Time for Celebration

Because I am leaving town on Saturday and will be away for a week with limited computer access, I would like to wish a happy first wedding anniversary to two great friends and wonderful people, Hank Chinaski and Baker Baby. It is hard to believe that in only four days it will have been one year since y'all got hitched. And now, a baby might pop out at any second.

In addition to simply wishing them the best and thanking them for wonderful years of friendship in words, I would like to offer the following as a sort of commemoration of all the good times.

"A history of a life friendship, in pictures"

'Hank, before meeting me'

(Tagged: Hank Chinaski, his immense ignorance)

'Me, listening to that little voice before meeting Hank'

(Tagged: Hairy Asscot, that little voice)

'Us, in college'

(Tagged: Baker Baby, Hairy Asscot, Hank Chinaski)

'Us, when Baker Baby wasn't around'

(Tagged: Hank C and me)

'Baker B and Hank C, now'

(Tagged: Baker Baby's adulthood, Hank C's continued adolescence)

'Baker B and Hank C, when I'm not around'
(Tagged: Baker Baby, Hank C, Stink'ems the cat)

'Hank and Baker B, after I've visited and left'

(Tagged: Hank C, Baker B)

'Me, upon visiting a second time, meeting Boy Chinaski and finding he's literate'

(Tagged: Boy Chinaski, Uncle Hairy)

'Hank and boy, as overbearing father and indignant son'

(Tagged: Little Sport Chinaski, Henry Chinaski)

'Mother and Son'
(Tagged: Sport, Mama BB, 2+2=5 lesson from 1984 (on board), Sport's only male example in the home (also on chalkboard))

'Sport, when we're not around'

(Tagged: Little Hellraiser Hank, Boy Chinaski, the evidence)

'Us, when Hank realizes it's time for Sport to go off to college'

(Tagged: Old Pal Hairy, That SOB Hank, Hank's humility, the extent of my talents (hanging on the wall), Sport's college fund (the patches on Hank C's pants))

'Me, when Hank C and BB aren't around'

(Tagged: Me, BB (in the photo), Hank's correspondence thanking me for contributions to the college fund (in the waste basket))

'Us, in twenty years'

(Tagged: Hank, Me, Hank's pretentions, Sport's thesis titled On my homelife as a youth for his BFA in finger painting)

'Us, in forty years'

(Tagged: Hairy Asscot, Hank Chinaski, The Chair (Sport's first piece that's sold, which I bought))

'Us, upon retirement'

(Tagged: Hank C, Hairy, Hank's plan to quit smoking cigarettes (pipe in hand), Hank's lifelong impact on me (cigarette in hand), Hank's bullshit (floating above our heads), My shit (in gaseous form, emanating from and wafting above my ass))

'Us, in hell'

(Tagged: Hank C, Me, our only friend at this point)

To Hank C and Baker Baby, Happy Anniversary. You guys are going to make great parents.