Open wound, insert foot
| Submitted by M.Campos on April 24, 2003 at 03:11 PM |
| Subject: Open wound, insert foot This message is going to be heavy sledding, but I want to take the opportunity to apologize to Phil for ultra-awkward-geeky-fannishness. (Phil Austin, that is.) Here's the lay of the land. A couple years back, the Firesigns did a couple of shows here in Seattle at the Badgley Wright theatre. Kaija, my wife, and I have both been longtime fans, so naturally we showed up for two of the shows. After the second we queued up to meet the Phils and get autographs. I had my "Big Book of Plays" with me, and handed it happily to Phil A. when it was my turn. He graciously signed it, then noted it was an ex-library copy, and made a joke about my possibly hooking it from a library. I said "Well, when I saw it, I had to have it because of this," and quickly flipped to the picture of the nude woman wearing the Frankenstein head. Phil looked at me with a chilly gaze. I'd obviously stepped into some land mine of a memory. The interview was over, and I moved on to hand the book to Proctor. WHAT I HADN'T SAID was that the first time I saw the Frankenstein lady picture I was twelve years old, and in my youth naked lady pictures were not in as common as a currency as they are in these times. If I had thought to include that part of my witticism I wouldn't have come across as so much of a creepy jerk. I should know better: where naked ladies are concerned, you make jokes about them at your own risk. Phil, I goofed. Next: how I pissed off Jaime Hernandez twice at the same comics convention. |
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