Homegrown Video cursed by ghost of Stephanie Swift
My jaw didn’t just drop, it fell so hard my teeth shattered and my tongue swelled up making speech impossible as if someone with an unsteady hand had just hammered a nail through it with more than a few missed pounds of a ballpeen hammer. My heart didn’t just stop beating for a pump or two, it stopped and started pumping backwards so all of sudden I felt as if I was turned upside down and inside out. I felt as if I had suddenly entered a parallel universe where the laws of physics had been supplanted by Murphy’s Law. Instead of air to breath there were only toluene vapors of the artist’s studio to suck down.
The graffiti artist had pulled a picture out of the back of a porn mag in my office as a reference for his painting. One pretty faced nude model in an ocean of pretty faces with hot bodies from which he could inspire his vision while holding the cans of spray paint he wielded like a modern Michelangelo, which was all he needed to paint our booth for the AVN trade show. Somehow though, in the space between where the picture was posted on an easel and where the paint blasted forth from the nozzle of the can, something happened. Instead of painting the girl in the picture, he painted a stunningly realistic, detail intensive, spot on, photo realistic tribute of Stephanie Swift. Stephanie Swift, the Homegrown amateur that had turned pro and would be signing for a completely different company literally addressed across the aisle from us at the show.
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