Charles Saatchi is my new best friend

joe, you've really gone too far this time — Saatchi doesn't know you from Damien Hirst.

Oh yeah?

Then how do you explain the following email, received yesterday afternoon at 4:05:02 p.m. ET?

Hello,

Very happy to see your work on Stuart.

I am thrilled that the standard is so high from such a variety of artists and hope it will be interesting to gallery owners, exhibition curators and collectors to see such diverse work.

All my best,
Charles Saatchi

What's Stuart?

Funny you should ask.

I just found out myself yesterday afternoon, about an hour before Charles emailed me.

I happened on Carol Vogel's New York Times front-page story about Saatchi's new online hangout for artists.

What got my attention was that anyone can declare themself an artist and join.

Consider it done in under a zeptosecond.

Bonus: It's TechnoDolt™ friendly, so much so that I succeeded first time around in putting up my profile et al.

Okay, maybe my logo (top) didn't come out perfectly but the fact it came out at all is what I'm focusing on — remember, our glass is always half-full here.

I wonder if anyone will inquire about my prices.

Ya never know.