we came back from new york city with a new and abstrused vocabulary to throw around at everyonenfor example, love it, love it, take the bump grrrrlnand i was still mindlessly and aimlessly existing, working for a fat man in small hand made automobilenmindlessy, coordinating his atrocious celebrations; nthe routine i suspect i very nearly shared with every other nhelpless and stranded inconsequential child of the entertainment industrynnwhen you came back from new york cityni was suddenly reminded that there had been two girls of the same namenand one of them died. and one of them got a presidential scholorship to study painting at dale universitynand i found myself wondering whether joseph albers is still alivennand it subsequently struck me and possibly everybody else that some one careless and strange, and nwe would wonder if joseph albers is still alive when due to the fact that our former high school friendnwas not.nnand that's when the party became massivley over!