He is still so much teller than me.

John's hair is better now then it was fifteen years ago., originally uploaded by colmmcsky.

I haven't seen John in about twelve years. Maybe even thirteen. I have this picture taken, from the summer when I was sixteen and we went to a journalism conference for high school kids in Dallas. John says his hair is much better now than it was then.

This is one of the guys I wanted to be so badly when I was a teenager. I read every book I saw him reading. When he drove me to school some mornings, he played Tool, KMFDM or Bill Hicks stand up routines in this shiny gold Volvo. They smuggled me off campus in the trunk of the Volvo.

I can't even tell you how happy it made me to see my friend again after so long.