Halls of the Dark Muse

I have a long standing dislike or refusal to have my picture taken, though I don't pretend like I have any particular good reason for this. I am not some sort of over paranoid person, and well all know I don't suffer from any form of vanity, so I haven't the least bit anxiety of my appearance in photographs, it is really just a whole misanthropic recluse thing, and I am just too much of a bad *** to appear in family photos.

So the unspoken understanding is, if someone is going to try and cajole me to partake in a photograph, they cannot expect me to pretend to be happy about it. I am not going to do the whole fake smile thing, I am not going to make the least bit of effort to smile.

I hate the whole photographs for Christmas cards thing. It just reeks of cheeseballness, and I am just like, you think I really want a picture of your family, you think anyone really cares? I mean in a way sending other people your photography is really quite egotistical and self-important, yes I know only someone as cynical as I am would decide to interpret it that way.

Well my mother decided she wanted to do a whole Christmas photo thing with her cards so at first I put my foot down and forbid the use of any pictures in which I am in. Because the way I see it, I don't need a bunch of people who I don't even know, having my photo, and pretending to or feeling some sort of obligation to have any interest in me and my life.

The cards generally get sent out to distant relatives, so from my point of view they are complete strangers to me, I never met them, they know nothing about me, I know nothing about them. I wouldn't know it if I passed them by on the street, so I am not the kind of person who feels some sort of automatic kinship just because of shared genes. And it is not anything against them, they are just not a part of my personal life and I do like to keep my circle very small.

Well my mother picked out this card she wanted to use, of which I happened to be in it, and was like this would be the perfect card to use can't I send this one? And I was like, no, it has me in it, you can't use it.

She was trying to find another photo to use when all the sudden she was like, what if I put a happy face sticker over your face.

Now for one thing I love irony, and for another thing for anyone who has seen the Watchmen there is a whole happy face thing the movie and it is a very dark cynical movie.

So I was like OMG! That would be AWSOME!

Yes, you can use that photograph if you cover my head with smiley face stickers.

That would be cool!!!