Intimidation is the new awesome

the weather has been really nice in San Francisco this week, so aaron and I decided to play a nice friendly game of tennis down in the mission.

i didn't know a lot about tennis, so aaron showed me the ropes. first he taught me to wear a shoelace in my hair as a headband, like all real (stylish) sports people do.

i tried it, but i don't really know how all those stylish sports people put up with the itchy forehead part.

We decided that the other really important aspect to playing tennis was the intimidation factor. Every player ought to have some sort of signature move that really embodies their power and skill while striking fear into the hearts of all those that dare oppose them on the court.

aaron's menacing pose:

modeled after the fearsome Obi Wan fighting stance (nicely portrayed in this fabulous artist's interpretation)

Mine was a little more complicated, and involved me swinging my racket around in wide arcs slowly, and then ending with a powerful point of the racket.

My inspiration came from Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, in the scene where Bill and Ted visit the weird future dome place and find out that Wyld Stallyn's music was the foundation for the whole future society. Everyone dressed in robes and did the slow, arcing air guitar as a tribute to Bill and Ted. It seems like the kind of move that can put an end to war and poverty by aligning the planets and bringing them into universal harmony. I thought that was some powerful symbolism, and wanted to really bring that to my game.


We spent so long working on how to intimidate one another that we didn't really play much tennis. But I think we scared everyone else on the courts.