Missed Connections

So, you've all heard of missed connections right?  No, no you have...from craigslist!  Missed Connections is listed under the personals section on craigslist.org.  Check it out.  Once you've selected your city you can view the creepy, kinda sad post from folks like a hopeful lad who exchanged a five second eye lock with a dreamy lady at the local Starbuck's and that's all it took to decide he missed the opportunity to engaged in conversation with his future wife.   Sure, the idea that these two get together and run off into the sunset is romantic, but...oh forget it, I'll save my cynical comments for another blog. 

Okay so what does this have to do with the topics I typically blog about?  Well, while attending NeoCon, I was introduced to the work of Sophie Blackall, an Australian illustrator residing in New York.   I love that she has taken these "Missed Connections" and turned them into whimsical illustrations.  I need to buy one. 

 Monday, November 23, 2009
-m4w
You were wearing a green dress with white buttons. We made eye contact at least three times on the 6 train this morning. All of a sudden you gave a little smile, and looked down at your lap, as though at some secret joke. You never looked up again and I had to get off at Bleeker. I wish I could have seen inside your beautiful head.

 Saturday, May 21, 2011
-m4w
Ack! 'Round 7pm or so... I was browsing the shelves and saw you on the other side. I swear I glimpsed our entire future together in that brief moment. It was beautiful.  And then someone asked you for the time. I mean c'mon, who doesn't have a damn time-telling device of some sort these days!
Oh, if only I'd thought of that.

 Thursday, October 14, 2010
My dreamy neighbor who plays obscenely loud music
- w4m - (Greenpoint)
Sometimes when you have played music late into the night or come home in the wee hours and turn it on, I knock on our shared wall or scold you the next day, but all along I am thinking how dreamy you are and how I just want to make love to you.