Hear Jim tell his story: https://youtu.be/zwlRuE1A2Es

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Life, actually…

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AN IDEA FROM THE MUG SHOT MAKEOVER STUDIO

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My thoughts, dreams, reflections, ideas, rants, ponderings, inspirations…they are squirreled away here in the Writing Room. They await my random attention. They may even hope to be retrieved, reviewed, dusted off, updated, corrected, edited to make sense to readers other than myself.

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Here’s one, fetched from the neverending Red Clay Diary:

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Let’s somebody out there start up an Arrest Photo Prep Service.

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Don’t you want to look your best should you ever be arrested and booked?

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Chances are, if you don’t prepare in advance, your widely-published police snapshot will show you at your very worst. You don’t want to look like you just got mugged in a Cracker Barrel parking lot.

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The Arrest Photo Prep Service will depict you in your most flattering pose—taken solely from your Good Side—then airbrushed and color-corrected.

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That way, your image will utterly charm the media as well as attorneys on both sides. How could anyone who looks like a super star be guilty of anything at all?

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The DMV could use this service, too. For an extra fee your driver’s license photo could be done professionally with just the right lighting, thus avoiding that I-just-got-out-of-bed-deeply-frowning-and-ungroomed-when-this-paparazzi-snapped-me look. You’d never again be embarrassed to display it when required.

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A Mug Shot Makeovers While You Wait pop-up studio would be most welcome.

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Even at your worst you could look your best.

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I take full responsibility for this goofy idea.

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Now, go forth and come up with something better

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Jim Reed © 2021 A.D.

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