Sunday, May 31, 2009  A Man Once Told Me - Camilla Basham  A man
once told me "You know dying is the most embarrassing thing that
can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of
all your details". It was a strange opening line, but at first
glance I could tell he was a strange man. I had just run into
someone carrying drinks and caused them to go crashing to the
ground and the look of embarrassment on my face was obvious. The
man who uttered those words stood before me in a smoke filled
room in a warehouse in the bowels of Chelsea.  Maybe the smoke
caressing my nostrils helped it sound more profound then it
really was, or it could have been the martini staring up at me,
but I understood exactly what he was saying. "I imagine you're
right. I would just die of embarrassment if I died." I said with
one of those ridiculous little girl giggles that women seem to
resort to when alcohol and men are involved.  Our words were in
an audible wrestling match with the pitter and patter rhythms
behind the dro