VEILED NUDE

Veiled nude, originally uploaded by Beniah Brawn.

From the best old photograph Flickr in town, here is a picture of me from my past life courtesy of Beniah Brawn. Times being as they are, if the same picture were to be taking in 2009 I probably would do away with the mask...

Last night ended a bit tragically with tears on the telephone until I got reminded of the hilarious story of Marquis. He was a tall skinny black dude with a Hi-Top fade and a 1 inch step cut in his hair and the worst buck teeth ever. He was skating round the locker room wearing tighty whiteys standing on two bars of soap. Another guy tried to do it and fell flat on his back and cracked his head on the tiles, bleeding.

Marquis just skated over and looked down at him and said "That's what you get for trying to be like me."

Unfortunately, Marquis got shot some years later for mouthing off at a party to someone. Marquis was apparently the greatest guy ever. I think of him quite a lot and his classic line I carry with me to this day since I first heard the story.

xx Lektrogirl