OK, so who is this guy? And how can my suppossedly comedic beefcake postings for the ladies (and gentlemen of certain persuasion... eh, Shinobi.wind?) be educational?
You're looking at Jon Erik Hexum, star of such television gems as Voyagers and Cover-Up. What, haven't you caught the reruns on Nick at Night TV Land? Oh, yeah, not ready for prime time.
Basically, these shows ran on one big cylinder (?) Jon Erik Hexum's good looks. The ladies tuned in to see Hexum as a time traveling guardian with the emotional range of Dudley Dooright paired with a precocious 12-year-old history buff with an Afro. And they followed Hexum over to the action romance of Cover-Up which stretched his acting chops by asking him toplay a male model -- who happened to be a covert agent. Classics both.
Anyway, Mr. Lantern Jaw here was fooling around on the set and had the bright idea one day of playing Russian Roulette with a prop revolver. He pulled the trigger and discharged a blank round. No problem?
Actually, it's a big problem. Blanks are still explosive charges of gunpowder, and the combustible powder is held in the brass casing by wax and/or paper wadding. At that close range, the wadding punched a hole into Hexum's skull and deep into his brain.
So, let's all remember the most important rules of handling firearms:
1.) Always assume the weapon is loaded.
2.) Never let the muzzle cover anything you aren't willing to destroy.
Because beauty is only skin deep, but stupid sometimes cuts through the bone...
8 comments:
I'll give you this: that guy's chin is pretty amazing!
Thank goodness nobody let him play with a double-barreled shotgun... or a chainsaw...
Are you saying the Jon Erik Hexum was shooting blanks?
Lots of people die from their own stupidity. Some methods stand out more than others and earn people those Darwin Awards. No doubt there were many who wanted to procreate with him. It's probably good and part of the natural order of things that he has passed on and cannot pass on his badly proportioned genome.
Hexum was a big time TV star, but he couldn't afford a shirt? Looks like he cut a bad deal with his agent. Maybe the gunplay wasn't as accidental as it appeared. Maybe he had no other way out of the contract.
Hey now, who keeps posting "Beefcake"? Not me.
I'm just giving the people what they seem to want. These beefcake posts sure generate a lot of comments...
Shinobi.wind, You had better leave JRF alone. We have KNOWN jrf for years.
Great. How quickly this has descended from "Arch" to "Sophomoric."
You guys are truly the best.
And for the record, my fashion sense -- such as it is -- is completely my own.
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