[John Zeissig]

Hello, S.B.

This is a very mischievous twist you've spun on Jeff's original question. I like Lucien Freud very much, and I'm sure he would do a good job on a portrait of me. I'm not sure what Picasso would have made of me, but my intuition tells me that I'd have had nothing to fear from him.

What really brings beads of sweat to my forehead, raises the hairs on the back of my neck, and turns my bowels to water is the prospect of having James Childs do to me what he has done to poor Mr. Forbes in the portrait below.