Visit from a friend

My friend the SkaRat is coming to visit! Tonight, if the flight gets in okay. Friends for over 20 years!

Here he is in 1986, when we were dating; he's probably high as a kite but not necessarily, hanging out with my Very Serious poster of Octavio Paz!

Here we are cooking dinner at our old co-op! A bit later, probably around 1988?

I had hoped to go up to the city with him tomorrow and hang out and go to bookstores, but with the rain and cold so nasty, we might just end up staying here. Then, a Dragons game in the evening. I met whump originally because he and skarat were best buddies. My god, that one time we were all tripping and they would *not shut up*! I'll never forget it! I fled and went to wander the city and enjoy its jewel-ish night and the flickering blue of other people's tv sets through their windows, sharing Tiger Balm and Carmex with Rachel... I remember other weird times with ska-rat wandering around Barton Creek (maybe tripping or not, it was all the same) and making up sort of ritual places where things Should Happen. Also he would try hard to describe sort of delicate evanescent visions that were so complicated and referential that I would have to watch several movies, read a science fiction book series, and listen to a lot of loud punk rock to understand his 3 hour caffeine fueled rants. I have to say, he introduced me to a lot of very awesome culture and sparked my lifelong investigation of ska. His rambly novel about cartoon characters intersecting with reality, never finished, long worked on... and with very beautiful moments, is on my bookshelf in a blue binder, in the fiction section, under "L". Also I do still have that notorious box of Letters.

Anyway, I think we'll loaf around and I hope he'll sketch or paint and I'll write and probably we'll have lots of gossip. Or he will end up geeking out about movies with Rook in which case I'll disappear into my computer!

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[Pretty Lady]

Say hi to the ska-rat for me! I have some of those letters stashed somewhere, too...