freshvintage: I Dig Doug

February 10, 2007

I Dig Doug

Doug is my sister Erin's husband. They both went to Ursinus College, but they didn't get together until they had both graduated. Doug was an obnoxious frat boy. When Erin was a freshman, she knew him as that guy who would throw boloney at her friends in the cafeteria. When Erin was a sophomore, she invited me to Ursinus to see David Spade perform in their gym. This was during his funny Saturday Night Live years and we were big fans at the time. Doug and his "brothers" had been partying at a farm all day (I still don't know why) and were shouting cow calls during the whole show. "Yamma Yamma Yamma!" If I knew that day that Erin would eventually marry one of those cow-calling assholes, I would have asked my parents to force her to study abroad in Myanmar.

But, it all worked out. They fell in love five years later and got married. Doug's classmates and faculty from Ursinus are still dumbfounded that he is now a nanotechnology scientist at a pharmaceutical company. But he hasn't changed a bit. Remember my mom's yard sale that I talked about a few months ago? Doug decided to dress up in some of the clothes that my mom was selling. Here he is, looking so dapper in too-tight ladies' blue polyester pleated pants, a t-shirt that proudly states "Color Me Grandma", and holding a Las Vegas oven mitt:

That get-up just beckons "come hither", huh?

In honor of the recovering frat boy's birthday, I was commissioned by my sister to create a special bag for holding his prized liquor (Wild Turkey 101). I made a bag and shoddily embroidered this loving sentiment on it: