Lady-in-Red*

A loose translation of the iconic American culture 'psyche'-image of the hypnotizing "Lady-in-Red" (from music/movies).

A pre-Xmas romantic charmer inspired by The Woman in Red (Gene Wilder). 

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I was at the Rockefeller Xmas ice-skating center/rink when I first encountered my modern real-life angel of red color, a woman in a red sweater/jacket who reminded me of the serendipity of love and magic in New York during the holidays, and it's who I wanted to share my princely-inherited fortunes with, not revealing my James Bond double-life with blood-diamond infiltrations 'chess' with her and instead hoping to make her my specialty lobster quiche. That was my Rocky-Xmas on ice (ha).

PSYCHIATRIST: Who's your 'lady-in-red' you encounter at the Rocky ice-skating area but a 'visage' of escapism for Catholic-IQ?

Of course, I'd believe in my psychiatrist's advice lest I heed that other nagging feeling in my heart that told me I should retire from blood-diamond chess and seek the 'cool' stalemate of discovered romance/courtship right here in magical New York, and we need a little 'charm(s)' for the post-9/11 era no, and I could marry her and have a son and buy him a baseball-figurine chess-set and teach him about 'escape' from Cold-War chess (Fischer-Spassky), wow.

LADY-in-RED: You're quite a good ice-skater, dude; I bet you're a secret terrific sportsman, right?

ME: Oh, yes!

I'm an Ivy-grad and I consider myself a secret closet-case chess-genius, and though I've indulged in many hobbies including soccer and comic book art and culinary-arts, I'd have to say that I now want to invest in cooking more than anything suddenly and hope my 'Lady-in-Red' will enjoy some of my signature lobster-quiche at my princely-inherited Manhattan 'abode' for the ideations of what makes Selfie-culture of social-media (every now-and-then) a simple 'mystery' of the human condition(s) of discovered/inevitable self-expression or 'adult' humility!

Of course, I might not make her seafood-quiche and instead opt for a special signature Indian egg-curry with fluffy rice-pilaf and enjoy it for the holidays with cool red-wine and my apartment entertainment-showcase showing of the under-rated holiday-season Xmas-film Elf (James Caan), ha!

LADY-in-RED: You know, man, skating at Rocky with you reminds me of a 'cool' Xmas-movie (something).

ME: We'll get married and have a great son and I'll teach him how to play chess...he'll be superior (an 'iceman'!).

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)