President #37
February 19th, 2010
After John Adams first met his future wife Abigail, he sent her a letter detailing her “Faults, Imperfections, Defects, or whatever you please to call them.” It ranged from criticisms on the way she played cards to the way she walked on her “Leggs,” from how she hung her head like a Bullfish to his thoughts that she was too prudish and a terrible singer. She loved it. Player, player.
John Adams was a fiery and brilliant man, who was recently portrayed by the equally brilliant actor Paul Giamatti in the HBO miniseries. Which brings me to this small request- If I ever lead the kind of life where in later years someone wishes to make a miniseries about me, please please please don’t let Paul Giamatti portray me. Seriously. Please. Dude is not attractive. At least make it Steve Buscemi or something. Paul Giamatti… yikes.
(As always, click to enlarge.)
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8 Comments
Add your own1. Matt | February 19th, 2010 at 5:30 pm
great as always.
2. CandyB | February 19th, 2010 at 6:01 pm
wow. I love this. So good Barak.
3. Tommie bozich | February 19th, 2010 at 6:43 pm
Is there any way of creating a felt-board version of these? Genius.
4. Lindsay | February 19th, 2010 at 9:26 pm
Please print these on magnetic material so children can play with them and bring history to life.
This is one of my fav’s!
Well Done Boobar.
5. Dave Mays | February 20th, 2010 at 10:23 am
That’s pretty awesome Barak. From Mr. Rogers to the self portrait, I love it.
6. David Vande... | February 20th, 2010 at 2:46 pm
Barack,
Really cool post, as always.
-D
7. Mark Marianelli | April 6th, 2010 at 9:30 am
Eep… I hope John Adams doesn’t get naked and crawl into MY skin…
8. Meg | April 20th, 2010 at 12:58 pm
The letters between John and Abigail are some of my favourites. Well done here. Love the one of yourself there at the end.
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