so i said see you monday, but it’s actually sunday now. new york was amazing but also exhausting. i got to go to so many cool stores that i normally just shop at in the virtual world. and i also ate great ramen and pinkberry. and word on the street is, starbucks just bought them so it will no longer be an “only in new york” thing soon. here is a link to their website, but be warned: the song is ridiculously catchy.

so getting to the title of this entry. there is an apartment in my neighborhood. well there are a lot actually, but i don’t have the time or reason to talk about them all here. this one in particular was special. because in the ground floor window that faced the street on my walk home from one of my favorite restaurants and also a local market, was the man himself. the leader of the autobots and quite possibly the greatest american without an actual heartbeat: optimus prime. and i’m not talking about some new rehash. this was the original. the same one i found in my mom’s closet around christmas of 1986 i believe.

it was always so comforting knowing that the best of the best in all of the transformers kingdom was there watching over the neighborhood. ready for anything. if the decepticons attacked, he would be there. if a dinobot got out of control, he would reign them in. or maybe you just wanted to say hello. optimus was always there for you. but no more. sadly, optimus prime and the other robots (which were cool but not transformers, maybe in training though) has moved on. there is just a curtain there now. and no robots to be seen anywhere.

i mean, sure. over the past almost two years i have lived in my current place, i have grown a lot. and i’m not saying i don’t need optimus there, but i think our little slice of rva is going to be ok. we have good people, and i know deep down inside, if we need prime and the rest of the autobots, they will come to our aid. but i will miss seeing his robot face, smiling at me under that cool looking thing that covers up where his mouth would be.

so one last time, in honor of prime, autobots….transform and role out.