my friend is a famous photographer

... or on her way, at least.

Our friend Peggy Gentleman has a show coming up at the Arc Gallery in Chicago. In an act of our usual awesome timing, we will be out of town for the opening reception on July 11, but the exhibition runs until the 26th so we'll be going to see it while it's there. I've never seen either of our portraits in super-size.

This one touched off her "Lady" series:

And this was literally my first introduction to Jed, who I thought was probably the coolest and cutest guy ever: It was on the postcard and promotional posters for the original show--Jed was being pimped all over town. That's how I learned his name--it was all downhill for him from there...