It’s all about the glamour and the pain

Trump supporters -- the guns, the clothes -- you just know it.

"Now before I print out your shortlist of houses we're going to see tomorrow, I just wAnna know what church y'all go to?"

Those are divine ! Im sure theres some pics I took over the years Im very glad arent in existence !

The Hand is essential.

Well hello!

I recognised one of the photos. It resonates me because the day of his death was the day I arrived in Australia five years ago.

[quote]Schenectady High School senior Draven Rodriguez ... took his own life [21 February 2015] ...

[quote]Rodriguez, the teenager responsible for the laser-cat yearbook photo that became an Internet sensation in the fall, ...was 17.

[quote]Rodriguez’s mother, Melissa Petersen, and stepfather, Jonathan Stewart, gathered with family at the residence Friday. They declined to be interviewed by a Gazette reporter.

[quote]The humble, well-liked Rodriguez was featured by media outlets including The Huffington Post, BuzzFeed and USA Today — and was even mentioned on “The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon” — after he petitioned to have his senior yearbook photo feature himself and his cat, Mr. Bigglesworth, against a backdrop of lasers ... He first posted the image on his Instagram page.

[quote]“I don’t want to go in the yearbook with the generic ‘I-look-like-everyone-else’ photo,” he told The Daily Gazette in early September, after the photo went viral. “I wanted a ‘He looks great. Only he would try that’ photo.

[quote]“When people look at it, they will know that was me.”

[quote]The school district never agreed to let the photo share space in the yearbook with the more uniform senior portraits, but Rodriguez was able to reach a compromise with high school Principal Diane Wilkinson. [bold]She agreed to pose in another photo of the same style with Rodriguez, Mr. Bigglesworth and her dog[/bold], also taken by Giordano. The picture, they agreed, would go on the principal’s page, accompanied by a message promoting animal rescue and adoption.

[quote][bold]Their efforts to raise awareness were later recognized by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the Animal Protective Foundation of Schenectady.[/bold]

[quote]“I am absolutely heartbroken,” Alison Jimenez, an ASPCA representative, tweeted Saturday after hearing of Rodriguez’s death. “What an amazing young man. [I] was honored to have met him.”

[quote]Jimenez met Rodriguez at a Nov. 18 news conference at Schenectady High School.

[quote]Rodriguez’s creativity and love for his cat also earned him local recognition at the inaugural Capital Region Feline Film & Video Festival for Humans in October. Petersen, who accompanied her son to the festival at Spectrum 8 Theatres in Albany, said at the time [bold]she was proud of him for standing up for what he believed in and being willing to compromise[/bold].

[quote]“He never meant for it to blow up like this; it was just supposed to be a fun senior picture,” she said.

[quote]Rodriguez expressed pride in winning The Right Here, Right Meow Award for Current Achievement in Cat Excellence, which came with a gold-colored kitty litter scooper. He wore a button-down shirt and polka-dot tie to the festival, where a sold-out crowd of 186 cat lovers gathered.

[quote][bold]“I try to have a big sense of community, so doing things that are locally based means a lot to me[/bold],” he said then, less than a week before his 17th birthday.

[quote]Rodriguez was involved in the community in other ways, working closely with Mike Feurstein, founder of the How to UnMake a Bully program. Last week, Rodriguez posted a “selfie” on Instagram of himself and Feurstein. The caption read: “Had an awesome time working with the kids in Amsterdam and I’m excited to work with them next year.”

Looking at the pictures taken days away from him taking his life brings tears to my eyes.

My favorite is the “It’s Pat!” doppelgänger with the toy cat.

Is that Bobby Moynihan in the Xmas sweater?!

80’s glam

So trashy. Just like Trumpers.

Easy to laugh at, but frankly, most of them make me sad

A lot of them look like the sears and olen mills pictures everyone had in the 70s and 80s.

Why, R11?

R13 - I'm not R11 but I'll venture a guess - because most of us aren't great looking, many of us are actually kinda ugly, and we all have taken bad pictures in our lives; so snarking at these people is a bit too "memento mori."

If yxou scroll down on the page at OP's link, the pic of the oiled-up bodybuilder with the baby on his arm is kinda cute.

Also, with a few of these pix, you can tell it was a lark and the subject was in on it -- like in the X-mas sweater pic.

The picture of the stripper bothers with their sister is wrong on so many levels. LOL

Wow The guy on right is definitely on here

OP, if I wanted to see poor, tacky people, I would go to my family reunion.

Especially since that bitch is knock kneed R16 !

The guys holding his gun and his toddler is kinda hot

I may not have been there for you, but you were always on my mind.