifique… Du grand art.
Photo. Texte*. Grandiose.
(*Attention quand même Christopher, le Jedi a plus d’un tour dans son sac…)