I met Davide at StarBears this afternoon, to get caught up on the latest in the worlds of academia, love, and Asian cinema. Mack stopped by and gave me a big hug and chatted a bit. He had a filthy red ribbon dangling from his neck, which he explained matter-of-factly to someone was a “ball tie,” like we all have one. I told him that a few weeks ago I checked my website statistics and noticed that my site visitors jumped by about 1,000/day and traced the link to his site, where he had posted a book cover that included two of my photos of him and Jack Radcliffe as well as a link to my website. He called me “buddy,” totally melting my butter, right there in front of everybody. No one else exudes such aromatic musky über-friendliness than that Mack truck of a manly man Mack. Ow-ow-ow…ah-oooooooOOOOOOOOO!
And Davide’s doing really well.