Jordan Parks

Jordan Parks was a teenage girl in my neighborhood when I was a tween. She was strange in a way I realize now was probably being on autistic spectrum. She was into super technical stuff, but not into other nerdy things. She reminded me a lot of a human version of the character Gadget Hackwrench on Chip and Dales Rescue Rangers and I ended up with a huge girl-crush on her.

She was really bad at socializing, but wanted the attention so she had a tendency to take her clothes off. The first time I ever saw a human butthole it was hers and I was, honestly, WAY too young to have been present but that a long, weird story for another day.

She was also the first person to explain to me that two girls could be in love and have sex. Though that WAY longer to explain than it should have - she was a bad teacher and I was in retrospect embarrassingly naive about anything sexual. As an adult I realized that I think she had a crush on me, but knew I was too young to pursue it.

I've seen her recently and talked in passing at the groceries and other than a different hair style and glasses, some crow's feet and very well placed 20 pounds she hasn't aged a day. Her sense of fashion hasn't changed significantly, though she no longer wears overalls. (It's like she's uncomfortable wearing clothes and equally uncomfortable naked.)

Behind the Picture:

The model's 3D appearance is strong inspired by a young Michelle Meyrink who played Jordan Cochran in the 1985 movie Real Genius and Judy in the 1984 movie Revenge of the Nerds. (She was a hot, weird nerd girl in both films.) Her performance as Jordan was the direct inspiration for the personality behind the mouse-girl Gadget Hackwrench.

There really was a weird girl in my neighborhood with the last name Parks, but other than simply being kind of quiet and standoffish I don't recall what was so strange about her. I remember her as being 3-4 years older than me, pretty enough and had long curly black hair with no bangs. As an adult my parent have mentioned she had a strange family, and for this character I've taken it to mean "free love" Hippies who settled down in the suburbs of Southern Indiana and had kids.