Am I the only one who thinks this is bizarre?

So I’m just catching up on your average special interest story in the Tribune when I come across this article. It’s about a guy who hung a naked picture of VP candidate Sarah Palin (not her real body) in his wife’s Chicago bar because he has a colossal crush on her.

The picture has brought in a lot of new patrons and garnered a flood of local media attention. There are so many levels of this story that baffle me—but I decided to hold my judgment. UNTIL I got to this paragraph:

“…naked, smiling, high-heeled Palin holds a shotgun in front of an Alaskan landscape in a portrait displayed at the North Side bar, the Tribune reports. The owner's husband, who is crushing on Alaska's governor, had his lookalike daughter pose for the maverick's body…”

And then the article casually ambles on as if that last sentence wasn’t a big deal.
Um.
Okay.
What normal father uses his daughter’s body as a guideline for a nude picture of a politician? Clearly the author of this article took the wrong angle for this story.

Obviously this is one of those families that you hope and pray you never have the misfortune of marrying into. Because if you do, you’ll come downstairs one Christmas morning and see the entire family casually sketching nude portraits of themselves while drinking eggnog, and raucously cheering: "LONG LIVE INTERFAMILY DATING!" (And then your spouse’s father will try to play tickle monster with you on his lap).

Just saying.


Photo Credits:
Harry’s BarWili_hybrid, Flickr