Anti-Climacus

AMUSING MISCELLANY: I did a short game of "where are they now?" with my high-school friends (mostly). My results:

A poem by Ryan Richards

Jason Bales still has a band. I find it amusing that I'm vaguely but not specifically mentioned in his bio. Allow me to Fisk:

"He concentrated on guitar by himself until the fall of ninth grade, when his friend Eric started playing the drums. They got together and made some progressively less obnoxious racket over the course of high school."

I was there. The only reason it got less obnoxious is because he switched from electric to acoustic guitar.

"Twelve different lineups of their band came and went, but through it all the core was always Jason's axe and Eric's skins."

I was there, again, for most of those lineups. Most of the people who left did so for what we might politely term "creative differences" with Jason. Andy Nicholson and I used to occasionally stop playing in the middle of songs to see if Jason and Eric notice. They never did.

"The best of these incarnations was called Captain Obvious."

Actually, the best was Eric, Jason, Andy (with the guitar tuned to three different notes, which did not make a chord), me on bass, and Aaron Adams. But different people might have different opinions on that one.

"Captain Obvious was the last incarnation, and the only one to play a gig that was not in a band member's basement."

When he's right, he's right.