i found a picture of you

with my dear friend olof, who taught me so much about life & art, and who took me to NY to see our friends from scruffy the cat, also to the pogues show with joe strummer... back then the city was really badass; i'm so glad i got a glimpse of its true underground grandeur before its final extinction. picture by my kid sis, boston circa 1986


and here's scruffy playing the rat, our favorite dive where the police famously once played and which is now defunct of course like all good things from that era... we were probably there: