like I was the angel of God, so it would be a very bad decision 

if a person were to reach a hand across that red velvet rope.

Joey Velasco was Filipino and Wizzo
– uh, I mean The Wizard – thinks the young man 
had an interesting journalistic perspective.

The wizard says Joey didn’t live long enough to become 
a truly great painter, but that he did have courage and 
talent and a very interesting mind.