Yesterday, Amazon delivered a new external DVD/CD player, and I spent too much time playing with it. I also had an hour long telephonic conversation with one of my first friends outside of the Drama Book Shop crew in 1979. We were very close until he moved to Los Angeles around 1987; before that I saw him through general actor angst, his Broadway debut in Amadeus, and several girlfriends, and he saw me through a dreadful relationship during which I beat up my rat bastard druggie boyfriend at a Lenox Hill Hospital drug clinic.