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This guy greeted me on my last day of work at Allegra last Friday. He organized a whole going away party at noon where I got a full fledged send off from all the great people I’ve gotten to know over the past two years.
I nearly pawned a Polaroid SX-70 for a Gmail Beta account in 2004. I was determined to ditch my old astro_astro@hotmail.com account for the sleek and professional email address: kcasey@gmail.com. Careful what you wish for.
A few times a week I get an email intended for Kelly Casey, or Kim Casey, or Kathy Casey or who knows who. Weird photos of random things get sent to me from cell phones and blackberries. Sometimes they’re grotesque, sometimes they’re funny and sometimes they are Lay-Z-boy.
My high school buddy slash college roommate slash good friend, Corporal Kenny Butler, is in Afghanistan right now. It’s been amazing to be able to keep in touch with him online while he’s there, a little crazy too. We get to chat over IM like he’s at camp or something, but I love it. For instance, he told me he found a ridiculously cool fox-headed fur hat that he wished he would have bought.
I had seen the inset photo recently and sent it to him with the following text:
INFO
SUBJECT: ARMY COMBAT UNIFORM (ACU) ENSEMBLE1. THE PURPOSE OF THIS MESSAGE IS TO ANNOUNCE IMPLEMENTING INSTRUCTIONS ON THE CARE AND WEAR OF THE NEW WRINKLE-FREE, UNIVERSAL FLUFFY K-9 MOUNTAIN MAN ACU ENSEMBLE APPROVED BY THE CSA ON 21 JUL 10. POLICY CONTAINED IN THIS MESSAGE IS EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY.
2. SO TUCK A PRETTY LITTLE FOX UP ON TO YOUR HEAD SOLDIER.
Then he sent me the picture above taken on the day he first saw the goofy hat. He said he might print them out to spread the word and I thought it would be fun to do the same. So if you’re at home or at work, you should download this little pdf of the instructions and print a copy. You don’t have to hang it up. Just print it out, look at it, and think good thoughts for Kenny in Afghanistan.
Oh, and before you ask, his gold tooth is real.
Mad Men is a great TV show, partly because it acknowledges recent cultural history. Martini lunches, overt office flirting, smoking in the car with the kids unbuckled, it’s hard to believe they got away with that stuff! Other of their bad habits have stayed with us though, they’re just not as obvious.