I’ve been hanging on since last week to this notice:
.@HouseOfCards issues casting call for season 4 extras: http://t.co/jY9qNQ37eZ pic.twitter.com/AyuBEtTKvS
— The Hill (@thehill) May 7, 2015
And I’m thinking, who would be better qualified than I?
I’ve got the acting chops, and extensive experience in the actual, real-life political world. “House of Cards” has characters who are bloggers and newspaper editors; I am or have been both. As for Washington experience, I used to supervise reporters in Washington; shouldn’t that count?
Uh-oh. The Hill says:
The casting call announcement advises “House of Cards” hopefuls to come “camera ready” in their “best upscale attire.” Men are asked to “use hair product,” while the ladies should “have your hairstyle and makeup applied as we will be taking your photos for you.”
Dang. I don’t “use hair product,” and can’t we just use this picture below that Kelly Payne took of me at the state GOP convention earlier this month? I mean, the fact that it was taken at such an event, by someone who has actually run for office in South Carolina (which Kevin Spacey has only pretended to do), should count for something.
In fact, why do I even have to show up for a cattle call? Just have your people call my people…
And if you don’t like that picture, how about this one, which was taken at the Republican NATIONAL Convention in NYC in 2004 by none other than Bobby Harrell, a powerful politician who was recently at the center of his own “House of Cards”-style scandal?
Am I qualified, or WHAT?
Or this one, of me with some guy who was running for office in 2008?
Wait… that story says they’re looking for black tie.
OK, it’s an oldie, but how about this shot of me with Dan Quayle? I think I’m telling him, “Sir, in South Carolina, we dress for dinner!”
Blogging isn’t necessarily an exercise in narcissism.
Just if you do it right…
Ricky Gervais got nuttin’ on you
Vest or bow tie.
OK, I said Bobby Harrell was in a “House of Cards”-type scandal, but there was no sex — that I know of.
So if that’s what you want, here I am with the ex-CIA director who let secrets slip to his hot inamorata. How’s that? (I’m just throwing in Lindsey Graham as a bonus.)
Not the greatest picture of me, I’ll admit. Needed a haircut. But if you need a Daniel Patrick Moynihan type, I’m your huckleberry…
You didn’t need a haircut, you just needed some “hair product.” Experience, portfolio, “camera ready”: CHECK. Hair product: NO CHECK.
Brad is probably like my husband. Their hair is sort of self-styling. Comb it in place when it’s wet, and it tends to stay there.
Yup. Comb it over while wet, and it’s there for the day.
Hey, when I’m a Hollywood heartthrob, a tidbit like that will be worth a magazine cover story…
I’ll try to remember all of y’all when I hit it big…
Oh, and I definitely need a trim there. Can’t you see that unseemly clump of hair growing out of the back of my neck?
Either a cut, or grow it to shoulder length…
But growing it out would just INCREASE the confusion between me and the other Brad — the one who will be known as “Brad the Less” after my big break…
Mullet!
When the back of my neck gets like that, my wife, Delilah, starts following me around with clippers…
How tall is Lindsey? 5’8″? I know I’m taller than you are and you appear to have a couple inches on him.
Probably about that.
I didn’t realize Petraeus was so little until I saw him standing next to me in this…
It’s funny how I sometimes don’t perceive people’s actual heights until I see a picture such as this.
It’s like — if a woman is tall for a WOMAN, I’ll think of her as taller than I am — and then see us standing side-by-side, and realize she isn’t. Although occasionally, she IS, and then I perceive her as being at least 6-5 or something.
The mind plays tricks.
So which am I?
I mean, LOOK at me! I’m standing next to perhaps the most celebrated warrior of his generation (pre-scandal), and my shoulders are at least 50 percent broader than his!
I didn’t realize that I was SUCH a he-man. I mean, I suspected it, but…
You’re a poor man’s Sam Waterston. I see a resemblance.
As evidence:
http://bitchstolemyremote.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/charlie-skinner-sam-waterston-saving-television-journalism-and-taking-down-a-high-school-student-via-online-poker-what-a-hero.jpg%3Fw%3D630
Yep. That’s been pointed out before. And I can see it.
I had this one friend back in the 70s who used to compare me to Richard Thomas — you know, John-Boy Walton. I didn’t see that at ALL. I think she meant he had a similar vibe or something, because there was no physical resemblance.
Maybe James Woods, if you smoothe his rough edges a bit…
Never seen the show,but let’s be real,Nick still has the best hair and songs in rock and roll=