Oh Ramses. I would be reduced to self-concious grinning in your presence. At least, that's what the photos do to me. (This has been true since I saw him in The King and I when I was a kid.) Those colors really are **brilliant**. But him at the payphone is best--really does seem like an ancient Egyptian among us (which reminds me of your post on The Amulet)

mountainous masses of water constantly pouring upward, haloed with an actinic blue glow like St. Elmo's fire; the signature of God who is cloud and stormwind and shooting stars, thunder and lightning and fire. --Let the record show that Sovay can evoke the immanent power of the divine in a throwaway remark in a comment. Whoa.