{"id":1059,"date":"2008-04-04T04:45:27","date_gmt":"2008-04-04T04:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=1059"},"modified":"2008-04-04T04:45:27","modified_gmt":"2008-04-04T04:45:27","slug":"m-e-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=1059","title":{"rendered":"M.E.B."},"content":{"rendered":"

I was in a magazine store when I saw the CLEO Most Eligible Bachelor 2008 edition<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As always, I made it a point to flip through and count how many dudes I knew (and multiply by 2% to get the percentage.) I knew less this round, maybe 12-16%. Just like the years before, the guys in here were relatively popular in their circles, some minor celebrities, some not-famous-at-all colleagues. Such that, I figured that I would eventually become a Most Eligible Bachelor myself, with the scene being as small as it is.<\/p>\n

However, when I flipped through the pages, I became increasingly disturbed. Every guy in there looked more and more… beyond metrosexual<\/b>. It was as if they had a facial and had their eyebrows plucked and drawn in a most androgynous manner.<\/p>\n

A lot of them looked like Edwin Sumun!<\/p>\n

(Not that I have anything against him, he’s hilarious and a riot on stage, but you do not flip through a magazine and expect to see Edwins of different colors and shapes.)<\/p>\n

One particular dude who looked extra clean was Adam Lobo<\/a> of Dragon Red<\/a>! He looked like he shaved his beard and added foundation to his forehead. I called him up.<\/p>\n

Me<\/b>: DEIII Mr. Adam a most eligible bachelor! What happened man you sold out ah?
\nAdam<\/b>: Haha nolah one day I got called up. Dunno why also, I told them that I look like I can eat children. But they still asked me to come anyway so I went.
\nMe<\/b>: Did they make you shave and pluck your eyebrows or something? Do you really look like that now?
\nAdam<\/b>: Aisey nolah they Photoshopped lah. It’s all Photoshop I didn’t look like that.<\/p>\n

So there you have it from the cornroll-haired rocker. It’s Photoshop.<\/p>\n

That explains why some of the bachelors have UNNATURALLY HUGE eyes, too.<\/p>\n

So hey you Bachelor Photoshopper out there, stop mucking around with them eyes! Girls like men with squinty eyes too! (I have big eyes, but I feel sympathetic to my squinty-eyed friends.)<\/p>\n

Now, given that bachelors get an enthusiastic facial that makes them far beyond fashionably metrosexual (if you know what I mean), I don’t think I secretly wish to happen to be a Most Eligible Bachelor anymore. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

So what if I attempted to Photoshop myself to look like one of them?<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Yeah, all Photoshopped in except my good looks. And the peacock is back<\/a>! (Thanks Nic<\/a> for taking this picture with his Sony Carl Zeiss 135mm F1.8.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was in a magazine store when I saw the CLEO Most Eligible Bachelor 2008 edition. As always, I made it a point to flip through and count how many dudes I knew (and multiply by 2% to get the percentage.) I knew less this round, maybe 12-16%. Just like the years before, the guys […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-pictures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}