December 10, 2001

My Big Secret

I work for a company called Spring Street Networks, we were recently spun out of Nerve.com. Spring Street provides private-label, online personals for media entities including Nerve.com, Salon.com, Time Out New York (and a bunch more...including The Onion in Jan. 2002!)

Anyway, my ad was recently the "Featured Ad of the Day" across all of our partners' homepages...which led me receiving a ton of (admittedly deserved) emails from people I know ridiculing me (not for using personals, but for having a photo of me where I looked what was oft described as a "member of a boy band." Here's the worst of it...my co-worker Joey Cavella photoshopped together this masterful lampoon and proceeded to send it around the office. Oy vey.

Yeah, I know. I fit right in. The only thing I can say in my defense is that this photo was taken way out of context. I wasn't making a Backstreet Boy Face on purpose! In fact, if you look at the original photo from which this headshot was taken you'll see that my expression is actually a....

I'm-touching-a-really-hot-underage-chick expression. So bliggity-blah!