I remember the first time that I saw him was at this club in the Theater district, many, many years ago. It was long enough ago that the idea of crossover between goth clubs and electronic music was still novel and new, and so the sight of this Asian kid in a black button up shirt and skirt, dancing with the raver step to industrial music, still ( Read more... )

My memory of first meeting him is vague, but he filled it in for me one night. Fifteen years ago, he had applied for a space in our apartment. arcanus had found met him at a club, and found out that he had just moved here from New York, previously LA and prior to that St. Louis, and needed a place to live. So, apparently when arcanus told me about him, I just ( Read more... )

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Sometimes, I imagine that we would have been friends earlier. I imagine that my parents would have figured out a way for us to stay in California, and we would never have moved to Canada. We would have remained in the Bay Area, and I'd still spend the occasional afternoon at Malibu Fun & Games, playing in the arcade. It would have been in the ( Read more... )

When friends share stories, I am usually happy to listen and enjoy the tale, to see how the experience is reflected in the storyteller and to be entertained by the way they've described it. I am happy that we share the moment and sometimes let it be something that we have in common, that binds us closer. When older friends of mine tell me stories ( Read more... )

In my mind, he has always been there, dancing in that corner where I first saw him, the long red hair, the cigarette in hand, the smile that he would crack to himself like he just thought of a joke that amused him and he hadn't made up his mind to share it with you quite yet. He has always been in that corner of the Middle East, flirting and ( Read more... )

Summer of 1995, I had been exchanging email with this person that I met on alt.gothic, who turned out to attend university only a couple of towns away in Worcester. We arranged to meet at a cafe and one of her first questions to me was, "so, your handle: c'ris ... is that handle a Dragonriders of Pern reference ( Read more... )