The Picture of Dorian Gray

Category: Newspaper article

I wrote this for 'The Ottawa Citizen' in July 2005

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I was thinking how odd it must feel for Citizen columnists to see their old pictures in the papers day in and day out. Unlike Dorian Gray their pictures stay young while they themselves get older and wiser (some of them anyway).

It would be nice to see how some of your columnists look after years of slogging it at The Ottawa Citizen. Take for instance John Robson who has that ‘awshucks you don’t want to put my picture in the paper’ look or Randall Denly who seems to be saying ‘I’m here Chiarelli. Come and get me!’

And take David Warren (please), surely David Warren must be sporting a visible halo and be flanked by a few disciples given his articles lately.

Time to bring out the new pictures folks.