All I want out of life is a hand-drawn WSJ portrait

Two days into my Wall Street Journal subscription and I have already made a new goal for my life. This newspaper really does make you ambitious. I have decided that my life will not be complete until I have a drawn portrait of myself featured in the Journal. Now I know this is a pretty risky goal because with it there is probably at least a 50% chance that the reason for my portrait being in there will be a $50 billion dollar Ponzi scheme (too soon?) or something else equally horrifying. But I guess I will just have to take my chances. Nothing says that you have made it (or in some cases lost everything) like a tiny picture of yourself within the text of an article that in most newspapers would be an actual picture, but not in the Journal, in the Journal it is a hand drawn portrait. Irregardless, it always means that you are a big deal, and I don't really know how to put this but I'm kind of a big deal (or at least will be once I get this portrait).


*As an interesting side note, check out the two Henry Paulson portraits featured in the WSJ. The one on the left features a dignified Paulson pre-recession. The right hand side has a stern and weathered Paulson beaten down by the economy.


I will conclude with a thought for Rupert Murdoch: If Shamika Miller, a laid-off former Home Depot bookkeeper, can have a tiny hand drawn portrait of herself on the FRONT PAGE of the 1/15/09 WSJ because she frequents the library for its free wi-fi we can think of some way to get me in there too.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123197709459483585.html
(This is the online story, in the print edition she had a coveted tiny portrait)