I’m old enough to remember the often juvenille but extremely entertaining Spy magazine from the 1980s, and its popular feature, “Separated at Birth.” So here’s my revelation: something about Jon Huntsman has been bugging me all along. He’s a perfectly conventional-looking politician and he seems like a completely decent person. So why do I keep thinking that he reminds me of someone I used to know, someone who gives me an uneasy feeling?
ZOMG he’s Laura Palmer’s father!!!
For those of you who are too young to remember 1990-91 or who were too old to care, Twin Peaks was a supremely weird and addictive teevee show by director David Lynch in which the actor Ray Wise [at left] played the father of murder victim Laura Palmer, whose homocide was at the center of the mystery. It turned out her father was also her murderer, hence my unease whenever I see Jon Huntsman’s picture.
At least I think that explains it.
Historiann 
http://newyorker.com/talk/2011/11/14/111114ta_talk_lizza
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Are you still crushing on Jon, Spanish Prof?
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He said he believed in science!!!! I have a reason!!!
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Are all of his beautiful daughters still alive? (Are you sure?)
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Not only is that Laura Palmer’s homicidal father, but on Reaper that guy was the Devil himself! ZOMG!!!11!!!
PS – I have the first season of Twin Peaks on VHS. The box looks like the log the Log Lady carried around. Amazing that that show ever aired!
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I’m sure there are a few buried underneath, but the ones that survived seem pretty smart. ..
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I sort of think Huntsman looks less rakish and more geeky — like an (even more) aged version of Jon Cryer.
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He was awesome as the devil on Reaper. I miss Reaper. It was Buffy good.
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(I’m really glad we just finished Twin Peaks, or I’d be so mad you gave away who the murderer was!! I was only 4 when it originally aired, so I had to watch it on Netflix.)
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Sorry, Julia–it was kind of a shaggy dog story in the end, with all of that Bob bullcrap.
Oh, and Citizen Kane? Rosebud was his sled!
And the girl in The Crying Game is really a dude.
Can I spoil any other movie endings for anyone?
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The really scary ending is when the guy/and-or his family gives the Wharton School something like $50M for a building that can be seen twenty blocks away–when the leaves are off the trees and the sun angles just right!
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Brilliant.
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Ok, you started it. Now I am really going to taunt you: I want a post on Shelby, the elected leader of Occupy Denver.
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