Posted by Atticus on September 18, 2004, at 20:31:15
In reply to Re: poem ... Corner of Madison and Warhol » Atticus, posted by malthus on September 18, 2004, at 19:09:20
This is probably my favorite Manhattan brush-with-celebrity story, both because I was at such an impressionable age, 14, and because there actually was a bit of smart-ass interaction; he could've easily just ignored me. But I think he was sufficiently flattered by the dumbfounded look on my early adolescent face to find the whole thing amusing. After all, here was a kid reacting to a celebrity whose silkscreens were ironic odes to celebrity. On the one hand, I wish I had been a little older and more mature, so I could have appreciated the moment more as it happened; on the other hand, if Warhol were still alive and such an encounter had occurred yesterday, I'd probably have been so tongue-tied that our little 20 second-long repartee would never have taken place. Thanks for your kind words about the poem. I've told this story verbally a million times, but this is the first time I ever thought to write it down. I have a large framed poster of a Warhol painting of a comic book panel that I bought at a MOMA basement sale in 1989 hanging over my bed. ;) Atticus
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