Two or Three Things I Know For Sure uses pictures, captions, and text just like Fun Home to portray the story of the author, Dorothy Allison's childhood and upbringing. Not unlike Fun Home, Two or Three Things ... is autobiographical, which made me want to explore the idea of why authors feel they want to include visual aspects in retelling the story of their lives, even if slightly fictionalized for entertainment value.

In class, my group was assigned the task to analyze a photo of and the story surrounding it of Allison as a child. It was humorous to read her own thoughts on her image as a child and helped build the story around it she was trying to portray. Around 1995, the earliest publication year of this novel, while entering the era of the computer, I believe Allison, just like Bechdel, took advantage of modern multimedia to help the reader grab a sense of "connectivity" to the author's story.

So, I decided to join in the fun. Above is a picture of me, that I love to make fun of, during freshman year of high school. And yes, that is all really my hair. Whether it be my patented feauxhawk or the "jewfro" I was sporting above, I've always been big into hair (no pun intended considering the jewfro). This was taken outside my best friends home just after our buddies and I had one of our "band practices" which consisted of a quarter of music and 3/4 of taking pictures of ourselves "playing" music.  We certainly fell victim to the glamour of the "high school kids in a band" myspace era and would do whatever it took to stop being the quiet nerdy kids in school and meet a girl or two. The jewfro didn't help this cause much.