Back in August 2004, I posted my first image of me as someone else. It was a post called Free Willie and it was a brief one about Willie Nelson and some not so kind comments about his singing but acknowledging his place in music history. I feel bad about my comments about his voice. I have come to think it is great so I'm not so sure what my problem was back in 2004 other than I was still in that phase of thinking it was funny to make fun of what other people liked. And I greatly admire Willie and recently purchased an autographed photo of him. He is in his 90s now and unfortunately probably won't be around too many more years.
Regardless of my digressions, the image above was me dressed up as Willie Nelson for a skit I performed at a going away event at my place of work. The engineer who was retiring liked Willie Nelson, so in honor of him, I dressed up like Willie and performed a version of "My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys" rewritten as "My Heroes Have Always Been Engineers." It was a time before my total aversion to wearing costumes kicked in and to this day I can't believe I played my guitar and sang in public. But I did it as Willie Nelson. And I posted the photo on my fledgling blog.
Now, as I embrace AI and have obviously launched images of myself as famous characters to the next level, it occurred to me that I should go back and recreate some (if not all of the images) I created or posed for using the miracle of ChatGPT. So my first harkens back to me as Willie.
I do look like a meatier Chip off the Old Willie if I do say so myself!
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