Saturday, June 27, 2009

Stella, He-Man, and not much more...

Well I am officially back online on my terms! Stella arrived yesterday and she is fancy! Now I can Twitter and blog all I want, but more importantly I can get back to seeking more writing gigs!

While computerless, I have been spending my time reading, socializing, working, and walking around town and, as a result of the walking, I had the pleasure and shock of running into He-Man! A New York city celeb, He-Man is this giant alien-like individual with a 14" neck, biceps the size of boulders and thighs that could crush a small mammal in one minute flat. In Chicago I used to read about him on the blog Find He-Man and I longed for the day that I too would find He-Man. That day happily, and surprisingly, came one week ago!

While walking in a light drizzle on 9th Ave, just passing 38th Street I looked up from under my umbrella to see this gynormous slab of flesh headed my way, "what is that?' my first thought was and then it hit me, "OH MY GOD! It's HE-MAN!' I could barely contain my enthusiasm and astonishment! What do I do first!? Do I whip out my camera and snap pics, or my phone to text to the first person I know who'd care about He-Man? The camera came out first, text messaging could wait; I had to get my shot of the He-Man! I tried to get a full-frontal shot, as the shirt he was wearing proved to show all his HUGE chesty muskulls, but alas I was also quite petrified of getting caught. I feared if he saw me snapping photos he would take one giant step over to me (the equivalent of 10 feet) and crush my camera with one hand.

So I opted to stay a safe distance behind and nervously get any shot I could... I managed one good shot of him bumming a smoke off this, what appears to be a very tiny man... the man was of course a normal sized human probably around 5' 8", but next to He-Man, he was wee.


Title photo by Nick Gordon