Must Make Joke

I think that there are certain situations where there are really only one or two jokes that you can make. I think photos that accompany blog pages, or now twitter pages, is just such a situation.

I heard on my favorite podcast (Galactic Watercooler), that Brent Spiner has a crazy twitter thing going where he sometimes doles out a line from a story he is spinning one twitter at a time. Indeed, he does. But he also has the above photo of himself. I think it's the overly serious and overly profound author photograph that I have on my blog as well.

It reminds me of one of my favorite David Sedaris stories (that I think I've referred to already): He goes into a novelty store and sees a jar of eyeballs on the counter. He immediately goes to grab an eyeball when he sees a sign reading, "Do not hold the fake eyes up to your real eyes," which is exactly what he was going to do.

Then again, there's something comforting in arriving at the same joke as other people. I like to think that me and Brent Spiner might have a similar sense of humor. I will admit that Spiner pulled this one off better than I did. Holding the glasses is the perfect touch. I didn't think of that.

The only other kind of joke photograph that you would use for a blog or twitter would be a picture of you eating something. Maybe cereal.