A Decade of Mail
I paid for my downtown mailbox at Eagle Signs yestreday and Fred, the Caldonean Iraqi who runs it, said, "Well, you've been here for 10 years!" Indeed, I opened that mailbox on February 22, 1999.
Sheeet...ten years.
At the time, we had The Fritz Theater offices above the businesses below at 7th and Broadway. I had "moved out" from my place I shared with Karin for two years, then briefly lived with Christine (all chronicled in novel Dramafrom Blue Moon, recently rerpinted by Olympia Press as Bad Karma and Kinky Sex) and I was back to living in an SRO downtown, doing theater at night, living the poor starving thespians existence...
I had my mail re-routed to the theater office for a while, but I was getting some sensitive stuff, plus checks from publishers, and I didn't want people seeing my mail as some of my cohorts were nosey...also, I knew the theater was falling apart, it was a ship sinking and my days were numbered, so I might as well open a mail box downstairs...
That box was meant to be temporary, a year or so...now ten.
I still keep it because I have had it so long -- I get mail in Ocean Beach, in Los Angeles, and at UCSD now...I get mail in four places...why not.
Sheeet...ten years.
At the time, we had The Fritz Theater offices above the businesses below at 7th and Broadway. I had "moved out" from my place I shared with Karin for two years, then briefly lived with Christine (all chronicled in novel Dramafrom Blue Moon, recently rerpinted by Olympia Press as Bad Karma and Kinky Sex) and I was back to living in an SRO downtown, doing theater at night, living the poor starving thespians existence...
I had my mail re-routed to the theater office for a while, but I was getting some sensitive stuff, plus checks from publishers, and I didn't want people seeing my mail as some of my cohorts were nosey...also, I knew the theater was falling apart, it was a ship sinking and my days were numbered, so I might as well open a mail box downstairs...
That box was meant to be temporary, a year or so...now ten.
I still keep it because I have had it so long -- I get mail in Ocean Beach, in Los Angeles, and at UCSD now...I get mail in four places...why not.