Old Friends

As much as possible, my buddies from back in the day try to see each other at least once a year. Two Saturdays ago was such an occasion. An old friend of ours was in town so the old gang decided to meet up. We got together in San Leandro at Matthew’s house.

This is how we looked like in the early ’90s. We were in what I’d like to call our “houser” phase:*

This is some of us now (plus other friends not pictured above) with spouses and children:

Rel (in the Giants shirt), I discovered, has a very popular Flickr site.

I’ll take the time to mention here that the book that Ric (bottom right above) co-edited is now available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble (I know some of you expressed interest in it):

Thanks for the copy, Ric!

*Just to give you a snapshot of that era, we’d go out clubbing wearing printed rayon shirts, Girbaud jeans, and steel-toed Dr. Martens. Our style of dance shifted from choreographed dance routines to freestyle, improvised moves known as “housing” (for examples, see this Herb Alpert video and an early Sway & King Tech video on YouTube). We haven’t joined the rave scene here yet. That would take a few more months to happen. The underground hip-hop phase was soon to follow.