You live Southwest of Los Angeles, living near the border with Orange County. You dad commutes to work at one of the defense contracting plants that are around the city. Close?

*southeast*

America is hard because it is so multi-cultural. Obi, being Jewish, maybe you have olive skin, curly black hair (a jewfro) and a biggish nose. But you could just as easily have straight blonde hair and blue eyes. I would imagine that in person you are an enthusiastic quick talker (not at all introverted).
Draug, I imagine to be tall (over 6 feet) and BIG (because he has told us all previously). I would imagine Draug to be geeky but gregarious and extroverted in person.

Except the height, your close. I'm only 5'11"

Goldfinger looks like Gert Frobe and is secretely plotting to set off a dirty bomb in the depths of Fort Knox while hoarding his own stash of the stuff.

I could possibly imagine Obi looking a bit like the actor Christopher Mintz-Plasse (McLovin in Superbad).

... and Draug is John Goodman.

I don't ever try to imagine what your appearance might be. I'm nto sure what the hell difference it will make, since your words will much more loudly proclaim who you are than your skin ever will. Frankly, I am kind of shocked by the question...and yet I am much more shocked that people have taken the racist bait and tried to define you in racial terms, as if they matter....

Which statements have you found racist?

I seem to recall someone somewhere posting a link to a picture of Draug, and he looks nothing like John Goodman IIRC.

I can't really develop a mental picture of Obi based on geography, since I live in the same general geographic area and know that this has got to be the most diverse metropolitan area on earth. We've got Jews of just about every flavor there is around here, from black Ethiopian Jews to blond-haired blue-eyed Aryan wannabe Jews. Also, there are more Jews here than show business jobs, so obi's father probably isn't working in that industry (especially since he's in Palmdale. If I had to guess, I'd say the aerospace industry, based on the proximity to Edwards Air Force base, which employs several thousand tons of people).

Even the mention that he is Jewish means that you are applying some racism to your description of him. That you are trying to say his hair looks like this, his that looks like that is offensive. Who the fuck cares what his abc looks like? Who cares if you remember he once said he was jewsh....he may have been lying. The point is....who cares? He might be a Jew that hates gold and love the PLO. He might be of African decent but thinks slavery was of great benefit not only to early America, but to the off-spring of slaves in general (after all, one is now the First Lady...). i.e. racial information is meaningless in terms of *any* individual. Yes....he asked the question....but I just can't believe that any of you took that damned bait and threw your pre-concieved notions of race/appearance out there, as if someone's stated opinions in chat would or could give you and accurate description of someone's appearance. Frankly. it utterly disgusts me...

Why is there always someone who does what krellin does?

"Why is there always someone who does what krellin does?"

Because without them, we would all die of boredom.

"Even the mention that he is Jewish means that you are applying some racism to your description of him."

I think you must have a different definition of racism than I do.
The fact is, to some extent (and the extent various depending upon the region and ethnicity) people do share certain physical characteristics. This is more true of ethnically homogenous regions - Scandanavia and Japan being excellent examples. If you tell me that you come from either of those regions and then ask me to guess what you look like I am probably not going to guess that you look Melanesian. If that makes me racist... Then I have don't know what you mean by racist.

Typo... the extent *varies depending upon the region

@Draug, goldfinger, and spyman:

Draug's right in that I'm a little Jewish dude, around 5'8" or so...

goldfinger's right in that my dad commutes...

And spyman's right in that I do, in fact, sport a Jewfrom (ttry as I might to keep that sucker short and combed back, it just 'fros up...) :p

NONE of you were close on my dad's profession, and LA County, goldfinger, but not near Orange, and not near the border--not too near, anyway, I suppose within the better part of a day's drive, 6 or more hours, but not San Diego-near the border...and my father has absolutely nothing to do with TV, defense, or even being a greedy Jeewish contractor or producer, as technically he'd now be a greedy Christian one of those. ;) (But nah, not at all in those fields.)

I honestly can't place a face to your names, with the exception that I assume you're all white males? Hence my question (though I meant it more along the lines of what someone from another country who's never met an American might envision us as, if they might see us as all cowboy-like or maybe like New Yorkers...?)

(Oh--and as far from olive-skinned as possible, and not black and not blonde hair.)

So you look like a young Bob Dylan hey? You grow that hair out. Jewfo's can look pretty cool.

Noy mine, haha...and it's not a big, Harpo Marx-esque fro, just enough to qualitfy as one because of my damn curly hair...alas, Sherlock Holmes, Nietzsche, Shakespeare, Hamlet, Spock--none of THEM had to suffer the indignity of the curly hair mini-fro! XD

"none of THEM had to suffer the indignity of the curly hair mini-fro!"

My cousin (a professional hair stylist) says that fashions are constantly cycling over time; in another 15-20 years, your Judeo-fro will be back in style, and we goyim will have to pay to get our hair curled to not look 'freaky' and abnormal. Fret not, thou son of Moses. Patience is all you need.

Nah, I'm not seriously upset with it, haha--I wear pretty much the same style every day:

Jeans, tennis shoes, grey/black/solid shirt, and a black blazer (with some tea in one of the pockets, of course.)

I'm like a cartoon character, I look the same day after day after day... ;)

I pictured obiwan as always wearing a blazer, oddly enough, so I guess I win there, but I saw him as being more the combat boots for footwear.

I always pictured Draug as wearing glasses, probably not too thick, just minor ones.

i always imagined you looked like philip seymour hoffman draug.

dunno why.

Its pretty easy to find a pic of Draug using google. Just sayin. Its pretty small though