Not nearly as crazy, but here's a story that involved a lot of unlikelihood, luck, and determination on the part of my gf to get me
the best present
ever.
There's a site called explodingdog.com, run by a guy named Sam Brown. He draws this really simple but beautiful art for it. The way the site works is that someone will e-mail him a sentence, and he draws the first thing that comes to mind. Sometimes its really dark, sometimes it light hearted, sometimes its silly, etc.
I discovered the site either in 2003 or 2004, and fell in love with it immediately.
Occasionally, he sells prints of various pieces. Last year, gf got me one of the ones that I really like, and I was ecstatic over it. This year, she did herself one much better. Here's the one she got me last year, called
I Am Building A World For You. I absolutely love it, and by no means is my love for it diminished, but it certainly has competition given this year's gift.
See, there was a print called "
Come Back This Way" that I've always really wanted ever since finding the site. In fact, it was the thing I wanted first and the most. But it either sold out before I found the site, or before I had to chance to buy it. It was a limited print, so there was no way to get it. (Oddly enough, I have this listed in my trade list at CAG.) You can check the link - I had to use the Internet Wayback Machine to find the picture, as it's not listed on the site anymore, and Google Image Searches won't find it either.
GF somehow found their phone number and called them up, and told them "I will be the best girlfriend ever if I find something for my boyfriend." So she explains everything to the receptionist, who tells her that she isn't sure (as she wasn't working there when this print was made so many years ago), but she's willing to look around in their offices/warehouse. Both she and my gf don't even know what it looks like - they are going on title alone. And since the title is kind of cryptic, both of them realize just how little of a chance this has of happening, to say nothing of it being a good 4 years old, and thus most likely not even available.
A week passes and she calls my gf back and tells her - remarkably - that she has found two copies, but that she isn't sure if she can sell them or not. She says she has to ask the artist - Sam Brown - if he'll ok the sale. So gf asks the girl to tell her the same story (best gf ever, for my, etc).
Sam says yes - that he'll sell one of them since he wants to keep the other for his own office/posterity.
So yeah. GF was able to score a print of a picture I've been in love with for years, that has been out of print since 2003, and that - for no damn good reason - she shouldn't have been to get at all. She got the last one ever made, or will ever be made.
So yeah. You can imagine how much I enjoy that.
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