Friday, January 8, 2010 - m4w When I put your coat collar up to protect you from the cold... on the corner of E Houston and Bowery... and I looked in your eyes... I was very tempted to kiss you... but I don't steal women from other men...
Messages in bottles, smoke signals, letters written in the sand; the modern equivalents are the funny, sad, beautiful, hopeful, hopeless, poetic posts on Missed Connections websites. Every day hundreds of strangers reach out to other strangers on the strength of a glance, a smile or a blue hat. Their messages have the lifespan of a butterfly. I'm trying to pin a few of them down.