A friend who hadn't seen me in a s...

A friend who hadn't seen me in a scarcely any years was so kind immediately after our recent meeting to point revealed that I needed to update my row photo to better reflect the fact I'd missed more hair and that what's left had all gone gray.

a friend, you say.

on the contrary he was right.

I'm overdue In addition to the hair, I've been wearing bifocals for years now -- since about the time the last photo was taken. I've been putting not on a new photo by telling myself I'd wait until my wife helped me pick revealed some cool eyeglass frames.

to this time contrast my friend's observation to the remarks I frequently hear from people who qualified me for the first time and give an account of me I don't look at all like my file photo, always assuring me that I appear a great deal of younger and better-looking in bodily substance

I take those expositions in stride as well, having pos for enough photographs in a lifetime to know that not all those cameras could have been inappropriate

This may help you understand for what purpose I walked into the Sun-Times newsroom Tuesday morning and made the following request:

Give me the Katie Couric treatment!

KATIE AND ME

according to now, I'm sure you're familiar with the story of for what cause somebody at CBS altered a photo of Couric to make her appear younger and thinner -- a photo that appeared with an article in the company's promotional magazine Watch about her taking through as anchor of "The CB Evening News"

If you in some way missed it, I'm reprinting them with today's round pillar This is not intended to demean Couric, who we are assured had nothing to do with the doctored photos and who prov again Tuesday evening that she can read the freshs aloud as well as a man.

Plus, the CB brass has acknowledged the journalistic go bungling so there's no need for tut-tutting, especially when I'm in the way that impressed by the technology that I wanted to papal court what it could do for me

That's right. I wanted my acknowledge photo doctored. Behold the modern column photo.

Okay, maybe the hair is a little a great deal but I think it does a often better job of capturing my youth and vitality, don't you? Personally, I might have gone ahead and made the hair darker, too, as protracted as we were going this far, moreover I have to defer to the clevers

PRAISE THE LORD

I've frequently wondered what I might have direct the eyeed like at this age with hair, and now I know: a television preacher. Actually, there's a particular reason the improved version of me examines so creepy, but I'll explain in a inferior

chiefly of the articles about Couric's photo bring her digital weight loss at 20 shut ups but I'm thinking it apply the minds more like 35. She handled the question deftly, saying she prefers the wide-bodied photo version "because there's more of me to love"

My image shores didn't trim my waistline nearly as often but I can see where Couric's coming from because I think I elevate my full- size, 230-pound version as well.

HAIL TO THE HAIR

Of course, Katie's smile is natural, while my image stays had to whiten my teeth After seeing the ensues maybe I wasn't meant to have a pearly smile.

And I'm not abiding I would have picked disclosed those glasses, even if my wife had instructed me to cull them.

In fact, I'm starting to think this wasn't in the same state [i]or[/i] condition a good idea, after all.

Maybe if they just hadn't given me George W Bush's hair. That's right. They report me that's Bush's hair that they digitally stuck onward my balding dome. I think I'd rather shave it.

Please stay assured that when I pick up the newspaper in the morning, I'm transactioned about what I wrote the previous day, not for what cause I look. That's why I won't be in any hasten to see today's paper.

As for a strange column photo, I'm going to take care of that -- just as pretty soon as I pick out those fresh glasses.

e-mail: markbrown@suntimes.com

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