Fan Club?

Hi friends!I apologize for not blogging in a really long time. Its not that I haven't had any adventures in all these months, I have just been super lazy! And this should come as no surprise to those of you who know me :) But I promise you, from now on I will be more regular. I cannot keep all these stories to myself.

So before I start lets just go back in time a little bit. This is back in the day when I lived in horrible New Jersey. I was waiting at the Port Authority bus stop with a friend waiting to get on the bus to go home. The bus was late and for those of you who have taken the bus from Port Authority know that it is not new. We were about fifth or so in the line and soon there were about a million people behind us, all waiting for the bus. Suddenly a decent looking gentleman walks up to us

( Slightly paraphrased)

Man: Hey guys, sorry to bother you but I am an artist and here is my business card. It would be great if you can take a look at my website.

My friend and I exchanged looks and this guy obviously saw it.

Man: No, I am not selling any thing. I just want you to take a look at my website. Trust me I am not selling anything even on the website.

Well fair enough, we take the card and he leaves us alone and we get back to our conversation. The bus was about 15 mins late by now and it was making me very very angry. And guess what the "decent" looking gentleman come back.

Man: Hey, sorry to bother you guys again.

My friend and I: Please be!

Man: Actually I am a photographer. I go around the city and country and take pictures. I post these on my website, I will really appreciate if you can go and take a look at my work.

My friend and I : Oohkaay! Sure.

Man walks away.

Wow that was weird. But never mind New York city is full of weird people. We return to our conversation that was interrupted twice.

Its been about 25 minutes and no one knows where the bus is. NO ONE!

Now this "decent" man come to us for the third time. My friend and I were ready to punch him in the nuts this time!

Man: I am so sorry guys, actually this might sound really weird but, (pointing towards me) I think I have pictures of you on my website.

My friend and I are shocked!

Man: (continues) Last spring I was waiting for the bus to come into the city from Secaucus and well the bus was late as always. But then I saw you with a friend. (By which he meant Silks. She was visiting Di and me end of spring/ start of summer.) You were wearing a black top, black checks skirt and you had straight hair. We also rode the same bus that evening. I actually, took some pictures of you and have been looking for you since then. If you can please go home and take a look at those pictures and identify yourself I would really appreciate it. I also have my myspace and facebook pages linked to my website, so you can take a look at those too. My email and phone number are on my business card please call me if that is you. I would love to work with you professionally!! (What the hell does that mean?!)

Before I could say anything the bus finally arrived, we found a place close to the driver and sat down still in shock. Then my friend goes, " WOW, fan club!" We laughed and laughed and were pretty sure that this guy is some random person with free time and a camera who takes ugly pictures of people and puts them up on his website.

We deiced to get off one stop before my usual stop. We got to my apartment, turned on the laptop and typed in the web address. The website came up and I see a very bad side profile of me in the background. Never mind I said to my self lets find the picture in question here. So I look through all the folders/ links on the website and finally to my shock I find the worst picture of me ever taken under a folder titled "People I know." And if this was not enough there were three web links especially for me with about 3 or 4 pictures of me that he had taken. All weirdly cropped, some placed in a cathedral, some around the Brooklyn bridge. The link were called - She is the night, She is the dark of night and She owns the night!

Wait, wait, that's not it. He had posted those weird cropped pictures of me on his facebook and to top everything one could do, he actually had a slide show of those pictures running on his myspace page with a "beautiful" poem for me!

I was speechless! This is by far the creepiest thing happened to me ever! I immediately made an email account and sent him an email saying I appreciated his pictures but he should take them of his web pages asap and never put them up again. He gladly accepted my request and unfortunately none of you will ever be able to see those pics! However here is something I would like to leave you guys with...

Later folks,

Love

Subastar