Anyone got an airbrush?
Not a photo of me (it’s Monica Bellucci)
But it’s the one that’ll go up if I can’t find one beautiful enough
I’m toying with the idea of putting my photo on the blog proper.
Reasons:
1. I’m not really particularly anonymous, I mean you can click on the radio bits and hear me speaking, and being called my actual name, so why the shyness?
2. It actually surprises me how many anonymous blogs there are out there. I can see the point in some, but not most. Are we all afraid to stand by what we write? Are we all just a big bunch of Jessies?
3. The Misssives isn’t a diary. I don’t get too personal. There’ll be no Girl With a One Track Mind bottom fixated naughtiness over here, I tell you that! (Cue the sound of readers leaving)
4. I don’t tend to trash anyone who knows me, so anyone would be hard pushed to get angry about anything I’ve said about them. In fact, putting the pic up might act as a protective charm (guess who’s just finished all the Harry Potter books) against going all silly and drunkenly blogging about some cow who upset you at work, that I’ll have to get up in the middle of the night to delete.
5. I don’t blog about work on the whole. Even when I used to do very bloggable work, I resisted the temptation (as it would have got me the sack and wouldn’t have been fair on my students as a lot of them were fecking eejits but were too young to know so can hardly be blamed. That, and the fact I was very fond of the fecking eejits as they were hilarious and bless).
I don’t blog about work now, because it is too dull and I wouldn’t want anyone to think of the Misssives as being less than a carnival of raciness. But not Belle De Jour raciness, you understand. (Cue sound of some more readers leaving).
6. I think it may make the blog feel more personal. And while the artist’s red impression of me (To your right. Artist: Curly Niece. She does commissions, I get 15%) will stay, I feel it may be time to stick my actual face up here.
7. It will be funny to see if any of you got the impression I was completely different looking than my actual self from what I write. You know when you google someone you’ve only heard on the radio and they look like a horse or a bloated dead body and you are a wee bit disturbed from that point forward? Well that might happen. Or not.
8. The photo will not be a naked one (Cue sound of final reader leaving)
Why is this decision tooo difficult, though? I’ve posted photos before as part of the posts, why not have one in the top corner? Why does this feel like such a big deal?
Are you anonymous or not? And why?
Discuss.
