Was lugging my hamper to the laundromat one night this week. As I walked under the highway overpass, I saw lots of pieces of paper fluttering about -- the wind from the two opposing traffic streams was stirring them up, but keeping them trapped in the little passageway. I picked a few up. (I find a lot of odd things caught in this corridor -- scraps of manuscripts, artwork painted on cardboard, a box of like-new leopard print thongs. It seems to be a place for interesting detritus to wash up from the BQE). They were all photocopies, which had clearly been collected in some kind of binder. Some were copies of handwritten notes, others printed out on those old dot-matrix printers with the alternating stripey bits. All of them dated back to the early 1990s, and were eulogies or testimonials about a fellow named Rusty, who had recently passed. The language of the letters suggested Rusty was a gay man who had died of AIDS. It seems like Rusty was some sort of social maven -- he had introduced many friends and lovers to each other. RIP Rusty, and I hope your friends are doing okay.