Meet George Doe

While going through that old Livejournal the other night, I rediscovered this picture of me with George W. Bush’s stunt double at 2SER… this was the glory days of APEC 2007; Australia was hosting the APEC gatherings for that year and Sydney was declared the location for Leaders’ Week, when the leaders of the 21 member nations did their particular get-together, and accordingly the old town became something of a police state where the people who actually live here weren’t allowed into our own city. Fortunately 2SER was outside the zone, so we kept going… and that Wednesday afternoon I met the “president”. Flat and lifeless like the real thing, though nonetheless still smarter than the present incumbent. So yeah, there’s me nearly 20 years ago… my beard was controlled and had no grey in it. Hard to believe it is me somehow…