Why I’m an editorial assistant and not a plastic surgeon. Or a graphic designer.

I have to say, I was more than a little pleased with my seamless* Photoshopping of Drew Barrymore’s head onto Michael Cera’s body** for this news item last week. I mean, it was kind of hard. First of all, I don’t have a mouse, so I had to borrow one from my desk buddy Austin so as to ensure maximum precision in slowly carving out Drew’s face from the original press photo. Then Austin’s mouse had this weird little red laser light that kept shooting into my eye. Really disconcerting. Then I had to somehow figure out how to get Drew’s face to be approximately the same size as Michael Cera’s face in the Juno still. Then I actually had to go back and partially reconstruct Drew’s face, as Austin’s mouse proved to be a little too precise and I shaved off part of her right cheekbone. Whoops.

This all would have been a lot easier, I’m sure, if I actually knew how to use Photoshop.

Anyway, I was feeling pretty good about it until just now, when I stumbled upon this post over at Vulture, New York magazine’s amazing pop culture blog which I love so much. Asking the question that would certainly be on my mind if I wasn’t obsessing over which of my middle school celebrity crushes was going to meet an untimely death next (RIP Brad and Heath), “Which of This Year’s Best Picture Nominees Are Secretly About Iraq?” it features… well, you should just go see for yourself, because I want your eyes to explode out of your head like mine did.

Everett Bogue of Vulture, I tip my hat to you. Though I’m still proud of my rag-tag Drewno.

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* Unless you give it more than a cursory glance for more than a few seconds, in decent lighting and with your prescription lenses on and your eyes open. Then it’s actually quite full of seams. It’s all the hair. The hair made it hard.

** Is it just my computer screen, or is Juno’s polo-shirt-clad baby belly really the exact same shade as Bleeker’s noodle legs? I hope it’s not just me. That’s amazing.