Our talented marketing commandos at the Times are putting together a new, semi-funky ad campaign with our columnists. We're supposed to be captured on film in our element, reflecting our personality; what we bring to our respective beats.
I can't wait to see the nude sauna photos of Daly and Spears, giving each other 80('s) lashes with seaweed whips soaked in eucalyptus brine.
Spent yesterday morning posing for mine, so I thought I'd offer a sneak preview before Daly and Spears read that I spoiled their photo surprise and begin spreading unwarranted rumors about what my pose will be.
We shot several poses but this is my fave. Notice the drive-in speaker hung on the bench; my Dad and I stole it from the last night of the old Midway D-I he used to run in Tarpon Springs, behind which I was conceived. Big, heartfelt thanks to Mike France's Beach Theatre and his manager Chris -- another Achiever -- who correctly spelled everything and pours a mean faux White Russian.
Remember this was shot with my camera, not the borrowed-from-Q gadgets that Times pros use and will presumably be much better.
I'm holding out hope for a billboard:
Steve Persall is the movie critic for the St. Petersburg Times. He was conceived behind a drive-in movie theater his father operated and raised in projection booths and concession stands. He doesn't care how you did it up north.
Thank you, ladies. Perhaps the sauna scene I overheard Steve and Sean discussing wasn't for the photo shoot; just an after-work way of blowing off steam, if you know what I mean.
Posted by: Steve Persall | March 16, 2008 at 10:40 AM
Awesome.
The Persall Abides.
Posted by: jane | March 15, 2008 at 11:31 PM
Excellent!
Sorry to disappoint you about the Daly and Spears' photo shoot. But word on the street is that they are recreating the Hall & Oates H2O album cover. It's close to the sauna scenario you depicted above ... and just as frightening. Er, I mean scintillating.
http://musicde.net/img/492f3231375a4e47575741374c.jpg
Posted by: Marissa | March 14, 2008 at 08:56 PM