centurion
[Oh man. I totally forgot to upload this Friday night.]
Football season is big here, so on Friday night most of the photographers are assigned football games to shoot. Somehow I've become the unofficial photographer for all the Broome High School games, and I'm cool with that - because it's fun.
Why is Broome so exciting? It could be the fact they they are nearly undefeated and their science is tight. It could be the yummy booster club hamburgers I always get. Or it could be that all the folks at Broome are so darn friendly.
But for me, I think the real reason is: the CENTURION.
Broome's mascot is the Centurion (pictured above), and it's the weirdest-coolest-creepiest thing I've ever seen. This screen shot doesn't do it justice. It's basically a horribly hideous, freaky head mounted on the body of a small, energetic teen girl. Before the weather got cold, its legs were exposed and I'd be looking at this disgusting thing and think, "nice stems" (and then feel horribly ashamed).
At first, I wanted to see what the girl looked like under the mask. Maybe she was an ugly ducking cheerleader and they made her wear the mask. Maybe there was no mask at all, and that was the creature's actual head. I just didn't know.
One time I tried to find out. I went up to the cheerleaders bus as they were coming out, and I said, "Which one of you is the freaky mascot?" But she wasn't there that time - which led me to believe that maybe she actually was a hideous monster they had locked in the basement like that guy Sloth from The Goonies. (or maybe she just had a lot of homework that night)
Anyway, every time I edited together my Broome highlights I would make sure to get the Centurion spazzing out. The sports guys would always kinda half-laugh-half-sigh and say, "Hmm..You got the mascot in there again."
Well, I finally got over all that. I would go to Broome to shoot football, and I've learned to accept (possibly love) that freakish monster dancing at the 50 yard line.
But, Friday night I hang around just a moment too long...and I saw the mask come off!
Of course, this wasn't like Disneyland - where if Goofy's head came off a dozen kids would start crying or pee thier pants while on a murderous rampage. When the Broome Centurion's head came off, everyone kinda smiled and let out a pleasant sigh, "Awww."
And, now... I just don't know what to think anymore about this whole thing.
Football season is big here, so on Friday night most of the photographers are assigned football games to shoot. Somehow I've become the unofficial photographer for all the Broome High School games, and I'm cool with that - because it's fun.
Why is Broome so exciting? It could be the fact they they are nearly undefeated and their science is tight. It could be the yummy booster club hamburgers I always get. Or it could be that all the folks at Broome are so darn friendly.
But for me, I think the real reason is: the CENTURION.
Broome's mascot is the Centurion (pictured above), and it's the weirdest-coolest-creepiest thing I've ever seen. This screen shot doesn't do it justice. It's basically a horribly hideous, freaky head mounted on the body of a small, energetic teen girl. Before the weather got cold, its legs were exposed and I'd be looking at this disgusting thing and think, "nice stems" (and then feel horribly ashamed).
At first, I wanted to see what the girl looked like under the mask. Maybe she was an ugly ducking cheerleader and they made her wear the mask. Maybe there was no mask at all, and that was the creature's actual head. I just didn't know.
One time I tried to find out. I went up to the cheerleaders bus as they were coming out, and I said, "Which one of you is the freaky mascot?" But she wasn't there that time - which led me to believe that maybe she actually was a hideous monster they had locked in the basement like that guy Sloth from The Goonies. (or maybe she just had a lot of homework that night)
Anyway, every time I edited together my Broome highlights I would make sure to get the Centurion spazzing out. The sports guys would always kinda half-laugh-half-sigh and say, "Hmm..You got the mascot in there again."
Well, I finally got over all that. I would go to Broome to shoot football, and I've learned to accept (possibly love) that freakish monster dancing at the 50 yard line.
But, Friday night I hang around just a moment too long...and I saw the mask come off!
Of course, this wasn't like Disneyland - where if Goofy's head came off a dozen kids would start crying or pee thier pants while on a murderous rampage. When the Broome Centurion's head came off, everyone kinda smiled and let out a pleasant sigh, "Awww."
And, now... I just don't know what to think anymore about this whole thing.
7 Comments:
Consider yourself bedazzled. It's the magic of the mask. It's not just that this thing that shouldn't be is alive before you, as an adult you realize that there is something (someone) hidden inside. The mystery of the unknown carries great power over people. I've seen it many times. Actually, I have a friend who wears his Caveman Robot(www.cavemanrobot.com) costume to conventions and performances and people are completely entranced by the thing. Girls who wouldn't give my friend a second look out of the mask are all over him when he's in the suit.
Some might be taken aback by the posting of a teenage girl's photo on the internet, expecially a cheerleader.
Does her shirt say "poon gang?"
Kind of looks like "8 Poon Gang"
Pretty sure it's Spoon Gang...whatever the hell that is.
Spoon Gang? And it looks like the dude on the shirt is bending something. What is this, a Uri Geller fan club or something?
It says "poon gang." I should know because I was the president of my high school's "dong club."
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