Loch Ness, Scotland, summer 2001

Back then I was an editor at Abercrombie & Fitch’s A&F Quarterly. I did a lot of great interviews for them, many of which can be found in that sidebar to your left, from Chuck Palahniuk to Underworld to Bettie Page to a TON of comics people, which is really how I became involved in comics in the first place. A travel story assignment for A&F was the reason I was in Scotland, in fact. While I was at A&F I had an employee discount to A&F stores, and one of the few times I used it was to purchase this little gem. It reads “I’m Easy” in baseball-jersey lettering. I don’t know what it says about me that my first thought upon seeing it was that it was a reference to the song Keith Carradine sings in Robert Altman’s Nashville, and that my second thought was that it was a reference to the Commodores song, and that my third thought was that maybe some hip person had actually intended it to be a reference to Faith No More’s cover of the Commodores song, and that only several weeks after I purchased and first wore it did it finally occur to me that it was most likely intended to proclaim that I was readily available sexually.

I bring all this up because, in the words of Stephen King…

Life was such a wheel that no man could stand upon it for long.

And it always, at the end, came round to the same place again.

…and I am in the way of knowing that Abercrombie & Fitch will be relaunching the A&F Quarterly in the U.K. with a Spring Break 2008 issue, and that I will be involved. That’s all I can say at the moment, but stay tuned.

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