Osama bin Laden resurfaced in a video last week with a new message that suggested he yearns to be an op-ed writer or start a blog — and with a new look.
But Manolo, Pajamas Media’s vigilant and outspoken fashion expert, thinks the merciless terrorist’s new look is a bomb and that he needs a makeover:
One of the Manolo’s internet friends has asked the Manolo what he thinks of the new look on display in the most recent video-taped appearance of the odious Osama bin Laden.
In the simple phrase, we now have witnessed the arrival of “Osama bin Metrosexualâ€.
With the freshly dyed beard, it is obvious that here is yet another sorry example of the aging man who has resorted to the Grecian Formula SPF50 in order to stave off the ravages of time; the man for whom the grey beard is not the mark of honor and of the life well lived, but of the irretrievable loss of youth.
Trust the Manolo, Osama, this look is not working for you.
Go to the link above to read (and see) his suggestions on how bin Laden can improve his look so he’ll be the envy of the masses and of all his aspiring mass murderer friends.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.