I'm continually amazed by the power of the camera to alter a person's look and image. Last night I saw an old acquaintance performing a song he wrote in a music video on Israel's Channel 24, and it was a freaky, jaw-dropping experience: A dorky guy with bad manners and terrible dress sense had been transformed into a sex god. So for all the girlfriends who find it amusing and/or annoying to see how men drool over photographs of models whose stick-thin frames and blank-canvas faces have been made-up, back-lit and photo-shopped until reality has been left far, far behind, I have news for you: this can be done for men, too.

Yet another reminder that things are usually a lot different from the way they seem on the face of things.

Just thought I'd mention it.