Over the years, we’ve mentioned a few times that Metro columnist Jacquielynn Floyd appears ageless. I think it was in 2006 (scroll down), when the Morning News launched its Metro blog and published a group photo of its columnar squad, that we first noticed that Floyd’s mugshot was about, oh, 25 years old. I understand the motive. When you’re out pounding the mean streets of the city, digging up material for your next column, it helps not to be recognized. But so why publish a mugshot at all?
Well, I don’t know when the switch was made, but in today’s Metro section, an updated mugshot of Floyd accompanies her column. Here, at top, is the young, coquettish Floyd that we saw for all those years. And, below, the suddenly much more mature Floyd. One gets the impression that Floyd now is not so much going to bat her eyelashes and ask you buy her a cosmo as she is going to drain her Scotch and say, “Let’s go, Sugar Cake. It’s getting late, and Momma’s not missing Jay Leno.”
I say kudos to Floyd for the update. It’s nice to finally see a real woman.
