Monkey Business!

When my favorite childhood stuffed toy animal, Monkey, flew out to San Francisco a few months ago to visit my friend Todd Frederick he came back with a gold earing in his ear, and brought his new girlfriend, Monkette, back with him. I'd tried to arrange for him to go from one photographer to another, visiting a host of cities, maybe even a foreign country or two, in one continuous trip, perhaps even circling the planet, but it didn't happen.

Instead, a few weeks after the two of them got back to Miami I got an Email from Danielle Stolman http://www.notsostilllife.com/, another San Francisco area photographer. She wanted to use Monkey in some photographs, so Monkey climbed back into the box and flew Priority Mail back out to the west coast again. I heard from Danielle this morning. She said that Monkey was fine and wanted to spend another week with her. Monkette wasn't thrilled with the idea but agreed to go along with it, keeping the peace.

In the meantime Monkette and I have been spending some quality time together, just the two of us. Here we're having our afternoon coffee at the new Starbucks by the plaza in front of the Museum Of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in North Miami. We both miss Monkey. Life just ain't the same around here without him!