It's a Small, Small World.... or David Feinberg just got around

..and I'm not talking about the irritating Disney song A*** likes to use for a singing call at ECR.

Talking to excessor yesterday, I mentioned Joe Gallagher (now barbering at http://www.joethebarber.com, but formerly minor-league porn star, leather community type, and workout partner of A***'s.) I've corresponded with Joe about David Feinberg, author of Eighty-Sixed and two other books of furious humor about AIDS -- Joe and David were friends for awhile in NYC. I didn't realize Joe was a star until I saw him beating on a guy in an S&M video last week (don't ask how I happened to be watching it!) -- this one: http://www.factoryvideos.com/factory/leatherfactory/leatherfactory.html.

As it turned out, excessor has had his hair cut by Joe, and his ex still does.

I dug up some memories of David Feinberg and put up a little shrine to him here: http://www.smxwl.com/feinberg.htm .

More nostalgia - 1975

The slide scanner will be fun.

In 1974 I trooped off to MIT to study Physics -- or so I thought. I ended up living in one of the newer dorms on a floor of 12 freshman -- the undergrads had all moved to upper floors to leave the whole floor to us.

Here's a slide show with a little commentary on what happened to each of us. I did this for our 25th reunion last year. One of the semi-famous guys is George Woltman, who started the Mersenne prime number finding project which uses distributed PC computing power, the first one of its kind. I suppose this is most interesting as a display of how geeky you can look and still come out okay!

http://www.parlemont.com/mydocs/centry/