a quality friend since fall of '90.

through the years she's introduced me to the live concert experience of skinny puppy, einstuerzende neubauten's version of morning dew, and was the inadvertant catalyst for my first trip to black rock city in 1998. though we met on a college campus in ohio, our friendship may well have begun one night listening to bongos played by a stranger met in north beach's caffe trieste. through the years it's gotten a lot more real but no less surreal.

if someone were to tell me, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind style, that i was going to lose all memory of stephanie, it might very well take me lifetimes to recover.

i had a friend in boulder who described particularly precious friends by saying s/he is "one of the all-time greats."

stephanie is one of the all-time greats.