Sunday September 18, 2005

Mitch & Me

My parents visited Brooklyn recently, and they brought with them a load of Hanasiana—memorabilia from my past, some of which I would like to forget.

Among the salvaged objects: a pair of flowered ladies’ jeans (that I actually wore once or twice) on which I wrote all the lyrics to The Smiths’ “How Soon is Now?” in a sappy attempt to express my bottomless teen angst, and this grainy picture of me posing with future Senate Majority Whip Mitch McConnell, taken on an educational trip to Washington. “To my friend Jim Hanas with best wishes,” reads McConnell’s inscription.

But we weren’t really friends. He was just playing politics.

Posted by jim at 05:10 PM ||