boogedy is in the eyeball of the beholder

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I just changed the picture on my MySpace and Friendster pages (yeah, I use the same picture and text on both sites. I only have so much self-promoting wittiness in me). Stephanie had sent me a concerned email about the old one (left): “Your eyes look all boogedy.” I wasn’t sure what boogedy-ness was, exactly, but when I clicked on the pic and saw it close up, I decided that it must mean “kind of red and wrinkly and cracked out, and maybe slightly wall-eyed.”

But just as I was about to upload a new, less scary photo, I got a MySpace message from a young man in Virginia who insisted, among other things, “Your eye balls is the light of my day.”

I would never want to deprive anyone’s day of light, but I am starting to understand how movie stars feel: You dye your hair brunette for a role, and suddenly half your fans hate you, while others congratulate you for your newfound depth. It’s a hard life. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m late for my manicure. So which way should I go, adoring public: vixen red or pearly pink?

Comments

Tracy Lynn said…
Dude, I think that you look so pretty in that picture! Very 1920's Dorothy Parker. Right on!
I'd go vixen, but that's just me.
February 10, 2006 at 8:37 AM
Cheryl said…
That was the idea, to create an aura of mystery and love-hate-ness! And I generally take really terrible pictures, where I look drunk even if I'm sober. So of course I tried to pick one of my rare good shots for the internet...but alas, the result was boogedy-ness. Or at least semi-boogedy-ness.
February 10, 2006 at 11:13 AM
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