I promised you a picture of me in THAT bear suit and its finally time to come good on my promise. My apologies for how long its taken me to post this - last week was full of rather fun distractions (more on which in future blog posts....stay tuned).
The scene of the crime - a very high-end high rise condo complex in River North, one of the swankiest neighborhoods in Chicago. As it was to be a swimsuit photo shoot, there needed to be a swimming pool involved, so I'd press-ganged the lovely Chappers to be my accomplice/photographer and had arranged to go round to her apartment building at 7am last Friday morning. My hope was to minimize the degree of exposure and thus the risk of arrest for public indecency. Alas, Chappers lives in a building which seems to be full of healthy-living peeps with no regard for my need for privacy, so my first (and only) bearsuit photo shoot was not unobserved.
Frankly, I'm not sure who was more disturbed - me or them.
If you are a new blog-follower and have absolutely no idea what is going on, then read these pre-amble blog posts first. You have been warned.
http://sazzinthecity.blogspot.com/2015/04/bearing-it-all-for-charity.html
http://sazzinthecity.blogspot.com/2015/04/its-getting-beary-scary.html
http://sazzinthecity.blogspot.com/2015/04/t-minus-79-days.html
So, without any further ado - in the words of the sadly-departed Jon Stewart, here it is. Your moment of Zen.
Daniel Johnson - you are a git.
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| A reminder of what was at stake. Me, in this. This is the front view. |
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| And the party continues in the back. Steady. |
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| The scene of the crime. Oh it LOOKS deserted now... but the moment you step out of the locker rooms in a bearsuit.... |
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| They have NO idea of the trauma that is about to unfold.... |
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| Alas, it wasn't an itsy bitsy teeny weeny bikini. It was a very hairy beary scary shiny abomination... |
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| Working my way up to my grand entrance... |
WAIT FOR IT
WAIT FOR IT
ALMOST READY TO COME OUT
ARE YOU READY FOR THIS?
HERE WE GO!!!
HERE COMES THE BEARSUIT!!
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| TA-DA!!! What's that? Oh this TOTALLY counts! As promised, I am wearing the bear swimsuit, You just have a 100% extra bear bonus, that's all. |
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| I must admit - the effect was rather more fetching than I'd hoped for... |
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| I don't know how the person behind me was able to carry on with their training session with such a vision of loveliness right in front of them. People are just SO weird. |
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| The life of a top swimsuit model is exhausting. Taking a break mid-shoot. |
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| Safety first. |
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| Daniel. You are MOST welcome..... |
So there you have it. The Bear Swimsuit taken to the next level. Well worth $11,000 in donations, methinks,
And now, please excuse me. I have a certain item of polyester clothing to go and set fire to.....
