TO: hellbox@teleport.com
FROM: jrc2000@lycos.com
SUBJ: hi
DATE: June 15, 1999, 9:11 a.m.
Andrea,
I’m back at Surf’s Up! to see if you wrote. But you didn’t.
Also checked the news to make sure Portland hadn’t been nuked or something. Still standing. Guess you are too.
Ryan
P.S. I quit the bad band. It felt like a victory. Now neither of us has to be embarrassed when someone asks you what I do.
P.P.S. The other day the junior punks asked me about the Cold Shoulder—they’d never heard of us but they saw the sticker on the van. I thought about telling them some stories, dropping some names for them. They’d have loved it. But man. That person, that edition of Ryan, is like a character in a story I’m done reading. I thought, if I bring that guy into the van now, I’ll never be rid of him. That’ll be my identity.
I said we were nothing, we just played for fun.
Then I had to go be by myself for a while.