Spent a lot of today with my friend Jay from college. I honesty didn't know if we'd have anything in common, since I haven't talked to him in 6 years, and even back then we only knew each other on a superficial basis. But we had a very relaxed foggy day walking around haight/cole/gg park, trading theories on "why it's fun to sleep on the living room floor," with me providing the "it's not fun to sleep on the living room floor," counter-argument.
Jay had an open letter to the author of Space Invaders published on McSweeneys.net a few months ago. I wouldn't link to it if it weren't funny.
Old friends and acquaintances are funny, aren't they? The decay and renewal of friendships, that is. It always strikes me as weird when I become friends with someone I vaguely knew 4 years ago, but never particularly liked. It's like, even if you don't click with someone now, you never know if you'll meet again years later and become good friends. That's what makes blogs so weird. A lot of college people I like, but never would have kept in touch with, read this blog, and I read their blogs, and our relationships are given these 5 year extension passes. So instead of gradually letting our friendships fall into disrepair, eventually culminating in a 2009 awkward run-in at the LA international airport, I know these people and I get to be emotionally invested in their crappy jobs and new houses and ex-girlfriends. And that's good.