King Kelly

There are a lot of things I don't do here, pictures I don't post, stories I don't tell.  But a friend sent me a link to a film that was showing in NYC, and I thought to write something about people with iPhones and mirrors and the happiness that it brings them.  There are at least a billion sites (maybe more) on the internet that posts these pictures.  In most of them, there are young happy naked people smiling and laughing, sometimes alone, sometimes with friends, making me wish that I was as pretty and happy and carefree as they are.

It began a long time ago now, with the invention of the digital camera.  Natacha Merritt published what Wikipedia claims was the first book of digital photographs ever--Digital Diaries--in 2000. It was quite startling as was the release of Petter Hegre's My Wife.  Those along with the 2001 publication of Peter Gorman's Naked in Apartment 7 revolutionized photography in some way.  Everybody, it seemed, wanted to be naked.  I remember the impact those images had on me then, just as I was released from a ten year relationship into the open-armed madness of a new and crazy world of a fresh century.  I adopted one of Dr. Thompson's famous lines as my daily mantra: "Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride."  And I'll tell you a secret. . . it was fun.

But to the point, I'm not posting any of those images here, though they would be more than apropos.  I will wait to see the movie first.  "King Kelly."  Read the review.

This has taken far too much of my time this morning, for as I looked up links to post here, I got lost in the images again, trail leading to trail, on and on and on.  I don't even remember what I was going to write.  And there is the danger of looking at pictures of naked people.  Tell the kids.  I think I was going to end the post with something about the amount of sexting people send to my phone, but that is all lost now.  Oh. . . but feel free to sext me.  A picture may be worth a thousand words, but a picture of you naked is that with a ribbon on top.  That is something that people apparently and abundantly understand.