04Aug / 2002

Hi from America.

Here’s Gamma and her cousin, who is currently going through his glamorous phase. He likes to wear tu-tu’s and feather boas when he builds his Battlebots. At three and one-half, he is also (like his 2-year-old sister) a huge fan of baseball in general and Ichiro in particular. He hit three over the fence while I was pitching to him one afternoon when his mother was gone.

Here’s one of my sister and me after the kids painted us.

See, Francis S. told me to “say Hi to America” when we went over, so I thought it would be cute to make a “Hi Francis!” sign and take pictures of all sorts of strangers holding it, like America saying “hi” back to Francis. I was especially looking forward to taking a picture of a wino with the sign, and those guys standing on freeway on-ramps who normally hold signs like “will work for food” or “single dad needs money for rent and medicine”. It soon dawned on me that this would be a lot of trouble, though, with things like model releases etc. so I only took these two before deciding to take a more normal vacation. Next time, Francis.

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7 responses to “Hi from America.”

  1. Bill

    Hey! Woad!

  2. miguel

    In nearly vertical stripes!

  3. francis s.

    Mig.

    I am so touched! I even had to show this to the husband (amazingly, he finds all the web stuff and especially my page extremely boring… but he laughed at the pictures.)

    And of course, I can’t possibly decide which photo is better, the two cousins or you and your sister in your warpaint!!!!

    You are a peach of a fellow.

  4. Jessica

    Gamma and her cousin are so cute they make me weepy. Good lord, that’s a great shot.

    We could so totally have pulled a “Mig was in Berkeley and got a bunch of Telegraph Ave acid casualties to hold up signs proving it” hoax. I’m still having very idle hands, here…

  5. miss b

    it was so great having you in here in new york, mig.

  6. miguel

    and so generous of you to take time out from your busy schedule to show me around, miss b. gamma is still talking about the drag club.

  7. miss b

    and remember when those tourists stopped you in front of nobu and asked you for your autograph? and you signed “love, feral mig” but they thought that you were kevin spacey?

    that was funny.