Actually, I think the "bad anecdote" shows how abso-frickin-lutely cool you are. Instead of a)crying or b)shooting him, you responded in a calm, deliberate, humorous manner. The only blackfootian criticism I have is, you should have said that you were out of the author's league, not the other way around. But that's just the blackfoot in me talking. I actually dig the self-deprecation.
One way of looking at it is that it was H's way of expressing jealousy over your interest in the author's message. Maybe he misread that as interest in the author himself (maybe after taking a peek at the author's pic) and he decided it was a good time to mark his territory, albeit by p!ssing all over you.
Hairdog, turning the "in" to "out" on his little psychiatrist booth.
