whatever knitting and other textile-based expressions end up festooning our grotto -- besides the blackwork tablecloth that started it all, or the canvaswork eggplant, or maybe a curtain -- they will all have to live up to two amazing artifacts shown here. yes, we have had brushes with greatness -- by proxy -- in our time. the warthog from hell and the incredible hulk both bestow their blessings upon our home.
back in the way-back, when ben and i were just friends, we were tromping around one day and he commented that the previous night on the x-files he had seen "the guy who was the bounty hunter in raising arizona", whom he much admired. "oh," i said, "that's tex cobb, and he lives in philly. i see him all the time."
ben was pretty amazed by that. i'm not sure he believed me. within probably no more than two weeks time, i had run into tex on the 34 trolley and had procured for ben this signed photo.
no wonder
ben
fell crazy in love with me. one minute he's admiring nameless actors on television and the next i am delivering their inscribed photos to his doorstep! i am beyond stupendous! you will note that the inscription here is a bit worse for wear, having spent much time on various refrigerators. we need to get it to the framers.
years later -- just a few months ago to be exact -- the perfect companion piece for tex showed up. megan and tom went to some geek convention and brought me this beautiful personalized photo of lou ferigno as the incredible hulk. sweet! i've always, always been a fan of the hulk, as long as i can remember. when i was four i used to get bad ear infections and the frequent trips to the doctor were rewarded with a grape slurpee and a hulk comic book (the stacks of which perhaps i should have thought to save. dad: commence beating head on desk).
the hulk was my earliest crush on a husky, hairy guy. (i should track the progression at some point: hulk, ed asner, henry kissinger, meatloaf, dennis franz... ben.)
there are more exciting things going on the walls down in the grotto, too, but they are too large to scan and too rolled up to photograph. our amazing richard cheese lithograph. my signed ana voog poster! there will be space for it all.