Kids can be really helpful sometimes.

A while back there was annoying advertising for the TV show “Skins” on every single subway car in New York.  There was a certain actor who for some reason drove me particularly crazy in these pictures; something about the way he posed and smirked for the camera just drove me nuts.  So one day I was pointing him out to Troy and complaining when Huck very quietly said that the actor reminded him of someone else.  He was embarrassed to say it aloud (for obvious reasons) so he gently whispered into my ear, “Helen Keller.”

There are no words to describe how much this gross, somewhat sleazy seeming character does not in any way resemble Helen Keller, but I will say this: his pictures stopped annoying me.  Now they make me giggle.

Thanks, sonny.