Anecdote #20: I was once sent on a mission to artist Robert Rauschenberg's long time home in the village. When I arrived and after I rang the bell, a very handsome young gay man answered the door and took me up in a glass elevator that opened into the kitchen living area, a wide-open space to be sure. "Bobby” was there, along with a small entourage of more cute boys. At the time I was obsessed with making these miniature jade plants out of organic pipe cleaners. I brought one along and nervously handed one to him as a gift. He was very kind and seemed to like it very much. He placed it on a small table amongst some actual plants. Noticing I was obviously a huge fan, Rauschenberg took me on a tour of his giant studio downstairs and showed me first hand some of his enormous plexi-glass works in progress. That room was a pot of gold at the end of a living rainbow, I tell ya!